What We're Keeping An Eye On

Upcoming protests/events/elections, deadlines, call scripts, talking points, bills we're watching, long-term activist efforts, and more we don't have room for in every issue

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

Last full update 2/19. Last elections update 4/4.

👀 WHAT WE’RE WATCHING 👀

• We’ve stalled funding for ICE and CBP, now we push for meaningful change

  • Call and email our members of Congress to oppose an out-of-control deportation machine

  • Drive calls to Congress with Common Cause Tuesdays and Thursdays

• Trump has taken us into yet another war of choice in the Middle East

  • Oppose boots on the ground and a single penny spent on supplemental appropriations for his war

  • Demand a windfall profits tax on the fossil fuel industry and an investigation into his conflicts of interest in the region

• The next major mass mobilization will be a massive step up in commitment - this May Day, we’re shutting the country down

  • Commit to no work, no school, no shopping on May 1st

  • Volunteer to host an event or canvass local businesses to bring them on board

• We’re starting to get our nominees settled for the midterms in November

  • Find our full guide to how we can help Democrats and progressive causes win at the ballot box here

UPCOMING PROTESTS/ACTIONS

• APRIL 25: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention

• MAY 1: May Day Strong 2026

• JULY 4: Resistance for the 250th Anniversary

• SEPTEMBER 7: Labor Day

ELECTIONS WE’RE WATCHING

• Full 2026 election calendar via The Downballot

• APRIL 16

  • Special election for New Jersey 11th Congressional District

    • Volunteer for Analilia Mejia here

    • Phonebank for Analilia Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays

• APRIL 21

  • Vote on Virginia constitutional amendment to approve Dem-leaning House maps

    • Phonebank…

      • MONDAYS with Commit to Democracy and Rural Groundgame 6PM-8PM ET

      • TUESDAYS with Center for Common Ground 6PM-8PM ET; with NAACP Virginia 7:30PM-8:30PM ET; with Activate America 3-4:30PM ET

      • WEDNESDAYS with Commit to Democracy and Rural Groundgame 6PM-8PM ET

      • THURSDAYS with Center for Common Ground 6PM-8PM ET

      • FRIDAYS with Virginians for Fair Elections 6PM-8PM ET

      • SATURDAYS with Virginians for Fair Elections 9AM-12PM ET, with Rural Groundgame 2-4PM ET

      • SUNDAYS with Grassroots Democrats HQ 12PM-3PM ET, with Rural Groundgame 5-7PM ET

      • IN SPANISH Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 6PM-8PM ET

    • Textbank every weeknight 6PM-7PM ET

    • Send community support letters with VoteForward here

    • Postcard with Postcards4VA or Activate America

    • Sign up for volunteer opportunities with Swing Blue Alliance, Virginia Grassroots or Virginians for Fair Elections

• MAY 5

  • Special election for Michigan State Senate District 35

    • Volunteer to support Chedrick Greene

    • Phonebank with States Win Tuesdays 6-8PM ET

• MAY 19

  • Georgia Supreme Court election

• JUNE 2

  • All-party primary in special election for California 1st Congressional District

• AUGUST 4

  • Special election for California 1st Congressional District

• NOVEMBER 3

  • Midterms!

    • Ways to help at our midterms action page

    • Volunteer as a poll monitor and push our leaders to protect our elections

ECONOMIC ACTIONS

• #ResistAndUnsubscribe! Hit Trump’s corporate backers in the one place they really care about by canceling our subscriptions to their services and using non-US tech alternatives

• Boycott Citizens Bank until they stop financing detention camps - close our accounts, clean our portfolios, contact the C-Suite and more

• The Starbucks boycott is ongoing! Take the No Contract, No Coffee pledge not to cross the picket line, delete the app and find more ways to help here

• Push Telemundo and Univision to get ICE off their airwaves and say no to AT&T until they stop ICE contracts

• The T-Mobile boycott is on - learn more here, sign the pledge here

• Full list of companies to boycott and alternatives to use via Jess Craven here

CALLS TO CONGRESS

• Democrats must use all available legislative tools to slow down the MAGA agenda (via Rogan’s List) - call script, Resistbot for House, Resistbot for Senate

• Use the appropriations deadline to rein in ICE (via Indivisible, 5 Calls and Rogan’s List) - calls to House, calls to Senate, email tool

• Our members of Congress must call for Epstein associate Howard Lutnick to resign or be fired as Commerce Secretary (via Rogan’s List) - call script, email tool

• Senate must reject Trump nominees for Federal Reserve, Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner (via Rogan’s List) - call script, email tool for Kevin Warsh; call script, email tool for Brett Matsumoto

• Congress must be prepared to act immediately if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act (via Rogan’s List) - call script, Resistbot

• Congress is considering major obstacles on voting rights, oppose the SAVE and MEGA Acts (via Brennan Center, 5Calls, FairVote Action) - SAVE call and email tools, MEGA call and email tools

