I noticed in the NYT article on your sister's republican representative Mike Lawler, they stated, without any proof, that he "faced a torrent of criticism from LIBERAL constituents" while his REPUBLICAN constituents were "mostly silent". It's this kind of media BS Bias, we have to recognize & call out, so it doesn't subconsciously influence readers & even ourselves.
Pretty sure at least some of his republican constituents were plenty mad, too.
And where are the maga’s? Shouldn’t they be thanking him for supporting their agenda? Shouldn’t they be counter protesting if they support him so much?
Jessica, I really appreciated the way you brought in the Amelia Earhart quote today — it captured the emotional weight so many of us are carrying, but also pointed to motion as its own form of hope. I’m working on weekly posts offering tiny strategic moves for staying human through this chaos. This week’s is about creating “waypoints” to help navigate when the old maps don’t work. Thanks again for all you’re doing to help keep people moving and grounded
The FDA is delaying Novavax approval and putting roadblocks on the updated COVID boosters— please ask your representatives to push back on this. The US would no longer have access to COVID vaccines for anyone.
The People, the protectors of Democracy, are out and about. What "people," out where, about what--and why? First, millions said "Hand Off"to Trump/Musk et al, then on the 19th via 50501" (50 protests, 5o states, 1 Movement + Indivivable) millions more protested the mess in WDC. Also on the 19th we celebrated the "the shot heard around the world at Lexington and Concord, starting the Revolution and our country. On the 22nd protectors of the environment cleaned up a different kind of mess on Earth Day.
As important as the participants in environmental mess cleanup and American history are, this post is dedicated to the named and unnamed protestors fighting the Trump/Musk Washington, DC, tyrannical mess. Or as Susan Grymes calls it: "Protectors" of democracy, and so shall I in this post.
Who are the Protectors of democracy on April 5, 19th, May 1st--or all the everydays in between and into the future?? We will never know the names of each individual marcher, sign holder (or just standing together in solidarity). But we do know by name some people, advocacy groups, judges and law firms, and other entities who have not been cowed, and have fought back publicly--sometimes under threat of death.. Some, such as Sen. Cory Booker, with his 25 hour righteous speech on ethics, morality, and American democracy,have become an inspiration. Here then, in no particular order of noteworthy (except the first three), are the names of many of the army of protectors of democracy--and remember Courage is Contagious:
(Of course, the list is imperfect, Additions are welcomed. Also re-posting is permitted and encouraged.
PROTECTORS OF DEMOCRACY (By pen, voice, sign, or act)
(Updated April 28, 2025) Individuals
Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American,"
Jess Piper/"View from Rural Missouri,"
Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse,"
Rep. AOC,
AGs, 23 Blue States,
Aaron Parnas,
Adam Kinzinger,
Sen. Adam Schiff,
Adam Smith,
Alex Wagner,
Alexander Vindman,
Ali Velshi,
Alison Gill
Alvin Bragg (and the unnamed Manhattan jurors),
Amb. Susan Rice,
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales/Democracy Now,
Anand Giridharadas,
Anat Shenker-Osario,
Andrew Weissmann,
Andy Borowitz,
Ann Telnaes,
Anne Applebaum,
Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Founda
Ariella Elm
]
