At its core, the Right to Repair is a consumer rights movement fighting for a simple principle: if you bought it, you own it, and you should have the freedom to fix it yourself or choose who fixes it for you. Over the last decade, manufacturers of everything from smartphones and tractors to cars and gaming consoles have deliberately made their products harder to repair. They do this by gluing components shut, using rare security screws, and—most commonly—using proprietary software locks to block anyone who isn't an "authorized" dealer. The Right to Repair is vital for four major reasons: 1. Breaking Up Monopolies and Lowering Costs When a manufacturer completely locks down diagnostic software and parts, they create a legal monopoly. If you are forced to go to an authorized dealership or Apple Store for every single fix, the manufacturer can charge whatever they want.  The Dealership Premium: Independent mechanics and electronics repair shops regularly charge 40% to 60% less for labor than corporate dealerships.  The "Just Buy a New One" Tactic: Dealerships and factory repair centers often quote ridiculously high repair prices for minor fixes to manipulate you into throwing away the item and buying a brand-new model instead. 2. Supporting Local Small Businesses Local repair shops, independent mechanics, and neighborhood tech-fix stores are the backbone of local economies. When manufacturers lock out anyone who doesn't pay a massive corporate licensing fee to become "authorized," they actively force small business owners out of work. Right to repair laws ensure that your local mechanic can access the exact same diagnostic codes and repair data that the massive corporate dealership down the road uses. 3. Reducing Environmental Waste (E-Waste) We are living in a disposable tech economy. When a manufacturer makes it impossible to swap out a degraded $30 battery or a worn-out $50 gear, the entire $1,000 device or machine gets thrown into a landfill.  Restricting repair leads to millions of tons of e-waste (electronic waste) globally every year.  It also forces the continuous mining of rare earth metals to build unnecessary replacement devices, causing massive carbon emissions. 4. Supply Chain and Emergency Resilience When things break down in critical industries—like agriculture, medical care, or commercial trucking—waiting weeks for an "authorized" corporate technician to travel out with a proprietary laptop can be catastrophic.  Farmers have famously had their entire harvests put at risk because a John Deere tractor threw a minor sensor code that required a corporate software unlock, even though the farmer was perfectly capable of replacing the physical sensor themselves.  Hospitals faced massive crises during the pandemic when proprietary software restrictions prevented their own in-house biomedical engineers from quickly fixing broken ventilators.

Elections in the United States are safe and secure, but Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to make Americans believe they aren’t. This sows mistrust in our election process and encourages people to stay home rather than take part in our political process and create a thriving democracy.  Trump is taking a heavy handed approach to suppress millions of votes as a way to lock-in right-wing rule for decades to come. He’s already established right-wing rule over the Supreme Court, now he wants more.  This is what happens under authoritarian regimes, not what is supposed to happen in the United States of America.  Tell the Senate and House Judiciary Committee’s to fight back and rein in the FBI!

This petition is important because no one should lose years of their life due to an unlawful sentence. Marcus Taylor spent years incarcerated under a sentence that was later determined to exceed what the law allowed. While his release was an important step, it does not restore the years he lost with his family, the career opportunities he missed, the financial hardship he endured, or the emotional toll of prolonged incarceration. This issue extends beyond Marcus Taylor. His case exposes a gap in Mississippi’s justice system that could affect others in the future. When sentencing errors occur, there must be accountability, a process to compensate those harmed, and safeguards to prevent similar injustices from happening again. By supporting this petition, you are standing for fairness, due process, and equal justice under the law. The goal is not only to seek justice for Marcus Taylor but also to encourage reforms that protect all Mississippians from being subjected to unlawful incarceration in the future. No one can get back lost years, but Mississippi can acknowledge the harm, provide compensation, and take steps to ensure it never happens again.

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.

Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth’s illegal boat strikes have now killed more than 200 people off the coasts of South America, but we haven’t forgotten — and we refuse to stay silent. 200 deaths mark a grim milestone in an illegal campaign that has slipped under the radar while the Administration distracts by proliferating more violence elsewhere. Lawmakers have the power to act and stop these strikes. But they’re unlikely to if they think people like you and groups like ours aren’t paying attention, or worse, that we don’t care. That’s why we need to get loud today.

This chaos is the direct result of Donald Trump’s racist and discriminatory immigration policies that are now playing out on the world stage.  The World Cup is the largest international sporting event outside of the Olympics and it’s supposed to bring people together, across cultures to share in joy. Instead, it turned into confusion and heartbreak.  If this is how the Trump administration is treating world class athletes, how do we think he’s treating everyday people? All World Cup visas must be restored ASAP while there’s still time. 

