Reforming term limits and pay and benefits currently be enjoyed by sitting and past and present and cabinets and house.

If the Affordable Care Act is repealed without a replacement plan, there is the risk that millions of Americans will not be able to have health insurance coverage. Premiums are likely to continue to increase without a replacement plan.

I'm a sophomore at Grand Island High School and I think that we should get a choice about what we learn in school. We know the basic stuff so why should we need to push it if what we want to do with our lives doesn't involve any of this. Many of my friends and myself have experienced severe stress and anxiety over this kind of work, we shouldn't have to stress over work that we don't want to learn if we already know the basic stuff

These are extraordinary times. They call for extraodinary satire. Jon, we need you. Please don't make us hold rallies in cities across the globe, wearing custom-knit Stewart Pussy hats. We're just not that good at knitting. But really, in this era of fake news, with a White House that can't even tell the truth about the size of a crowd, we need the clarity and the insight of Jon Stewart more than ever—not just for ourselves and our souls, but for our Democracy. Jon, you have a vital role to play in preserving American Democracy. And keeping us from crying so much. Please come back.

In the past election citizens in many a popular neighborhood had to spend HOURS in line to exert their right to vote and many were DENIED it by closing polls in their face Democracy facilitates and encourages voting-

Linda Sarsour is an extraordinary leader, a selfless organizer, and a fierce advocate for justice for everyday people. Alt-right fanatics and Trump supporters are using lies and anti-Muslim conspiracy theories to distract from the largest protest of a president in US history—the Women's March, which Linda co-organized. I’ve worked with Linda for years on protecting civil rights and holding police and politicians accountable. I know that right now marching with her means making a long-term commitment to resisting this new administration and the hate that’s come in with it. That’s what signing this pledge is about. Linda’s been targeted by these bigots before—we know she’ll be alright, God-willing. But let’s let her know how many people have her back. We won't let them spread their alternative facts and attack someone based on their religion. We march with, you, Linda—yesterday, today, and tomorrow. #IMarchwithLinda

For the safety of our country, we need to know the full extent of Donald Trump's financial relationships. President Trump and his spokespeople have repeatedly said the American people do not care about seeing his tax returns. This is UNTRUE. Please sign this petition to show you care about America.

For too long in our country, we have been forced to watch repeated offenders of heinous crimes against humanity walk simply because they could afford a "good" attorney. Meanwhile, the poor (mostly minorities), are repeatedly arrested or incarcerated long-term for petty, non-violent offenses. This causes a financial strain on poor communities, pushing them further into poverty by dismantling families and contributes to the number of people on welfare. Let's change that! Tell Congress and the White house that we want the amount that a law firm or private attorney is paid to be limited to no more than $25/hour. This closes the bridge between the lower and upper middle class and forces them to work for the people instead of exploiting them. It also means that attorneys will no longer be motivated to accept high-profile criminal cases based on how much they will make. Together, we can end crime-profiting and hopefully crime itself.

As Americans, everyone's life has equal value.

