We care about this because we believe our votes should matter—and that the rules governing our government should be clear before anyone knows who will benefit from them. Imagine voting for your Representative, watching your state certify the result, and then learning that a procedural decision could prevent that Representative from participating when the new Congress organizes. Whether that happened to a Democrat or a Republican, we would want the same safeguard in place. This isn't about predicting the election or choosing sides. It's about making sure the rules are established before the outcome is known. We don't wait for a fire to decide where the exits should be. We establish the safety procedures beforehand. The House Rules Committee is already considering the rules for the 120th Congress. This is the moment to ask for clear, nonpartisan safeguards—while there is still time to put them in place. We’re signing because we want the next Congress to begin with clear rules, respect for the voters, and constitutional process—not uncertainty or last-minute decisions.

This is important because real lives are at risk and in eminent danger from the Trump administration

ICE is spending $20 million on electric shock gloves that can help agents gain “compliance” in seconds. ICE agents are already facing criticism for violence and excessive use of force, which has resulted in several deaths. There have been troublingly few consequences — and it’s partly because with $200 BILLION in the bank, ICE can largely operate with impunity. When Republicans used a special procedure to break the deadlock and advance ICE and CBP funding through 2029 earlier this year, they freed Trump’s immigration force from the congressional oversight and accountability that the annual budget process brings to bear. Trump’s immigration force is not above the law, and it’s time Congress act like it. Americans resoundingly reject funding ICE’s abuses, and we’re going to make sure lawmakers hear our clear demands to rein in ICE and CBP. It starts with getting our money back. Can we count on you to join us?

Communities across the country are organizing against Flock’s mass surveillance. At least 56 municipalities have deactivated, canceled, or rejected Flock contracts this year, from North Carolina to California to Massachusetts. Whether or not Flock has come to your community yet, state and city leaders have the power to act. They can: • Cut or refuse contracts with Flock Safety and similar ALPR vendors • Limit data retention to hours or days, not weeks or months • Limit data sharing, prohibiting access by other government agencies absent a warrant for a felony crime recognized under local or state law • Limit usage to felony investigations, missing persons cases, identifying unregistered or uninsured vehicles, and narrow non-enforcement uses like electronic toll collection • Require annual usage reporting and restrict ALPR data availability through open records requests, so it can’t be used for stalking or exploiting someone’s data for entertainment ALPRs enable warrantless tracking, fuel mass surveillance, and produce wrongful accusations with real harm to real people. Sign the petition now calling on state and city elected officials to block Flock and protect our privacy!

ICE agents made between 20 and 40 arrests per day at U.S. airports last month alone, and agents have now been deployed to at least 25 airports nationwide. This surge traces directly back to a data-sharing agreement TSA signed with ICE back in May 2025.  TSA isn't just flagging people with final deportation orders, it's flagging anyone with an expired visa, including people actively working with the government to renew their status or with a legal case still pending. Immigration attorneys say ICE is under enormous pressure to hit daily arrest quotas, and this pipeline is the easiest way to do it: people come to them. Earlier this month, ICE agents detained a Georgia man on a Delta jet bridge in Atlanta, pinning him to the wall and handcuffing him, because his name happened to match someone else's. If this system can't even reliably tell citizens from the people it's targeting, no traveler is safe from it.  ICE shouldn’t have endless access to our data and travel records. Booking a flight is not permission to participate in the government’s surveillance network. Congress must take measures to protect all travelers and prevent ICE from using TSA data to fuel its deportation campaign. Demand Congress pass the No TSA Data for ICE Act!

This isn’t an isolated incident. ICE has deployed agents to at least 25 airports nationwide, and arrests are climbing fast. Airports are quickly becoming a new front line, and airline employees are becoming the last line of defense for passengers being targeted.  The July 25 standoff in Dallas is one of at least six similar incidents involving Southwest employees in recent weeks, according to internal documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. These workers are making split-second calls to protect their passengers, with no concrete company policy behind them and their own jobs and safety on the line.  And it’s not just Southwest workers sounding the alarm. The union representing flight attendants across at least 20 other airlines has already warned the industry in writing that ICE’s expanding presence at gates and on jet bridges raises serious safety and legal concerns—including reports of agents boarding planes to interrogate and harass passengers who aren’t even their targets.  When asked directly about its role in these detentions, Southwest's response wasn't reassurance. Instead the company pointed out that TSA and DHS already have access to passenger data through the standard federal screening process.  Sign the petition: Tell Southwest to stand up and protect its employees and passengers! 

There is an entire body of actions our local governments can taken between "not cooperating with ICE" and "actively supporting Gwinnett communities impacted by ICE." Much of the demand for change has been around the former, particularly to our law enforcement - but there are multiple Gwinnett County government bodies that can take action, and our law enforcement can also do more beyond non-cooperation.

