Because this is a direct attack on the people who keep our families safe. Schedule F would let politicians fire nonpartisan federal scientists, doctors, researchers, and policy experts simply for doing their jobs—following the evidence, speaking the truth, or disagreeing with political pressure. These are the public servants who track disease outbreaks, oversee drug safety, fund addiction treatment and mental health programs, protect clean air and water, and make sure taxpayer dollars support research that saves lives. If they can be replaced with political loyalists, science becomes optional—and politics takes over. That means delayed public health warnings. Suppressed research. Funding decisions based on ideology instead of need. Fewer experts willing to speak up when something is unsafe or ineffective. And when the next crisis hits—a pandemic, overdose surge, environmental disaster, or emerging threat—we’ll have fewer experienced professionals left to respond. We’ve seen what happens when science is sidelined: confusion, preventable deaths, and broken trust. Schedule F makes that chaos permanent. This isn’t abstract. It affects whether your community gets accurate health guidance, whether lifesaving research is funded, whether clean water standards are enforced, and whether government works for people—or for politics. A strong, independent civil service protects everyone, regardless of party. Weakening it puts all of us at risk. If you believe experts—not political operatives—should guide public health and safety, now is the time to act. Add your name. Speak out. Demand Congress reverse Schedule F and defend the scientists and public servants who defend us every day. Because once this independence is gone, it’s incredibly hard to get back.

Americans pay more for their medicine than any country on earth, and Virginians pay 36% more than the national average. 35% of Virginians chose not to fill a prescription in 2023, and 63% of voters are concerned about the cost of medication. Life-saving medications only work if you can afford them, and Virginians can't afford them anymore. Tell your legislators to support HB 483/SB 271 to establish a Prescription Drug Affordability Board in Virginia. A Prescription Drug Affordability Board would:  • Be an independent state board with the authority to set an upper payment limit on a few of the highest-cost medications for Virginians.  • Save taxpayers money by reducing state and local government spending on prescription drugs.  • Help ensure affordable access to life-saving medicine for illnesses like cancer and diabetes.  • Mitigate out-of-control prices set by the big drug companies.

High out-of-pocket costs put lifesaving treatment out of reach for many Virginians, but you can change that! Make a difference today by asking your state legislators to support affordable access to life-saving treatment through a health insurance option with co-pays not co-insurance.  In these uncertain times, patients deserve the stability and peace of mind that comes from knowing their out-of-pocket costs will remain predictable and affordable. 

On July 25, 2023, a federal lawsuit was filed in New York alleging that Leon Black violently raped a 16-year-old girl with autism and Down syndrome in 2002 at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse. The plaintiff, now in her 30s, was born with mosaic Down syndrome and had a mental age of 12 at the time of the alleged assault. According to the complaint, she was groomed through cheerleading classes before being trafficked to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who then introduced her to Black as Epstein's "special friend." The lawsuit describes a brutal assault that left the victim with internal injuries and lasting psychological trauma, including panic attacks she still experiences today. Black retired from Apollo in July, 2021,  after a review revealed he paid Epstein $158 million for purported financial advice between 2012 and 2017, years after Epstein's 2008 criminal conviction for sex offenses. This financial relationship, combined with the new allegations of child sexual assault, raises urgent questions about whether Black or his associates had access to student information through educational institutions, youth programs, or philanthropic channels. Given Black's extensive financial ties to Epstein and the new allegations of child rape, any institution that received funding from Black or maintained relationships with entities he controlled must immediately audit what student data, photographs, or access may have been provided.

The Department of Homeland Security has plans to open 23 detention centers nationwide. We recently learned that two of them would be in warehouses DHS purchased in Pennsylvania, in Berks and Schuylkill Counties. Nearly 12% of all of the 76,500 beds DHS intends to put in the 23 new facilities would be in the two separated by only 25 miles in rural Pennsylvania. The Berks facility would house 1,500 people while the Schuylkill facility would house a whopping 7,500 people. Local, state, and even federal elected officials report that they were not informed of the purchases. There were no public meetings or hearings. Had there been, DHS would have heard moral and ethical arguments against the plans. They would have heard about the lack of services and infrastructure available to serve, in the case of the Schuylkill County location, a prison population 30 times the size of the current local population. They would have heard about the loss of tax revenue of more than $1.6 million that would impact, among other things, the local school districts in both locations. They would have heard about safety concerns, particularly for the day care center that is 300 yards from the Schuylkill County location. Facilities planned in Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia are facing stiff opposition or have already been defeated, thanks to communities and their elected officials coming together to say "No." 

