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  Supreme Court Alert · [email protected]
May 5, 2022 at 5:27 PM

Sign the petition: Abortion is a fundamental right

Hi, there is a huge outpouring of support for expanding the Supreme Court to take on its extremist majority and save abortion rights, along with other rights and causes Trump's handpicked justices are threatening. Will you read our email below and tell Congress it's time to expand t…
  Supreme Court Alert · [email protected]
May 3, 2022 at 3:24 PM

Sign the petition: Stop SCOTUS from overturning Roe v. Wade

Hi, The draft opinion written by far-right Justice Samuel Alito shows the Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate abortion rights for millions of Americans -- and it could happen as soon as next month.1  But it gets worse. The Washington Post just reported that Rep…
  SSA Under Threat · [email protected]
April 29, 2022 at 2:56 PM

Can you believe it? Republicans want to end Social Security?!

Republicans admitted that they want to end Social Security as we know it, and now they’re trying to back away. Hi, First, Senate Republicans proposed ending Social Security within five years. Then, in the face of massive public backlash, Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Ric…
  Social Security Update · [email protected]
April 24, 2022 at 2:53 PM

Sign the petition: Pass Social Security 2100!

Hi, Despite a torrent of criticism, Senate Republicans are unrepentant: they want to cut Social Security. Both Rick Scott1 and Mitt Romney2 have made proposals in recent weeks to slash Social Security benefits, despite the soaring cost of living. Despite criticism, they're not backi…
  SSA Under Threat · [email protected]
April 22, 2022 at 3:05 PM

Republicans *admitted* they want to end Social Security

Republicans openly admitted that they want to end Social Security as we know it, and now they’re trying to back away. Hi, For years, Republicans have sought to weaken Social Security by cutting benefits, reducing the number of people who are eligible, and putting your money into the …
  Stop Amazon · [email protected]
April 15, 2022 at 7:54 PM

Sign the petition: Amazon using Trump tactics against the union!

Hi, Amazon is taking a page from Donald Trump's playbook. They filed a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board seeking to overturn the Amazon Labor Union's historic victory at a New York City warehouse.1 Amazon's corporate leadership just can't accept that they lost. They sp…
  Stop Trump · [email protected]
April 14, 2022 at 5:16 PM

We have good news (and some very, very bad news)

Louis DeJoy has been a disaster for the U.S. Postal Service from the minute Donald Trump picked him. Hi, Last week, President Biden signed historic legislation to fund and strengthen the U.S. Postal Service. This is legislation that Demand Progress and our coalition partners fought …
  Izzi Olive, Demand Progress · [email protected]
April 13, 2022 at 4:34 PM

Sign the petition: Corporations shouldn’t make money off our taxes

Hi, When you go to file your taxes this week, you might get charged with a last-minute bill depending on how you file — even if you're using services advertised as free.  That's because the IRS allows private tax prep companies to prey on taxpayers and make a profit off of something…
  Izzi Olive, Demand Progress · [email protected]
April 10, 2022 at 5:46 PM

Sign the petition: Stop DeJoy!

Hi, Once again, it looks like Postmaster General Louis DeJoy may have abused his public office to secure deals that would profit him personally.1 We're calling for the Justice Department and the USPS Inspector General to investigate DeJoy now. Click here to join us.  Reports indicat…
  We need a Wealth Tax · [email protected]
April 7, 2022 at 3:56 PM

Sign the petition: Tax the rich!

Hi, We can always count on Sen. Elizabeth Warren to fight for a fair shot for all Americans. A couple weeks back she called out Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, for avoiding paying any income taxes in 2018.1  Musk fired back, claiming his tax liability of $11 billion for …
  SSA Under Threat · [email protected]
April 6, 2022 at 10:33 PM

They actually admitted it: Republicans want to kill Social Security

Republicans are openly admitting that they want to end Social Security as we know it, but we aren't taking this lying down. Hi, Republicans in Congress are feeling so bold right now they aren't even hiding the fact that they want to end Social Security as we know it.1 Senator Rick Sc…
  Tax the Rich · [email protected]
March 27, 2022 at 3:51 PM

Sign the petition: End tax loopholes for corporations!

Hi, Congress must end tax loopholes for mega-corporations and raise the overall corporate tax rate!  ADD YOUR NAME Tesla will pay $0 in federal taxes this year despite recording a record profit of $5.5 billion in 2021 thanks to existing corporate tax loopholes and the company's "cr…
  Save the USPS · [email protected]
March 24, 2022 at 3:15 PM

How is DeJoy getting away with this?!

