Electoral College Disaster Alert · [email protected]

April 28, 2024 at 3:34 PM

The next electoral college meltdown is coming. This can stop it.

We must act now to prevent another Electoral College meltdown. Hi, Twice in the last six presidential elections, the candidate who lost the popular vote won the White House — and it very nearly happened again in 2004 and 2020.1 But we can fix this senseless, undemocratic Electoral…

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  Block Trump appointee · [email protected]

April 27, 2024 at 2:47 PM

Sign the petition: Louis DeJoy's USPS is a complete mess

Hi, Trump-appointed head of the USPS, Louis DeJoy, was hauled in front of the U.S. Senate last week to answer for the complete mess at the Post Office. He’s overseeing higher prices (up 45% under DeJoy!), worse service (mail delays across the country are at an all-time high), and ma…

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  Block credit card fees · [email protected]

April 25, 2024 at 5:26 PM

Sign the petition: House Republicans voted against a Biden admin rule capping credit card fees

TELL CONGRESS: Republicans just voted FOR increasing credit card fees to undo a cap recently introduced by the Biden Administration. Sign the petition: Urge Congress to block the GOP’s attempted repeal of President Biden’s cap on credit card fees! ADD YOUR NAME Hi, Republicans ac…

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  Block credit card fees · [email protected]

April 25, 2024 at 5:22 PM

Sign the petition: House Republicans voted against a Biden admin rule capping credit card fees

Hi, Republicans actually voted FOR increasing credit card fees.1 GOP Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Andy Barr, even tried to convince the public that Americans like higher credit card fees.2 The Biden administration recently instituted a rule to place a lim…

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  Expand the CTC · [email protected]

April 24, 2024 at 7:18 PM

Sign the petition: Tell the Senate to quit the politics and pass the Child Tax Credit

Hi, A bipartisan tax package that would expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) is currently waiting on a vote from the Senate. This bill would go a long way toward alleviating child poverty. But some Senators are hellbent on blocking the bill. Why don’t they want this tax package to go t…

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  Israel/Palestine · [email protected]

April 23, 2024 at 7:15 PM

Sign the petition: U.S. readies to send Israel more weapons, even as Netanyahu continues violating international humanitarian law

Hi, The atrocities in Gaza and Israel’s violations of international humanitarian law continue. Yet, Congress and President Biden are ready to send Israel more bombs and unconditional funding. A mass grave of at least 300 Palestinians was just found at a hospital in the Gazan city of…

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  Stop Musk · [email protected]

April 21, 2024 at 3:06 PM

Sign the petition: If Musk and Bezos want private space companies, they need to pay their fair share of taxes

Hi, Every time a SpaceX or Blue Origin rocket is launched, air traffic controllers make sure that the airspace is clear and that no commercial airplanes are in the way. Their jobs are funded through taxes paid by airlines. Without the controllers there would be a serious risk of col…

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  Block Clarence Thomas · [email protected]

April 20, 2024 at 2:23 PM

Sign the petition: Clarence Thomas should NOT be ruling on the Trump immunity case

Hi, Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, attended the January 6 Stop the Steal rally and pleaded with senior White House staff to help Trump overturn the election in the days leading up to the insurrection.1 Now Clarence Thomas wants to rule on Trump’s immunity case, which the Supre…

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  Israel/Palestine · [email protected]

April 18, 2024 at 6:36 PM

Sign the petition: There is a right to self-defense but not a right to retaliation

Hi, On Saturday, Congress will vote on whether or not to send more weapons to Israel.1 This could be our last chance to stop billions more in taxpayer dollars going to Netanyahu’s war machine. Israel has killed more than 30,000 Palestinian civilians since October 7. Netanyahu’s gove…

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  Tax the Rich · [email protected]

April 17, 2024 at 2:55 PM

Sign the petition: Put an end to tax loopholes for billionaires

Hi, April 15th is Tax Day, but while millions of working people prepare to pay their fair share of taxes, the ultra-wealthy and big corporations are getting away with paying little or NOTHING in taxes because of loopholes and cheating. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires a…

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  Block mass surveillance · [email protected]

April 16, 2024 at 4:59 PM

Sign the petition: Dangerous expansion of mass surveillance up for a vote in the Senate this week!

