Ready to Make Some Good Trouble Against The Vote Suppressors? (7/2/26)
Weekend of action starts July 17. Plus big ballot initiatives up for a vote in Kansas and Missouri, filibustering a giveaway to the crypto bros, and more
🎆 America turns 250 this weekend, and we’re celebrating by committing to fight for a more perfect union in the next 250 years - attend Declaration of Resistance vigils hosted by the American Friends Service Committee and Free America actions with Women’s March in communities nationwide wide for July 4th! 🎆
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Register voters and beat voter suppression at Good Trouble Lives On 7/17-7/19 - mass call Tuesday, potential host call tonight, find events near us here
Deadline TODAY to submit public comments against USPS proposal to interfere with mail-in voting
Phonebank through August 4th to stop a right-wing takeover of the Kansas Supreme Court and prevent Republicans from sabotaging the ballot initiative process in Missouri
Tell senators to filibuster the Clarity Act, protect us from crypto corruption
Keep calling for justice for Kohen Wiley – demand Walmart release their footage
If you have questions, comments, and especially submissions for actions, please email us at roganslisttips@gmail.com!
15 DAYS UNTIL WE MAKE SOME GOOD TROUBLE
One of the main takeaways from this captured Supreme Court’s term was their complicity in subverting democracy. But they’re headed off to their busy summer of book tours and billionaire-funded vacations, and it’s our time to stand up for it – to, as the late John Lewis put it, make some Good Trouble.
We’re just over TWO WEEKS from Good Trouble Lives On, a three-day celebration of Congressman Lewis’ legacy where activists across the country will resist attacks on the right to vote with voter registration drives, helping people check their voter status, educating their community on what they’ll need to make their ballot count and more. We’ve got more than 200 events already on the books nationwide. (Rogan’s List is a proud Good Trouble Lives On partner!)
On TUESDAY at 8PM, organizers are holding a mass call to talk about this weekend of action and how we can be part of it as hosts and attendees. 📣 Folks who want to learn more or just get hyped can sign up here. 📣
🪧 If we’re ready to get engaged in the fight for the vote post-Voting Rights Act, we can find Good Trouble Lives On events already on the books near us on the map here or on Mobilize here. 🪧
And if we’re interested in being a host, there’s still time to register our events – we’ll get access to staff support, trainings and a host toolkit full of resources we can use. 💪🏿 We can join a host training TONIGHT at 7PM ET here and find a registration link here! 💪🏻
STOP THE MAIL-IN VOTING STEAL: PUBLIC COMMENT DEADLINE
We had an expected but significant victory at a federal court in Boston last week, as Judge Indira Talwani ruled Trump’s executive order directing the creation of federal lists of voters and asking the U.S. Postal Service to only deliver mail-in ballots to people on those lists was unconstitutional. With time running short to implement this particular system of voter suppression, we are probably safe from it for these midterms. But Trump is expected to appeal, so we need to keep covering our bases.
TODAY is the final day to put forward public comments on USPS’ proposal for how to put this order into practice. Let’s make sure we’re speaking up to protect mail-in voting! We can submit them to the Federal Register here, and find resources on how to draft them from Lawyers Defending American Democracy here.
HOT BALLOT INITIATIVE SUMMER IN KANSAS, MISSOURI
The elections never stop coming! We’re closing in on folks going to the voting booth on August 4th to weigh in on major ballot initiatives in Kansas and Missouri.
In Kansas, right-wingers are trying to pass a constitutional amendment to end a string of defeats for forced birthers and their other priorities at the state supreme court. They’re proposing ending their state’s highly-respected merit-based process for selecting judges and replacing it with partisan elections, making it easier for billionaire and corporate money from the Koch network to get justices in place who will stop protecting reproductive freedom, voting rights and public schools. ☎️ Kansas United for Impartial Courts are running phonebanks on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7PM ET and Saturdays and Sundays at 2PM ET all this month – let’s sign up to help protect our rights from this insidious ploy. ☎️
Across the state line, Missouri Republicans tired of the people passing progressive priorities through direct democracy are trying to sabotage the process. With Amendment 4, citizen-initiated ballot initiatives would have to win a simple majority not just statewide, but in every one of the state’s now deeply-gerrymandered congressional districts. As few as 5% of voters could veto the will of the rest of the Show Me State, which would have in recent elections stopped voters from legalizing marijuana, raising the minimum wage, guaranteeing paid sick leave, expanding Medicaid, and revoking the state’s abortion ban. 🙋🏻 Let’s preserve the public’s power! We can take phonebank shifts on Thursday evenings here or get updated with more volunteer opportunities here. 🙋🏿♀️
A RUSH IN THE SENATE TO PASS A CRYPTO BILL THAT LETS TRUMP GRIFT CONTINUE, PUTS US AT RISK
Donald Trump’s financial disclosure revealed that he has “earned” $2.2 billion since returning to the White House, including $1.4 billion from crypto ventures alone, a level of brazen self-enrichment using the presidency that we’ve never seen before. Against this backdrop, Republicans are rushing to pass a crypto “regulation” bill that won’t do a thing to stop Trump, members of his family and his administration, or members of Congress themselves from profiting off this industry.
