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We're winning on multiple fronts!

Per Courier Newsroom, a movie theater in Canton, NY —in Elise Stefanik’s district—is using its marquee to spread positive messages and broadcast its opposition to Trump’s policies.

Hi, all, and happy Sunday!

I’ve got another week’s worth of wins for you. It’s still grim out there, of course, but we’ve also notched a surprising number of victories. Every week, in fact, we’re seeing more determination, cohesion, and creativity from the opposition. A growing number of people, organizations, affinity groups, lawmakers, and even countries are joining forces and fighting back. And it’s working!

The damage being done is real, friends; I’d never try to minimize that. But since we dwell on that all week long, this is our moment of reprieve—a time to focus on the progress we’re also making. So for a few minutes don’t doomscroll— “goodscroll” instead! Enjoy learning about all the ways things went right this week.

And then please share this list with anyone you know who’s struggling to find hope. Because the below provides real proof that when we fight WE WIN!

Thanks!

Jess

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The Trump administration is restoring financial support for a landmark women’s health study, which was researching “factors associated with cardiovascular diseases, aging, cognition, frailty, resilience, and much, much more.”

The Trust for Public Land acquired two properties in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains, which will lead to the expansion of Saguaro National Park by 47 acres.

Wind and solar capacity have surpassed coal-powered thermal energy in China for the first time.

Britain and the European Union are set to sign a formal declaration committing to “free and open trade” in defiance of Donald Trump’s tariff agenda.

GOP Rep. Mike Lawler had a rough town hall. Some of you helped make it happen!

The liberal candidate won in Canada!

Iowa House candidate Angel Ramirez clinched a victory with the biggest overperformance by a Democrat in a Special Election this year.

Mohsen Mahdawi has been released on bail.

Multiple polls released in the last week all tell the same story: Trump is the least popular president at this stage of his presidency in U.S. history.

Speaking of which, a new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Latino voters believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, with 70% of them holding President Trump responsible.

Sen. Ron Johnson just announced he won’t support the reconciliation bill being written by House Republicans. His reasons are bad, but the fact that he’s willing to buck Trump is a good sign.

In Cobb County, GA, Democrats swept both county commission seats in a special election, maintaining control of the five-member board.

Leaders of some of the nation’s most prestigious universities have assembled a private collective to counter the Trump administration’s attacks on research funding and academic independence across higher education.

A decades-old law firm, Donati Law, has resigned from the Tennessee Bar Association, citing qualms with its inaction against Trump’s “unprecedented assault on the rule of law.”

In a win for voters, North Carolina settled with voting rights groups and the DNC to permanently block part of a law that required officials to reject some voters' ballots due to address verification issues and offered no remedy to fix the problem.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey are having a rough month.

A Trump-appointed judge blocked the administration from further deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, ruling that Trump’s invocation of a wartime power to summarily deport Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador was “unlawful.”

The SAVE Act is officially “dead on arrival” in the Senate. Not a single Democratic Senator will support it. You did that! Take a bow!

National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, have been removed from their positions. Making it worse for Walz, he got nominated to be UN Ambassador instead. This is a Senate-confirmed position. He can now, therefore, be grilled under oath about Signalgate by Democrats.

Indivisible VT organized a “We Love Canada” car caravan at the border. A Canadian who saw it sent them a thank you note on Reddit.

A group called Everyone Hates Elon is going viral for plastering London with fake advertisements for the company, infiltrating a car showroom, and inviting the public to trash a Model S.

At this week’s “May Day” protests, hundreds of thousands of people came together in every U.S. state to protest against what organizers called a “billionaire takeover.”

Australia’s centre-left prime minister, Anthony Albanese, won a second term with a crushing victory over the opposition. Meanwhile rightwing leader Peter Dutton ended up losing his own seat. I sense a pattern?

The number of people making $1 million or more annually in Massachusetts has actually increased by nearly 40% since the state’s “millionaire’s tax” went into effect. (Republicans predicted that the law would make millionaires flee the state.) Meanwhile the added revenue from the tax surpassed projections, generating $2.46 billion in 2023 alone.

​Publisher Penguin Random House has introduced a “book ban” clothing line. 100% of the profits will benefit libraries.

The all-Black female WWII unit, the "Six Triple Eight," was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award that Congress can bestow upon a civilian.

A member of the K-pop boy band Just B publicly came out as gay during a concert this week in Los Angeles. It’s a first for an active K-pop star. Bravo!

A new tribal national park in North Dakota’s Badlands is opening a little-seen area of the dramatic landscape to hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts.

In Charlottesville, VA, an empty chair town hall for representative John McGuire was attended by 1,000 people! [H/T subscriber Susan S.]

Abbe Lowell is launching a new law firm that aims in part to represent those who he says have been "unlawfully and inappropriately targeted" by the Trump administration.

The Maryland Department of the Environment, Chesapeake Bay Trust, and Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott announced $1.7 million in grant funding for 21 environmental justice projects.

The Trump administration agreed to refrain from cutting off Maine's access to federal funding over the state's refusal to comply with his demands to ban transgender athletes from girls' sports teams.

Bravo! 60 Minutes is upping the ante in its fight against Donald Trump.

Microsoft has dropped a law firm that settled with the Trump administration in favor of one that is fighting it.

We got great Texas school board results this weekend: Conservatives lost 2 critical school board seats they held in Fort Bend, Texas. In elections for the Katy school board, in the greater Houston area, voters ousted the board's ultra-conservative president, who had championed a policy against trans students. In Mansfield, three conservative incumbents lost reelection. [Source: Bolts]

In a double win for Pennsylvania voters, one judge dismissed a far-right challenge seeking to purge over 277k voters from the rolls, and the 3rd Circuit rejected a GOP bid to reject ballots for minor errors.

The Spokane, WA City Council passed an ordinance that ensures equitable protections for the LGBTQ community and affirms the right to seek gender-affirming care.

The Los Angeles Times lost roughly $50 million last year as its Trump-supporting billionaire owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong forced the paper rightwards and alienated huge numbers of subscribers.

A congressional watchdog agency is investigating Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Connecticut’s attorney general has sent his second warning in a month to the low-cost carrier Avelo Airlines, telling the startup it has jeopardized tax breaks and other local support by agreeing to conduct deportation flights for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

South Carolina’s state-owned power utility, Santee Cooper, has introduced a new electricity rate for energy-intensive operations, including data centers, to make sure that their ballooning power costs don’t fall on other customers.

Baltimore is suing sports betting giants DraftKings and FanDuel for their alleged exploitative practices that target vulnerable gamblers and feed their addictions. This marks the first suit brought by a public entity against an online betting site.

A federal judge permanently blocked an executive order from President Trump targeting the law firm Perkins Coie, declaring it unconstitutional.

The Pentagon inspector general has expanded an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sharing of military plans to a second Signal chat that included his wife and brother.

Another Texas result! Voters in the 'greater Fort Worth' region have ousted a conservative member of the Grapevine-Colleyville school board, Tammy Nakamura. She was part of the board's majority when they passed a policy to let schools reject kids’ preferred pronouns—even when parents approved them.

File under “even a stopped clock”: Pete Hegseth has introduced an Army “right to repair” policy.

Target’s CEO Brian Cornell got a 45% pay cut. Maybe because foot traffic has been down there for 11 straight weeks now? (Costco’s is up for its 16th straight week.)

And finally…

OK, all. Talk tomorrow!