Delaney Hall represents a dangerous expansion of the immigrant detention system, one driven by profit, and unconcerned with public safety. In 2025, ICE handed a $1 billion contract to GEO Group to run Delaney Hall which essentially quadrupled detention capacity in New Jersey overnight.  Now, hundreds of people inside are risking their health to expose what’s happening behind the doors of Delaney Hall. More than 200 detainees remain on hunger and labor strike, protesting unsafe conditions: lack of medical care, spoiled food, and extreme heat without air conditioning. These are not isolated complaints, they are systemic failures in facilities that were never meant to be kind to the people within them.  Warehouses like Delaney Hall exist because of a system that outsources detention to private prison corporations with little transparency or accountability. GEO Group, the corporation in charge of Delaney Hall and other detention facilities across the country, profits when more people are detained for longer periods of time. This system creates incentives and rewards for holding people, often without cause, while cutting corners on their healthcare and safety.  If people inside speak out about their conditions inside, the response is retaliation. News reports include pepper spray and physical force against detainees, forced transfers, and blocked access for families. Even local elected officials and members of Congress are being denied oversight. Sign the petition if you agree: Delaney Hall must be shut down NOW!

The Congressional Black Caucus has come out demanding that corporations that signed the Business for Voting Rights letter to Congress back in 2021 take a stand now. In a letter to corporations the CBC highlighted a critical point: “The same corporations that have benefitted from Black consumers, Black talent, and Black communities cannot now retreat into silence while Black political power is openly dismantled in plain sight.” Despite its supposed commitment to voting rights, Starbucks is staying quiet and moving forward with plans for a new corporate headquarters in Tennessee—a state where the governor wasted no time signing into law a new congressional map that will split up the state’s only Black-majority district. The map strips Black voters of their ability to influence elections and choose their leader. We need to hold Starbucks accountable and demand that the company use its corporate influence to condemn the Tennessee legislature's move to dilute Black voices at the ballot box.  We must not allow corporations to fall back on the importance of protecting voting rights. When the voting power of a community is purposely targeted, that is not a democracy. That is not what John Lewis and so many other civil rights organizers and activists bled and died for.  When corporations stand up and demand change from lawmakers, change happens. It’s time for Starbucks to live up to its promise five years ago and condemn these attacks on our democracy now—in words and in action. 

Facial recognition technology involves many practical and ethical issues. Over and over again, it has misidentified women and ethnic minorities, sometimes as much as 34% more often than it did lighter-skinned men.  Law enforcement uses facial recognition technology to surveil everyone from peaceful protesters to immigrants. The pictures taken are then scanned against millions of photos in federal and state databases that include driver's license pictures.  This technology is not harmless, and Disney using it to take pictures of adults as well as children is cause for concern.  We’ve seen how businesses and corporations have misused facial recognition technology to violate individual rights. Families should be able to go to a theme park without having their privacy compromised. Add your name to the petition! 

As the federal administration seeks to expand the death penalty, the work to end capital punishment across the country has never been more urgent. In California, there is a very real possibility to move closer to ending the death penalty once and for all. As Governor Gavin Newsom's final term comes to an end, we need your help to urge him to commute all death sentences in California. California has the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere with more than 550 people, which is roughly a quarter of the entire U.S. death row population. Commuting all death sentences would allow California to: • Redirect taxpayer dollars from a failed system towards more effective public safety solutions, including more services for crime victims. • Eliminate the risk of executing an innocent person. Since California reinstated the death penalty in 1977, eight people have been exonerated and released from California’s death row after years facing execution for crimes they didn't commit. • Close a racially discriminatory chapter. More than 2 in 3 individuals sentenced to death in California are people of color. • Pressure other states to follow, bringing us closer to ending capital punishment nationwide. Now is the time for Governor Newsom to use his executive authority to commute California’s death row and model what bold leadership looks like in a moment when many of our rights are under attack. When he sees thousands of people across California and the entire country demanding action, he knows this is what his constituents—current and future—want. Your signature adds to that pressure. Sign the petition to urge Governor Newsom to stand on the right side of history. 

Imagine your elderly parent is getting ready to vote on Election Day. They look up the address for their polling location. They know they need their voter ID, so they grab that. Since they have a disability that makes it hard to go inside the polls, they plan to use curbside voting. But when they show up to their polling location, they can't find any information on curbside voting. They want to ask a poll worker for help, but there aren't any outside. After driving around the parking lot for several minutes, they decide to give up and go home. They are extremely disappointed. Approximately 14% of Ohioans are living with a disability and about 17% of Ohioans are 65 or older. And they're not the only groups that benefit from accessible elections. A parent with a sleeping infant in the backseat can benefit from curbside voting; college students away from home can benefit from mail-in voting;  and polling locations that have plenty of room for wheelchairs also have room for strollers. Since everyone's needs are different, it's important that we make voting as accessible as possible for everyone.  This petition is open to all Ohio residents. The collected signatures will be shared with: • Frank LaRose (Ohio Secretary of State) • Brett Harbage (ADA Coordinator for the Ohio SOS' office) 

This is part of an anti-democracy pattern we’re witnessing all across the South ever since the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. States like Louisiana, Tennessee, and Alabama have rushed to redraw their maps to eliminate majority Black Democratic districts in order to impose one-party rule in their states. When you can’t win on your own merits, you cheat.  After the passage of the Voting Rights Act, more Black lawmakers were elected to Congress than at any time in history, many of whom were the first Black lawmakers elected from their state and districts since the Reconstruction period. All that progress is at risk of being erased in South Carolina and across the South.  Too many people fought and died for Black people in this country to have the right to vote and build political power. We can’t let that be taken away. 

