Tell CA’s leaders to Defend their Constituents from Federal Crackdowns on Peaceful Protest.

(Photo header: SEIU California President David Huerta being injured while peacefully protesting in LA on June 6.)

Send letters to our senators, our governor and our attorney general!

Is this our America now? Masked men pushing a student into an unmarked car? A young woman chased down by a dozen officers over the protests of her neighbors? Children being zip-tied or abandoned in a vehicle by ICE? People dragged away from immigration check-ins and fake court hearings? David Huerta, the president of the SEIU California, thrown against a curb by faceless men for peacefully protesting in LA? (see statement from LA Police below) And now, Californians being threatened with our own National Guard troops by the President and Marines by DoD Secretary and All-Star Incompetent Peter Hegseth.

SB 540 – the bill we’ll never notice until it’s too late…and coal companies control CA’s energy future. (updated 9/02!)

Update! Read all about it here!

UPDATE! This is as urgent as it gets – we need to prevent the utility regionalization bill that would give away control of California energy to coal states and to Trump. Leaders in the Assembly may come up with a gut-and-amend bill at the last minute, but it would mirror SB 540 Pathways, which was unable to move through Assembly committees due to its unpopularity. 

The two people who can stop this backroom dealmaking are Pro Tem McGuire and Senator Limon, Chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus, who will be the new Pro Tem next year.

Everyone can call both McGuire and Limon because they are the present and future leaders of the Senate. But if you’re a constituent of either, please mention that in your call. The next three days are crucial!

ACTION #1: Make sure legislators are awake and aware that WE ARE WATCHING THEM!

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Instead of giving the Medicare Advantage corporations a huge rate hike, let’s give all Americans access to a single-payer national healthcare system, like the people in Canada & Greenland have!

Hey, where’s those so-called “waste-cutting” DOGE minions when you actually need them?

Santa Trump and his oligarch-led administration just gave their corporate donors who run Medicare (Taking) Advantage plans an early Christmas present – a $46 BILLION dollar rate hike.

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Tell your legislators to vote “NO!” on the SAVE Act, a trojan horse for Christofascist voter suppression

What these patriarchal Christian Nationalist legislators want is a return to government run like it was by the signers of the Constitution – with only the richest White men being allowed to vote.

UPDATE: THE GREAT VOTER SUPPRESSION BILL has just passed through the House! Even more horrible, four Democratic-name-only legislators helped! Reps. Ed Case of Hawaii; Henry Cuellar of Texas; Jared Golden of Maine; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington state.

How close can they get to their ideal before the midterms? A lot closer if they can pass the SAVE Act, a cynically named elitist bill that’s actually a form of voter suppression against women, poorer American citizens and minorities – all those whom the GOP suspects will vote for Democrats.

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Dear President Trump and Vice President Vance,

Thank you for your kind invitation to take us over and subjugate us as a colonial state.

We will pass.

We like our national health care system, and are not interested in learning the finer points of medical bankruptcy, insurance denials, unaffordable medications, and lack of access. We respect science and would prefer to hang with other nations that do so too. In fact, lots of your best scientists will probably be relocating to Europe soon. We ourselves would be happy to offer asylum to the well-trained doctors your states chase out with abortion bans. Abortion has been legal here since 1975.

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“The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by Act of Congress, and supported by the people.” 39 U.S. Code § 101(a)…

…Meaning that our Postal Service does not belong to rich assholes.

From Wells Fargo report – better prices for them, (30 – 140% increase), not for us!

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Thank our State Attorney General for fighting back against Musk!

(https://vimeo.com/1054527049/fe5e56adab)

Action 1: Thank our State Attorney General Rob Bonta!

He was part of a 19-state effort lead by NY AG Leticia James to bring unelected techno-fascist Elon Musk and his team of flying monkeys to heel. Just as when we criticize those legislators who seem to have lost their spines in the wash, we also need to THANK those elected officials who have stood up and protected those they serve.

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Sen. Schumer must step aside – Indivisible National Action

For folks with Democratic senators, here are two actions you can take right away:

  1. Before Senate offices open tomorrow, use our form to send an email to your Democratic senator and ask them to call on Senator Schumer to step down as Minority Leader
  2. Then, tomorrow morning, use our click-to-call page to call your Democratic senator and urge them to call on Senator Schumer to step aside
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URGENT! TUESDAY – 03/18/2025 – Ventura Council – Item #15 – Community Autonomy, Rights, and Equality (CARE) Policy

Arrive as close to 5:00 pm as possible. Item may be heard at ±6:00pm – Location: Ventura City Hall

The Community Autonomy, Rights, and Equality (CARE) Policy which will be heard at the Ventura City Council on Tuesday, March 18th. (Agenda) This is an important democratic-values issue, and Oxnard, Simi, TO, and Santa Barbara will all be watching to see how it plays out.

ACTION:

  • We need to make our Democrat-endorsed councilmembers aware of our expectations BEFORE THE MEETING!
    • Contact your city council member with the email in the chart below and tell them you want them to vote “YES” on Item #15. For the ones marked “D”, you can use the word “democratic values” somewhere in your message. For the others, remind them that there are vulnerable people in their district and they are responsible for representing them as well. 
    • Not sure which district you live in? Check out this map.
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America’s “Crown Jewels” aren’t locked in a tower (Part 2)

Part 2 – The party of Grifters, Oligarchs and Polluters would very much like to neuter the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which is the regulation enacted by Nixon in 1970 that keeps them from poisoning us without consequences. (Comment Period Ends: Mar 27, 8:59 pm PDT)

(Part 1 here)

Or setting our rivers on fire…

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