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Friend, Last night at 7pm ET, Senator Cory Booker claimed the floor of the U.S. Senate to speak out against the Trump administration’s crimes against the public.(1) At this moment, he hasn’t yielded the floor.(2) Sen. Booker is speaking up for all of us -- about how our health care is at risk, about how DOGE is destroying Social Security and the Department of Education, and about how our very democracy is hanging in the balance. And because he has been speaking for so long, he is gaining national attention. Sen. Booker is taking questions from the floor, giving the opportunity for, among others, Sen. Elizabeth Warren to talk about Social Security offices closing, Sen. Chris Murphy to talk about the risk to our military from security breaches, and Sen. Raphael Warnock to talk about how our children are at risk from Donald Trump’s authoritarian government. This isn’t a political stunt -- it’s a movement. And Sen. Booker’s speech is taking the spotlight off of talks of annexing Greenland and demonizing immigrants and putting it back on the actual business of governing for the good of the people.
Congress has some awful legislation on the table this week. The House of Representatives is voting on the SAVE Act, which would interfere with the voter registration of millions of citizens. They’re also voting on the No Rogue Rulings Act, which would stop judges from being able to stop Trump’s illegal executive orders. The House is also voting to overturn rules that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau put in place to defend us from predatory lenders and creditors.(3) We need more of our representatives to call attention to this terrible legislation and Trump’s illegal actions by speaking out like Sen. Booker is doing right now. Will you sign our card today? Thank you for being in the fight! –Irene, along with Annie, Angela, Isidra, Cecilia, Jen, and Lindsay (the Courage team)
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