The Fight For the Senate is Underway in Alaska, Too (5/29/26)

Plus upcoming national events, a guide to direct action, this week's judges to thank and more

☎️ Try a different kind of phonebanking this weekend… join Swing Left for a Ground Truth listening session on Sunday at 2PM ET or help BlueVote.org locate “missing” Democrat voters from 2024 at 4PM ET ☎️

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• Phonebank to help Mary Peltola flip an Alaska senate seat on Thursday and Saturday nights

• Visibility Brigade will be messaging on overpasses for D-Day, along with the DE-ICE Citizens Bank day of action; No Kings calls for community organizing meetings on night of Trump’s cage fight

• Learn about the history of rent strikes and tenant action Sunday

• A step-by-step guide to putting together a direct action via CrimethInc

• Leaving MAGA provides the infrastructure to help folks finally waking up transition out of the cult

• This week’s judges to thank

If you have questions, comments, and especially submissions for actions, please email us at roganslisttips@gmail.com!

Mary Peltola’s first TV ad is already airing - we can watch and share it here,

GET MARY PELTOLA BACK TO CAPITOL HILL

Another strong candidate for flipping a GOP seat and with it the Senate is campaigning in the Last Frontier. Former U.S. Representative Mary Peltola has been consistently polling ahead of incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan in Alaska, and she’s already built up a team of 4,500 volunteers to reach folks across 120 communities in the state. She’s been running hard on her affordability agenda, including restoring the expanded child tax credit, limits on price gouging, hedge funds gobbling up homes and corporate mergers, and tax cuts for renters and child care facilities, and has endorsed key anti-corruption measures like a congressional stock trade ban and a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

Her team will be running phonebanks at least twice a week through the election, and for those of us who are up later in the lower 48 it’s a great opportunity to help out! ☎️ Let’s sign up to make calls for Mary Peltola on Thursdays from 10PM-12AM ET and Saturdays from 6PM-8PM ET here. ☎️

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VISIBILITY EVENTS ON D-DAY AND MORE UPCOMING ACTIONS

We’re all in for another national day of action with the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition next Saturday, June 6th, with more than 100 protests scheduled at Citizens Bank branches across the country aiming to pressure them to end their financial relationships with the concentration camp operators. 🪧 We can find events to join near us here! 🪧

But if we’re not near a Citizens, we’ve got more options to be part of coordinated events next weekend! Visibility Brigade will be honoring the anniversary of D-Day with standouts on overpasses across the country. They’re doing physical messaging in the real world about the crisis we face, a small but concrete reminder that we’re in trouble and people are willing to put their bodies on the line to resist. 🪧 We can find groups near us to join next Saturday here. 🪧

Later in the month, the No Kings coalition has announced counter-programming to Trump’s birthday UFC cage fight at our expense. They’re asking folks to host strategic community gatherings on the evening of June 14th, bringing together folks from our neighborhoods to talk about organizing in our area and connect everyone to local actions we can take – along with watching a concert in celebration of a First Amendment. 🪧 We can sign up to host one of these events in our community here. 🪧

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LEARNING HOW TO EXERCISE POWER AS A RENTER

A tenants union in Bozeman just won critical infrastructure improvements from their new landlord thanks to a rent strike. They’re into their fifth month of a strike in Brooklyn, and their fellow organizers are on the march from Providence to the Hudson Valley to Milwaukee. We’re seeing a surge of tenant power building like we haven’t in years in the United States. Let’s learn how we can be part of it.

🏫 This Sunday at 1PM ET, historian Dr. Lucas Poy will be hosting a presentation on the history of rent strikes and tenant action across the world. We can sign up to join in here and download a book he’s published here. 🏫

🏫 We also have until June 15th to apply for the Tenant Union Federation’s Union School, an intensive training course on the work of organizing. They’re holding their next info session for applicants on Tuesday at 7PM ET – we can sign up here. 🏫

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PUTTING TOGETHER A DIRECT ACTION

We have, in crucial ways, been failed by our institutions in the Trump era. And while a large part of our work is in pushing those institutions to do better and changing them so that they can, a central pillar of the resistance will be working outside of them. Some of the most powerful resistance of the last decade has been in direct action, everything from mutual aid in Minneapolis to blocking highways in South Memphis, and with Trump and the billionaires committed to dragging our country backwards we should all be considering how we might build on what they’ve done.

⚙️ CrimethInc has put together a step-by-step guide to direct action, helping us think concretely about how it works and how we can execute it. Let’s check it out here and consider putting its recommendations to use. ⚙️

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FOR FOLKS WHO ARE READY TO LEAVE MAGA

With Trump’s approval ratings surpassing post-January 6th lows and dropping under 80% even among his 2024 voters, now is a good time to make sure we’re prepared to help folks exit his movement.