The failure to address the blatant corruption happening before our eyes isn’t even the worst part of the Clarity Act. This legislation puts investors at greater risk by weakening safeguards, undercuts the SEC and overrules state-level consumer fraud protections – it’s going to be much harder for regulators to stop the next wave of fraud before people lose their money. It hinders investigations into money-laundering. It lets billionaires and industry insiders write weaker rules for themselves while risky digital asset products get pushed further into the financial system, including into our pensions and retirement savings. In short: it’s great for the wealthy and terrible for the rest of us.
There’s been reports that John Thune will try to rush this legislation to a floor vote before the August recess. (It would then need to be reconciled with the House-passed version of the bill). That will require at least seven Democrats to break the filibuster. 🗣️ Let’s make sure we’re reaching out to our senators to tell them we want them to oppose cloture for the Clarity Act. We can find email language from Americans for Financial Reform here and call scripts from 5Calls here. 🗣️
“THERE IS NOTHING IN A WALMART MORE PRECIOUS THAN A BABY”: JUSTICE FOR KOHEN WILEY
The family of Kohen Wiley, a baby boy killed in his mother’s arms in a car in a Mississippi Walmart parking lot by police responding to a shoplifting call, laid him to rest last weekend. He was still months away from his second birthday.
The driver of the car was a friend of Kohen’s mother, who says that she was accused of stealing diapers which she in fact paid for, and was driving away from the officers. Count me among those who are unmoved whether or not the allegations against the friend are true. To quote civil rights attorney Van Turner, “there is nothing in that Walmart that is more precious than a baby.”
The family is calling for full transparency and accountability, starting with the immediate release of all body camera and dash camera footage. In addition, activists are seeking footage from the Walmart itself, and boycotting until it’s released. 🗣️ Let’s add our voices to theirs. We can reach out to elected officials in Senatobia, the community where Kohen was killed, to push for the footage to be made public with contact info here. Our friend Jess Craven has tools to contact Investor Relations at Walmart to let them know we will not be shopping there until they share the videos. We can find contact info and language here, or plug tinyurl.com/forkohen into our browser to pop a pre-written email into our default program. 🗣️
👀 KEEPING AN EYE ON… 👀
Women’s March calls for Free America actions for Independence Day weekend, find one near us here or sign up to host our own here
Looking for more ways to get engaged in the midterms? Here’s a full list!
Upcoming fights on Capitol Hill: House floor frozen over right-wing SAVE Act demands; Senate will consider nomination of Trump henchmen Todd Blanche for AG with confirmation hearing July 15; continued pressure to block Trump’s slush fund and self-pardon with Rep. Raskin introducing new discharge petition; Trump wants $87.6 billion in supplemental appropriations, including $67.1 billion for his Iran war; House set to vote on cutting disability compensation for 1.5 million veterans; Senate GOP continues work on drafting farm bill that would preserve SNAP cuts; Congress still struggling with intertwined warantless wiretapping and DNI appointments; Senate to consider agriculture appropriations bill that cuts food assistance for newborns and pregnant women; House considers NDAA; Senate working on surface transportation funding bill that would punitively jack up fees on EVs; push for Senate to reject extremist Benjamin Flowers and all Trump judicial nominees
Hotel workers in Seattle and Philly, warehouse workers in California are on strike, refinery workers in Indiana are locked out - show solidarity!
The Trump regime is trying to crush dissent and pro-immigrant advocacy - stand with targeted activists including VC Defensa, the Prairieland defendants, the Spokane 3, University of Michigan pro-Palestine organizers, the Minnesota 15, and lawyers for unaccompanied migrant children
Submit public comments to oppose politicization of scientific research, all federal grants by July 13th - join Science Fight Club for weekly sessions on how to write an effective comment on Fridays at 2PM ET
Good Trouble Lives On voting rights weekend of action July 17th-19th - register events here
Comments due on Trump’s proposed rollback of protections against forever chemicals in our water due July 20th, public hearing Tuesday
National week of action against automatic license plate readers August 16th-22nd