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Section 370 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021 requires the removal of all Confederate honors/names/symbols within three years. Congress enacted this law today (1/1/21) with a vote to override the president's veto.

Due to the overwhelming public outrage, Jackie Robinson's military service was reinstated on the Department of Defense website on 3/19. Jackie Robinson ended 60 years of racial segregation in Major League Baseball. Shamefully, the civil rights Robinson championed for are being rolled back by the Trump administration. Recently the federal government released a memo saying it would no longer prohibit contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms, and drinking fountains due to Trump's attacks on DEI. We are still waiting for the segregation clause to be reinstated.

TrumpCare was defeated in the Senate.

On October 12, 2022, Treasury Department IG probing DeSantis’ migrant flights The agency’s inspector general’s office confirmed to several members of Massachusetts’s Democratic congressional delegation that it planned “to get this work underway as soon as possible” to probe Florida’s spending as part of ongoing audits into how states have used the billions in sent to them as part of the American Rescue Plan, according to a letter provided by Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey’s office. More: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/12/desantis-migrant-flights-markey-00061370

We won, Simon & Schuster pulled out.

Voting reform was eventually passed in NY!

By now, we’ve all heard the news that George Santos was finally expelled from Congress on Friday. This is a huge victory for New York 3rd District residents, who are finally free from a lying lawmaker who cheated the system to pad his own pockets, and for everyone who values integrity and democracy in this country. And it’s no coincidence that just last Tuesday, days before Congress would vote to expel Santos, MoveOn flew a 15-foot George Santos inflatable balloon in front of the Capitol, with a tie that said “full of lies.” The goal of the balloon was to demonstrate grassroots opposition to George Santos in a key, high-stakes moment and to bring national attention to the demand for Congress to expel him immediately. And that’s exactly what happened. More than 100 media outlets mentioned MoveOn’s balloon in light of the House vote to expel George Santos. As reported by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Washingtonian, People magazine, and more, MoveOn capitalized on the spectacle around Santos to further damage his reputation and raise the stakes surrounding his expulsion. We even reached more than 50 broadcast and radio stations—from Kansas to Santos’s own backyard in New York—making it clear across the country that Santos has no place in Congress. Constituents from Santos’s district, NY-03, have been relentlessly rallying, lobbying, and advocating for Congress to hold Santos accountable for his lies and fraud. For nearly a year, they had no meaningful representation in Congress. MoveOn got involved in the fight to oust Santos early in 2023, just a few weeks after the news broke about the lies he told about his religion, education, and other personal information to get elected. In February, dozens of NY-03 MoveOn members and partners delivered this petition to his Long Island office, with 100,000 signatures demanding George Santos resign or be expelled. Thank you to everyone for signing, calling, and taking action for Santos to be expelled. We won!

BIG NEWS: DirecTV will stop carrying OAN! Bloomberg reported on January 14, 2022, that DirecTV notified OAN’s parent company that their contract will not be renewed when it expires in April, ending OAN’s primary source of income and its ability to be broadcast to millions of households. This is a major development for democracy and against OAN’s brand of white supremacist extremism. Verizon Fios still reportedly offers OAN; if you are a Verizon Fios customer, please contact Verizon (1-888-553-1533, press 0 to reach an attendant) to tell them that you expect Verizon to follow DirecTV’s lead and drop OAN from Fios.

Florida bear hunts ended for 2019.

Thanks to the 96 New Mexicans who signed our petition. We delivered the signatures to Speaker Martinez on New Mexico Outdoor Equity Day and asked to follow up with him about full funding of $8 million for the New Mexico Outdoor Equity Fund. T4B also invited him to join T4B for the Earth Day Bike Ride on Saturday, April 19 from 12:00-2:00pm. Boys and young men of color and their families are also welcome to join us and register at bit.ly/WWTB25EVENTS.