A Chance to Beat A Key Coup Conspirator This Fall (6/1/26)
Plus: protecting American science, eyes on the hunger strikers, five days until #DeICECitizens actions, standing with the Spokane 3 and more
☎️🗳️ New York could pass a first-in-the-nation data center moratorium this week… join phonebanks tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday at 7:00PM ET to drive calls to legislators and help get it done! Plus join a training to help folks in key states get assistance with voter ID issues TONIGHT at 7PM ET ☎️🗳️
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Phonebanks underway to unseat coup co-conspirator Scott Perry in Pennsylvania
Hunger strikes in ICE detention continue - demand New Jersey leaders stand with them, support arrested protesters, thank Hakeem Jeffries for inspecting Delaney Hall, and share positive media coverage
Russell Vought has proposed a sweeping new rule that would politicize American science and billions in federal funding - join an emergency briefing to learn more TOMORROW at 4PM, submit public comments and demand action from our electeds
The abuses in ICE detention are being financed by Citizens Bank – join a day of protests against the concentration camp bankers Saturday, take the pledge to move our money, pressure the executives to drop CoreCivic and GEO Group, spread the word about their complicity
Congress set to get back into fights over ICE-CBP funding, Trump’s slush fund, Iran war powers they ducked out of before Memorial Day
Criminalization of protest wins in Spokane 3 convictions - donate to continue their legal fight, send notes of support
If you have questions, comments, and especially submissions for actions, please email us at roganslisttips@gmail.com!
TAKING DOWN A COUP CONSPIRATOR THIS NOVEMBER
Most of the worst of the worst Republicans in the House are safe from electoral accountability, representing blood-red districts. But one of Trump’s key coup co-conspirators and a former chair of the House Freedom Caucus won re-election in 2024 by less than 6,000 votes, and we have a chance to unseat him this November and flip the House in the process.
Scott Perry serves as the congressman for the areas around Harrisburg and York, Pennsylvania - the Pennsylvania Tenth, a swing seat that Trump won against Kamala Harris with 52% of the vote. He’s one of the leading MAGA figures on Capitol Hill. During the run-up to January 6th, he was one of the main people pushing the bizarre “Italian satellite” theory and the first to introduce Trump to his proposed acting attorney general, Jeffrey Clark. He was among those who defied a subpoena from the January 6th Committee and was a subject of Justice Department investigations into the effort to steal the election. He was also a crucial vote for Trump’s slashing of Medicaid and food assistance to pay for billionaire tax cuts, opposed extending the ACA tax credits, endorsed the Great Replacement Theory and backed a national ban on abortion and IVF.
Former news anchor Janelle Stelson came close to defeating him last time around, and she’s won the nomination to take him on again. She’s been hitting Perry hard on the affordability crisis and corruption and has backed getting corporate money out of our elections, a congressional stock trading ban, banning surprise medical billing and taking medical debt off credit reports. The commentariat has broadly rated this race a toss-up.
☎️ Let’s help take Perry down! We can join Silver Springs Progressive Action TONIGHT and on future Mondays from 6:30-8PM ET to have deep-listening conversations with folks in PA-10, hearing their concerns and gathering data to help shape the rest of the campaign here. And we sign up for more traditional phonebanking for Janelle Stelson on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-7PM ET and Saturdays from 4-6PM ET here. ☎️
🚪 If we’re local, we can sign up for upcoming canvasses here and get updated on future opportunities to volunteer here. 🚪
And you can find our full list of ways to help win the midterms here.
UPDATES ON THE HUNGER STRIKERS: BARRICADES UP
We are starting to see the hunger strikes in the ICE detention camps break through into the public eye. Unfortunately, entirely too much of the coverage has been focused on the “clashes” between protesters and heavily-armed law enforcement, instead of the strikers themselves. And the reaction from some New Jersey political leaders has been, to put it lightly, disappointing, with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka imposing a curfew to send protesters home at night and Governor Mikie Sherrill sending in the state police to face off with supporters outside. Those police then attacked, kettled and tear-gassed protesters, arresting at least 46 of them yesterday evening.
