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Trump’s Inflation Problem

Affordability is back at the center of the news cycle today, and for good reason. Inflation rose in May to 4.2%, a three-year high, as everyday Americans continue getting squeezed by higher prices, higher costs, and a political agenda that puts chaos over working families. And now, Trump’s reckless war with Iran - a war nobody asked for, nobody voted for, and nobody can afford - is making things even worse.

This is what happens when Republicans hand the country back to Trump: families pay more, billionaires get protected, and working people are told to just deal with it. From groceries to gas to health care to housing, Trump’s policies are driving up costs while Republicans in Congress cheer him on and try to slash the very programs that help people stay afloat. They promised strength. What they delivered is instability, inflation, and another unaffordable MAGA mess.

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They voted to strip your healthcare. They did it with a 215 to 214 margin. One vote. And they didn’t blink.

Now it’s your turn.

This is not the moment for despair. This is the moment to get loud, get organized, and make sure every Republican who voted yes feels it all the way to November.

They Signed It. You Live With It.

On July 4th, 2025, Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law. The name was the joke. The contents were the cruelty.

The law included more than $1 trillion in cuts to health programs⁠, Medicaid work requirements that begin in December 2026, and changes expected to leave millions of families facing higher costs as ACA premiums rise across the country⁠. This is not a budget adjustment. This is a dismantling, and they knew exactly what they were doing.

The Midterms Are Closer Than You Think

Republicans are counting on one thing: your silence.

The political consequences are already taking shape, with Medicaid cuts emerging as a major issue in the 2026 midterms⁠. Every premium hike, every coverage denial, every neighbor who skips a prescription because they can’t afford it, that’s a voter who remembers in November. Make sure they do.

You are not powerless. You are the story they cannot spin.

Here’s Your Weapon. Use It.

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They will point you at the cage fight on the White House lawn. They will make you watch the spectacle. While you stare at the ring, they are moving money, cutting deals, and funding a deportation machine for the next three years.

Do not look away from what matters.

Here is what they hope you miss this week and how you can fight back.

The $70 Billion ICE Blank Check Is Headed for the House

Late Thursday night, Senate Republicans passed a 70-billion-dollar bill⁠ funding ICE and Border Patrol through the end of Trump’s term, voting 52-47 after an 18-hour overnight session. Only one Republican, Lisa Murkowski, voted no. The bill now moves to the House, where a vote is expected this week.

This bill does not just fund deportations. It includes a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” that could compensate Trump’s political allies, including people convicted of assaulting police on January 6. Democrats and some Republicans tried to kill that fund. They failed. Republicans voted it through anyway.

Your action: Call your House representative today. Tell them to vote no on the Secure America Act (S. 2). If your rep is a swing-district Republican, that call matters even more. Click here to send our prewritten Resistbot letter to your rep. It literally takes less than two minutes and it’s free!

FISA Expires June 12. The Fight Is Not Over.

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government’s warrantless surveillance authority, expires this Thursday, June 12. The Senate blocked a three-year extension last week after Democrats refused to move forward without reforms, objecting to Trump’s appointment of unqualified loyalist Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence.

This is a rare moment. Privacy advocates on both sides of the aisle want real reforms: warrant requirements before the government can search Americans’ communications, and a ban on buying location data from data brokers to track protesters. But the window is closing fast.

Your action: Contact your senators now and tell them: no FISA reauthorization without warrant protections. Use 5calls.org⁠ for a script and direct phone numbers.

They Want Your 401(k) in Crypto

The Trump Department of Labor is pushing a rule that would allow 401(k) plans to invest in cryptocurrency, private equity, and private credit, exposing an estimated 14.2 trillion dollars⁠ in American retirement savings to volatile assets. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, along with Rep. Bobby Scott, called the rule harmful and counter to existing law. The Trump family has accumulated as much as $5 billion in paper wealth tied to crypto since taking office.

The public comment period on this rule closed June 1, but the Labor Department has not finalized it. The pressure campaign is not over.

Your action: Call the Department of Labor at 1-866-444-3272 and tell them to withdraw this rule. Amplify the warnings from Sanders and Warren to anyone with a retirement account. This is not abstract. This is your neighbor’s pension.

The Good News: The House Told Trump No on Iran

Last Wednesday, the House passed a war powers resolution⁠ directing Trump to seek congressional authorization for military operations in Iran, 215-208. Four Republicans crossed over. It marks the first time the House succeeded on such a resolution after three prior attempts failed.

It is largely symbolic for now: it still needs the Senate, and Trump would likely veto it. But it reveals a crack in the GOP wall. An increasing number of Republicans are hearing from constituents who oppose another open-ended war.

Your action: Thank the four Republicans who voted yes: Tom Barrett (MI), Warren Davidson (OH), and their colleagues. A phone call of thanks matters. It tells them their constituents are watching, and it builds the coalition we need for the Senate vote ahead.

Watch the Courts, Too

Two Virginia residents filed a federal lawsuit Saturday⁠ seeking to block Trump’s UFC fight on the White House South Lawn, scheduled for June 14, his 80th birthday. The plaintiffs argue the event was never properly authorized, violated National Park Service regulations, and skipped required environmental review. The UFC event, called “Freedom 250,” involves a 600-ton steel arch installed on the South Lawn. Attorneys call it “deeply corrupt,” arguing Trump stands to gain financially through his TKO stock holdings.

The lawsuit is a long shot. But every legal challenge to the normalization of corruption is a brick in the wall.