Ari Melber,
Asha Rangappa
August Flentje,
Ben Meiselas/MTN,
Beth Benike,
Brett Meiselas,
Brian Tyler Cohen,
Cassidy Hutchinson,
Charlotte Clymer,
Chris Geidne/LAW Dork
Chris Hayes,
Chris Krebs,
Col. Susannah Meyers,
Congressman Jim Himes,
D. Earl Stevens,
Dan Barker, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation)
Dan Pfeiffer,
Dan Rather,
Daniel Berulis,
Daniel Morton-Bentley,
David Frumm,
David Hogg,
Dean Obeidallah,
Delia Ramirez,
Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
Sen. Elyssa Slotkin,
Erez Reuveni,
Rep. Eric Swalwell,
Francie Garber Pepper (1940-2025),
Garrison Keillor,
Garry Kasparov,
George Conway,
Glenn Kirschner,
Gov. Beshear,
Gov. Janet Mills,
Gov. Kathy Hochul,
Gov. Maura Healey (MA),
Gov. Tim Walz (MN),
Gov. Tony Evers (WI),
Greg Olear,
Harry Litman,
J.B. Pritzker,
Jake Auchincloss,
Rep. Jamie Raskin,
Rep. Jasmine Crockett,
Jay Kou,
Jeff Danziger,
Sen. Jeff Merkley,
Jeff Stein,
Jeff Tiedrich,
Jen Rubin And the Contrarians,
,Jeremy Seahill,
Jessica Craven,
Jessica Yellin,
Jill Filipovic
Jim Acosta,
Jim Hightower,
Jimmy Kimmel,
J-L Cauvin,
John Cusack,
John Larson
Sen. Jon Ossoff,
Jonathan Bernstein,
Jordy Meiselas,
Josh Johnson (stand-up comedian),
Josh Marshall/TPM,
Joy Reid,
Judd Legum (Popular Information),
Julie Roginsky,
Katie Phang,
Ken Harbaugh,
Lawrence O'Donnell,
Liz Cheney,
Lucian Truscott IV,
Marianne Williamson,
Mark Fiore,
Marvin Kalb,
Mary L. Trump,
Maxwell Frost,
Mayor Michelle Wu,
Mehdi Hasan,
Melvin Gurai,
Michael Bennett,
Michael Cohen,
Michel Zeitgeist,
Miles Taylor,
Nicolle Wallllace,
Noel Casler (former and current staff of the Inter-American Foundation, a small but mighty federal agency for Latin America)
Olga Lautman,
Oliva Troye,
Paul Krugman,
Prof. Lawrence Tribe,
Qasim Rachid,
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman,
Rachel Cohen,
Rachel Maddow,
Rebecca Solnit/Meditations
Rep. Andrew Egger,
Rep. Emily Randall,
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries,
Rep. Jessica Denson,
Rep. Jonathan V. Last,
Rep. Noe Casler,
Rep. Pramila Jayapal,
Rep. Sarah Longwell,
Rep. Al Green,
Rep. Don Beyer,
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde,
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II,
Representative Yassamin Ansari
Rez Reuveni (acting deputy director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, and his supervisor),
Rich Wilson,
Robert B. Hubbell,
Robert Reich,
Roger Parloff,
Ron Filipkowski,
Ruth Ben-Ghait,
Sarah Inama,
Scott Dworkin,
Sen. Amy Klobuchar,
Sen. Andy Kim,
Sen. Angus King,
Sen. Bernie Sanders,
Sen. Chris Murphy,
Sen. Chris Van Hollen,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,
Sen. Lisa Murkowski,
Sen. Maria Cantwell,
Sen. Patty Murray,
Sen. Raphael Warnock,
Sen. Ron Wyden,
Sharon McMahon,
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,
Simon Rosenberg,
Stacey Abrams,
Stephanie Miller,
Stephen King,
Steve Brodner,
Steve Schmidt,
Sue Nethercott,
Sen. Tammy Duckworth,
Tennessee Brandon,
Thom Hartmann,
Tim Miller,
Tim Snyder,
Timothy Snyder
Tristan Snell,
Will Bunch,
Zev Shalev,
ADVOCACY GROUPS, MEDIA NETWORKS
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union),
AICN (North Carolina),
American Oversight,
Bill Kristol/all NeverTrumpers,
Blue Future,
Blue Missouri,
Blue Wave,
Bluesky,
Bulwark Media,
CODEPINK,
CREW,
DemCast,
Democracy Forward,
Democracy Index,
DemocracyLabs,
Every State Blue,
Feathers of Hope/Jerry Weiss,,
Field Team 6 (North Carolina),
FiftyFifty one (50501),
Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF),
Fred Wellman/On Democracy,
"Hands Off,"
Hopium Chronicles.