🗣️ Let’s contact Governor Sherrill and Mayor Baraka and tell them we want to see them acting in the interests of the hunger strikers instead of focusing on “bringing the temperature down.” 🗣️
💵 We can contribute to Bronx Jail Support to care for those whose dissent was criminalized this weekend here. 💵
🗣️ We can also reach out to House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who along with New Jersey Reps. LaMonica McIver, Rob Menendez, and Josh Gottheimer conducted an oversight visit to Delaney Hall yesterday and spoke out about the disgusting conditions he observed and was told about. Let’s thank him for stepping up and ask him to encourage his caucus to continue using their influence to shine a light on what’s happening inside the camps. 🗣️
📢 Demonstrators held a 24-hour protest and fast yesterday outside a federal building in Los Angeles in solidarity with the strikers. Let’s share coverage of this demonstration here, along with this article from Stateline which is one of the first in mainstream media to acknowledge how broad-based the hunger strikers are. 📢
✊🏾 Finally, we can continue pressing the media for attention and politicians for action and showing solidarity with the strikers morally and materially. We can find more steps to take here. ✊🏼
STOP POLITICIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, LOCAL PROGRAMS
The Trump regime just proposed sweeping new rules that would give political appointees vast new power over billions of dollars in federal grants, including for all federally-funded health research and local programs run by our counties. This is OMB chief Russell Vought’s attempt to end American science as we know it and as the National Association for Counties explains here, this would affect every single one of us.
✍🏼 We have until July 13th to post public comments in opposition to this rule. We can send submit them to the Federal Register here. We can also find a simple guide to commenting effectively here and tips to talking about this specific regulation from Stand Up for Science (SUFS) here and from Elizabeth Ginexi here. ✍🏾
✊🏾 SUFS is holding an emergency call tomorrow at 4PM ET to talk through the stakes, what comes next, and how we can fight back. We can sign up to join them here. We can also check out their action page here, which includes call and email tools to demand our members of Congress push back against this takeover. ✊🏼
(via Chris Tachibana and Rogan’s List reader Natasha Y)
THE MONEY BEHIND THE CAMPS IS COMING FROM CITIZENS BANK
People behind the barbed wire have been on hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey, Adelanto in California and Prairieland in Texas. In April, we also had captives on strike at the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan. One thing these detention camps all have in common: they are being run by the private prison company GEO Group… which means the conditions our friends and neighbors are refusing food to protest are being brought to you by Citizens Bank.
Years after other banks cut ties with GEO Group and CoreCivic, Citizens Bank is still helping ensure they have the cash they need to expand and lock up more immigrants. The De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition is organizing to force them to choose between continuing to finance these concentration camps and the rest of their customer base. They’ve already gotten more than $1.5 million pulled from Citizens from institutional actors, and received pledges from dozens of faith groups, unions, companies, and individuals to withdraw more than $19 million.
🪧 This Saturday, they’re holding protests at more than 120 Citizens Bank branches across the country to keep building the pressure. Let’s find one to join near us here. 🪧
💸 If we’re currently banking with Citizens, let’s join those who have promise to move their money if we do not see change. We can take the pledge here. We can also start looking at local credit unions or non-concentration camp bankers we can move our accounts to, using this guide from NPR on finding a bank that works for us and GetABetterBank.org. 💸
📢 If we’re not with Citizens, let’s help by spreading the word and turning up the heat on their executives! We can follow the coalition on social media here and use a library of shareable material via #from here. We can also find contact info, language and e-mail tools for the Citizens Bank C-Suite here. 📢
🪧 And if there’s not an action nearby, the Visibility Brigade is also bringing their anti-fascist messaging to overpasses across the country to celebrate the anniversary of D-Day! We can find groups to join near us here. 🪧
IF THE OPPOSITE OF PRO IS CON, THEN WHAT’S THE OPPOSITE OF PROGRESS?
The procrastinator in me almost feels bad for congressional leadership, who are returning to Washington this week to deal with all the work they avoided before Memorial Day weekend.
The Senate’s effort to pass $64 billion in ICE and CBP funding (and about $72 billion overall in budget reconciliation) stalled out before the recess over Republican pushback against Trump’s proposed $1.7 billion slush fund for his henchmen. Ted Cruz indicated as many as 20 GOPers would have supported Democratic amendments to restrict the payoffs if that vote had gone forward. There have been numerous options proposed to kill or limit these bribes, and Republicans are apparently hoping Trump will agree to one so that they can move it forward before the amendment votes and stave off a revolt. Good luck with that.