Hi, As early as Wednesday, the Senate will vote on a dangerous expansion of mass surveillance called the “Make Everyone A Spy” provision. What? In the fight over the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the heads of the House Intelligence Committee sn…

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  Fire Louis DeJoy · [email protected]

April 14, 2024 at 3:03 PM

Bernie Sanders vs. Louis DeJoy

Louis DeJoy has been an absolute disaster for the U.S. Postal Service. Will you donate to Demand Progress Action and support our work, including demanding the removal of Louis DeJoy as USPS Postmaster General? Hi, More and more communities are reporting major delays in mail delivery…

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  Block TurboTax · [email protected]

April 13, 2024 at 6:16 PM

Sign the petition: The IRS has a free tax filing tool but TurboTax wants to stop it

Hi, Tax prep corporations have been bombarding people with their annoying commercials for a couple months now. What’s different? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told TurboTax that it has to stop lying.1 The FTC said TurboTax had to stop claiming that its service was free in its c…

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  Block mass surveillance · [email protected]

April 12, 2024 at 3:31 PM

Sign the petition: Speaker Mike Johnson trying to block an overhaul of America's mass surveillance

Hi, Reforming America’s system of mass surveillance does not split Congress along partisan lines. There’s support across the political spectrum for overhauling the government's domestic spying powers — but GOP Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to scuttle reform efforts and a final vote…

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  Electoral College Update · [email protected]

April 12, 2024 at 12:29 AM

Huge news for the campaign to end the Electoral College system

We must act now to prevent another Electoral College meltdown. Hi -- We're resending this urgent email from earlier in the week to make sure you didn't miss it. -- Demand Progress Action Hi, Last week, the Maine legislature brought us one big step closer to ending the current Electo…

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  Israel/Palestine · [email protected]

April 10, 2024 at 8:05 PM

Sign the petition: Rep. Pelosi joins letter to halt arms transfers to Israel

Hi, After Israel’s military killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi joined 40 Democrats to urge President Biden to halt weapons transfers to Israel and condition all security assi…

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  Electoral College Update · [email protected]

April 8, 2024 at 11:21 PM

The next Electoral College meltdown is coming

We must act now to prevent another Electoral College meltdown. Hi, Last week, the Maine legislature brought us one big step closer to ending the current Electoral College system by narrowly voting to become the latest state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.1 Ma…

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  Hold corporate supermarkets accountable · [email protected]

April 7, 2024 at 3:08 PM

Sign the petition: Amazon and Walmart shouldn't be charging higher prices

Hi, Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats in Congress are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to use an FDR-era law last used in the 1980s to force corporate grocery chains to lower their sky-high prices.1 The FTC has already said that corporate supermarkets and big retailers l…

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  Stop Musk · [email protected]

April 6, 2024 at 2:25 PM

Sign the petition: Elon Musk's company is in the business of government surveillance

Hi, It was just revealed that Elon Musk’s company Twitter/X has been profiting off of user data by selling it to the government for mass surveillance.1 This is exactly the type of warrantless government surveillance we’re trying to stop in the fight over Section 702 of the Foreign I…

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  Israel/Palestine · [email protected]

April 5, 2024 at 6:44 PM

Sign the petition: World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in Gaza

Hi, Israel’s military killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers this week while they attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. The aid workers were hit with multiple attacks, and the head of the aid group, José Andrés, called the air strikes direct, targeted attacks agains…

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  Israel/Palestine · [email protected]

April 4, 2024 at 10:13 PM

Sign the petition: World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in Gaza

Hi, Israel’s military killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers this week while they attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. The aid workers were hit with multiple attacks, and the head of the aid group, José Andrés, called the air strikes direct, targeted attacks agains…

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  Supreme Court Corruption · [email protected]

April 3, 2024 at 5:43 PM

Sign the petition: Did Lindsey Graham and Josh Hawley successfully fight these subpoenas?

Hi, Leonard Leo, co-chair of the Federalist Society, former Trump advisor, and chief architect of piling the Supreme Court with right-wing judges, is proudly calling on billionaires to “take full advantage” of the conservative supermajority on SCOTUS. Leo said it’s critical that Rep…

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  Joey DeFrancesco, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

April 2, 2024 at 7:24 PM

Sign the petition: Tell the Labor Department to hold shipping companies accountable

Hi, The collapse of Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge that likely killed six workers was a tragedy – and it could have been prevented. Transportation experts and insurance corporations warned that cargo ships of this size would be dangerous. Despite this, shipping corporations, e…

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  Ginni Thomas Corruption Alert · [email protected]

April 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM

Ginni Thomas could be in *deep* legal trouble

Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni, personally attended the January 6 Stop the Steal rally. Hi -- We're resending this important email from last week to make sure you didn't miss it. -- Demand Progress Hi, Clarence Thomas's wife, Ginni, personally attended the January 6 Stop the Steal ra…

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  Block cuts to Social Security · [email protected]

March 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM

Sign the petition: Trump said what on CNBC?!