Indivisible,
Jessica Valenti/Abortion Everyday,
Lambda Legal,
League of Women Voters/Dr. Allan Lichtman,
Marc Elias/Democracy Docket,
MeidasTouch Network,
MoveOn,
MSNBC (an exception to corporate news, and their suppressing news0,
No Kings,
Olivia Troye,
Protect Democracy,
Public Citizen/Co-president Robert Weissman,
Run for Something,
Seneca Project,
Substack,
Team Sunrise,
The 19th/Errin Haines,
The American Manifesto,
The Bulwark,
The Civic Center,
The Dean's List/ Dean Obeidallah,
The Dr. Martin Luther King Center
The Lincoln Project,
The Politics Girl,
The States Project (North Carolina),
The Union (North Carolina)
Third Act,,
Thomas Zimmer/Democracy Americana,
Truth Matters,
We the People Dissent,
Working Families Party,
LAW FIRMS/ORGANIZATIONS, LAWYERS, COURTS, ACADEMIA
American Bar Association,
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer,
Big Ten Universities,
Brenna Trout Frey
David Pepper,
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services),
Harvard/President Alan M. Garber,
Hogan Lovells (seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care),
Jenner & Block (also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding),
Judge Hannah Dugan,
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III,
(former) Judge J. Michael Luttig,
Judge James Boasberg,
Judge Paula Xinis,
Judge Royce Lamberth,
Justice Elena Kagan,
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,
Justices Sonia Sotomayer,
Lawyers for Good Government,
Northwestern University,
Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling (have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams& Connolly),
Presidents of 328 U.S. colleges and universities who have signed a letter condemning “government overreach" (including St. Louis University),
Ropes & Gray (seeking to block cuts to medical research funding), Susman Godfrey law firm,
UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (per the ABA Journal, representing fired inspectors general),
Wilmer Hale Keker, Van Nest & Peters,
Southern Poverty Law Center,
Letter signed by 500 law firms joined a court brief supporting Perkins Coie lawsuit against the Trump Administration),
To paraphrase Churchill: We shall fight them in the streets, we shall fight them on the sidewalks, we shall fight them on the internet, we shall fight them in the courts, we shall fight them in the Congress, we shall fight them in the voting booth--We shall never surrender. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. SOLIDARITY..
Regarding Gerry Connelly/House Oversight Committee. Jasmine Crockett is the Vice Ranking Member of that committee. SHE should be appointed the Chair as next in line. I get that AOC is incredibly popular, but I'm not on board with overlooking Rep. Crockett in this way. Unless I'm missing something about protocol or procedure, this action just doesn't sit right me.
I was about to get on here and point this out, but you have already done such a lovely job of it. I hope that Jessica sees and reads your note.
And thank you, Jessica, for your inspiring and motivating daily newsletters. It’s great to hear what’s being done to fight back and to have a list of actionable steps we can take.
I submitted my original comment in a bit of a hurry, so I hope it didn't come off as judgemental. I just saw things a bit differently here. Jessica does an incredible job giving introverted people like me the confidence to be actively engaged. I used to donate and sign online petitions and leave it at that. If you had told me a year ago that I would be calling my reps and publicly commenting about politics on social media on an almost daily basis, I would not have believed it. But then I found CWCW and here I am.
I wanted to provide a script for the Chop Wood, Save the Planet segment, regarding The Fix Our Forests Act, H.R.471, which passed in the House in January 2025. This text was mainly pulled from 5calls and should be sent to both Senators:
Hi, my name is ____ and I'm a constituent calling from _____. I'm asking the Senator to reject The Fix Our Forests Act, H.R.471. This is presented as legislation to address wildfire, but it actually focuses on opening federal lands to logging interests. It also bypasses critical environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, that protect our ecosystems and restricts scientific input and public engagement. The bill could have devastating consequences for the environment and endangered species. I'm asking the Senator to reject this misguided legislation. Thanks.
