Privatizing Social Security will kill the guaranteed returns and only benefits corporations. Slashing staffing without planning ensures a debacle of epic proportions, risking the reliability of monthly checks most recipients rely upon. If you touch SS, you will literally kill some Americans and throw undue hardship on others.  You also will owe each of us what we have paid in for the program, plus accrued interest—large sums of money that you would have to pay out. Or you will have a class action suit with tens of millions of people on our side.

The wrongful termination of parental rights is a human rights violation that impacts not just Danielle Cox but families across Missouri and beyond. When the government takes children from their parents without following the law, due process, or proper assessments, it sets a dangerous precedent—one that could happen to any parent. This is not just one case. Missouri’s child welfare system is broken, and it is destroying families instead of helping them. • If a parent is denied fair access to their children, any parent can be. • If caseworkers refuse to work with a parent, any parent can be falsely labeled "uncooperative." • If the state fails to comply with legal requirements for reunification, any family can be unjustly torn apart. 🔹 This Case Exposes a Dangerous Pattern Missouri’s Department of Social Services (DSS) and family courts have been ripping families apart without following the law. If we allow them to get away with this in Danielle Cox’s case, they will continue doing it to others. 🔹 Every Child Deserves to Stay with Loving Family Children should not be forcibly taken from their parents when there are safe, legal, and family-based options available. Danielle’s sister was willing and able to take placement of the children to keep them together as a family, but DSS ignored the law and denied her request. This is a direct violation of Missouri's own statutes requiring family placement priority. 🔹 Government Should Be Held Accountable No government agency should have the power to ignore the law and take children away from their parents without due process. If DSS and Missouri courts can do this to Danielle, they can do it to anyone. 🔹 If We Don’t Act, This Will Keep Happening There are hundreds, if not thousands, of families suffering the same injustice across Missouri and the country. Many parents lose their children because they don’t have the resources to fight back. Your signature, your voice, your support could help stop this from happening to other families. This is not just about one mother. This is about protecting all families from unjust and unlawful government intervention. How You Can Help Right Now ✅ Sign the petition to demand that the Missouri Supreme Court reverse the termination of parental rights in this case and investigate DSS’s failures. ✅ Share this petition with your friends, family, and social networks. The more signatures we have, the louder our voices become. ✅ Contact Missouri legislators, Governor Parson, and the Attorney General. Demand an independent investigation into Missouri DSS and wrongful terminations of parental rights. ✅ Join us in calling for a national conversation about parental rights and government accountability in child welfare cases. 🚨 Missouri is failing its children and families. If we do nothing, more parents will lose their children unlawfully. Join us today and stand up for justice! 🚨

The 2025 FLUM Amendments are the most CATALYTIC, needed, important, public policy decisions that you may vote for that brands the City of New Orleans "EAST" as Open for Business!! New Orleans East is Open for Business!  In the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans East can truly claim that it is addressing barriers to entry through Zoning Reform. This is the opportunity to conclude a 4-year process begun in 2021, to lean into land use zoning amendments as a fundamental, basic, key component to increase New Orleans East’s land use marketability to investors, both small and large.  

Trump is giving Elon Musk the power to steal benefits that people earned. He's using the standard MAGA Republican playbook: Make an issue out of a non-issue, cause chaos, and then get rid of it and claim the win.  In this case,  he makes up stories about "abuse and waste" and then steals your benefits to claim that he is simply cutting waste. Just last week, Musk talked to reporters in the Oval Office to try to convince the public that the Social Security system is full of fraud, especially when he said, “just cursory examination of Social Security and we’ve got people in there that are 150 years old.” Now we're just making things up.  Social Security benefits are given to workers who have put in decades of their lives into their work and those people have earned the right to access the promise of Social Security afforded to all citizens during their elder years.  The only reason that Elon Musk has access to the Treasury’s payments system is because Donald Trump has given him the ability to do whatever he wants. Thus, Elon had access to the Social Security numbers of every federal worker and Social Security beneficiary. He also had access to our bank account numbers, and other sensitive, private information. Enough is enough. 

We as Americans are just trying to live our lives to the best potential that we’re able to do. If our president can walk around a free man and leader of the free world, then we should be able to get a job at McDonald’s or Walmart even though we may have one or two felonies. Our president has been convicted of 34. The American people would just like the playing field evened out a bit, that’s all. 