One More Thing to Watch

House Republican leaders are already planning “Reconciliation 3.0,” a third party-line bill targeting Medicaid, SNAP, and safety net programs. Speaker Johnson has pledged to move quickly after the ICE bill passes. The groundwork starts this week, quietly, in committee rooms and back hallways.

They are counting on your exhaustion.

You bring discipline.

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It’s Time to Get LOUD

Today, Congress is voting on whether to continue funding another war while millions of Americans struggle to afford basic healthcare, prescription drugs, housing, and groceries. For years, politicians in Washington have told us that universal healthcare, lower drug prices, paid leave, affordable childcare, and other investments in working families are simply “too expensive.”

Yet somehow, there always seems to be money available when it’s time to fund another military conflict. We believe it’s time for our priorities to reflect the needs of the American people.

That’s why DemCast launched a social media storm today using the hashtag #FundHealthcareNotWAR. We’ve created a toolkit packed with ready-to-share graphics, posts, and messaging that you can use across social media platforms.

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CNN broke this story yesterday, and I need you to read it.

The Trump regime banned America’s top infectious disease researchers from communicating directly with the World Health Organization during active outbreaks. During an Ebola crisis. The scientists whose entire purpose is to stop moments like this one were forbidden from doing their jobs.

They could attend WHO virtual meetings. Three at a time. Listening only. Forbidden from speaking without routing requests through political appointees first.

One source told CNN this was “unheard of during a U.S. response to emerging public health emergencies.”

One hundred and thirty-nine people are dead in the DRC. Six hundred infected. The human toll continues to increase.

Did this have to happen? No. And the people responsible have names.

They Saw This Coming. They Chose It Anyway.

Before a single 2026 case was confirmed, Trump had already demolished the infrastructure built to prevent exactly this moment.

In his first weeks back in power, he slashed roughly 80% of all U.S. overseas aid, including the emergency outbreak teams stationed on the ground in the DRC. No replacement plan. No transition. Ideology signed into policy and abandoned, until the dead became undeniable.

Accidents happen when no one knew. Everyone knew.

They Burned USAID to the Ground

USAID funded disease surveillance networks across East Africa. It financed the supply chains that moved protective equipment to health workers before outbreaks became crises.

Trump shut all of it down. Operations ceased in summer 2025. In the DRC alone, U.S. humanitarian funding dropped by nearly 80%, gutting the early detection systems that give responders a fighting chance to save lives. The New York Times confirmed USAID financed critical surveillance and medical supply chains across the region. Former USAID official Jeremy Konyndyk stated: the dismantlement made this outbreak worse.

They knew. They chose it.

The CDC Is Flying Blind

Trump’s CDC has no fully staffed pandemic preparedness office. Key leadership positions remain vacant or filled by political loyalists. During the hantavirus outbreak earlier this year, health information came from appointees rather than scientists, because Trump fired or forced out the scientists.

National Nurses United asserted: “The CDC under Trump is flying blind. And that is by design.”

By design.

A Tax Cut, Funded in Blood

Former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden called the combination of USAID cuts, WHO withdrawal, and CDC gutting a “1-2 punch to health infrastructure” with no precedent in modern American history. The Economic Policy Institute warned in April 2025 this crisis was coming.

The money did not disappear. It moved up. To tax cuts. To billionaires.

One hundred and thirty-nine people are dead. More will follow. Somewhere in this regime’s ledger, that cost has been calculated, accepted, and filed.

The Regime Decides Who Deserves Protection

Authoritarians do not fail at protecting people. They decide who deserves protection and who does not.

The DRC is far away. The people are Black. The cameras are not there.

So the firewall came down. The scientists were silenced. The death toll climbed. The regime moved on.

Those people had names. Families. Futures. They deserved a country wealthy and organized enough to help stop what was coming. They got ideology instead. That is not a policy failure. That is a choice, made by people in suits, sitting in offices in Washington, D.C., very far from the dying.

They tore down the firewall. We rebuild it together, starting with the truth.

Put Your Anger to Work

Call your Representative and your Senator today. MoveOn has a direct line and a script if you need one. Tell them to restore global health funding. Tell them people are dying. Takes three minutes.

Read Physicians for Human Rights’ full breakdown of how U.S. cuts directly fueled this outbreak, then send it to every elected official in your contacts.

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The fire is not coming. It is already here.

Right now, in statehouses across the South, Republican-controlled legislatures are running a coordinated, deliberate campaign to silence Black voters. They are redrawing maps. Gutting protections. Exploiting Supreme Court rulings that shredded what remained of the Voting Rights Act. This is not a slippage. This is a strategy. And it will not stop unless we stop it.

This Saturday, May 16th, we answer back.

All Roads Lead to the South

Sixty years after civil rights marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, thousands will return to Alabama to say: we will not go back. Faith leaders gather at 9 AM in Selma. A national mass rally runs 1 to 5 PM at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. Actions are happening in solidarity across the country.

Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King will be there. The No Kings coalition will be there. Black Voters Matter will be there. Co-founders Cliff Albright and LaTosha Brown put it plainly: Alabama has always been sacred ground in the fight for freedom, and this moment demands that we rise together once again.

DemCast is a proud partner in this day of action. If you are not in Montgomery, find a local solidarity action and go.

Not Racist Is Not Enough

If you are white and you have been watching this unfold, I need to say something directly to you.

Not being racist is a starting position. It is not a contribution. In a five-alarm fire, standing at a safe distance and feeling bad about the smoke is not allyship. It is observation.

We are past that point.