🗣️ Let’s do our part to keep up the pressure. Especially if we have Republican senators, let’s let them know they need to use reconciliation to stop the slush fund, and they should vote against any funding bill that doesn’t kill it. We can find call scripts and e-mail language here, or send this message by texting SIGN PMLDMK to 50409. 🗣️
(State legislators are coming for these funds as well, with bills to tax the bribes at 100% already introduced in New York and Wisconsin. Let’s let our lawmakers and governors know we want them to do the same – find call scripts to use here and email language here, or send this message directly by texting SIGN PBVWTZ to 50409.)
The House also left for a vacation early to avoid an embarrassing vote against Trump, this one on Iran. With four Republicans having previously joined Democrats in favor of bringing Trump’s war to an end, sole Dem objector Rep. Jared Golden finally willing to vote yes on H. Con. Res. 86, and several GOP caucus members not in attendance, they looked primed to lose on war powers. They might well still do so this week, although with Trump continuing to claim we are inches away from a deal it will be dicey. (Latest development there: we wouldn’t be paying Iran reparations, we’d be paying them billions in an investment fund.)
We are far from a veto-proof vote to stop the Iran War, but the impact of it passing Congress are more than symbolic – they indicate Trump won’t get the support for appropriations to keep it going when he needs them, which House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole reports could be by August. 🗣️ If we have reps that have at any point opposed war powers resolutions, let’s reach out to them and make sure they know it’s time to get on board. We can find scripts to use here. 🗣️
(To preview calls for the week ahead, we also have votes coming up on a Ukraine aid bill successfully moved forward by discharge petition and we’re fast approaching the expiration date for warrantless wiretapping authority on June 12th.)
ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR THE RIGHT TO PROTEST IN SPOKANE CONVICTIONS
The regime’s efforts to criminalize dissent took another dangerous step forward last week. The Spokane 3 – Justice Forral, Jac Dalitso Archer and Bajun Dhunjisha Mavalwalla II – were convicted on Thursday of conspiracy to injure or impede federal officers over a protest at an ICE facility in their community last June. They now each face up to six years in prison and fines of up to $250,000. They were standing up for two of their neighbors, Venezuelan immigrants who were in the country legally, who had been seized by ICE and were about to be transferred to another facility.
While there was undeniably civil disobedience at this protest, no officers were actually injured and none of the Spokane 3 were charged with specific criminal acts. Instead they faced prosecution under a novel legal theory in which protest organizers can be charged with conspiracy regardless of their actual plans and actions – essentially an effort to dissuade activists by holding them responsible for anything that happens at their events, similar to what happened to the Prairieland defendants. The acting U.S. attorney for Eastern Washington resigned last year rather than bring these charges.
The protesters will be appealing, including filing a motion arguing that no rational juror could find them guilty. Let’s stand with them in their continued struggle for justice and the First Amendment. 💵✍🏼 We can find links to donate to their continued legal efforts here. We can also send notes of support to Justice, Jac and Bajun and find graphics we can share on social media about their case here, and follow along for future updates at the Spokane 3 Support Instagram page here. 💵✍🏾
👀 KEEPING AN EYE ON… 👀
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Looking for ways to get engaged in the midterms? Here’s a full list!
Tell blue state Dems to fight fire with fire in countering gerrymandering
Reps. Gregory Meeks, Nydia Velazquez introduce new war powers resolution aimed at blocking attacks on Cuba in the House - tell our reps to support it
De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition day of action at branches nationwide SATURDAY - find a protest near us or organize our own, or join the Visibility Brigade for overpass actions here
Hold community organizing meetings to counter-program Trump’s cage fight on June 14th
Apply to train as a tenant union organizer by June 15th - next info session TOMORROW at 7:30PM ET
Get Free, 50501 hold All of U.S. 250 mobilizations nationwide June 27th
Submit public comments to oppose barring trans folks from emergency shelters by June 29th
Good Trouble Lives On voting rights weekend of action July 17th-19th - register events here