Action Alerts: Our Weekly Roundup of Opportunities for Activism
Welcome to the August 23 edition of our partner newsletter!
“In the White House, they are very, very, very freaked out about Trump’s health. They’re very freaked out about how badly he got rolled in Ukraine. And they’re very badly freaked out about Gavin Newsom.” — Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project
DemCast invites you to join us for a conversation with Alex Dobbs of the Free DC project who will be talking about trouble in the District of Columbia, one of the most pressing issues of the day.
You won’t want to miss it!
Monday, Aug. 25
7 PM ET
Zoom
See Network NOVA below for specific Calls to Action to help D.C.
From Network Nova and Virginia Grassroots:
“Interested in helping DC and saving the nation from the encroachment of Fascism?
Contact your reps and tell them: The Crime Increase is in the House — The White House!
Use this toolkit from DemCast to let everyone know about Trump’s fascist takeover!
And,
“Postcards4VA is hosting National Postcard Parties for Virginia because this election is a bellwether, and postcards make a real difference!”
Monday, Sept. 8, 7–9 PM ET
Monday, Sept. 15, 7–9 PM ET
Sunday, Sept. 21, 7–9 PM ET
Monday, Sept. 29 (School Board), 7–9 PM ET
We welcome Indivisible Upper Cape to our roster! Please participate in their fight against Citizens Bank.
“Citizens Bank says it’s strengthening communities, but has continued financing CoreCivic and GEO Group as other lenders have cut ties. Private prisons and the mass detention, deportation, and surveillance of immigrants don't strengthen our communities; they hurt our neighbors. Citizens must stop financing CoreCivic and GEO Group.”
Click here to organize a protest near your Citizens Bank location.
Click here for other action items, including a Boycott Citizens toolkit and an #EyesOnICE letter-writing campaign.
From Indivisible SF:
”Trader Joe’s United, the union of Trader Joe’s crew members, has come out against ICE and is working to protect their members and other workers. They have committed to the statement that ICE is not welcome in their workplaces without a warrant, and they are wearing anti-ICE pins.
”Now Trader Joe’s management is threatening to retaliate and silence them.”
Call Trader Joe’s corporate headquarters and demand they protect their employees from ICE. Use our webpage for call scripts.
Email the Trader Joe’s United team at us@traderjoesunited.org to thank them for standing up against ICE in the workplace.
Rogan’s List is warning us that toxic smoke is harming firefighters, calling on us to mobilize on Labor Day, and demanding action on the Epstein files.
“As wild fires grow increasingly common with the Earth’s warming due to our fossil fuel addictions, firefighters with the US Forest Service are being horribly sickened from the toxic smoke they are breathing in. Yet the Forest Service won’t supply them with the health- and life-saving masks that would protect them.”
NYT explains why here.
Contact your members of Congress to demand legislation and appropriations that will protect and care for our firefighters.
“This Labor Day, labor unions and their community supporters are taking the streets again – not just for barbecues, but to take the fight directly to the offices of corporate and congressional criminals”.
And let’s not forget about Republican attempts to protect Trump at all costs.
Demand House members sign the discharge petition to release ALL the Epstein files (call scripts and Resistbot).
From the Washtenaw County Dems: If you are new to activism, get started today!
Explore the 5 Calls app for information on issues, instructions, and language to push back against the Trump administration’s policies.
Resistbot is the “chatbot that turns your texts into faxes, postal mail, or emails to your representatives in minutes.”
Deepak at Democracy Labs sent an explainer — How to really ruin your children’s future: What happens when politics trumps education.
”Ban teachers. Ban books. No school meals. Gut healthcare. More shootings at schools. Cancel PBS ...”
Republican policies are creating a downward spiral in public schools.
Contact your GOP reps and demand that they prioritize school children over their culture war fixations and devotion to tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.
DemCast is a proud co-sponsor of an upcoming event — The Power of Numbers: Taking a Deeper Dive into the 2024 Election.
Every passing month gives us a clearer picture of the catastrophic 2024 election. One of the most important facts is that 17 million Americans who voted for Biden in 2020 did not cast a ballot in 2024. Recently, Lake Research and Way to Win did a deep survey of those voters. Join Volunteer Blue to hear Celinda Lake, Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and Mike Podhorzer explain what the survey found, who are these voters, why they did not vote, and how we can reach them for the upcoming elections.
Tuesday, Sept. 9
7:30–8:30 PM ET
Virtual event
Graphic and quote to share on social media from Turn PA Blue:
“Long-term Gallup surveys show that since the 2024 election, so many Americans have abandoned the Republican Party that Democrats have regained their advantage in party affiliation.”
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