Congress could soon add a dangerous provision to expand and empower ICE’s violence — violence that killed two more people last month — to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Proponents of the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (CORCA) claim they’re focused on decreasing retail theft. In reality, CORCA would sneakily hand DHS, ICE’s parent agency, even broader authority to collect, analyze, and share our personal information. More facial recognition. More data-sharing between police and corporations. More opportunities for reckless ICE agents to terrorize our communities with violence. That’s the world we’ll live in if the Senate adds this dangerous provision as an amendment to the final bill. But with the Senate NDAA currently stalled, we have a critical opportunity to push lawmakers to keep CORCA out of the final bill. Stopping the addition of CORCA to the NDAA will require all of us joining the movement partners already speaking out. We need to flood Senate offices today with messages demanding they reject deepening an era of ICE violence and impunity.

Johan deserved to live and see his daughter grow up. Immigrant families should not have to live in fear that they will be broken up by deportation or at the hands of ICE. At least 10 people have died in encounters with ICE agents since Trump launched his mass deportation campaign, and not a single agent has been charged. In January, ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis murdered Renee Good through the windshield of her car. He is still on the job today. This isn’t about a few bad actors. It’s a system that hired someone like Brouillette, who has a documented history of threatening women, and put him in a position of armed authority over immigrant communities. Now, DHS refuses to hold him accountable for his violence. We won’t let this become normal. ICE’s violence has to stop, and it starts with accountability for all ICE agents paid with our public tax dollars. Sign the petition now demanding DHS fire and press criminal charges against David Brouillette, and hold ICE accountable for its pattern of deadly violence!

CoreCivic and GEO Group, the nation's two largest private prison corporations, operate more than half of all ICE detention facilities. While most major banks have cut ties with the private prison industry after years of public pressure, Citizens Bank has gone the other direction. Since 2012, it has helped these companies access more than $2.5 billion in financing and even expanded GEO Group's credit line by another $100 million earlier this year. Public deposits are valuable business for banks. Cities and states entrust hundreds of millions—and collectively more than $750 billion—in taxpayer dollars to financial institutions, generating significant revenue and providing capital that supports their business. This is real leverage for city leaders to hold Citizens Bank accountable and dismantle detention infrastructure. We've already seen this strategy work. Last month, the Jersey City Council voted to move $265 million in public funds out of Citizens Bank because of the bank's financing of CoreCivic and GEO Group. Now it's time for more cities to follow Jersey City's lead and use public dollars to pressure Citizens Bank to end its support for immigrant detention.

Trump’s aggressive and haphazard occupation of Minnesota earlier this year wreaked havoc in Minnesota—with individuals, families, schools, and businesses still navigating the aftermath of the manufactured crisis.  ICE agents terrorized neighborhoods, drove recklessly through our streets, violated basic constitutional rights, abused and harmed people, and murdered two peaceful observers—Alex Pretti and Renee Good (and lied about the circumstances leading up to those murders).  Tens of thousands of regular people courageously showed up to organize—marching in the street, tracking ICE agents to expose their violence and unlawfulness, protesting outside hotels and car rental shops, peacefully observing vulnerable locations in their communities, and making sure people had access to basic necessities like food, water, toiletries, and rent funds.  Minnesota served as not only an example of resistance, but a vibrant, loving, and principled example of what our country could be—a stark contrast to Trump’s cruel, violent, fear-based agenda. And it’s that beacon of hope that the Trump administration is trying to snuff out.  The federal government is charging 15 Minnesotans a part of a broad coalition called Direct Action Minnesota “for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers,” and for efforts to allegedly “violently oppose immigration law enforcement.”  Meanwhile, the violent insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol in 2021—threatened lawmakers and assaulted police officers—have been pardoned by the Trump administration, and Trump even tried to direct taxpayer dollars to a $1.8 billion slush fund to pay them off.  This isn't about justice—it’s about punishment and intimidation. Add your name to the petition to demand the charges be dropped immediately!

Masked, unidentified federal agents have been militarizing our cities and brutalizing our communities to carry out Trump's extreme deportation agenda. These agents—outfitted for war—are showing up at schools, workplaces, and people's homes, kidnapping and deporting our neighbors without any due process. ICE already received $75 billion last year—nearly nine times its annual budget—with no transparency and no oversight. More than $100 billion sits unspent. There was no funding crisis. Republicans invented one, then doubled down with $70 billion more—while cutting $911 billion from Medicaid and doing nothing about groceries, healthcare, or gas prices. Our communities deserve safety, dignity, and justice. Minnesotans showed up for Renee Nicole Good, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Kieth Porter, and Liam Ramos. Now it's time to show up at the ballot box. Every Republican who voted yes owns every raid, every family separated, and every death that follows. We will not forget—and in November, we will vote them out.