Time to start asking these Republicans who claim they will vote against certain things, which of the terrible cabinet members they voted to put in? It starts with every vote they made , not just the ones they want to claim they might make in the future.
Just a thought. ICE agents take an oath to uphold the Constitution. Agents are expected to "perform our duties honorably and with dignity in a manner befitting the oath of office we are sworn to uphold". What if they do not? Cannot a court issue a ruling to all agents to clearly identify themselves as agents when making a stop, to read to person their rights, to not wear masks or hoodies, and that they, the agents, have a responsibility to ensure that detainees are handled in accordance with the law regardless of the instructions received from their superiors. That is, the agent is personally responsible to their oath and to any court rulings else they are subject to arrest. Sure, this will be explained away as a matter for HR, but contempt of court is punishable by arrest. Then, can a court send Federal Marshals to arrest individual agents?
What tools do courts have to hold individuals responsible for their actions? Where does banality of evil stop? When must a person who takes an oath refuse directions from their superior that goes against that oath?
If any reader has legal training I would appreciate comments.
I respect and admire your commitment and the work that you do, but disagree with the changing call topics. We should focus on the budget butchery, tariff taxes, and kidnapping by masked government thugs. Everything else, as disgusting as it is, is relatively less important and can wait until the Congress is so overwhelmed with pushback on the basics that they finally stand up to Trump and dump him.
I am very much not in the camp that urges Democrats to focus on kitchen-table issues and ignore the Trump regime’s other outrages. Polls tell us that Americans aren’t as ignorant and self-centered as some political consultants would have their clients believe. Many ordinary people are outraged at the news of renditions of legal residents to gulags in El Salvador. The public overwhelmingly opposes Trumpist defunding of medical research and attacks on universities, as well as the DOGEing of Social Security.
Democrats shouldn’t give Trump a pass on any of his destructive actions. They should, instead, tell voters that stripping people of their civil rights, annihilating education and science, destroying U.S. trade and poisoning our international relationships has one unifying goal: to destroy civil society in the name of MAGA.
That said, I believe that the administration’s metastasizing economic catasrophe is a critical development.
As I read the history of successful autogolpes, politicians who win an election and then effectively destroy the democracy that elevated them, it is almost always the case that their consolidation of power rests upon the perception of economic achievement.
Take the case of Hitler. And spare me the fake outrage: We’re well past the point where you can say that MAGA/Nazi comparisons are illegitimate.
I listened to Heather Cox Richardson's Politics Chat from April 29 and one point stood out. She strongly recommended that AOC should NOT become a ranking member of the Oversight Committee, or any other, at this point because she'd then be shut behind closed doors where we wouldn't see or hear much from her, and right now, her vital energy is desperately needed in rallying Americans to stand up. Because that makes so much sense, I'm going to call Leader Jeffries again today and change my request. Hopefully, he's thinking very strategically about all of this!
I had something come across my email that questioned an article (from I don't know where), but it is concerning if there is a whisper of truth in it. The GOP’s silent, methodical effort to trigger a Constitutional Convention! Has anyone else heard anything about it?
California here. Senator Padilla’s office just told me “we are in the minority and don’t have power to impeach”. I called Senator Schiff office to tattle and share my disgust. They said that’s not their line and they are fighting. Ok great, but why are they still not unified against this regime?? I’m so throughly disgusted with the Democratic party as a whole. I think it’s time for start new with fighters, dreamers and electeds who don’t get insider trading tips and corporate bribes. They are too busy fighting people like AOC and David Hogg to fight this authoritarian takeover of America. WE knew about project 2025, how did they not prepare to fight for America? How can we seriously keep supporting this party? We’ve got to stop setting for the less evil of the two… we need a party truly for the American people, not the American dollar.
I noticed in the NYT article on your sister's republican representative Mike Lawler, they stated, without any proof, that he "faced a torrent of criticism from LIBERAL constituents" while his REPUBLICAN constituents were "mostly silent". It's this kind of media BS Bias, we have to recognize & call out, so it doesn't subconsciously influence readers & even ourselves.
Pretty sure at least some of his republican constituents were plenty mad, too.
And where are the maga’s? Shouldn’t they be thanking him for supporting their agenda? Shouldn’t they be counter protesting if they support him so much?
Democrats are still his constituents.
He sure doesn't act like it!
Jessica, I really appreciated the way you brought in the Amelia Earhart quote today — it captured the emotional weight so many of us are carrying, but also pointed to motion as its own form of hope. I’m working on weekly posts offering tiny strategic moves for staying human through this chaos. This week’s is about creating “waypoints” to help navigate when the old maps don’t work. Thanks again for all you’re doing to help keep people moving and grounded
https://paultshattuck.substack.com/p/staying-human-now-2-define-your-waypoints
The FDA is delaying Novavax approval and putting roadblocks on the updated COVID boosters— please ask your representatives to push back on this. The US would no longer have access to COVID vaccines for anyone.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/27/fda-covid-vaccine-approval-process-novavax-pfizer-moderna/
We the People at Work
The People, the protectors of Democracy, are out and about. What "people," out where, about what--and why? First, millions said "Hand Off"to Trump/Musk et al, then on the 19th via 50501" (50 protests, 5o states, 1 Movement + Indivivable) millions more protested the mess in WDC. Also on the 19th we celebrated the "the shot heard around the world at Lexington and Concord, starting the Revolution and our country. On the 22nd protectors of the environment cleaned up a different kind of mess on Earth Day.
As important as the participants in environmental mess cleanup and American history are, this post is dedicated to the named and unnamed protestors fighting the Trump/Musk Washington, DC, tyrannical mess. Or as Susan Grymes calls it: "Protectors" of democracy, and so shall I in this post.
Who are the Protectors of democracy on April 5, 19th, May 1st--or all the everydays in between and into the future?? We will never know the names of each individual marcher, sign holder (or just standing together in solidarity). But we do know by name some people, advocacy groups, judges and law firms, and other entities who have not been cowed, and have fought back publicly--sometimes under threat of death.. Some, such as Sen. Cory Booker, with his 25 hour righteous speech on ethics, morality, and American democracy,have become an inspiration. Here then, in no particular order of noteworthy (except the first three), are the names of many of the army of protectors of democracy--and remember Courage is Contagious:
(Of course, the list is imperfect, Additions are welcomed. Also re-posting is permitted and encouraged.
PROTECTORS OF DEMOCRACY (By pen, voice, sign, or act)
(Updated April 28, 2025) Individuals
Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American,"
Jess Piper/"View from Rural Missouri,"
Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse,"
Rep. AOC,
AGs, 23 Blue States,
Aaron Parnas,
Adam Kinzinger,
Sen. Adam Schiff,
Adam Smith,
Alex Wagner,
Alexander Vindman,
Ali Velshi,
Alison Gill
Alvin Bragg (and the unnamed Manhattan jurors),
Amb. Susan Rice,
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales/Democracy Now,
Anand Giridharadas,
Anat Shenker-Osario,
Andrew Weissmann,
Andy Borowitz,
Ann Telnaes,
Anne Applebaum,
Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Founda
Ariella Elm
]
Ari Melber,
Asha Rangappa
August Flentje,