It’s outrageous that Trump has given Elon Musk, an unelected, unvetted, unconfirmed billionaire, an unprecedented and unconstitutional amount of power. Musk is using it to gut the federal government as we know it. It looks like sending USAID, the U.S. government’s lead distributor of lifesaving humanitarian aid and development assistance across the globe, “into the woodchipper” (his words). Millions of lives are at immediate risk. One USAID worker estimated that as a result of Musk’s handiwork, “At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do.” The kicker? Musk is working to "reduce spending" while making money hand over fist from the same Pentagon contracts that pay his own companies billions each year. Musk’s net worth has increased by $65 BILLION since Election Day — growth that’s based on an assumption he will keep those government dollars coming, and in many cases with less regulation, moving forward. It’s corruption, plain and simple, and we refuse to sit idly by and allow it to continue. The Pentagon is accountable to Congress and the public: That’s US. So let's send lawmakers a message tens of thousands of people strong, urging them to block Elon from gaining another cent of our taxpayer money, and even more power, as fast as they can NOW.

  Those affected by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) have suffered from the adverse effects of the penalties for over four decades, having been denied their rightfully earned Social Security benefits.  They should not be penalized further by being forced to wait months, if not a year or more, for the bill to be executed. 

Join me in the fight because WE are their voice! 

Cutting Medicaid—a state and federal partnership that funds health care for more than 80 million Americans, including older adults, children, pregnant people, and disabled people—would run counter to then-candidate Trump’s big campaign promise to lower the cost of living for everyday Americans.  In fact, cutting or defunding programs like Medicaid would also create major gaps in state funding and devastate state budgets. It would then, in turn, force states to raise taxes or cut certain parts of their budget in order to fill the gap.  And just last week, President Trump tried to cut Medicaid when he attempted to pause funding to federal grant programs before his administration was forced to temporarily put those plans on hold.  No one should have to choose between getting the health care they need and paying for rent, gas, or groceries because of high costs. 

It’s important because if we don’t speak up now! Rates will continue to rise and we will continue to be expected to pay them regardless of the price on the bill. The city doesn’t have reliable utility assistance for its residents. Community Service doesn’t have funding… Most community organizations will tell you that the bill can’t exceed $200 dollars in order to receive assistance. So majority of our residents don’t qualify for the assistance. It’s important to remember the cost of living and minimum wage that the state still hasn’t graduated from. 

  President Trump's attempt to freeze funding for life-saving and essential science with a blatantly illegal and unconstitutional power grab should send chills down our spines. Research and grants abruptly halted. Medicine deliveries interrupted. Families and communities in shock. The Trump administration's Project 2025 plan has made clear that the President thinks it's his power and prerogative to unilaterally decide how taxpayer dollars are spent. That includes funds that Congress has already approved to go to local hospitals, universities, and research institutions for essential science, research, and programs that directly benefit our communities. The Trump administration has also made clear it will not stop trying to exercise this power wherever and however it can. Regardless of whether the administration has to walk back an executive order or is momentarily turned back by a court, they will keep at it until and unless Congress acts decisively and is clear that it will not stand for this illegal and harmful overreach. Urge Congress to oppose the Trump administration's illegal freeze of federal funds for programs, research, and science. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) launched our Save Science, Save Lives campaign on Day 1 of the Trump administration to provide a bullhorn for UCS supporters to speak out with one voice. Right now, we need to band together to make sure our lawmakers to hear from us and are moved to stand up to the Trump administration and to protect science. Regardless of party, we expect our legislators to use every tool at their disposal to stop the illegal and unconstitutional attempt to withhold congressionally approved funds. Funds that our communities have been counting on for cancer and other life-saving research, critical disaster relief efforts, providing food to kids, and so much more. Take a moment to let your members of Congress know where you stand on Trump's illegal and unconstitutional power grab, and how you expect them to respond. 

The directive, issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget, impacts tens of billions of dollars in funding.  Children and families across the country could suffer from abrupt cuts to school breakfast programs, food benefits, child care block grants, and housing vouchers.  Not to mention how it could impact funding for public education, roads, and transportation. Health care programs and programs like Medicaid, cancer research, and suicide hotlines.  The people who provide these services and the people who rely on them are having their entire livelihoods thrown into limbo. Even temporary pauses to these critical programs could have long standing and lasting effects for everyday people.  Trump and his wealthy friends won’t be impacted by disruptions to federal aid. But the rest of us and our communities will.  These federal grants and assistance programs are meant to support us. They're the outcome of the tax dollars at work. Trump and Republicans shouldn't be able to make substantial cuts that would put our communities, jobs, and health at risk. Add your name to the petition to fight back. NO MORE CUTS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES!