Leave nothing on the table – President Biden, publish the ERA!

Virginia became the 38th and final state needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 2020. It’s been stuck since then.

Please take this action ASAP as we want President Biden to PUBLISH the ERA before he leaves office. 

Email Joe – We have scripts!

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Leave nothing on the table – “President Biden, commute all federal death penalty sentences now!”

Please add your voice to that of Rev. Sharon Risher!:

Rev. Sharon Risher‘s mother, two cousins and a childhood friend were among the nine people killed by White supremacist Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to death in 2017. However, after studying the racial disparities in the application of the death penalty, and the lack of evidence that it deters violent crime, she asked President Biden to commute his punishment to a life sentence without parole instead. And she wants this to happen for the 40 others on federal death row too, before sociopathic Felon/President-elect Donald Trump restarts the killing spree he began in his first administration. In his final six months in office, he executed 13 people, more than any president in the past 120 years. She hasn’t heard back from Biden yet and those 40 people are still at risk. Let’s pile on!

Action: Urge President Biden to eliminate the death penalty for those under his watch.

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Resistance Action to Help Dreamers & DACA recipients!

Contact the Biden Administration and urge Mayorkas and Biden to finalize and publish the H-1B modernization rule to move DACA recipients to a more secure status and to expedite the processing of existing applications.

Action #1: Urge DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to finalize the H-1B modernization rule.

EMAIL: (Here’s our take. We aren’t immigration experts, so we’re emphasizing that he finish the work he started. Use personal stories if you can.)

Sec. Mayorkas, I’m writing to urge you to finalize the H-1B modernization rule. Your actions as USCIS director during the Obama administration to implement the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process in just 60 days, protected our friends and neighbors, and there’s no amount of thanks we can give you for that.

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Are they sleeping? Tell our legislators to Vote “NO!” on H.R. 9495/S.4136 to protect non-profits from Trump.

H.R.9495 is a Pandora’s box of destruction for any organization that crosses Trump and his MAGA agenda!

UPDATE: This bill passed the House! WTH?! Call your senators! Script below!

Despite its defeat last Tuesday night, H.R. 9495 – which gives the incoming Trump administration unchecked power to shut down ANY NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION that stands in the way of his MAGA agenda – will return for a second vote in the U.S. House of Representatives early next week, with a markup starting on Monday, November 18. This will be followed by an expected floor vote on Tuesday or Wednesday, where it will require only a SIMPLE MAJORITY to pass.

What can we do?

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Time is running out. Tell senators to fill every judicial vacancy and prevent Trump’s toxic version of “recess appointments.”

The chaos and corruption starts now. But legislators still want to be re-elected, and that’s where our power is.

Action #1 – Minimal call or email script to your (2) senators:
I’m calling from [zip code]. I want Senator [______] to vote to prioritize confirming Biden’s final pro-democracy judges, and to prevent “Recess Appointments” of Trump’s clown-car nominees for top positions in the his administration. The welfare of all Americans depends on people with both commitment to the constitution and expertise and we’re counting on you to do everything you can to safeguard our democracy.

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OK, this is either a really dull notice about updating election equipment, or a call to battle by election deniers.

If you’re looking for something to do to help our elections and democracy, you do not have to go far, or take a lot of time. Come and assure skittish supervisors that it’s the first option. Seriously!

A flashpoint for election deniers is coming Tuesday morningagenda item #36 – approval for County Clerk-Recorder and Registrar of Voters Michelle Ascension to sign a contract with Dominion Voting Systems, Inc to upgrade our current equipment (both the voting system and mobile ballot printers), and to pay for the annual licensing and warranties.

Indivisible Ventura’s Voting Guide for the 2024 Primary Election

Note: this post will be periodically updated! (02/17/2024)

VOTER GUIDE QUICK LINKS TO: Federal candidates, State candidates, Proposition 1, Judges, County Supervisors, Local Measures

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Today in “Did that just happen?”: A candidate for public office told a story about cats…

Did Bruce Boyer reveal that he may have overlooked voter fraud and/or committed it himself at the Jan. 23rd Board of Supervisors meeting?

Experts believe that real election fraud remains “vanishingly rare.” Proof? Despite determined investigations and bottomless funding, the hard-right Heritage Foundation, authors of the authoritarian Project 2025, has only located 1,500 instances across the entire nation since 1982(!!!), against literally billion of ballots, to justify their story that voter fraud is rampant in America and their drafting of voter suppression legislation

Will the 1,501st addition to their pathetic collection come from right here in Ventura County? Mr. Boyer may have thought he was just teaching us a lesson, but you and our county and state election officials will be the judge. Roll the film!

This excerpt comes from the Jan. 23 meeting. Here is the full video. The excerpt starts at ±4:09:25
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