• Stop the SNAP cost shift to the states before it leaves Americans hungry (via Food Research & Action Center) - email tool

• Impeach RFK Jr. (via SUFS and Science Fight Club) - petition, call script

• Restore collective bargaining rights for federal workers, pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act (via AFL-CIO)

• Protect core environmental protections in the U.S. Senate, oppose the SPEED Act and the PERMIT Act (via Climate Hawks Vote, Food and Water Watch) - email tool

• Demand the right to seek damages from federal officials violating our constitutional rights, pass Bivens reform (via Rogan’s List) - call script, Resistbot

• Oppose a war on Greenland (via Rogan’s List) - phone script, talking points, Resistbot

• No war on Mexico (via Rogan’s List) - call scripts, email language

CALLS TO OTHER OFFICIALS

• Governors must act to preserve access to vaccines for kids, regardless of what RFK Jr. does (via 5Calls)

• Push state legislators to do everything in their power to stop secret police in our streets (via NILC)

  • States have the power to stop concentration camp operators from profiting and they must use it (via Rogan’s List)

  • Push state legislators, governors to allow us to sue ICE, CBP agents for civil rights violations (via Rogan’s List)

  • Push state officials to ensure no one goes to immigration court alone (via Rogan’s List)

• State policymakers should make sure our elections are prepared for more 2024-style disruption to avoid giving Trump an excuse (via Rogan’s List)

• If the DoJ won’t, state and local prosecutors must prosecute crimes by ICE, CBP agents (via Rogan’s List)

• If Trump withholds taxes, blue states should too - pass a RECOURSE Act (via Rogan’s List)

• Pays Polluter Pays Laws to cover costs of climate catastrophe - (via Rogan’s List)

PUBLIC COMMENTS DUE

• April 10 - deadline to to oppose weakening protections against chemical catastrophes

• April 21 - deadline to oppose changes to housing rules that would force 24,000 families to choose between separation and eviction

ROGAN’S LIST ACTION PAGES

• We cannot squander this opportunity to stop ICE terror, hold out for meaningful change - Resistbot

• There must be consequences for the Epstein class, starting with forcing out his associate Howard Lutnick - call script, email tool

• Trump is attempting to hijack the Federal Reserve, Senate must block Kevin Warsh - call script, email tool for Kevin Warsh

  • Demand investigation, consequences for political prosecution of Jerome Powell - call script, Resistbot

• No Trump nominee should lead the Brueau of Labor Statistics - call script, email tool for Brett Matsumoto

• States have the power to stop corporate profiteering off concentration camps and they must use it - call script, email tool

• If the DoJ won’t, state and local prosecutors must prosecute crimes by ICE, CBP agents - call scripts, email language

• State policymakers should make sure our elections are prepared for more 2024-style disruption to avoid giving Trump an excuse - call script, email tool

• Congress must be prepared to act immediately if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act - call script, Resistbot

• Protect access to medication abortion - call scripts, email language

• Stop new offshore drilling once and for all - call scripts, Resistbot

• No War on NATO, Leave Greenland alone - call scripts, talking points, email language

• No war on Mexico - call scripts, email language

• Demand the right to seek damages from federal officials violating our constitutional rights, pass Bivens reform at the federal level and universal constitutional remedies in our states - call script, Resistbot for Congress; call script, Resistbot for states

• If Trump withholds taxes, blue states should too, pass a RECOURSE Act - call scripts, email language

• Pays Polluter Pays Laws to cover costs of climate catastrophe - talking points, email language

• Public defenders for immigrants! Push state officials to ensure no one goes to immigration court alone - call scripts, email language

• Democrats must use all available legislative tools to slow down the MAGA agenda - call script, Resistbot for House, Resistbot for Senate

LONG-TERM ACTIVIST EFFORTS

• REGULAR ORGANIZING

  • Phonebank against dangerous legislation every Tuesday and Thursday with Common Cause

• ELECTORAL ORGANIZING

  • Turn out environmental voters with the Environmental Voter Project

  • Register new voters with Field Team 6

  • Texting Tuesdays with Black Voters Matter

  • Postcards to Voters

  • Mom2Mom postcarding with MomsRising

  • Maximize the impact of our political donations with guidance from Oath

  • Make sure candidates in neglected districts get support with Every State Blue’s First In Line Program

• ELECTION DAY WORK

  • Volunteer to give rides to the polls with Rideshare2Vote

• ELECTION PROTECTION

  • Serve as a poll monitor with the Election Protection Hotline

  • Get folks the information they need to make their votes counted with VoteRiders

• DIRECT ACTION

  • Join the team at Climate Defiance

• GENERAL STRIKE

  • Sign the General Strike US strike card

• IMMIGRANT SUPPORT

  • Join the National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s Adopt A Day Labor Corner program