Hi, In an interview on CNBC earlier this month, Donald Trump expressed openness to cutting Social Security.1 “So first of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting,” Trump said.2 This is the latest example of Republicans going after Social Security…

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  No Trump Tax Cuts · [email protected]

March 29, 2024 at 5:07 PM

Sign the petition: Corporate tax evasion

Hi, Corporations are paying even LESS taxes than they should be. A new report shows that not only did the Trump administration’s signature tax cut legislation slash the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, the Trump tax cuts were full of loopholes that are allowing America’s largest …

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  Clarence Thomas Corruption Alert · [email protected]

March 28, 2024 at 3:43 PM

Ginni Thomas could be in deep legal trouble

Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni, personally attended the January 6 Stop the Steal rally. Hi, Clarence Thomas's wife, Ginni, personally attended the January 6 Stop the Steal rally and pleaded with senior White House staff to help Trump overturn the election in the days leading up to the…

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  Tax Elon Musk · [email protected]

March 26, 2024 at 8:40 PM

Sign the petition: Tell Congress to pass Elizabeth Warren's Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act

Hi, Wealth inequality in America is completely out of control. The disparities between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of America were made even worse by the Trump administration’s signature tax cut legislation in 2017. The collective wealth of America’s billionaires (including Elon …

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  Joey DeFrancesco, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

March 25, 2024 at 7:45 PM

Sign the petition: Tell President Biden to stop Big Pharma greed!

Hi, This is Big Pharma’s latest bait and switch: Under public pressure over the outrageous prices of insulin, pharma corporation Novo Nordisk announced that it would significantly lower the price of Levemir (one of its insulin products). But before the price cut went into effect, No…

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  Voter Purge Alert · [email protected]

March 24, 2024 at 2:43 PM

Mass voter purges underway in key battleground states

Using arcane laws and loopholes, dark money groups are challenging thousands of voter registrations. Hi, The New York Times just reported that a "network of right-wing activists and allies of Donald J. Trump is quietly challenging thousands of voter registrations in critical presiden…

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  Israel/Palestine · [email protected]

March 22, 2024 at 5:29 PM

Sign the petition: Israel is blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza

Hi, OxFam just confirmed that Israel is still blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza — all while hundreds of thousands of people are in desperate need of food, water, medical attention, and other aid.1 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is one of the most impor…

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  End Trump Boeing immunity · [email protected]

March 21, 2024 at 9:46 PM

Sign the petition: Trump's Boeing immunity deal is dangerous

Hi, Boeing’s accidents keep piling up — airplane parts flying off mid-flight, windshields cracking, and emergency landings across the country.1 Thanks to former President Trump, Boeing keeps avoiding consequences, but President Biden has the power to finally hold Boeing accountable.…

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  Block UHC · [email protected]

March 19, 2024 at 7:27 PM

Sign the petition: Stop UnitedHealth from becoming a health care monopoly

Hi, UnitedHealth Group has rapidly become the largest health care conglomerate in the country.1 This has allowed the giant corporation to make money off of every aspect of the health industry, incentivizing a focus on profit over patient care. That’s why the Department of Justice (D…

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  No national abortion ban · [email protected]

March 19, 2024 at 12:18 AM

Sign the petition: Abortion and IVF should not be crimes

Hi, Reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy are under attack in America. Conservatives are taking drastic measures to ban abortion across the country, criminalize miscarriages, limit birth control access, and much more. This is all in spite of the fact that the majority of American…

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  Block mass surveillance · [email protected]

March 16, 2024 at 6:26 PM

Sign the petition: Mass surveillance to spy on protestors?

Hi, Republican Chair of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Turner is trying to block an overhaul of America’s mass surveillance in order to keep spying on protestors.1 That’s what Rep. Turner pitched to lawmakers and staffers in a closed door meeting: don’t reform Section 702 of …

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  Israel/Palestine · [email protected]

March 15, 2024 at 5:45 PM

Sign the petition: Netanyahu vows to defy Biden on Rafah

Hi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will go ahead with a ground invasion in the Gazan city of Rafah despite President Biden’s opposition and warnings that such an invasion would be a “red line” for the United States.1 Rafah is a densely populated city in Gaza w…

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  Ceasefire Now · [email protected]

March 13, 2024 at 6:19 PM

Support for a ceasefire is growing

We must keep pushing for an end to the suffering in Gaza, especially as the risk of a wider war in the Middle East grows by the hour. Hi, When Demand Progress Action and our allies began calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, we found very little support in Washington, D.C. Since then, p…

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  Undo Trump policy · [email protected]

March 11, 2024 at 2:04 PM

Sign the petition: The billionaire-backed Koch network is leading efforts to stop the bipartisan Railway Safety Act

Hi, Koch Industries (led for decades by the Koch brothers) may be the sole reason the bipartisan Railway Safety Act — legislation put into motion by the disastrous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio a year ago — is stalled in Congress. The Norfolk Southern freight train derail…

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  Voter Purge Alert · [email protected]

March 10, 2024 at 4:16 PM

Mass voter purges threaten 2024 election

The New York Times has uncovered a dark money campaign to challenge voter registrations and purge voters from the rolls. Hi, The New York Times has uncovered a major effort by right-wing organizations to challenge voter registrations and purge voters from the rolls in an "all-but-unn…

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  Voter Purge Alert · [email protected]

March 9, 2024 at 4:33 PM

NY Times blockbuster: Mass voter purges underway

The New York Times has uncovered a dark money campaign to challenge voter registrations and purge voters from the rolls. Hi, The New York Times has uncovered a major effort by right-wing organizations to challenge voter registrations and purge voters from the rolls in an "all-but-unn…

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  Supreme Court Corruption · [email protected]

March 6, 2024 at 3:48 PM

Sign the petition: Lindsey Graham and Josh Hawley are protecting Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow from Senate subpoenas

Hi, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee voted to subpoena Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow as part of an ongoing ethics probe into Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito…but then never issued the subpoenas.1 It’s been over two months. What’s the hold up? Around t…

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  Clarence Thomas Corruption Alert · [email protected]

March 5, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Clarence Thomas to rule on Trump insurrection that his wife participated in

Clarence Thomas's wife personally participated in January 6, and he refuses to recuse himself. Hi, Last Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will take up Donald Trump's claim of total presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for his role in the January 6 insurr…

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  Supreme Court Corruption · [email protected]

March 1, 2024 at 4:08 PM

Sign the petition: Impeach Clarence Thomas!

Hi, John Oliver has had enough of Clarence Thomas’ ethics scandals. On his TV show, Oliver offered Clarence Thomas a luxury motor coach and $1 million per year to resign from the Supreme Court.1 Ridiculous right? But it also sounds a little too familiar. That’s because Clarence Thom…

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  Defend worker rights · [email protected]

February 29, 2024 at 2:13 PM

Sign the petition: Stop Amazon's baseless attack on worker rights

Hi, Amazon is joining the claims in Elon Musk’s baseless lawsuit against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) calling the worker protection agency “unconstitutional.”1 If they win, it’ll be a disaster for working people everywhere. Musk, head of SpaceX and Tesla, and Amazon, st…

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  Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos vs. the NLRB · [email protected]

February 28, 2024 at 6:23 PM

Flight attendant says Elon Musk exposed himself and asked for sex (update)

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are teaming up to gut the National Labor Relations Board. Hi, In January, serial union-buster Elon Musk filed a lawsuit asking the federal courts to declare the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unconstitutional.1 Now Jeff Bezos has joined in with his …

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  Joey DeFrancesco, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

February 26, 2024 at 9:05 PM

Sign the petition: Restore the Voting Rights Act now!

Hi, Last year, we saw the Voting Rights Act go through a number of conservative legal challenges in the courts — and that won’t be stopping anytime soon.1 At the start of this election year, there were already 3 new right-wing legal arguments against the Voting Rights Act.2 It’s cle…

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  Tax the Rich · [email protected]

February 25, 2024 at 8:49 PM

Sign the petition: IRS says it will collect $561 billion more from rich tax cheats thanks to Inflation Reduction Act

Hi, The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says it will collect $561 billion from ultra-wealthy tax cheats over the next decade because of increased funding from the Inflation Reduction Act.1 And that’s why Republicans fought to cut IRS funding and will continue to fight for cuts — to p…

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  Stop Elon Musk · [email protected]

February 22, 2024 at 10:34 PM

Flight attendant says Elon Musk exposed himself and asked for sex

Elon Musk wants to destroy the National Labor Review Board. Hi, A long and growing list of women have come forward accusing Elon Musk and his companies of rampant sexual harassment.1 Musk was even forced to pay a flight attendant $250,000 after she claimed that he exposed himself an…

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  Fire Trump appointee · [email protected]

February 21, 2024 at 11:55 PM

Sign the petition: USPS looks to raise rates for fifth time under DeJoy

Hi, The Trump-appointed head of the U.S. Postal Service, Louis DeJoy, is raising mail prices a fifth time since taking over during the Trump administration.1 That means sending mail will be more expensive for every single American. AGAIN. DeJoy even has a plan to privatize the Post …

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  Don’t privatize Medicare · [email protected]

February 19, 2024 at 3:19 PM

Sign the petition: Tell Congress to protect Medicare from right-wing cuts!

Hi, A radical right-wing policy agenda put together by high-level GOP operatives is scary — and it includes a plan to completely privatize Medicare.1 This plan is a clear attempt by Republicans to cut the social safety net and make health care for seniors worse. It would also be a h…

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