Action Alerts: Our Weekly Roundup of Opportunities for Activism
Welcome to the June 28 edition of our partner newsletter!
“I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, as the court concludes today, executive lawlessness will flourish, and from there, it is not difficult to predict how this all ends.” — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Join DemCast for a Democracy Briefing: Good Trouble Day of ACTION.
June 30, 2025
7 PM ET
We're excited to announce that Barbara R. Arnwine, Esq., will be joining our Democracy Briefing to discuss the state of our democracy and the fight ahead.
Barbara is the president and founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition and internationally renowned for contributions to critical justice issues, including the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991 and the 2006 reauthorization of provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
You won’t want to miss this opportunity!
RSVP for the Democracy Briefing.
Find a Good Trouble Lives On event near you.
Use this toolkit to spread the word about the protest and Get in Good Trouble!
Join MoveOn, Working Families Power, Indivisible, Community Change Action, and Public Citizen for a national phone bank to Medicaid recipients. Urge them to call their senators ahead of the upcoming budget vote to stop the cuts and save Medicaid!
Monday, June 30 – Wednesday, July 2
6–8 PM ET
Check out these exciting speakers:
Monday, June 30 — Randi Weingarten and Sen. Chris Van Hollen
Tuesday, July 1 — Maurice Mitchell
Wednesday, July 2 — Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Register for this virtual event.
Chris Bowers from Bowers News Media identified the setbacks Republicans are facing while trying to pass Donald Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill," which aims to cut Medicaid.
“Senate Majority Leader John Thune is dealing with a revolt from Republican senators concerned about the size of the Medicaid cuts, and the Senate parliamentarian ruled that roughly $250 billion of the proposed Medicaid cuts did not comply with Senate rules, making the bill's passage by July 4 ‘all but impossible.’”
Sign and send a short, pre-written letter to your U.S. senators: Reject Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill."
Deepak from Democracy Labs notified us that an 87-year-old disabled vet was arrested for protesting cuts to veterans’ benefits.
The Trump administration is embracing Project 2025, which slashes benefits for disabled veterans. It also cuts over 80,000 jobs from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Call your Republican reps and remind them we will not accept any cuts that harm veterans.
Rush hour resistance: Make your own sign with the Backbone Campaign and Visibility Brigade.
Here is a fun way to protest! Use creative strategies and artful activism on overpasses and footbridges to amplify pro-democracy messages.
The Backbone Campaign or The Visibility Brigade can help.
Joe Katz at Rogan’s List is urging us to protest Musk this weekend, attend social media training, and find a Disappeared in America event.
Protest Musk.
“In honor of Musk’s birthday [today], the #TeslaTakedown movement is holding their biggest day of action yet: #MuskMustFall. We can join protesters at galleries, showrooms, dealerships and charging stations near us here, or if we can’t make it join efforts to push state and local governments to divest their money from Musk companies.”
Attend a #MuskMustFall Global Day of Celebration event near you.
Get social media training through Field Team 6.
Use your social media accounts to tag our elected officials and post about the issues we care about. Join FT6’s fun training at PleaseGrowASpine.org, and learn how to use the accounts we already have — or get help starting new ones.
Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays: various times
Speak out against Trump’s kidnappings.
"Every day, we hear new stories of families torn apart by Trump’s deportation machine – like Paola Clouatre, the wife of a service-disabled Marine Corps veteran who was still breastfeeding their baby. Almost all of these folks are not the public safety threats Trump claims … and far too many of them are disappearing into the system.”
We are not going to let them vanish without a trace.
Register here for Disappeared in America events.
Highlight one of the cases featured at disappearedinamerica.com on social media.
LeeAnn Hall from the National Campaign for Justice is sounding the alarm that the Trump administration has cut the "Press 3" lifeline, the national suicide hotline dedicated to LGBTQ youth, impacting over 1.3 million young people.
Write a letter to Congress. Demand that they overturn this decision and reinstate the LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline immediately!
Editor’s note: Some highlights from 5 Calls this week.
Oppose the Sale of Public Lands in the Budget Reconciliation Bill
Condemn Trump’s Use of National Guard and Military Against Americans
Protect the Department of Education
Protect Native American health care
Protect International Students and their Freedom of Speech
Image credit: Protectors of Equality in Government
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