May 7, 2025 - Trump Parades, We Protest
Our next mass mobilization is getting going, phonebanking against voter suppression, Star Wars fans unite against the Empire, and more!
Contact all members of Congress:
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!
🪧 NO KINGS MASS MOBILIZATION JUNE 14TH (AND MORE DAYS OF ACTION) 🪧
The authoritarians and the billionaires are hoping we’ll wear down. They are going to be disappointed. Patriotic Americans will not stop rising up in protest to fight for each other and our country.
Our next major mass mobilization is coming on June 14th! While Trump plans to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars throwing himself a military parade for his birthday, we will be out in the streets on Flag Day to send one message: NO KINGS.
Let’s check the map here to see if there’s already a No Kings demonstration scheduled near us (dozens are on the books!). If there isn’t, let’s consider hosting one ourselves – we can find a host toolkit here and register here. We can sign the No Kings Pledge here to get updates, and join Indivisible’s leadership for a mass call tomorrow at 3PM Eastern to learn more here.
Tomorrow will also feature the May Day Strong coalition’s next steps planning call at 8PM Eastern and Solidarity Pledge’s coordination call for pro-immigrant actions at 6:00PM – plus we can skip the call and be directly connected to folks in our area working to make solidarity actions happen May 23rd here.
📞 PHONEBANKING AGAINST VOTER SUPPRESSION IN DC AND THE STATES 📞
The “SAVE Act,” H.R. 22, is the GOP’s latest attempt to rig our elections by disenfranchising voters. It requires voters registering or changing their registration information to provide ID that many of us do not have, and forces them to present that ID in person. It could lock the voting booth against 69 million women who have changed their name after marriage, all overseas voters and almost 1 in 10 American citizens who don’t easily have access to proof of citizenship documents – including almost 4 million citizens who don’t have proof of citizenship documents at all.
This measure has passed the House 220-208 (with four Democrats in favor). It will need 60 votes to get through a filibuster in the Senate, so we should be able to stop it here. But MAGA isn’t letting that hold them back. Legislators in 24 states have introduced similar measures, and Louisiana, New Hampshire and Wyoming have already passed them into law. We need to fight for voting rights at every level of government. Common Cause is scheduling weekly phonebanks on Thursdays running from 5:30PM-7:30PM to mobilize folks for action against the federal and state-level SAVE Acts. Let’s sign up to join them in stopping voter suppression here.
We can also find scripts and language to push our senators to oppose the SAVE Act here and here, find a list of states considering a SAVE Act here to see if we need to contact our legislators and governors, and spread the word with this social media toolkit from here.
🗞️ DEMAND A SPOTLIGHT ON TRUMP’S WAR ON CHILDREN 🗞️
“The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so that babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired,” ProPublica reports. “The federal office that oversees the enforcement of child support payments has been hollowed out. Head Start preschools, which teach toddlers their ABCs and feed them healthy meals, will likely be forced to shut down… funding for investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against children; responding to reports of missing children; and preventing youth violence has been withdrawn indefinitely.” If Republicans go through with Medicaid cuts, “kids from lower and middle-class families across the US will lose access to health care at their schools, in foster care, for their disabilities or for cancer treatment.”
Children are at real risk of harm from the Trump regime’s budget cuts and the firing of federal workers - and while ProPublica is always reliable, it’s not covered nearly enough by the rest of our media. Let’s tell the editors of our regional newspapers and the assignment editors of our local TV news stations that we want them to cover on a regular basis how children are impacted by Trump’s “policies.”
(We can also tell our members of Congress we want to know what they are doing to protect our nation’s kids from Trump. We can find more details on Head Start and the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program here and here.)
📞 STOPPING TRUMP’S ABUSE OF EMERGENCY POWERS 📞
One of many ways Trump has abused presidential power to act as a king has been his repeated declarations of fraudulent emergencies to get around the law. He’s misused emergency powers to start his trade wars, promote fossil fuels on behalf of his industry donors, and abduct and imprison immigrants in El Salvador without due process. Now, he’s citing one of his emergencies to sidestep the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars federal armed forces from being used domestically. He’s turned along the border into a “military installation” to allow our troops to be serve as a de facto police force.
Trump is putting a legal fig leaf on authoritarian actions, and it has to stop. In the past, members of Congress have proposed reining in emergency powers with exactly these sorts of violations in mind, such as Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ)’s bill to end all national emergencies after 30 days unless Congress explicitly approves of them. These reforms are more important than ever.
The complicit and compliant congressional Republicans have so far cheerfully allowed Trump to seize more and more power, and it’s unlikely that will change soon. But it’s worth making sure they know we’ve noticed, we’re angry, and we understand that they can do something about this. Let’s reach out to them and urge them to back legislation to check Trump and any future president’s misuse of emergency powers. We can send this Resistbot message by texting SIGN PPJQGT to 50409 or use it as sample language or template for a call script. (H/t of Indivisible Greater Vancouver)
📺 STAR WARS FANS UNITE AGAINST FASCISM 📺
Fandoms like Star Wars are critical spaces where people across races, backgrounds, and generations hang out and make meaningful connections. They're also cultural battlegrounds that fascist and supremacist factions use to pull fans into real life authoritarian politics. But Star Wars is a story of antifascist rebellion and fans like us have a unique opportunity with Andor Season 2 to intervene and organize for a country not so far, far away. Let’s take advantage of it! Each week before, during, and after Andor's final season, Project Fulcrum is sending out short newsletters with a bit about of the real history of resistance movements behind the show and an action we can take right now to rebel against imperialism in the United States! Let’s check out the newsletters on the website here and sign up! Lots of good information whether we’re Andor fans or not!
KEEPING AN EYE ON…
Some thoughts as we prepare for our next BIG protest
https://rgilmartin.substack.com/p/slogans-chants-and-anthems