You do not get to kill someone and get away with it. While Renee’s family and community are forced to deal with the fallout and live with the trauma, Jonathan Ross continues to live his life and keep collecting a government paycheck funding by the taxpayers. Allowing him to continue working for ICE sends a message that immigration agents can act recklessly and with impunity and get away with it. This message puts all of us and our communities in grave danger.  We must send the message that you don’t get to harm our communities and face zero consequences. Jonathan Ross must be held accountable and removed from duty now. 

Six unelected justices on the Supreme Court have gutted crucial, hard fought protections against racial discrimination in voting. Justice Elena Kagan dissented, noting that the consequences of the Court’s “demolition” of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) “are likely to be far-reaching and grave.” This ruling is likely to set off a firestorm of gerrymandering, hollowing out the voting power of Black people and other communities of color while maximizing partisan gains. It’s not an exaggeration to say our representative democracy is at stake, and with it the future of U.S. foreign policy. So we’re joining the demands for Congress to act now. That includes passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore and strengthen federal protections against racial discrimination in voting.

Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, loving fiancé and devoted father to a little girl, was shot seven times by ICE agents in Patterson, California. The FBI and DHS have access to multiple angles of video footage, but they won’t release it to us. The DHS accused him of being a violent gang member, but then retracted the statements once they were questioned about it. Carlos was released directly from the ICU to the FBI, and he has been transferred between five detention facilities and has not received proper medical treatment. He is unable to eat because he was shot in the mouth, the gunshot wound on his arm almost got infected, and they have only been giving him painkillers. He is now being charged with weaponizing his vehicle to hurt ICE officers, when in reality, he was just trying to get away from the agents who were shooting at him. They tried to kill him and it didn’t work, so now they’re punishing him. Carlos and his family desperately need YOUR help.

THE HIDDEN RISKS OF HB5511 (The “Safety Paradox”) Lawmakers are presenting HB5511 as a way to protect children from the harmful parts of the internet. But by moving age verification into your phone’s software and app stores, this bill creates a dangerous paradox: The “safety” system itself may put your family at risk. 1. Why this is a major change for your family Right now, you access the internet directly. Under HB5511, your phone or computer becomes a digital checkpoint. Companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft become the gatekeepers. Access to apps and some websites would increasingly depend on your device confirming your age. If the system fails, or if a website can’t support it, access may be restricted or blocked. 2. Your identity becomes a target This system depends on tying age verification to your device or account. That could involve sharing sensitive information such as government ID, financial data, or other personal details. That creates new risks: ● Identity Theft Concentrating sensitive data across large platforms increases the potential impact of breaches and leaks. ● Sophisticated Scams As identity checks become more common, it becomes easier for criminals to imitate them and trick people into handing over personal information. 3. How this could put children at risk This system is meant to protect children, but it may also expose them to new risks. ● More data about children Children may need accounts tied to their age, creating larger digital footprints earlier in life. ● Connected systems When devices, accounts, and users are linked, it creates the potential to connect activity across home devices, school-issued laptops, and shared computers. ● Not fully effective At the same time, experience shows that age checks are often bypassed—meaning more data is collected without fully solving the problem. 4. The shift away from an open internet The internet today is open by default. Under this model, access increasingly depends on verification through corporate-controlled systems. That is a fundamental shift. From open access → to permission-based access. And once built into devices and law, it becomes very difficult to reverse. ⚠️ URGENCY: WHY THIS MATTERS NOW Current Status: HB5511 has passed the Illinois House and is now moving to the Illinois Senate for consideration. This is the moment when changes can still be made. Once systems like this are written into law and built into technology, they are extremely difficult to undo. If the device-level requirements are not addressed now, they may become permanent.

While sales continue, Caltrans is still able to proceed with suspicious pricing, aggressive contract negotiations, and a myriad of building code and health and safety code violations. Without intervention, these serious problems will be inherited by disadvantaged home buyers, and the costs and risks ultimately transferred to the cities and districts in which these homes are located.  Caltrans tenants feel that they are under duress. There is widespread confusion about the manner in which the law and the regulations are being applied by Caltrans and their real estate contractor, Veterans Realty Group. There is a lack of uniform, accurate information, and an immediate need for advocacy and legal aid. 

Many CSRS retirees leave Virginia because other states do not discriminate against CSRS employees. Why does Virginia discriminate against us?  Please consider changing this tax code, allowing CSRS retirees to enjoy the same benefits that every other retiree in Virginia is afforded.