March 18, 2025 - Two Weeks to Wisconsin
Making sure we pass this major test, calling for procedural hardball, solidarity with postal workers, and more
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By phone: (202) 224-3121
By email: Congress.gov
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VOTING BEGINS IN FIRST MAJOR ELECTION OF TRUMP 2.0
Early voting is now underway for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, a race that could save or end the liberal majority, secure or threaten reproductive rights, collective bargaining rights and fair districts and send a message to the rest of the country about Trump and Musk’s agenda one way or the other. This election is very much up in the air, and Musk and the billionaires are spending heavily on dirty tricks and blatant lies to tilt it their way. This is a major political test, and we need to make sure we turn out our voters to pass it. Let’s sign up for a shift volunteering to get out the vote for Judge Susan Crawford. We can find ways to phonebank, textbank, doorknock and postcard at tinyurl.com/onwisconsin2025 – now featuring final weekend shifts and calls to voters to help them get rides to the polls.
WHERE WILL OUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS DRAW THE LINE?
Congress is currently in its “district work period,” but they’ll be back in session next week with a terrifying to-do list for the American people. Republicans will aim to continue pushing forward on gutting Medicaid and SNAP to pay for tax cuts for billionaires; they have a host of fascists, antivaxxers and oligarch minions awaiting confirmation; and there’s much more of Project 2025 to implement. All the while, Trump and Musk continue to take a sledgehammer to equality under the law, dismantle our government to steal the “savings” and set up a new spoils system. There will be a lot of fights we cannot win against them, but as MAGA speeds our nation down a dark path it is crucial that we use every tool available to slow them down.
In Congress, that means using procedural hardball – blanket opposition, quorum calls, objecting to unanimous consent, demanding recorded votes, refusing to waive rules, fighting adjournments, and holds on nominees in the Senate and forcing roll calls, motions to recommit, privileged resolutions to force tough votes in the House, or whatever time-consuming measures the rules allow. As the scholar Andy Craig has put it: “the House and Senate's power is being stripped from you… you're at the top of the institutional escalation ladder whether you like it or not.”
Thus far, our Democratic members of Congress have not been willing to take this step. Let’s contact them and ask them to do so now – and if not now, ask them what line Trump and MAGA would have to cross for them to start. We can find scripts and language here.
RALLY, CALL AGAINST A TRUMP TAKEOVER OF THE US POSTAL SERVICE
The Trump-Musk administration is demanding that the U.S. Postal Services slash 10,000 jobs, while also threatening to privatize the agency. This is going to raise prices and create new inconveniences for all Americans, but especially folks who get their medications by mail, small businesses, and rural communities. Here’s some things we can do to fight back:
Contact our members of Congress the dismantling of the Postal Service! We can use this call tool from the American Postal Workers Union or this language from . (We can also send that message directly to our reps by texting SIGN PIHJPP to 50409.)
Join the Save The Post Office Coalition for a mass organizing call TOMORROW at 2pm by signing up here
Attend rallies on TWO days of action this week: the American Postal Workers Union’s US Mail is Not For Sale on THURSDAY and the National Association of Letter Carriers’ Hell No! Hands Off USPS on SUNDAY
DIRECT ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE – CALL TOMORROW
Trumpist fascism and the fossil fuel industry are working in hand-in-hand, empowering and enriching each other while our planet continues to heat up. We have no time to waste in taking on either of them. Climate Defiance, a direct action group known for confronting politicians and CEOs to their faces, is looking to do both with their new campaign: Project 2026. They’re holding a mass organizing call TOMORROW at 5PM featuring Rep. Jamie Raskin to talk about their plans for what’s next. We can sign up to learn more about what’s next for them here.
STARTING SMALL: “THIRTY LONELY BUT BEAUTIFUL ACTIONS”
It is not hard to feel frozen right now given how many fronts things are degrading on. Barnraisers Project founder
has written a helpful piece at about small actions to help us stay grounded and engage others. We’re going to be highlighting a series of actions from Bucks' list to help those of us who feel stuck and who could use some inspiration – which is a lot of us just now! There are creative, outside-the-box actions, along with more tried-and-true ideas, to help each of us find something to fit our comfort level.Let’s start with honest conversations:
The next time you read an article about how USAID or the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau or the Department of Education is being attacked, remember that no matter how impactful the agency, movements don’t coalesce around acronyms– they are always about empathy for each other. Take a few minutes to research a specific program administered by those agencies that help people, and ring the alarm for everybody you know. Stop saying “Trump and Musk are the worst” and practice saying things like “Trump and Musk are sentencing millions of AIDS patients to death” or “Trump and Musk want credit card companies to rip us off” or “Trump and Musk just cut mental health and math tutoring resources for your kids’ school.”
When friends or colleagues or grocery clerks ask you how you’re doing, don’t say, “fine.” Instead, answer with “I’m so mad because dialysis patients aren’t getting treatment and Head Start programs have to close because Trump cut off their funding and he’s lying about it.” It is clunky and silly, yes, but if you are in fact angry, it is also entirely honest. You weren’t really “fine” anyway.
KEEPING AN EYE ON…
Wisconsin isn’t the only election on April 1st - here’s how we can help compete for House seats in Florida
Sister District Project strategy call tonight at 8PM Eastern
Deadline for public comments on accurate passports for trans, intersex folks Thursday
Hands Off National Day of Action April 5th, find a protest near you here or organize one here
Target Fast boycott in effect through April 17th, Latino Freeze boycotts on resegregation supporters continuing
Keep up the pressure to release Mahmoud Khalil - House members who have signed demand letters listed here, 5Calls script here
Continue to push leaders to fight on Trump’s defiance of the courts
Join the federal workers #SaveOurServices rapid response network here
Your postings are invaluable! There’s just one thing that you’re completely in error about. Is it accurate to categorize Marty Makary as an ‘anti-vaxxer ’ just because he opposed mandated lockdowns? Very few countries in the world imposed such long periods of lockdowns. Most of Europe came ‘round quickly to realizing that the damage of doing so outweighed the advantages. The U.S. was an outlier in its implementation of COVID policies. It is sorrowful how this term is applied so sweepingly to people. This highly accomplished man should not be lumped in with the lines of RFK Jr. and I dare suggest that Jay Battacharya not be either.