The Black Power War Room has been sounding this alarm for months. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has documented, in meticulous legal detail, exactly what is being dismantled and why. Gerrymandering maps are being drawn right now specifically to dilute Black political power before the midterms. In the South, 56 percent of voters are Black. The people attacking democracy know exactly what they are doing.

Anti-racist means active. It means public. It means showing up where it is visible and where it costs you something. Attending a rally. Posting when your feed goes quiet. Calling a senator. Knocking a door. Funding the organizations doing the legal and organizing work right now.

History already told us how this works. In 1964, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner did not send a donation and move on. They drove to Mississippi. They worked. They died for it. Solidarity carries consequence. Symbolic solidarity carries none.

Choose consequence.

The Midterms Begin Now

Elections are not won on Election Day. They are won in the months of grinding, unglamorous work that comes before.

In the South, Black voters hold enormous power. They also face the most aggressive suppression machinery in the country. Getting people to the polls next year means starting registration drives now. It means building trust now. It means resources and boots on the ground now.

If you cannot be in Montgomery Saturday, invest in the infrastructure that turns out votes. Support Black Voters Matter directly. Plug into local chapters of the No Kings coalition. Volunteer with voter registration organizations in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina. Make calls. Write postcards. Fund canvassers.

Power does not disappear when the rally ends. It compounds when we keep working after everyone else goes home.

Tonight: Get on the Call

Before Saturday, get informed and connected. Tonight, movement leaders and organizers are hosting a Mass Call to explain exactly how to show up this weekend and what comes next. Register. Show up. Listen. Then go.

This is the moment. Montgomery is sacred ground. The work is urgent, the stakes are generational, and your presence matters.

Not just your sympathy. Your presence.

Here Is Your Action List

Tonight: Join the Mass Call with movement leaders to learn how to show up this weekend and beyond

Saturday: Get to Montgomery if you can. Find a local solidarity action if you cannot. Check Black Power War Room for updates

This week: Donate to Black Voters Matter and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Going forward: Plug into voter registration and canvassing in Southern states now, before the midterm crunch begins

Democracy does not belong to the people who build the best suppression machine. It belongs to the people who refuse to be suppressed, and to the people who stand with them.

All roads lead to the South. Start walking.

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Last night, powerful people hid. Journalists, lobbyists, and politicians dove under tables, pressed against walls, and ran for exits at the Washington Hilton. Secret Service moved. Protocols activated. And within hours, everyone went home.

Welcome to the reality American children, teachers, and parents live every single day. Except they do not get the protocols. They do not get the security detail. And not all of them get to go home.

They Felt It for Ninety Seconds

Joyce White Vance said what many of us were thinking: she listened to seasoned reporters describe their terror at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and immediately thought of America’s children. So did every parent who has ever kissed a kid goodbye at a school door and spent the day watching their phone.

Last night’s fear was real. Nobody dismisses that. But here is what last night was not: it was not hours. It was not silence so complete you could hear your own heartbeat. It was not crouching in a locked, darkened classroom for three hours while your phone dies and you cannot call your mother. It was not a teacher pressing her body against a door and telling twenty-three children to be very, very quiet.

That is a Tuesday in America.

What the Parents Were Doing

While everyone at the Washington Hilton ran for cover, they had something no parent of a child in an active shooter situation ever gets: real-time information. They could see. They could move. They knew where their people were.

Parents of children in school shootings wait. They wait outside yellow police tape, on sidewalks, in parking lots, refreshing news apps and texting into silence. They do not know if their child is hiding, injured, or gone. They stand there for hours, held back from the only thing that matters, not knowing if their family is still whole.

Last night lasted ninety seconds. That waiting lasts a lifetime.

What Teachers Actually Do

Let us be precise about what we ask of teachers in this country. We give them thirty students, a classroom, and in many states, a handgun training brochure. Then we tell them to be the last line of defense between a shooter and the children in their care.

Teachers run drills where weapons are pointed at them without warning, to simulate the real thing. They rehearse how to barricade a door with a desk, how to keep a child from screaming, how to triage a wound. They do this and then they teach fractions and read aloud and make sure every kid feels seen. They carry the weight home every night.

Last night, Washington felt a fraction of that weight for ninety seconds and called it terrifying. They were right. Now multiply it by every school day of every year, strip away the security detail, and imagine doing it without a panic button or a plan.

The Part Nobody Televises

Here is what cameras never follow: the child who cannot go back. The one who sits in the parking lot shaking on the first day of school the following year. The one who flinches at every locker slam, every car backfire, every fire drill. The one in therapy for years, learning to trust a building again.

Fred Guttenberg buried his daughter Jaime at Parkland and has spent every day since demanding accountability. “If you were horrified last night watching our elected leaders run and scramble because of gun violence,” he wrote, “just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed.”

The trauma does not end when the shooting stops. It moves in. It stays. It reshapes every ordinary moment of a child’s life into something that requires courage just to survive.

The Ballroom Excuse

Before the echo of last night’s gunshots faded, MAGA voices flooded X with a single message: this is why we need Trump’s ballroom. Tom Fitton. Jack Posobiec. Libs of TikTok. Meghan McCain. A coordinated chorus converting terror into a talking point for a $400 million vanity project that demolishes the historic East Wing of the White House.

Here is the fact they are counting on you not to know: the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is not a White House event. The White House Correspondents’ Association, an independent press organization, runs it every year at a hotel. A ballroom inside the White House perimeter would never host it. The excuse is not just weak. It is a lie dressed up as logic.

As Reverend Benjamin Cremer wrote: “I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.”

Neither can we.

$400 Million and Not One Vote

The ballroom carries a $400 million price tag, financed through anonymous donors, halted by a federal judge, and championed by a party that has blocked every meaningful gun safety bill for two decades. Universal background checks. Red flag laws. Assault weapons restrictions. Safe storage requirements. All of it killed, filibustered, or never brought to a vote.

As of early 2026, the Gun Violence Archive had already counted 78 mass shootings in the year’s first weeks. Everytown for Gun Safety tracks gunfire on school grounds because it happens so often someone has to keep count. Gun violence remains the leading cause of death for American children. Not cancer. Not car accidents. Bullets.

One gilded room for one man. Not one vote for 4,400 children.

Be the Consequence

The movement that ends this will not come from Washington. It will come from you.

Moms Demand Action has volunteers in every state. Find your chapter. Put on the red shirt. Show up.

Everytown for Gun Safety tracks legislation, funds candidates, and trains advocates across the country.

Giffords fights in courts, statehouses, and Congress for laws that save lives.

Brady United, where Fred Guttenberg serves as senior advisor, keeps survivors at the center of every strategy.

Orange Ribbons for Gun Safety, Fred Guttenberg’s own organization, backs the candidates and policies most likely to stop the carnage.

Students Demand Action organizes the generation that has grown up running drills.

Last night showed you exactly who they are. They felt the fear. They chose the ballroom.

Your vote is the only answer they cannot spin. Cast it like a child’s life depends on it.

Because it does.

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This is a moment that demands more than outrage — it demands action. Right now, members of Congress are watching events unfold in Iran while a president threatens mass destruction without authorization, without a plan, and without accountability.

We created a simple tool that lets you send a direct message to your representatives — not a petition, not a tweet, but a real letter that lands in their inbox. Whether they act or stay silent may define this moment in history.

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We’ve drafted two versions of the letter - one for Democrats and one for Republicans - each tailored to push where pressure is needed most. They call out the human cost, the lack of congressional authorization, and the moral line that’s being crossed right now. But this only works if thousands of voices hit their inboxes at once. Not later. Not tomorrow. Now.

Please do this. It takes two minutes max.

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You are not imagining it. You are not “overreacting.” The numbers moved backward.

For the first time in decades, the gender pay gap widened two years in a row; women working full-time, year-round went from earning 84 cents on the dollar in 2022 to 83 cents in 2023 and 81 cents in 2024, according to new AAUW analysis and Census-based Equal Pay Day data. Equal Pay Day 2026 lands on March 26 because that is how far into this year women have to work to catch up to what men earned in 2025, as the Census Bureau and AAUW’s calendar now spell out. That is not progress; that is a warning.

They Call It A Gap. It Is Theft.

The people who profit from this gap want you thinking it is a math glitch or your personal budgeting failure. It is neither. The Census Bureau’s Equal Pay Day brief shows women working full-time, year-round earned 81 cents per dollar in 2024, down from 83 cents the year before. The Bureau of Labor Statistics backs it up from another angle: women’s median weekly earnings in 2024 were 83 percent of men’s.

Different methods produce 81 percent, 83 percent, 76 percent, or 85 percent, depending on whether you look at full-time year-round work, all workers, weekly earnings, or hourly pay, but every serious dataset points one way: a gap that persists, and in the last two years, a gap that widened. AAUW’s Equal Pay Day calendar now marks March 26 for women overall at 81 percent for full-time, year-round workers and roughly 76 percent when you include all workers.

The Backslide Was Engineered

This backslide did not fall from the sky. It tracks with the same forces women name every time you ask: occupational segregation, caregiving penalties, the devaluation of “women’s work,” and discrimination in hiring, promotion, and pay-setting, documented in AAUW’s pay gap report and Pew’s long-term analysis. Recent research connects the renewed widening to cuts in the federal workforce, attacks on DEI, pressure on child care and home care systems, and immigration crackdowns that hollow out the paid care economy while shoving more unpaid labor back onto women, as detailed by the Economic Policy Instituteand the National Women’s Law Center.

When agencies that enforce equal-pay and anti-discrimination laws get gutted, those laws still sit on paper but lose teeth in real life, a pattern chronicled by The 19th News. When child care collapses, women cut hours, step off promotion tracks, or leave higher-wage jobs entirely, a dynamic echoed in care economy research. The pay gap worsened because structural inequality keeps doing the work of discrimination for employers.

Equal Pay Day Is A Battle Line

The good news: the same data that maps the damage points to the fixes. Research from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and Equal Pay Today shows the strongest tools include paid family and medical leave, affordable child care, higher minimum wages, pay transparency, stronger overtime and scheduling rules, and easier union organizing. Those changes raise the floor, shrink caregiving penalties, and make it harder for bosses to hide unequal pay behind secrecy and retaliation.

Equal Pay Day cannot just be a grim hashtag. It is a line in the sand. Your lane might be sharing the 81-cent stat with someone who still insists the gap “basically closed,” pushing your city or state for pay transparency and child care funding, or backing candidates who treat equal pay as infrastructure, not a slogan.

They need women confused, isolated, and tired. We will answer with clarity, solidarity, and discipline. Share this, talk about it, drag it into your workplace and your group chats. Then tell your lawmakers, out loud and often: close the gap, or we will replace you.

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Over 3,000 events. One message. No Kings. Courage is contagious and March 28 is our moment to prove it.

America doesn’t belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or those who rule through fear. It belongs to us. Not as a bumper sticker. Not as a hashtag. As a lived truth that people in this country have bled for, marched for, and refused to surrender, and we are not about to start now.