• LABOR ORGANIZING

  • Volunteer with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee

• MESSAGING

  • Join DemCast USA’s digital field team

• MUTUAL AID

  • Find mutual aid networks near us

  • American Friends Service Committee guide to create a mutual aid network

• SUPPORT TRANS FOLKS

  • Donate to Trans Lifeline, a peer support network for trans people

  • Donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline, which helps trans people relocate from unsafe communities in the United States

  • Donate to one of these trans-led mutual aid funds or the Trans Income Project, providing direct support to trans folks in need

  • Donate to fund Distribute Aid’s harm reduction toolkits, which provide medical equipment for trans people taking injection-based gender affirming hormone therapy

• SURVEILLANCE STATE

  • Join a local DeFlock group

• TENANT ORGANIZING

  • Connect with the Tenant Union Federation

  • Connect with the Autonomous Tenant Union Network

• VACCINE ADVOCACY

  • Volunteer with Grandparents for Vaccines

  • Volunteer with American Families for Vaccines

ACTION SITES WE RECOMMEND

• Chop Wood, Carry Water - daily actions, explainers, commentary via Jess Craven

• Coleman Rogers - daily Resistbots

• Americans of Conscience Checklist

RESOURCES WE CAN USE

• FROM-HOME ACTIVISM TOOLS

  • 5 Calls - call scripts on key issues

  • Contact list for press and public officials via Megan Rothery

  • DemCast USA - social media content

  • Tips for submitting effective comments via regulations.gov

• STREET ACTIVISM TOOLS

  • Challenging ICE Agents

    • A national map of rapid response networks

    • Know Your Rights cards

    • Tips on how to verify sightings from WITNESS and Never Again Action

    • ACLU training on documenting and recording ICE agents

    • Guide to sit-ins, #SaltICE actions at Target and to ICE scraper actions at Home Depot

  • Make workplaces across the countries 4th Amendment workplaces

  • Detention Watch Network toolkit for fighting detention expansion in our communities

  • Toolkit for responding to federal deployments via ACLU

  • Purge Palantir guide to stopping surveillance tech locally

  • Kairos Fellows organizing guide for stopping data centers

  • Beautiful Trouble’s guide to direct action tactics

  • CrimethInc’s step-by-step guide on designing and executing direct actions

  • Street medic 101 training

  • Mariame Kaba’s guide to actions that are not protesting or voting

• TRACKERS

  • We the People Dissent - substack tracking protests

  • Revolving Door Project tracker for Trump regime’s non-adherence to court orders

  • Protect Democracy tracker for Trump use of retaliatory investigations, arrests and prosecutions

  • Voting Rights Lab tracker for voting and election law bills introduced at the state level

  • Center for Progressive Reform tracker for Trump implementation of Project 2025 via executive action

  • Overall Project 2025 implementation tracker by volunteers

• OTHER RESOURCES

  • Leaving MAGA - resources to help former Trump supporters make the transition out of the cult, reconcile with friends and family, and develop leaders to help others leave, plus support for folks dealing with MAGA family members

• READING

  • Recommended reading on general strikes and The 50501 Movement’s guide to preparing for one

  • Guide to who runs our local elections by state via Bolts

DONATION OPTIONS

• Support folks on the ground in Minnesota

• Support impacted families in Massachusetts

• National Day Laborers Organizing Network’s GoFundMe of the day

CURRENT EYES ON LIST

• We’ve got a window of opportunity to stop ICE terror - call, email Congress to insist they use it, encourage folks in key states to do the same

• Trump is threatening to subvert our elections out in the open - the fight to protect them starts now

• There must be consequences for the Epstein class, starting with forcing out his associate Howard Lutnick

• ICE’s victims deserve justice - demand state, local prosecutors take on ICE and CBP crimes

• Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, do we know what our reps will do if he does?

• Trump is trying to put a puppet on the Federal Reserve Board, and the Senate can stop him

• Democrats are racking up upset after upset at the ballot box - let’s help keep the momentum going by phonebanking for special elections in New Jersey (4/16) and Michigan (5/5), the redistricting vote in Virginia (4/21) and this spring’s Wisconsin supreme court race (4/7)

• We’re aiming for 10 million people coming out for No Kings 3 on March 28, plus we’re holding a day of action against ICE detention centers February 28th, rallying to take back science March 7th, get Citizens Bank to drop private prisons March 7th and hosting direct action for International Women’s Day March 8th

• Learn how to turn businesses into 4th Amendment workplaces March 4th at 7PM ET

• The right to protest is on trial in Texas - show solidarity with the Prairieland Defendants

• Join the #ResistAndUnsubscribe campaign, canceling our subscriptions to Trump backers’ services and using non-US tech alternatives

• Starbucks workers are still on the picket line - delete the app and take the No Contract, No Coffee pledge

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