The bigotry and false solutions championed by President Donald Trump are not a new phenomenon in American politics. Indeed, the idea that one person’s dignity requires another’s subjugation has been a central contradiction in this country’s founding principles and practices from the beginning. An economic system that enriches the few by exploiting the many has fostered savage rivalries. President Trump’s misogyny, racism, and xenophobia serve to stoke resentment and violence, and his policies would further benefit the ultra rich. President Trump’s election also signals a dramatic break from contemporary norms. We now face a scale of threat to democratic values and institutions unseen since at least the McCarthy period, and quite probably since Redemption—the backlash against the liberation of enslaved African Americans that ushered in the prolonged and deadly Jim Crow regime in the South. We stand at the precipice of history. On January 20th, 2017, a ruthless team of corporate profiteers, racial bigots, religious zealots, climate deniers, and anti-democracy crusaders began to take control of the executive branch and govern, advancing the agenda of a President whose party dominates all three branches of the federal government. In the states, the Republican Party holds executive as well as both legislative branches in fully half the country, and both chambers (without governorship) in seven additional states. The Supreme Court is poised to accelerate the rollback of democratic rights for at least a generation. Hawkish ex-generals are inheriting a military apparatus with unprecedented capacity both domestically and internationally. Ascendant forces within the GOP are seeking to enforce a racially and culturally exclusive vision of America while converting public services into profit-making ventures. Billionaires who have profited from fossil fuel, home foreclosure, and low-wage industries are or will soon be in charge of America’s economic, environmental, labor, education, and foreign policy. This scale of threat to human, civil, and constitutional rights, and associated potential for violence and harm, goes far beyond what the country experienced under the conservative Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush administrations. The likelihood of massive transfers of wealth to the already rich, and governance by oligarchs, surpasses the harm we’ve already experienced under George W. Bush and Obama. Many are searching for the compass we need to navigate this unfamiliar and frightening new terrain. Responses from civil society sectors have ranged from efforts to deny Mr. Trump the presidency at the Electoral College to expressions of readiness to work with him on particular issues. Social justice-minded people should agree on a set of basic principles to guide our dealings with the new regime. We otherwise risk yielding to authoritarianism and normalizing the racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, greed, and indifference to basic human needs that brought us to this brink. We risk consenting to rivalries over those sacred things that should never be put at such risk – life, health, home, family, community, and democracy. To reverse the momentum of fear and bigotry we must refuse the cynical politics of division and become the most powerful we can be together. To do this, the most expansive version of we the people – that most prophetic yet contested of American identities – will play a crucial role in the coming period. Who we can be together will determine whether America protects and advances the principles of democracy and pluralism or succumbs to the forces that threaten to unmake them. Two priorities now demand our allegiance: 1. Build and maintain unity by adopting a set of principles to guide our engagement with the Trump regime and with each other; and 2. Prevent the rise of authoritarianism by taking affirmative steps to defend and expand democratic practices and institutions. Why are these actions necessary? Here is what we know: ● A man who ran as a racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, and anti-establishment demagogue is now President of the United States. ● President Trump’s election is part of a global trend toward xenophobia and right-wing authoritarianism that includes the Erdogan regime in Turkey, the parliamentary coup in Brazil, and the Brexit vote in Great Britain. This trend will not stop without compelling alternatives to a broken global system of massive economic inequality and deep-seated racial divisions. ● President Trump’s disdain for human and constitutional rights and democratic principles is a matter of public record. He has advocated torture, religious tests for immigrants and refugees, the deportation of millions of immigrants, and the criminalization of speech currently protected by the Constitution. He has intimidated the press, threatened his opponents with incarceration, incited his supporters to violence, and boasted about committing serial sexual assault. He has publicly denigrated Native, Black, Mexican, Muslim, and Asian Americans; LGBT people; disabled people; and women. He pretends to represent working class White people, which is an insult to the many working people he has defrauded throughout his business career. ● President Trump’s public statements and appointments since the election align with his stated priorities and bombastic behavior on the campaign trail. He has brought leading apologists and strategists for racial exclusion and domination into his inner circle and has repeatedly amplified racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism. ● GOP control of all branches of the federal government and most state governments affords President Trump extraordinary power and compromise normal checks on abuse of executive authority. ● Those who now call for giving President Trump a chance to lead either fail to appreciate the crises before us, support his agenda in whole or in part, or are driven by fear to avoid injury to their s...

Donald Trump has pledged to root out corruption in the federal government. Fair enough, but his refusal to release his tax documents can lead to only one logical conclusion: he is hiding something. Millions of citizens demand the release of his returns and the transparency he has promised. If not, then - de facto - his words and promises are meaningless.

Hours after he was sworn in, Donald Trump's first executive order was an attack on middle-class homebuyers. This first presidential action--a direct attack on the American middle class--blocked the scheduled 0.25% reduction in mortgage insurance premiums issued by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)--effectively raising the annual taxes for a $200,000 mortgage by an average of up to $500. For some middle-class families just starting a 30-year mortgage, this could have added up to more than $15,000 in savings over their lifetimes.