April 23, 2025 - 8 Days to May Day
Plus: the GOP is lying about their Medicaid cuts, the beginnings of ballot curing in North Carolina, ensuring due process for immigrants, and more
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GET READY TO STAND STRONG ON MAY DAY – MASS CALL TONIGHT
Our next major mass mobilization is coming on May Day, and it’s going to be BIG. Progressive groups, activists and unions (and Rogan’s List, a proud official partner!) are coming together to mark this international worker’s holiday and fight against the war on working people – protecting our schools, our public services, our unions, and our families. And organizers are asking folks to call out from work to mark the occasion if they’re able.
The coalition is holding a mass call to brief folks on the event TONIGHT at 8 PM Eastern. We can sign up here to join if we missed last week’s call. We can also:
Find May Day events near us here
Get a toolkit for hosting if there’s none near us here
Help spread the word with sample social media posts here and graphics here and here
REPUBLICANS WANT TO “PROTECT” MEDICAID… BY KICKING 20 MILLION PEOPLE OFF
Last week, Punchbowl News ran a story headlined “A dozen House Republicans say no to big Medicaid cuts.” This was celebrated by many as a victory, and it is a sign of how toxic we are making GOP attacks on Medicaid. But as friend of Rogan’s List
and flagged, the “red line” these dozen Republicans are drawing leaves a massive number of low-income adults on the wrong side. What they’re really doing is endorsing defunding the Medicaid expansion from the Affordable Care Act, which could cause 20 million Americans to lose their health care coverage.Speaker Mike Johnson has pushed a similar misleading line: when he says he wants to “protect and preserve” Medicaid for the vulnerable, the “waste, fraud and abuse” he wants to root out is covering those folks the ACA helped get health care. And Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA) took the gaslighting to a whole new level, admitting they intend to defund the Medicaid expansion, but claiming the fault for people getting kicked off would be on the states for not covering the $626 billion bill the GOP plans to stick them with.
So let’s be clear: Republicans are lying to us. They intend to cut 20 million of us off our insurance to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, and they are desperately trying not to take responsibility for it. We can’t let them get away with it. Let’s call our reps and make sure they know we aren’t buying their deception, and they need to vote no on all efforts to cut Medicaid. We can use this script from 5Calls as a base. And let’s be sure the folks around us aren’t falling for their tricks, either.
Finally, let’s keep pushing back in general against the Republican steal-for-the-rich budget – we can find talking points, details for the impacts on our districts, information on recess events with our members of Congress, and phonebanks here.
NORTH CAROLINA DEMS READY TO LAUNCH BALLOT RESCUES FRIDAY
Republicans are still attempting to steal a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, but it’s becoming less and less likely they’ll get away with it this time. Court rulings have blocked losing GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to throw out around 60,000 ballots with incomplete registrations, and the state board of elections further narrowed the ballots challenged to just 1,409 military and overseas voters. Even with Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ 734-vote “lead,” she would appear to be well positioned. But North Carolina Democrats aren’t taking a thing for granted – they are planning for a cure process that would start this Saturday, April 26th, and they are getting daily phone banks and canvasses rolling if it does. They will launch the ballot rescue process at a virtual meeting this Friday at 5:30PM Eastern. Let’s sign up here for the launch and to get links to help remotely.
FOUR WAYS TO SUPPORT OUR IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS
Our friends and neighbors, our students and teachers, our co-workers and customers are being snatched off the street and abducted to unknown fates. Some of them are being forcibly disappeared for their activism and political views, like Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, and Mohsen Mahdawi. Others are being targeted for for simply being at the wrong place at the wrong time or because they’re considered easy for the deportation machine to get at. Either way, we need to be bringing as much pressure as we can to bear on their behalf. Here are a few ways can do so right now:
The Detention Watch Network is hosting a webinar on the Trump Administration’s use of military facilities as detention camps and how communities are organizing to combat inhumane detention TOMORROW at 1PM Eastern. We can register to join here.
If we’re in a state with a Democratic attorney general, we can urge them to use their authority to fight back against ICE overreach – filing legal challenges, investigating ICE actions, reinforcing sanctuary protections, and defending sensitive locations like schools. Indivisible has a call and email tool we can use to contact them here.
Donate to the American Immigration Council’s new Immigration Justice Access Fund. Even when those targeted by ICE do get their basic due process rights respected, it’s not always easy for them to get a lawyer or navigate a system not in their native language. AIC is funding travel for volunteer attorneys to attend hearings and interpreters to support those detained.
Consider a donation or volunteering with a rapid response hotline to track Trump’s deportation force and support those they come after. We can find a few national hotlines here or search for one in our own communities.
FIRST EARTH DAY… AND NOW SUN DAY
Earth Day may be over, but now environmentalists are getting ready for a whole new celebration – a day of action held worldwide on September 20th and 21st to show the world we can run it without fossil fuels. They’re calling it Sun Day, a celebration and a chance to send the message that it’s getting cheaper and easier to meet our needs with clean energy.
Organizers are hoping to catch some of the same magic of the first Earth Day, and they’re starting to build now. The official launch of this effort will be this Saturday at Boston’s Old North Church at 6pm, featuring legendary climate activist
. To prepare and help spread the word, they’re asking folks for some creative help, letting each of us do our own drawing of their logo. Let’s check it out, submit our logo drawing here, and ask our friends and networks to do the same! (And if we’re in the Boston area, we can get details and RSVP to attend the launch here.)FIGHTING FOR HOUSING JUSTICE AS A TENANT
The gap in affordable and available rentals won’t get smaller unless we fight. The National Low Income Housing Coalition is launching a new training institute for tenants and residents to teach how to more effectively advance housing justice TODAY at 4:00PM Eastern. They’re focused on empowering folks with the knowledge and tools to advocate for safe, stable and affordable housing. We can sign up here – and forward this message along to anyone we think might be interested.
KEEPING AN EYE ON…
UPDATE: Six security guards charged for assaulting activist at Idaho town hall
Phonebank to turn Virginia blue with Grassroots Dems HQ TODAY
Environmental Voter Project phonebank with
TOMORROWCalling for an end to the the Trump tariffs and blocking the economic disaster of firing the Fed chair
Protect early childhood education, financial assistance to help families pay energy bills
Join the federal workers #SaveOurServices rapid response network here
I attended Congresswoman Foushee's (Dist 4) first in person town hall this year last night. It was a great experience. Their planning and organization at such a small venue (historic Chatham Co Courthouse in Pittsboro) was decent. But just alot more is needed. And as she holds events in the 3 other Counties in her District, that should improve.
Also my perspective on NC House Minority Leader Robert Reives greatly evolved. But the true gem was local Co Commissioner Chair Karen Howard. All 3 spoke from their hearts and most of the 1 hour 10 min was for questions from attendees alternating with written ones from us. The press coverage was somewhat lacking (in part because not better promoting the event IMO) although two local progressive outlets, NC Newsline and IndyWeek, interviewed me.