June 10, 2025 - Persevere in Times of Fear/4 Days to ❌👑 #NoKings
Trump abuses the military, rescissions bill up this week, accountability for corporations abandoning Pride, and more
🚨 Rally voters in key states against the MAGA murder budget - phonebanks today at 5:30, 7:15 and 10:30, plus more ways to help here 🚨
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By phone: (202) 224-3121
By email: Congress.gov
By US mail: Representatives / Senators
By Resistbot: Resist.bot
If you have questions, comments, and especially submissions for actions, please email us at roganslisttips@gmail.com!
🚨 MORE TROOPS EN ROUTE TO LOS ANGELES 🚨
Though protests remain largely peaceful (see this report on the ground from David Dayen), much as local leaders predicted Trump sending in the troops set off new violence in Los Angeles. And he intends to ramp things up even further, deploying another 2,000 National Guard troops along with 700 active-duty U.S. Marines – who the Pentagon is scrambling to establish rules for. Even Los Angeles’ police chief has indicated the Marines’ arrival is unnecessary and posed significant challenges for local law enforcement. As observers including Taegan Goddard have indicated, Trump has given himself extraordinary latitude to deploy more troops to more cities in more ways, and we’ve learned that Secretary Noem asked the Defense Department to detain or arrest people. This is a five-alarm fire. We need to meet the moment, and so do our elected officials. Here’s a few things we can do:
Continue to reach out to our members of Congress and demand they speak up and act up against the use of our troops against our people. We can find scripts and language here, or send this Resistbot by texting SIGN PKWFUK to 50409.
Ask our governors what they intend to do if Trump comes for our state next. We can find scripts and language here.
Call Marriott’s corporate offices and ask them why they’re letting ICE set up shop in their hotels as they raid Los Angeles (via , who also has videos up that don’t quite match the Trump narrative about LA)
Donate to the National Bail Fund Network’s Immigration Bond Freedom Fund to help folks post bond and get out of detention
Review, download and share this community resource guide from California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice which outlines practical ways to support someone who is currently in immigration detention
Host a “photo petition event” at a courthouse near us for the Disappeared in America Day of Action on June 26th, more details here
Push our local sheriffs and national sheriffs organizations to not cooperate with ICE, petition here and call tool here
We also find more ways to help in this running list here
☎️ ANTI-BIG BIRD, PRO-MALARIA BILL UP FOR FLOOR VOTE ☎️
The House of Representatives is set to vote this week on the Rescissions Act of 2025 (H.R. 4), which would rubber stamp $9.4 billion worth of Musk’s thefts from public services – funding for NPR, CBS, and foreign aid. The bill will head to the Rules Committee today.
We are already seeing horrific costs from the Trump-Musk gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development, with as many as 300,000 lives already lost and millions of preventable deaths every year ahead of us, global instability rising and American influence fading. The public broadcasting cuts would be devastating to local PBS and NPR stations, threatening disaster response, children’s and educational programming and a crucial source of local news when there’s already less and less available – especially in rural communities.
Let’s tell our members of Congress we want them to oppose this anti-Big Bird, pro-malaria legislation. We can find scripts and language here, or sending them this message via Resistbot by texting SIGN PFIUBW to 50409.
❌👑 TRUMP WANTS US OFF THE STREETS FOR #NOKINGS ❌👑
Trump and MAGA want us afraid and alone, too worried about their reaction to do anything that might get in their way. This weekend is about more than a demonstration – it’s about demonstrating that we will not back down when it comes to saving our democracy.
We’re ramping up to take the streets for No Kings this Saturday with multiple virtual events. TONIGHT, we can join American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten for a Zoom town hall at 6PM (register here), and on THURSDAY the #NoKings team is holding a strategic prep call with updates and messaging guidance for all participants at 8PM (register here).
They’re also running a Know Your Rights training focused on our rights as protesters TONIGHT at 7PM in English and at 8:15PM in Spanish, along with a training for demonstration marshals on crowd management, incident response and safety protocols TOMORROW at 7:30PM.
Let’s join one of these events if we can – and either way, let’s make sure we’re inviting at least one more person who hasn’t demonstrated before to join us at our nearest #NoKings rally on Saturday!
🏳️🌈 HOLDING CORPORATE COWARDS ACCOUNTABLE FOR PRIDE 🏳️🌈
With Trump and the American right actively attacking the freedom to live as ourselves regardless of our gender identity or sexual orientation, corporations had a choice: maintain their level of support for the LGBTQIA+ community and retreat and hope to avoid Trump’s tantrums. Many of them have decided to abandon marginalized folks in this difficult moment. Numerous corporations that previously supported Pride parades, festivals, and other celebrations have withdrawn their funding this June, substantially burdening the celebration in many communities.
has identified 19 companies that have pulled back their support for Pride, including DoorDash, Lowe’s, Toyota, Nissan, UPS, and Anheuser-Busch. Let's use our purchasing power against these cowardly companies, and let's contact their customer relations departments to tell them where we're shopping and why!📱 TRAINING TO BE AN EFFECTIVE VOICE ON SOCIAL MEDIA TOMORROW 📱
One of the biggest challenges we face is an online information environment dominated by conservative voices. We are just beginning the process of building up an infrastructure of our own, and since we don’t have the billionaires on our side, we’re going to have to do it as a team. Our Revolution is hosting a training TOMORROW AT 8:30PM for digital amplifiers to fight Trump and the oligarchs, teaching us how to most effectively spread the truth and build energy for real-world action. Let’s sign up to join them here.
We can also join the digital field team for here.
STATE-SPECIFIC EVENTS
✊🏽 CA - JOIN COMMUNITY EFFORTS TO PROTECT IMMIGRANTS TONIGHT ✊
ICE Watch programs are among the most effective ways we can make a difference for our immigrant friends and neighbors. TONIGHT, NorCal Resist is holding a training for Northern Californians to learn how to be part of a network of community members watching ICE in the courts, in the streets, and wherever else they are. Let’s sign up to join the Zoom at 7PM Pacific here. We can check out other events organized by NorCal Resist here.
KEEPING AN EYE ON…
Defend and Recruit strategy call on targeting ICE subcontractor airline TOMORROW at 8PM
Apply for Tenant Union Federation’s organizing school by June 20th
Tesla Takedowns this weekend and every weekend, #MuskMustFall day of action June 28th; join the divestment movement here and here
John Lewis National Day of Action July 17th, host info session June 16th
I once found, but cannot find now, a full list of Rogan's List explainers and scripts. They do not seem to be on the substack. Where are they please?