Ben Meiselas/MTN,
Beth Benike,
Brett Meiselas,
Brian Tyler Cohen,
Cassidy Hutchinson,
Charlotte Clymer,
Chris Geidne/LAW Dork
Chris Hayes,
Chris Krebs,
Col. Susannah Meyers,
Congressman Jim Himes,
D. Earl Stevens,
Dan Barker, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation)
Dan Pfeiffer,
Dan Rather,
Daniel Berulis,
Daniel Morton-Bentley,
David Frumm,
David Hogg,
Dean Obeidallah,
Delia Ramirez,
Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
Sen. Elyssa Slotkin,
Erez Reuveni,
Rep. Eric Swalwell,
Francie Garber Pepper (1940-2025),
Garrison Keillor,
Garry Kasparov,
George Conway,
Glenn Kirschner,
Gov. Beshear,
Gov. Janet Mills,
Gov. Kathy Hochul,
Gov. Maura Healey (MA),
Gov. Tim Walz (MN),
Gov. Tony Evers (WI),
Greg Olear,
Harry Litman,
J.B. Pritzker,
Jake Auchincloss,
Rep. Jamie Raskin,
Rep. Jasmine Crockett,
Jay Kou,
Jeff Danziger,
Sen. Jeff Merkley,
Jeff Stein,
Jeff Tiedrich,
Jen Rubin And the Contrarians,
,Jeremy Seahill,
Jessica Craven,
Jessica Yellin,
Jill Filipovic
Jim Acosta,
Jim Hightower,
Jimmy Kimmel,
J-L Cauvin,
John Cusack,
John Larson
Sen. Jon Ossoff,
Jonathan Bernstein,
Jordy Meiselas,
Josh Johnson (stand-up comedian),
Josh Marshall/TPM,
Joy Reid,
Judd Legum (Popular Information),
Julie Roginsky,
Katie Phang,
Ken Harbaugh,
Lawrence O'Donnell,
Liz Cheney,
Lucian Truscott IV,
Marianne Williamson,
Mark Fiore,
Marvin Kalb,
Mary L. Trump,
Maxwell Frost,
Mayor Michelle Wu,
Mehdi Hasan,
Melvin Gurai,
Michael Bennett,
Michael Cohen,
Michel Zeitgeist,
Miles Taylor,
Nicolle Wallllace,
Noel Casler (former and current staff of the Inter-American Foundation, a small but mighty federal agency for Latin America)
Olga Lautman,
Oliva Troye,
Paul Krugman,
Prof. Lawrence Tribe,
Qasim Rachid,
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman,
Rachel Cohen,
Rachel Maddow,
Rebecca Solnit/Meditations
Rep. Andrew Egger,
Rep. Emily Randall,
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries,
Rep. Jessica Denson,
Rep. Jonathan V. Last,
Rep. Noe Casler,
Rep. Pramila Jayapal,
Rep. Sarah Longwell,
Rep. Al Green,
Rep. Don Beyer,
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde,
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II,
Representative Yassamin Ansari
Rez Reuveni (acting deputy director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, and his supervisor),
Rich Wilson,
Robert B. Hubbell,
Robert Reich,
Roger Parloff,
Ron Filipkowski,
Ruth Ben-Ghait,
Sarah Inama,
Scott Dworkin,
Sen. Amy Klobuchar,
Sen. Andy Kim,
Sen. Angus King,
Sen. Bernie Sanders,
Sen. Chris Murphy,
Sen. Chris Van Hollen,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,
Sen. Lisa Murkowski,
Sen. Maria Cantwell,
Sen. Patty Murray,
Sen. Raphael Warnock,
Sen. Ron Wyden,
Sharon McMahon,
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,
Simon Rosenberg,
Stacey Abrams,
Stephanie Miller,
Stephen King,
Steve Brodner,
Steve Schmidt,
Sue Nethercott,
Sen. Tammy Duckworth,
Tennessee Brandon,
Thom Hartmann,
Tim Miller,
Tim Snyder,
Timothy Snyder
Tristan Snell,
Will Bunch,
Zev Shalev,
ADVOCACY GROUPS, MEDIA NETWORKS
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union),
AICN (North Carolina),
American Oversight,
Bill Kristol/all NeverTrumpers,
Blue Future,
Blue Missouri,
Blue Wave,
Bluesky,
Bulwark Media,
CODEPINK,
CREW,
DemCast,
Democracy Forward,
Democracy Index,
DemocracyLabs,
Every State Blue,
Feathers of Hope/Jerry Weiss,,
Field Team 6 (North Carolina),
FiftyFifty one (50501),
Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF),
Fred Wellman/On Democracy,
"Hands Off,"
Hopium Chronicles.