Leaving MAGA was founded “to create a safe, non-judgmental community for those who leave MAGA, as well as for those who are having doubts about, or remorse over, their devotion to Trump and MAGA.” It helps them make the transition out of the cult, tell their stories, reconcile with friends and family and develop leaders to help others leave. ⚙️ If we have a friend or loved one who, like the website’s founder, is having second thoughts and is looking for a non-judgmental way out, let’s check out what they have to offer here. ⚙️

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THIS WEEK’S JUDGES TO THANK

Facing threats, political pressure and a Supreme Court majority that has frequently not had their backs, lower court judges are still doing vitally important work to keep this administration’s power within the bounds of the law. Let’s acknowledge their work and send encouragement to keep fighting.

Federal judge Waverly Crenshaw has dismissed the criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, finding that he has been subject to vindictive prosecution by the Department of Justice. ✍🏼 Let’s write a note or postcard to thank Judge Crenshaw for refusing to allow the government’s false claims against Garcia to result in the punishment of an innocent man. ✍🏼

U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw
Fred D. Thompson U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building
719 Church Street, Suite 1300
Nashville, TN 37203

Federal judge Richard Boulware has blocked 25 detainees from being transferred out of Nevada until inquiries into whether they had received bond hearings before being detained had been completed. ✍🏼 Let’s write a note or postcard to thank Judge Boulware for insisting on due process for detained immigrants, rather than allowing ICE to continue violating their rights by denying them access to attorneys, hearings, and bond as they have been routinely doing. ✍🏼

Judge Richard Boulware
Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse
333 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Las Vegas, NV 89101

Goodhue County District Court Judge Patrick Biren has issued a restraining order against the construction of a data center at Pine Island until a lawsuit over the project’s environmental review can be heard. ✍🏼 Write a note or postcard to thank Judge Biren for preventing the company from beginning construction until the many environmental concerns raised have been properly addressed. ✍🏼

Judge Patrick Biren
Goodhue County Justice Center
454 West 6th Street
Red Wing, MN 55066

Federal judge Indira Talwani ordered the release from custody of a Brazilian man, Rogerio da Silva Lima, and his 15-year-old son, Nycolas Al Varenga Lima, who were out fishing near Martha’s Vineyard when they were detained by ICE. The deportation case against them has not been blocked but they must be released from custody. ✍🏼 Let’s write a note or postcard to thank Judge Talwani for getting this father and son out of jail while they await due process in their case. ✍🏼

Judge Indira Talwani
John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse
1 Courthouse Way, Suite 2300
Boston, MA 02210

Federal judge Cathy Seibel blocked attempts by the administration to prevent the faculty of West Point from speaking to external groups without government permission. ✍🏼 Let’s write a note or postcard to thank Judge Seibel for preventing this clear attack on the right to free speech. ✍🏼

Judge Cathy Seibel
United States District Court
Southern District of New York
300 Quarropas Street
White Plains, NY 10601

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👀 KEEPING AN EYE ON… 👀

• NEWS: Hunger strike update: numerous reports of ICE beating captives with truncheons, pepper spraying them inside Delaney Hall, 10 strikers reported to have been transferred as we enter Day 8 of the protester in Newark and Day 11 in Adelanto - keep showing solidarity and demanding we put eyes on what’s happening to these immigrants

• NEWS: U.S. Attorney’s office claims investigation is into non-profit that helped fund E. Jean Carroll’s suit rather than Carroll

• NEWS: Reps. Gregory Meeks, Nydia Velazquez introduce new war powers resolution aimed at blocking attacks on Cuba in the House - tell our reps to support it

• ANALYSIS: Commonwealth Fund report finds U.S. on average has poorest health outcomes of any high-income nation

• Drive calls to New York state legislators in favor of a data center moratorium bill TODAY at 11AM ET

• Looking for ways to get engaged in the midterms? Here’s a full list!

• Even congressional Republicans are unhappy with Trump’s proposed $1.7 billion slush fund for his allies - let them know we want action to shut it down, and ask state legislators to recover our money by taxing the payoffs

• Upcoming fights in Congress - oppose a Farm Bill preserving food assistance cuts, continued warrantless wiretapping, an endless war on Iran, billions more for ICE and CBP

• Jim Crow has succeeded in burning down the Voting Rights Act, now the road to rebuild begins - let’s start here

• Tell blue state Dems to fight fire with fire in countering gerrymandering

• Project Salt Box reports ICE aims to start contracts for co-working spaces in June - see if your community is on the target list, push owners and agents not to deal with them

• Comment to demand FCI Dublin be demolished instead of handed over to ICE by Monday

• Unions and health care advocates will hold actions to highlight the costs of Trump’s health care cuts the first “Seven Days in June” - find one near us

• De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition day of action at branches nationwide June 6th - find a protest near us or organize our own

• Apply to train as a tenant union organizer by June 15th

• Get Free, 50501 hold All of U.S. 250 mobilizations nationwide June 27th

• Submit public comments to oppose barring trans folks from emergency shelters by June 29th

• Good Trouble Lives On voting rights weekend of action July 17th-19th - register events here

• Hawai’i just became the first in the nation to pass a new challenge to corporate spending in politics, let’s make sure our state is next

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