On March 28, We the People are taking to the streets again. Over 3,000 events. Every corner of this country. And here’s the thing about courage: it’s contagious. When one person shows up, it gives someone else permission to show up. When thousands show up, it becomes something that can’t be ignored. Last October, more than seven million of us turned out across 2,700 events. This time, we go bigger. Find your local event here and join us!

I won’t sugarcoat what we’re up against. Masked agents in our streets. Families torn apart. Healthcare, schools, and environmental protections gutted while billionaires collect their rewards. This is what unchecked power looks like, and it is counting on our exhaustion, our fear, and our silence. We are going to disappoint it. Loudly. Peacefully. Together.

No thrones. No crowns. No kings.

Can’t Be There in Person? You Are Still Part of This Movement!

Listen, I know some of you are carrying things that make showing up in a crowd impossible right now. Anxiety that makes public spaces feel like a threat. A body that doesn’t cooperate. Responsibilities that won’t pause for a protest. That is not weakness. That is life. And this movement has room for all of it.

Courage is contagious online too. Here’s how you show up from wherever you are:

• Share and reshare. Post the event, share the photos as they roll in on March 28, use #NoKings. Every share is a hand extended to someone still on the fence.

• Leave a comment. Find posts from people attending and tell them you see them. “Thank you for being out there for all of us” matters more than you know.

• Make it personal. Write a post, a letter to your local paper, a voice note: whatever feels true about why this moment matters to you. Your story is organizing.

• Text one person. Just one. The most powerful thing in grassroots work isn’t a viral post. It’s a friend saying I think you should come.

We the People isn’t just a phrase. It’s a promise we make to each other: none of us fights alone, and none of us gets left behind.

Now let’s make some noise before we even leave the house.

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The SAVE America Act is a sweeping federal bill that would upend how Americans register and vote, especially by mail, under the banner of “election integrity.” It passed the House in February and is now in the Senate, where it requires 60 votes to move forward. On paper it targets a virtually nonexistent problem—noncitizen voting—which studies and state reviews consistently find to be exceptionally rare, while shifting the burden and the cost of “proving” eligibility onto ordinary voters.

SOCIAL STORM!

We expect the Senate to vote on the bill this week. Today, the DemCast community and allied partners are storming social media to urge our fellow Americans to vocally oppose this voter suppression bill!

PLEASE visit our social media toolkit and share a few posts about the Save America Act across all social platforms.

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ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND

At its core, the bill rewrites voter registration by forcing every voter to show “documentary proof of citizenship” in person—typically a passport, certified birth certificate, or naturalization certificate—to get on or stay on the rolls. Driver’s licenses, REAL IDs in most states, military and veterans IDs, and student IDs do not qualify, and there is no national rule for what happens when the name on your citizenship document doesn’t match your current legal name.

That gap hits married women and anyone who changed their name especially hard: roughly 69 million married women have a birth certificate that no longer matches their current name, and the bill gives them no guaranteed way to use that document without navigating a patchwork of state rules and “bridge” paperwork that local officials are encouraged to scrutinize or reject.

Crucially, the SAVE America Act functions like a modern poll tax: there is no federal funding or free alternative for the documents it requires, and in the real world, those documents cost money—roughly 130–165 dollars for a passport, fees for certified birth certificates, and more than 500 dollars to replace a naturalization certificate.

At the same time, it layers on strict ID-copy rules for mail voting—requiring voters to print and enclose a copy of a government photo ID both when requesting a ballot and when sending it back—which would effectively dismantle successful all-mail systems in states like Oregon and Colorado and create new hurdles for seniors, disabled voters, rural communities, and low-income people without easy printer or copier access.

Voting-rights advocates warn that, taken together, these costs and paperwork traps would disenfranchise millions of fully eligible Americans—not because they’re not citizens, but because the process is designed to make it harder and more expensive to exercise a fundamental right.

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Solidarity founding leader Lech Walesa shows v-sign in front of Solidarity poster during his presidential campaign in Plock, May, 1989

Authoritarianism Is Architecture

Authoritarianism does not rise because people are tired. It rises because it is organized.

It builds media ecosystems, coordinates narratives, trains messengers, floods the zone, funds amplification, and protects its candidates. It builds infrastructure.

Too often, we respond with vibes. We rage. We repost. We doomscroll. We wait for someone else to fix it.

That ends here.

History does not reward outrage. It rewards organization.

History Leaves Instructions

Chile did not defeat a dictator with vibes. In 1988, voters faced a regime that controlled media and ruled through fear. They trained poll watchers, registered voters, negotiated television time, and counted every ballot. They voted anyway. They watched anyway. They won anyway.

Last Sunday, I broke down how the 1988 “No” campaign turned discipline into democratic transition in Courage Is Contagious: How Ordinary People Beat Authoritarians. The lesson is not sentimental. It is operational. They built systems strong enough to withstand fear.

Poland did not dismantle a one-party state with hope alone. Solidarity built underground presses, moved leaflets by hand, and turned factories into organizing hubs. When martial law came, they decentralized. When leaders were jailed, they adapted. Tanks rolled. The network held.

Serbia did not topple Milošević with outrage posts. Otpor trained thousands in nonviolent discipline, unified opposition factions, registered voters, and monitored polling places. They made cheating too costly to sustain. They relied on coordination, not noise.

This is the pattern: authoritarian power is structured. Democratic resistance must be structured. Anything less is surrender disguised as commentary.

The Digital Battlefield

In 2026, the underground press is digital. The leaflet is a post. The organizing meeting happens in group chats and Zoom rooms. Narrative dominance shapes elections long before ballots are cast.

If they build disinformation machines, we build truth networks.

If they coordinate amplification, we coordinate faster.

If they invest in infrastructure, so do we.

Because if we do not organize, they consolidate. Power never sits still. It either expands or it is constrained.

Building the Infrastructure Now

That is why we are building a digital army. Not metaphorical. Operational.

An organized, trained network of people who understand that disciplined amplification beats viral chaos. People who know what to share, when to share it, and how to protect democratic candidates and institutions from narrative assault.

Explore the roles:

https://demcast.com/team/

Take your place in the network:

https://action.demcast.com/a/getinvolved2025

You do not need to be loud. You need to be reliable.

Authoritarians count on your exhaustion. We count on your participation.

The First Step

Courage is not a mood. Courage is continuing. Courage becomes contagious when it is organized.

This is not a moment for spectators. Power is organizing. So are we.

We, the people, build the resistance.

Next week, we expand the field. Digital infrastructure must translate into physical presence, local action, and votes.

This is the first step.

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Every day, I watch regular people do more to defend democracy than institutions with billion-dollar budgets. The defenders are not the heroes you expect. They are the soap maker, the coffee roaster, the indie bookstore using their small squares of internet to say what most brands refuse to say out loud.

If you are waiting for a cavalry to ride in and save us from this authoritarian slide, I have news. The cavalry already arrived. They are packing orders, printing labels, and posting TikToks between customer emails.

My Cluck Hut: Welcome to the Revolution

Start in Nashville with My Cluck Hut, a soap company that looks like glitter and chaos on the outside and channels real money to justice-focused nonprofits.

They make eco-friendly soaps, shampoos, and mosquito-repellent bars. Their real product is conviction. Their mission centers community, planet, and people first. A portion of proceeds from their GIVE A CLUCK page goes directly to local and national nonprofits. They say it plainly. They are not here only to protect your skin. They are here to protect your community.

On social, they refuse neutrality. Their Instagram and TikTok mix chaotic humor, mental health honesty, and unapologetic civic courage. They back rallies. They amplify justice work. They take a clear pro-human, anti-authoritarian stance because neutrality fuels authoritarianism.

Find them at mycluckhut.com.

Three Keys Coffee: Caffeine and Liberation

In Houston, Three Keys Coffee treats every bag of beans like a love letter to Black culture and a direct challenge to sanitized, apolitical coffee branding.

Three Keys is a Black-owned specialty coffee roastery rooted in jazz, Black history, and community. Culture is not a side project. It is the foundation. They use their platform to highlight racial justice causes, uplift other Black creators, and support community organizations through partnerships and donation campaigns tied to product releases and events.

When you buy from them, you do more than upgrade your morning routine. You invest in a cultural and civic ecosystem built on dignity instead of dominance.

Find them at threekeyscoffee.com and on Instagram at @threekeyscoffee.

Red Emma’s: Radical Books, Real Democracy

Then there is Red Emma’s, a worker-owned bookstore and cooperative in Baltimore that operates at the intersection of reading and resistance.

Red Emma’s describes itself as a worker cooperative bookstore, coffee shop, and community events space rooted in anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist politics. They host teach-ins on fascism, labor organizing, surveillance, and mutual aid. They stock books authoritarian movements try to ban. They use profits to keep their doors open for grassroots groups who need space to gather, learn, and organize.

This is what democratic infrastructure looks like when large institutions retreat. Worn chairs. Radical books. People who refuse silence.

Find them at redemmas.org and on Instagram at @redemmas.

Your Digital Drumbeat: What To Do Next

If you are reading this and thinking, “I am just one person,” remember that so are they.

Here is how you turn awareness into action:

• Buy from them. Replace one Amazon purchase this week with an order from My Cluck Hut, Three Keys Coffee, or Red Emma’s. Your money either feeds corporations that accommodate authoritarianism or fuels resistance. Choose deliberately.

• Boost their signal. Follow them. Share a post. Stitch a TikTok. Algorithms suppress anything that challenges power. Your engagement keeps these businesses visible.

• Find your local fighters. Look for the bar, bookstore, salon, or food truck near you speaking up for democracy, LGBTQ+ rights, racial justice, or voting access. Ask how they show up. Support them publicly.

• Become the next node. You do not need a storefront to matter. You have a feed, a voice, a group chat, a neighborhood. Use them. Make your corner of the internet and your corner of town hostile terrain for authoritarianism.

Democracy does not live only in courtrooms and capitols. It lives in soap shops, roasteries, and co-ops that refuse silence. If we want a future where our children do not ask why we stayed quiet, the answer starts here. Receipts. Reposts. Relentless support for the small businesses fighting to keep us free.

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House Republicans are pushing the SAVE Act and its rebranded versions, a dangerous set of bills designed to make voting harder for millions of eligible Americans.

Let’s be clear: non-citizen voting is already illegal.

This bill does nothing to protect elections. It exists to disenfranchise voters and suppress turnout.

What the SAVE Act Will Do

The SAVE Act will require Americans to present specific citizenship documents, like a passport or an original birth certificate, just to register to vote or update their registration.

That sounds simple until you look at the facts:

• More than 150 million U.S. citizens don’t have a passport

• 21 million Americans don’t have ready access to a birth certificate

• Birth certificates often don’t match current legal names, especially for married women

• Online voter registration, mail registration, and voter registration drives would effectively be dismantled

This isn’t election security.

It’s a mass voter purge dressed up as “reform.”

Who This Bill Hurts Most

The SAVE Act will disproportionately block eligible voters, including:

• Married women who’ve changed their last names

• Military families, especially those born overseas

• Tribal citizens, whose IDs often don’t list place of birth

• Rural voters who rely on online and mail registration

• Low-income and working-class Americans

• LGBTQ+ Americans, particularly trans voters with updated legal documents

• Natural disaster survivors who’ve lost documents

• Communities of color, targeted by intimidation and misinformation

Kansas tried this already. The result? 31,000 eligible citizens blocked from voting.

This is not hypothetical. This is the plan.

TAKE ACTION (It Takes 2 Minutes)

✉️ Send the Letter

Use our pre-written letter to tell your House Representative to vote NO on the SAVE Act.

Lawmakers track constituent contacts closely. When inboxes flood, votes move.

👉Click on the image below to send a letter

📣 Join the Social Storm

We’ve made it easy to turn pressure into momentum.

Our digital toolkit includes:

• Pre-written posts

• Graphics and captions

• Platform-ready content for Instagram, BlueSky, X, Threads, and Facebook

All you have to do:

• Pick a post

• Share it

• Tag your representatives

• Tell your community what’s at stake

Click on the image below to access our digital toolkit It’s so easy!

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Authoritarians try to own symbols because symbols move people faster than policy memos ever could. Symbols tell us who belongs, who stands together, and who refuses to disappear.

That’s why they police colors.

That’s why they obsess over clothing.

That’s why they panic when resistance becomes visible.

Right now, something small but unmistakable is happening in public space.

Red hats are showing up again.

Not the mass-produced red cap that became shorthand for grievance and cruelty. Something older. Handmade. Pointed. Tasselled. Worn on purpose.

We’ve seen this before.

When Visible Unity Became Illegal

During World War II, Norwegians living under Nazi occupation found ways to resist without weapons. One of those ways was simple and public: they wore red knitted hats.

Everyone understood the message. We are still here. We do not consent.

The Nazis understood it too. The hats became so effective as a signal of unity that the occupation government moved to criminalize them, eventually banning red wool caps as symbols of national unity.

That fact matters.

You don’t outlaw yarn unless visible solidarity threatens your control.

The hats worked because they broke isolation. They let people recognize each other on the street without speaking. They told strangers, you’re not alone.

Why Red Is Showing Up Again Now

Fast forward to the present.

After ICE escalated enforcement in Minnesota, terrorizing immigrant communities and killing community members, people did what resistance movements always do. We organized. We watched out for each other. We refused silence.

And we reached for a symbol that carries history.

A local designer created the “Melt the ICE” hat, directly inspired by the Norwegian resistance hats. People began knitting and crocheting them. Not as fashion. As presence. As memory. As refusal.

This works because we use it together. If you want to move this from visibility to impact, here’s how we organize around it.

You can knit or crochet the hat using patterns created specifically to keep participation accessible. The original “Melt the ICE” design sends proceeds directly to immigrant aid through the Melt the ICE knitting pattern, and a matching option exists for crocheters through the Melt the ICE crochet pattern. Even buying a pattern without making a hat functions as a donation.

If cost or skill is a barrier, a free crochet version is available through this red tassel hat pattern, and people who want to learn step-by-step can follow along with a long-form Melt the ICE hat tutorial on YouTube.

If you can’t craft, you can still support the work directly by donating to immigrant defense efforts coordinated by organizers at Eyes on ICE.

Wear the hat in ordinary places. Share the story when you post. Visibility breaks isolation. Recognition builds power.

What matters just as much as the money is the visibility.

These hats are appearing at protests, vigils, grocery stores, bus stops. They say what many people feel but struggle to voice: we see what’s happening, and we are not backing down.

This Isn’t Nostalgia. It’s Strategy.

Authoritarians depend on isolation. They want people to feel unsure, invisible, alone. Symbols interrupt that. Symbols recruit. Symbols tell the person next to you, you’re not imagining this.

That’s why reclaiming red matters.

This isn’t about crafting. It’s about refusing to let extremists monopolize public space or visual language. It’s about reminding each other that resistance doesn’t always look like a march. Sometimes it looks like a hat worn where others can see it.

If you can’t craft, you can still support the work directly by donating to immigrant defense efforts coordinated through organizers at Eyes on ICE.

How We Show Up

We don’t need permission to be visible.

We don’t need to wait until it’s dangerous to act.

We just need to recognize each other.

And right now, red is doing that work.

Share this. Symbols become protection when we move them together.

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We, the people, are watching the Senate decide whether to keep funding ICE, Trump’s Gestapo, and the Department of Homeland Security as they operate with lethal force and no accountability.

Trump’s Gestapo murdered U.S. citizens.

Trump’s Gestapo illegally detained children.

Trump’s Gestapo dragged students from schools.

Trump’s Gestapo arrested clergy and faith leaders.

Trump’s Gestapo targeted legal observers and peaceful residents.

Trump’s Gestapo terrorized immigrant families and U.S. citizens alike. 

The Senate now decides whether to keep paying for it.

A vote to fund DHS is a vote to finance Trump’s Gestapo operating in our communities. That vote authorizes more killings, more child detentions, and more unchecked violence carried out in our name.

We, the people, do not consent.

The House already failed to stop this. We, the people, now demand the Senate vote NO and end funding for ICE, Trump’s Gestapo.

Use the tool below to contact your Senators. Demand a NO vote. Demand they stop funding Trump’s Gestapo. Demand accountability now.

Senators track constituent pressure. They count calls. They log messages. They respond when the public refuses to back down.

We, the people, still hold power when we use it together.

Take two minutes. Use the tool. Demand the Senate vote NO.

We do not fund terror.

We do not fund impunity.

We, the people, demand accountability.

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Imagine seeing your wife murdered - shot point-blank in front of you - and then, later that week, learning that your government wants to investigate YOU and NOT the man who shot her three times in the face for no reason.

That’s the week that Becca Good is having, and our hearts go out to her.

Thankfully, six MN federal prosecutors who were asked by Trump’s DOJ to look into her “ties” to “activist groups”, decided to resign today rather than pursue the order issued by Pam Bondi and her henchmen.

Now THAT is standing up for justice.

Here is a quick rundown of what happened, from The Dangerous Ones Podcast (and me!).

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ICE Out For Good.

This is not a moment for whispers.

This is a moment for movement.

Across the country, communities are rising to say what should have been said long ago: ICE Out For Good. We reject a regime that treats terror as policy, cruelty as strategy, and silence as consent. We refuse to accept disappearing neighbors, shattered families, and violence carried out in our name.

We carry the names with us.

Renee Nicole Good.

And the countless others who never made it home after encounters with ICE or CBP. People who died in custody, during raids, in detention, or in the shadows of an unaccountable system designed to harm. We march for them. We organize because memory demands action.

This Saturday, January 10, we take that refusal into the streets.

This is mass mobilization powered by people who still believe in dignity, due process, and each other. It is grief turned into action. Rage sharpened into resolve. Love for our communities made unmistakably public.

DemCast is proud to be the sole Digital Field team, partnering with over 100 organizations, including Indivisible, to help drive this nationwide uprising. From city centers to small towns, from first-time organizers to seasoned resisters, this is what coordinated people power looks like.

There is a place for you in this fight.

📍 Find an event near you and show up

https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132&utm_source=toolkit

🔥 No event near you? Host one. Lead anyway.

https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/c/ice-out-for-good/event/create/?utm_source=indivisible

🛡️ Protect yourself and your community. Attend the ACLU’s Know Your Rights training tonight.

https://act.aclu.org/a/aclukyr

Can’t attend in person due to work, health, or caregiving? You still matter.

Look for our toolkit tomorrow with shareable posts amplifying peaceful protests nationwide. Sharing, boosting, and bearing witness is part of this movement too.

History does not move because people waited to be comfortable.

It moves because people decided enough.

This Saturday, we make it unmistakable:

ICE Out For Good.

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Enough with this Right-Wing Dominance Online

I’ve been in the trenches on social media battling against MAGA propaganda for a decade now.

Bad news: we’re still losing.

There are a variety of reasons:

1. It’s hard to match up against opponents who don’t have an agenda other than fomenting rage. They don’t have to be nuanced in any way because they don’t stand for anything.

2. Structurally, social media channels reward rage bate because it keeps people on the platform. The algorithm likes it.

3. The owners of social media companies are in DJT’s pocket, compounding the problem.

4. Foreign adversaries are pumping millions and millions of dollars into troll and bot farms.

5. The right wing has been recruiting and training people to parrot Trump’s talking points for the last decade.

That’s just a smattering of reasons that things aren’t going well for pro-democracy advocates online.

Time to make a dent in their dominance.

DemCast Launches Rapid Response Text Team

So how do we break through?

One strategy that we know works: Social Storms / Digital Rallies. This is when we all jump online at the same time to talk about the same thing, with consistent talking points. This ignites trends and breaks down algorithmic silos that keep content from spreading to those who need to see it.

As a movement, we need to triple down on this strategy in 2026, and DemCast USA is positioned better than any outfit to lead the charge. We specialize in grassroots digital mobilization, and we’re not waiting around to ask permission.

If you’d like to join the team, it’s super easy. Just text Resist to (866) 877-0037. Here’s what it looks like to sign up:

That’s it.

What you’ll get:

• 1 to 4 notifications per week about Social Storms / Digital Rallies where tens of thousands of people storm social media at the same time

• Links to social media toolkits like this one that make sharing content ridiculously easy

• Notifications about key in-person mobilizations

What you WON’T get:

• Fundraising requests. We hate them too.

• Bullshit. We don’t have time.

If this is appealing to you, text Resist to (866) 877-0037. And finally:

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Why We Need to Pressure Congress

On January 7, an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis during a massive federal enforcement operation. It wasn’t an isolated incident—it was the predictable result of an immigration enforcement system operating with too little oversight, too much force, and almost no accountability.

When federal agents can detain U.S. citizens, ignore proof of citizenship, operate masked and unidentified, and use lethal force with minimal review, constitutional rights aren’t just at risk for immigrants. They’re at risk for everyone.

This is exactly the kind of moment Congress is supposed to step in.

That doesn’t happen unless members of Congress hear from their constituents—loudly, clearly, and in large numbers.

That’s why we’ve built a write-your-member-of-Congress tool that makes it fast and easy to contact your Representative and Senators. Whether they’re Democrats or Republicans, the message is simple: defend the Constitution, impose real guardrails on federal enforcement, and restore oversight before more lives are lost. (There is a custom message for Democratic members and a custom message for Republican members.)

Lawmakers track constituent contacts closely. When offices are flooded with messages on a single issue, it changes what gets attention, what gets hearings, and what gets funded.

This is one of those moments when silence becomes permission.

Take two minutes. Use the tool. Send the message.

Democracy doesn’t defend itself. We do.

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