Gas is still a fortune, but Louis DeJoy wants to buy 165,000 gas guzzlers instead of clean electric vehicles. What?!?! Dear Friend, The U.S. Postal Service inspector general just released a report saying that 99% of mail routes should be transferred to electric vehicles.1 But Postma…
  Tal Frieden, Demand Progress · [email protected]
March 21, 2022 at 6:05 PM

Sign the petition: Ban stock trading for members of Congress

Hi, On February 22, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene bought stocks in Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor.1 Two days later, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then, Lockheed Martin stocks have gone up 16%. It's just the latest example of members of Congress engaging in questionabl…
  Price Gouging Alert · [email protected]
March 18, 2022 at 5:13 PM

Sign the petition: End Gas Price Profiteering

Hi, Even as the price of gas per barrel is well below recent records, gas prices remain high.1 That's because oil and gas companies are gouging consumers, and taking advantage of the war in Ukraine to rake in as much profit as possible. Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill tha…
  Stop Joe Manchin · [email protected]
March 15, 2022 at 3:55 PM

Sign the petition: Don't let Joe Manchin condemn millions of kids to poverty

Hi, 10,000,000 children in the US could fall into poverty this year.1 Sign the petition and tell Congress: End child poverty! ADD YOUR NAME The Child Tax Credit that lifted millions of American families from poverty expired in December, and millions of children could go hungry as a…
  Supreme Court Update · [email protected]
March 8, 2022 at 12:51 AM

Sign the petition: Stop Republican obstruction of Biden's nominee

Hi, Will you speak up and urge Senators to quickly confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court? ADD YOUR NAME Get this: after rushing through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg in just 27 days in the fall of 2020, Republicans are now throwi…
  Tax the 1% · [email protected]
March 4, 2022 at 2:04 PM

WaPo: “Best time ever to be a billionaire”

Billionaires are out of control. Dear Friend, The Washington Post just called 2021 “the best time in history to be one of America’s 745 billionaires.”1 The ultra-wealthy saw their net worth grow by 70% since the beginning of the pandemic, while the rest of us are struggling with ris…
  Biden Administration Update · [email protected]
February 27, 2022 at 9:05 PM

Sign the petition: Trump's Medicare privatization must end!

Hi, The privatization of Medicare begun under Trump has drastically expanded in the last 12 months — and corporations with ties to the Trump family stand to benefit. President Biden needs to shut it down immediately and save Medicare. Click here if you agree. During the Trump admini…
  Save the USPS · [email protected]
February 24, 2022 at 7:57 PM

Louis DeJoy’s latest scandal

Louis DeJoy is undermining an effort to bring electric trucks to the post office. Dear Friend, Louis DeJoy just defied President Biden—in order to undermine an effort to electrify the post office's vehicle fleet. DeJoy took billions of dollars of taxpayer money intended for an all-el…
  Tihi Hayslett, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]
February 18, 2022 at 10:46 PM

Sign the petition: Iran

Hi, A diplomatic breakthrough with Iran to end their nuclear program could be just "days away."1 Sadly, the war hawks in Washington are working overtime to sabotage this deal before it's even announced. Click here to tell Congress to support diplomacy with Iran! In fact, as soon as …
  Stop Amazon · [email protected]
February 15, 2022 at 4:13 PM

Amazon jacks up its prices

Amazon is soaking its customers who have no choice. Dear Friend, Amazon—which made Jeff Bezos the richest man in the world—is making more money than ever. Corporate profits were up more than 50% last year, an extra $10.5 billion earned on the backs of mistreated employees and small …
  Stop Trump · [email protected]
February 13, 2022 at 8:09 PM

Sign the petition: The Trump insurrection was a year ago. It's time to stop a repeat.

Hi, The Republican Party just officially declared the January 6th insurrection and the events leading up to it as "legitimate political discourse." Then, the party formally condemned the two Republicans who serve on the committee investigating the January 6th attack.1  The Trump GOP…
  Post Office Update · [email protected]
February 5, 2022 at 4:07 PM

Sign the petition: Stop DeJoy

Hi, Trump's disastrous Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, has hacked away at the Postal Service, trying to gut it from the inside out. But under the Biden administration, we can repair it – if Congress acts. Right now there's a bill in Congress called the Postal Service Reform Act. Th…
  Electoral Crisis ALERT · [email protected]
February 3, 2022 at 6:13 PM

Democrats change course on election law

We are running out of time to change this law. Dear Friend, A new strategy to give Trump-following Republicans control of the outcome of elections was born out of the January 6 insurrection—a strategy that has been completely flying under the radar. Republicans have been pouring mill…
  Stop Facebook · [email protected]
January 28, 2022 at 6:14 PM

Sign the petition: Protect our privacy!