Indivisible,
Jessica Valenti/Abortion Everyday,
Lambda Legal,
League of Women Voters/Dr. Allan Lichtman,
Marc Elias/Democracy Docket,
MeidasTouch Network,
MoveOn,
MSNBC (an exception to corporate news, and their suppressing news0,
No Kings,
Olivia Troye,
Protect Democracy,
Public Citizen/Co-president Robert Weissman,
Run for Something,
Seneca Project,
Substack,
Team Sunrise,
The 19th/Errin Haines,
The American Manifesto,
The Bulwark,
The Civic Center,
The Dean's List/ Dean Obeidallah,
The Dr. Martin Luther King Center
The Lincoln Project,
The Politics Girl,
The States Project (North Carolina),
The Union (North Carolina)
Third Act,,
Thomas Zimmer/Democracy Americana,
Truth Matters,
We the People Dissent,
Working Families Party,
LAW FIRMS/ORGANIZATIONS, LAWYERS, COURTS, ACADEMIA
American Bar Association,
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer,
Big Ten Universities,
Brenna Trout Frey
David Pepper,
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services),
Harvard/President Alan M. Garber,
Hogan Lovells (seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care),
Jenner & Block (also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding),
Judge Hannah Dugan,
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III,
(former) Judge J. Michael Luttig,
Judge James Boasberg,
Judge Paula Xinis,
Judge Royce Lamberth,
Justice Elena Kagan,
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,
Justices Sonia Sotomayer,
Lawyers for Good Government,
Northwestern University,
Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling (have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams& Connolly),
Presidents of 328 U.S. colleges and universities who have signed a letter condemning “government overreach" (including St. Louis University),
Ropes & Gray (seeking to block cuts to medical research funding), Susman Godfrey law firm,
UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (per the ABA Journal, representing fired inspectors general),
Wilmer Hale Keker, Van Nest & Peters,
Southern Poverty Law Center,
Letter signed by 500 law firms joined a court brief supporting Perkins Coie lawsuit against the Trump Administration),
To paraphrase Churchill: We shall fight them in the streets, we shall fight them on the sidewalks, we shall fight them on the internet, we shall fight them in the courts, we shall fight them in the Congress, we shall fight them in the voting booth--We shall never surrender. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. SOLIDARITY..
E pluribus unum ( "Out of many, one")
Regarding Gerry Connelly/House Oversight Committee. Jasmine Crockett is the Vice Ranking Member of that committee. SHE should be appointed the Chair as next in line. I get that AOC is incredibly popular, but I'm not on board with overlooking Rep. Crockett in this way. Unless I'm missing something about protocol or procedure, this action just doesn't sit right me.
I was about to get on here and point this out, but you have already done such a lovely job of it. I hope that Jessica sees and reads your note.
And thank you, Jessica, for your inspiring and motivating daily newsletters. It’s great to hear what’s being done to fight back and to have a list of actionable steps we can take.
Agreed. Folks advocating AOC’s placement should make sure they understand procedural rules before suggesting placing her on a committee.
I submitted my original comment in a bit of a hurry, so I hope it didn't come off as judgemental. I just saw things a bit differently here. Jessica does an incredible job giving introverted people like me the confidence to be actively engaged. I used to donate and sign online petitions and leave it at that. If you had told me a year ago that I would be calling my reps and publicly commenting about politics on social media on an almost daily basis, I would not have believed it. But then I found CWCW and here I am.
I wanted to provide a script for the Chop Wood, Save the Planet segment, regarding The Fix Our Forests Act, H.R.471, which passed in the House in January 2025. This text was mainly pulled from 5calls and should be sent to both Senators:
Hi, my name is ____ and I'm a constituent calling from _____. I'm asking the Senator to reject The Fix Our Forests Act, H.R.471. This is presented as legislation to address wildfire, but it actually focuses on opening federal lands to logging interests. It also bypasses critical environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, that protect our ecosystems and restricts scientific input and public engagement. The bill could have devastating consequences for the environment and endangered species. I'm asking the Senator to reject this misguided legislation. Thanks.