The screwworm eradication program was one of the most successful examples of international disease control in the Americas. It protected livestock and the broader agricultural economy for decades. But DOGE gutted its funding anyway, firing 25% of the workers responsible for disease monitoring. Now we’re paying the price. USDA estimates that a full-scale outbreak (similar to a Texas incident in 1976) could cause $1.8 billion in economic damage—far more than the cost of the program that prevented it. And screwworm isn’t the only consequence of reckless cuts to science and public health. Ongoing outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola underscore how much Americans depend on fully staffed, well-funded agencies to monitor emerging threats and coordinate a response. Sign the petition now calling on the Trump administration to restore USDA funding and protect American agriculture, public health, and our economy!

The current pledge has long been considered a sacred statement affirming one's support for the flag and country. The current pledge has been historically shaped to make  political statements and to make a religious point in the 50’s against communism. There exists today a great disconnect  between this pledge and the actual workings of our democracy. The hypocrisy of the current governmental practices  do not align with the constitution or the words in the pledge " One Nation Under God, with Liberty and Justice for all.” https://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm It's time for positive action to get people to re-engaged in the resistance, keep voting, and be courageous in efforts to embrace ALL in our country.  It starts with us.

A return to violence in Iran jeopardizes peace negotiations. Now, as Trump insists Iran will “have to pay the price,” Congress must act before things escalate further. Violence is the path Trump keeps returning to in high-stakes moments like this. With your help, we can pull him off this disastrous course. We’re closer than ever: Congress just dealt Trump a humiliating rebuke when a bipartisan majority in the House passed a war powers resolution (WPR) to end this war. All eyes are on the Senate, where a WPR narrowly advanced last month, and Vice President JD Vance waits in the wings to break a tie. Flipping even ONE more senator could pile on pressure to end this war — or signal a green light for Trump to continue it. We need to flood the halls of the Capitol with demands to end a war that has already killed thousands and hardened an economic catastrophe here at home and across the globe.

During Operation Metro Surge, ICE agents terrorized Minnesota residents and murdered peaceful observers Alex Pretti and Renee Good. People came together to mourn the tremendous and traumatic loss, and continued to organize to protect and defend their neighbors against ICE’s abuse.  But now, Trump is once again attacking Minnesotans, with sights set on an immigrant detention center that will allow his mass deportation agenda to ramp up. CoreCivic, who would likely operate the detention center, runs roughly 80 detention centers across the country—including the Dilley Processing Center that has come under fire for detaining children in subpar conditions, including 5-year-old Liam Conejo-Ramos.  Just last month, CoreCivic was sanctioned by a judge for destroying evidence after a man died in ICE custody in a facility owned by CoreCivic—and it’s not the first time they have been known to overwrite video evidence. And CoreCivic detention camps have also been accused of failing to address sexual assault, abuse, medical neglect, spoiled food, and other cruel and unlawful conditions.  We have to stop the expansion of Trump’s inhumane and disgusting immigrant detention agenda—and we can start by delaying, blocking, and opposing the new Appleton detention camp.

12 members voted NO on passing the NDAA out of committee in what Punchbowl News called a “stunning level” of opposition to the must-pass bill that sets the Pentagon budget topline. These votes rejecting business as usual now help pave the way for us to keep expanding the coalition of lawmakers willing to reject Trump’s Pentagon budget request. With DC’s war hawks on the defensive, now is the moment to dig deeper and keep growing our coalition of lawmakers willing to stop an egregious $1.5 TRILLION budget for weapons and war. That work starts by expressing gratitude toward the lawmakers who voted NO last week, which can go a long way toward building a sustainable majority with the power to block this war budget.

Last week’s House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) exposed massive cracks in support for Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion weapons and war budget. 12 members voted NO on passing the NDAA out of committee. More than double that voted for Rep. Seth Moulton’s amendment to cut $150 billion from the Pentagon topline. These numbers are simply unprecedented. Punchbowl News called it a “stunning level” of opposition. Politico warned of “troubles ahead” for the must-pass bill. While the bill made it out of committee, these votes were a departure from the status quo, showing an appetite across Capitol Hill to reject business as usual and block Trump’s war budget. With DC’s war hawks on the defensive, now is the moment to dig deeper and keep growing our coalition of lawmakers willing to stop an egregious $1.5 TRILLION budget for weapons and war. To do that, and as Senators begin their behind-closed-doors debate, we need to keep flooding offices: