Action Alerts: Midweek Edition
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Welcome to our May 27 Midweek Edition of Action Alerts!
By Abbi Lichtenstein
In this newsletter, you’ll find action steps to take so you can resist the Trump administration’s unlawful actions against our government and help protect our democracy.
Contact Congress
The Reconciliation bill that Trump dubbed as the “Big Beautiful Bill” —which is really a big, bad, ugly bill that will hurt millions of Americans — passed in the Republican House. It cuts over $7 billion from Medicaid, which means it will be harder to get the health coverage millions of Americans need. Hospitals will be in danger of closing (especially in rural areas) and seniors will get kicked out of their senior living facilities — where will they live? It will also slash $5 billion from Medicare after Republicans told us they wouldn’t touch it. The bill cuts food assistance for 11 million people including four million kids. Kids and seniors will starve. All this to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg while Americans will be left struggling. On top of that, the bill includes a provision that a law can’t be passed to regulate AI for 10 years and a provision that shields the Trump regime from being held in contempt of court. What could possibly go wrong? There are more bad things in this bill that would make things worse for everyday Americans like adding trillions of dollars to the national debt. The bill is unconscionable. Now it goes to the Senate. Please contact your Republican senators and demand they vote NO on this bill.
By phone, 202-224-3121
By email: Congress.gov
By U.S. mail: Senators
By Resistbot: Resist.bot
Call your senators and demand they vote no on the GENIUS Act, a crypto bill that wouldn’t do anything to regulate cryptocurrency and still allow Trump to keep profiting from his crypto investments. For more information and to contact your senators, click here.
Events
Silver Spring Progressive Action will be hosting a Zoom event, Building a Truth-Based Media Presence to Win Elections — YouTube, Podcasts, Influencers, and More, Monday, June 16, 7–8:15 PM ET. Guest speakers are Kitty Douglas from Courier Newsroom, and Politics Girl, Leigh McGowan, from We Are Chorus. Let’s fight disinformation with REAL information.
Disinformation threatens our democracy by fueling polarization, undermining trust, and destroying the belief in the public good. The 2024 election was full of historic media dysfunction. Now, we need to build a strong infrastructure — beyond newspapers — to ensure that this does not happen again. This event will highlight these leading voices in the movement to build a progressive information collective and reach voters where they are with meaningful, relevant, fact-based information. Sign up here.Join Robert B. Hubbell, independent Substack writer and lawyer, Luis A. Miranda, Jr., and Katharine Pichardo, Thursday, May 29, 8 PM ET as they discuss the work of Latino Victory and the role of Latino voters in the 2024 election, including what we need to consider for the upcoming midterms. This is a Substack livestream event and open to everyone. Subscribe here to Robert Hubbell’s Substack and turn on your notifications to get a message when the event starts.
Fight Back With Friends is a monthly call to action with Indivisible. Please join this national program designed to help you activate your community! Using their the Empower app, they’ll equip you with the tools to connect with friends, family, and neighbors who need YOUR voice to get civically engaged. Join them on the fourth Tuesday of every month for a one-hour training session, where they’ll introduce calls to action that make a real impact. Sign up here.
Attend What’s the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Indivisible’s Co-Founders, Thursdays, 3-4 PM ET. Discuss the chaos of the White House and the plan to stop it. Please sign up here.
Rallies
On June 14, join the NO KINGS mass protest nationwide organized by Indivisible. NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies. Please invite three friends to come with you. You’ll be surprised by how many people would go to this rally (because they don’t agree with the Trump regime’s actions) if they just had a gentle push. For more information and to find out where there’s a rally near you click here. Help us promote the event using this toolkit.
Union of Veterans Council, AFL-CIO is organizing a Unite Veterans, Unite America rally in Washington, D.C., at the National Mall on June 6. Join them and stand up against the attacks on their jobs, benefits, and institutions they defended so honorably. Here’s more information.
The Big List of Protest will help you find a rally near you.
Town Halls
Impeach + Remove Digital Town Hall featuring Rep. Al Green. Cohosted by Free Speech For People and Women’s March, Tuesday, June 3, 7:30–8:30 PM ET. Rep. Green has introduced articles of impeachment. Learn why Trump must be held accountable and how you can take action to protect our democracy. Register to attend here.
Speak With Your Wallet
Women Forward provides resources to help you find companies that support democratic values and candidates, those that support opposing values, and those that do not make political contributions.
Show corporate America we don’t agree with them when they go along with what the administration is doing. Take part in these national boycotts:
June 3-9 — Target Boycott
June 24-30 — McDonald’s Boycott
July 4 — Independence Day Boycott
You can find other action items here.
Phone Banking, Canvassing, Texting, and Postcard Writing
Every Wednesday and Thursday in June, 11:30 AM–12:30 PM ET, join Indivisible for a phone bank where we’ll be calling voters and connecting them directly to their senators. Together, we’ll urge Republicans to oppose the Trump Tax Scam — a reckless GOP tax plan that prioritizes billionaires like Elon Musk while selling out working families. Sign up here.
Please join a virtual phone bank for Democrats to call North Carolina voters on various dates. It’s an opportunity to build power for the Democrats so we can flip North Carolina blue! Sign up here.
Canvass for Democrats and talk with voters in North Carolina in various counties. This is also a great opportunity to help flip North Carolina blue!
The SAVE Act, A GOP-backed bill, would make voter registration significantly more difficult for married women, transgender individuals, seniors, people with disabilities, and minorities. The legislation is aimed at addressing the largely unsubstantiated issue of noncitizen voting. While the bill has already passed in the House, it could still be blocked in the Senate if Democratic members remain united.
Common Cause will be hosting phone banks every Tuesday and Thursday, 5:30–7:30 PM ET or 6–8:00 PM ET to call swing state voters and encourage them to urge their legislators to oppose this bill. Volunteers will have the opportunity to patch voters directly through to their lawmakers, allowing them to express their outrage and advocate against the legislation. Training will be provided at the start of each shift. Sign up here.Grassroots Democrats, in partnership with the California Democrats, Team Pelosi, and the Los Angeles Democratic Party, are hosting the
#HandsOff Our Health Care Phone Bank on Thursdays. Fifteen million Californians and 72 million Americans rely on Medicaid to get the care they need. They are mobilizing constituents in three battleground districts to fight against the Republicans who are attacking our health care. Please click here to find dates/times and sign up.Join Black Voters Matter on Zoom, 6 PM ET on Tuesdays, as they gather to drive change through digital organizing. Their texting campaigns will give you the opportunity to engage residents across the U.S. while empowering them to make a positive impact in their communities. For more information and to sign up, click here.
Join Third Act and Activate America to write postcards! Write postcards to voters and help safeguard our democracy, win elections, and build voter enthusiasm and turnout to elect progressives and climate champions! Sign up here to request voter names and addresses for a variety of campaigns in key swing states and districts.
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