We're organizing Americans and people around the world to quit ChatGPT. Is this boycott going to work? ChatGPT is the biggest chatbot in the world, but that advantage is fragile. ChatGPT has been losing market share. Their creator OpenAI is losing 3x more than they earn. ChatGPT users skew young and progressive, and many don't know about alternatives. We can push OpenAI over the edge. If we make an example of ChatGPT, we can send a clear signal to ICE enablers that their actions will not go unpunished. Let's make CEOs think twice before they get in bed with Trump. Aren't all the AI companies bad? Why ChatGPT? OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife donated $25 million to MAGA Inc in 2025 (and CEO Sam Altman donated $1M to Trump's 2025 Inaugural Fund). They gave Trump 26x more than any other major AI company. ICE's resume screening tool is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. They're spending 50 million dollars to prevent states from regulating AI so only Trump can. They're cozying up to Trump while ICE is killing Americans and the Department of Justice is trying to take over elections. ChatGPT enables mental-health crises through sycophancy and dependence by replacing human relationships with AI girlfriends/boyfriends. Many employees have quit OpenAI because of its leadership's lies, deception and recklessness. Who's organizing this? We are a group of democracy activists that are gravely concerned about AI companies contributing to the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. If your organization is interested in joining the organizing committee, reach out to [email protected]! Open to all. OpenAI—the company behind ChatGPT—openly attacks and intimidates its critics. Several nonprofits have been subpoenaed in recent months for trying to get AI regulated, including Encode, The Midas Project, and the San Francisco Foundation. These attacks have absorbed organizer capacity, dulling their ability to hold OpenAI accountable. The same cannot happen to us. That's why we're staying anonymous. What about alternatives? Some higher privacy and open-source alternatives include: Confer, Alpine, Lumo. Alternate corporate options include Gemini from Google and Claude from Anthropic. Larger companies are doing much more to enable authoritarianism than smaller companies and open-source models. We strongly advise against using Grok for the obvious reasons. People think ChatGPT is the only chatbot in the game, and they don't know that OpenAI execs are Trump's biggest donors. It's time to change that. Isn't Elon's AI company way worse? Yes. Thankfully, hardly anyone uses Grok (Elon's chatbot) anyway, but yes, please don't use Grok. What do we mean by "Trump's biggest donor"? In Trump's Super PAC, MAGA Inc.'s latest filings, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife gave $25M, more than any other group in the report (by $5M!). If we zoom out to all of 2025, only one company (Crypto.com) gave more than this ($30M), spread throughout the year. To put this in perspective, companies like Palantir and JUUL "only" gave $1M.

It’s important because ICE policies directly affect real people in Montgomery County and across Tennessee, not just politics. Here’s why it matters: • Families are being separated. Parents are detained or deported, leaving children without stability or support. • Community trust is broken. Fear of ICE discourages people from reporting crimes, seeking medical care, or sending their kids to school—making everyone less safe. • Local impact is real. Immigrants are students, workers, neighbors, and business owners who contribute to Montgomery County’s economy and culture. • Local leaders have power. City and state officials influence how much local agencies cooperate with ICE and can push for humane policies and oversight. • Human rights and dignity are at stake. Fair treatment and due process should apply to everyone, regardless of immigration status. Speaking up matters because silence allows harmful practices to continue. Petitions show leaders that the community is watching, cares, and expects action.

This discovery reveals just one facet of the deep, far-reaching impact of this large-scale crime. Demanding accountability from elected leadership won't change everything, but it will demand their attention. Don't let them look away. 

After two horrific killings, multiple children used as “bait” and teargassed, and indiscriminate violence, people in Minnesota and around the country are rising up to get ICE off our streets and out of our communities. As his immigration force grows deeply unpopular, Trump is withdrawing 700 immigration agents from the Twin Cities and has ordered federal agents to stay away from protests. All the while, new funding for ICE and Border Patrol remains up in the air after Congress failed to pass an annual appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The pressure has opened a two-week window to do all we can to ensure lawmakers hold the line and vote NO against DHS funding without critical reforms that protect our communities from ICE’s violence. We’re shifting the narrative on ICE and making elected officials think twice before funneling billions of dollars toward Trump’s violent deportation force. All too often, moments like these are where we see backroom deals and empty promises weaken our position. That’s why NOW is when we dig even deeper to demand Congress hold firm against any blank check approach to ICE’s lawlessness.

Data centers can use more energy than entire cities, and Big Tech’s rapid AI expansion is driving up energy costs for everyone. Utility bills are soaring because tech firms are pushing the cost of powering mega data center operations onto residential customers.  The rampant growth of data centers isn’t just raising our monthly utility bills—it’s draining local energy, robbing communities of natural resources, imposing new health risks for nearby residents, and only helping to make tech billionaires even richer. And too often they pop up without any consent from local communities. American families are struggling to put food on the table and pay rising health care costs as it is. They can’t afford to also foot the bill for Big Tech. It’s time to stop passing the environmental consequences and costs of data centers onto working people.

After ICE left a trail of violence in Minneapolis, opposition to Trump’s lawless immigration force is reaching new heights. The faces of Trump’s immigration enforcement — Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Border Patrol officer Gregory Bovino — are facing heat and consequences, and long-term funding for Trump’s deportation machine is on the rocks. It’s crucial progress — but we have to go further. As critical resistance to ICE’s lawlessness grows, we can’t ignore the network of powerful corporations that help make its violence possible. From tech giants like Amazon, AT&T, and Microsoft, to retailers like Home Depot, to controversial data-mining firm Palantir, their lucrative contracts and corporate collaboration allow ICE to carry out its violent, large-scale enforcement campaign across the country. Without the cloud computing, surveillance software, communications infrastructure, and logistical cooperation these corporations provide, ICE couldn’t function. That’s why we need to speak out and ensure that companies know enabling hate and militarism has a cost.

ICE is not a neutral security force. ICE and federal agents have been militarizing our cities and terrorizing our communities—murdering civilians, pointing their guns at protesters and observers, and kidnapping our neighbors off the street. ICE has consistently met any peaceful protest with more state-sanctioned violence. They’ve abducted toddlers and murdered Minnesotans Renee Good and Alex Pretti. They’re countering whistles and cameras with guns and tear gas. Even when we have video evidence of their violence, they're telling us not to believe our own eyes. The presence of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of ICE, at the Winter Olympics is allegedly to “mitigate risks from transnational criminal organizations.” But we already know the agency has a documented history of making false claims to justify raids, deportations, and politically motivated operations, like the recent kidnapping of Venezuela’s president. Team USA should publicly oppose ICE’s involvement at the Winter Games and ensure that U.S. participation reflects global unity and respect for all, not intimidation and fear. Demand the U.S. Olympic Team opposes ICE at the 2026 Winter Olympics!