Time to start asking these Republicans who claim they will vote against certain things, which of the terrible cabinet members they voted to put in? It starts with every vote they made , not just the ones they want to claim they might make in the future.
Judge Dries email address is: DriesPO@wied.uscourts.gov
All actions complete. I come to this sub stack daily to find some of my activism my for the day.
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Just a thought. ICE agents take an oath to uphold the Constitution. Agents are expected to "perform our duties honorably and with dignity in a manner befitting the oath of office we are sworn to uphold". What if they do not? Cannot a court issue a ruling to all agents to clearly identify themselves as agents when making a stop, to read to person their rights, to not wear masks or hoodies, and that they, the agents, have a responsibility to ensure that detainees are handled in accordance with the law regardless of the instructions received from their superiors. That is, the agent is personally responsible to their oath and to any court rulings else they are subject to arrest. Sure, this will be explained away as a matter for HR, but contempt of court is punishable by arrest. Then, can a court send Federal Marshals to arrest individual agents?
What tools do courts have to hold individuals responsible for their actions? Where does banality of evil stop? When must a person who takes an oath refuse directions from their superior that goes against that oath?
If any reader has legal training I would appreciate comments.
I respect and admire your commitment and the work that you do, but disagree with the changing call topics. We should focus on the budget butchery, tariff taxes, and kidnapping by masked government thugs. Everything else, as disgusting as it is, is relatively less important and can wait until the Congress is so overwhelmed with pushback on the basics that they finally stand up to Trump and dump him.
A great comment from Paul Krugman today.
I am very much not in the camp that urges Democrats to focus on kitchen-table issues and ignore the Trump regime’s other outrages. Polls tell us that Americans aren’t as ignorant and self-centered as some political consultants would have their clients believe. Many ordinary people are outraged at the news of renditions of legal residents to gulags in El Salvador. The public overwhelmingly opposes Trumpist defunding of medical research and attacks on universities, as well as the DOGEing of Social Security.
Democrats shouldn’t give Trump a pass on any of his destructive actions. They should, instead, tell voters that stripping people of their civil rights, annihilating education and science, destroying U.S. trade and poisoning our international relationships has one unifying goal: to destroy civil society in the name of MAGA.
That said, I believe that the administration’s metastasizing economic catasrophe is a critical development.
As I read the history of successful autogolpes, politicians who win an election and then effectively destroy the democracy that elevated them, it is almost always the case that their consolidation of power rests upon the perception of economic achievement.
Take the case of Hitler. And spare me the fake outrage: We’re well past the point where you can say that MAGA/Nazi comparisons are illegitimate.
Made my calls, sent my Resistbot emails, looking forward to May Day.
I listened to Heather Cox Richardson's Politics Chat from April 29 and one point stood out. She strongly recommended that AOC should NOT become a ranking member of the Oversight Committee, or any other, at this point because she'd then be shut behind closed doors where we wouldn't see or hear much from her, and right now, her vital energy is desperately needed in rallying Americans to stand up. Because that makes so much sense, I'm going to call Leader Jeffries again today and change my request. Hopefully, he's thinking very strategically about all of this!
I had something come across my email that questioned an article (from I don't know where), but it is concerning if there is a whisper of truth in it. The GOP’s silent, methodical effort to trigger a Constitutional Convention! Has anyone else heard anything about it?
California here. Senator Padilla’s office just told me “we are in the minority and don’t have power to impeach”. I called Senator Schiff office to tattle and share my disgust. They said that’s not their line and they are fighting. Ok great, but why are they still not unified against this regime?? I’m so throughly disgusted with the Democratic party as a whole. I think it’s time for start new with fighters, dreamers and electeds who don’t get insider trading tips and corporate bribes. They are too busy fighting people like AOC and David Hogg to fight this authoritarian takeover of America. WE knew about project 2025, how did they not prepare to fight for America? How can we seriously keep supporting this party? We’ve got to stop setting for the less evil of the two… we need a party truly for the American people, not the American dollar.