Hi, Big Tech is rapidly expanding its control over the payment systems we use to purchase goods and services. We can't let tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google tighten their stranglehold on our economy.  ADD YOUR NAME Whoever controls payment systems — the part of the we…
  Congress Action Alert · [email protected]
January 27, 2022 at 3:43 PM

Sign the petition: Ban Congress from trading stocks

Hi, There's huge new momentum in Congress to finally ban lawmakers from buying and selling individual stocks, with several bills being proposed this month. But House leaders still haven't acted, despite a series of recent scandals. This week more than two dozen members of Congress s…
  Save the USPS · [email protected]
January 25, 2022 at 8:55 PM

DeJoy ally rushed into office despite protest

Postal workers protested the USPS's Board of Governors. Dear Friend, Postal workers gathered outside the U.S. Postal Service headquarters last week to protest the continued employment of postmaster general Louis DeJoy.1 Employees of the USPS have been working under onerous conditions…
  Save the USPS · [email protected]
January 22, 2022 at 5:55 PM

DeJoy ally rushed into office

Postal workers protested the USPS's Board of Governors. Dear Friend, Postal workers gathered outside the U.S. Postal Service headquarters last week to protest the continued employment of postmaster general Louis DeJoy.1 Employees of the USPS have been working under onerous conditions…
  Fire Louis DeJoy · [email protected]
January 21, 2022 at 4:52 PM

U.S. COVID-19 response relies on a working post office

The government is shipping free COVID-19 tests, and the post office is more important than ever. Dear Friend, The government has launched a program to deliver four free COVID-19 tests to every household in the country.1 Epidemiologists agree that access to testing is essential in the…
  Stop Trump · [email protected]
January 16, 2022 at 4:41 PM

The bonkers 1887 law that could blow up our democracy

The January 6 Committee has uncovered jaw-dropping documents uncovering how Donald Trump and his lawyers intended to steal the 2020 election. Dear Friend, The January 6th Committee has uncovered jaw-dropping documents that reveal how Donald Trump and his lawyers intended to steal the…
  Tihi Hayslett, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]
January 14, 2022 at 1:20 AM

Sign the petition: Fight back against voting restrictions!

Hi, Voting rights is too important to let Kyrsten Sinema block it from passing. President Biden wants to end the filibuster to pass a voting rights bill. Most Americans agree. And most Senate Democrats do too. A loud public outcry can change the conversation in Congress and show our…
  David Segal, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]
January 11, 2022 at 10:26 PM

The anniversary of Aaron's passing

Hi, Today we mark the anniversary of the passing of our co-founder Aaron Swartz, who took his own life nine years ago while, unbelievably, under indictment for allegedly having downloaded too many academic articles from the JSTOR cataloging service — to which he had a subscription …
  Stop Amazon · [email protected]
January 8, 2022 at 7:14 PM

Sign the petition to protect workers from Amazon's power

Hi, Just before Amazon workers were reportedly threatened with job termination if they fled killer tornadoes last month, corporate lobbying groups associated directly with Amazon blocked legislation designed to prohibit such firings.1 In other words, when advocates tried to build in…
  Stop Trump · [email protected]
January 4, 2022 at 11:06 PM

Sign the petition: Trump's gearing up for another coup. Congress can stop him.

Hi, It was one year ago this Thursday that Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, committing acts of violence, espousing white supremacy, and perpetuating the Big Lie that the election result was anything but a conclusive victory for President Biden.  Now Trump's next coup may alread…
  Supreme Court Alert · [email protected]
January 2, 2022 at 3:47 PM

Sign the petition: Unpack the Supreme Court

Hi,  BREAKING: Senator Elizabeth Warren just announced her support for expanding the Supreme Court, in order to protect our democracy and reclaim the Court from its hijacking by Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. "This extremist court has shown that it is not interested in advancing …
  Trump Appointee Alert · [email protected]
December 21, 2021 at 8:18 PM

Sign the petition: Fire Trump appointees in the DOJ!

Hi, Almost an entire year after leaving office, Donald Trump’s political appointees are still working in the Department of Justice.1 Even worse, there’s never been any investigation into whether Trump broke personnel rules by hiring them. That’s because Attorney General Merrick Garl…
  Tax the 1% · [email protected]
December 16, 2021 at 4:15 PM

Elon Musk’s tax bill

Elon Musk can’t be allowed to escape the IRS. Dear Friend, Senator Elizabeth Warren got it right in her tweet about Elon Musk this week: “Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.”1 Musk may be Time’s Pe…
  Stop Elon Musk · [email protected]
December 14, 2021 at 3:27 PM

Sign the petition to tax the billionaires

Hi, Elon Musk was just named Time's Person of the Year for 2021 -- despite a history of not paying federal taxes, and spending most of 2021 waging war against efforts to tax the rich. In 2018, Musk paid $0 in federal income taxes.1 In 2021 he has seen his net worth soar to nearly $3…
  Post Office Update · [email protected]
December 10, 2021 at 1:50 AM

Sign and send the petition: Stop Louis DeJoy

Hi, Louis DeJoy's biggest defender is GONE from the Postal Board of Governors. Now we have a crucial opportunity to fight back and save the postal service. Former Chair Ron Bloom was DeJoy's key ally on the Postal Board of Governors, but Biden has decided not to renominate him. And …
  Supreme Court Alert · [email protected]
December 9, 2021 at 6:07 PM

Sign the petition: Supreme Court is about to overturn Roe v. Wade

Hi, President Biden's commission on the future of the Supreme Court just wrapped up its work, and failed to take a position on whether to add more justices to the Supreme Court.1 With the current 6-3 right-wing majority poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and make abortion illegal in doz…
  Fire Louis DeJoy · [email protected]
December 8, 2021 at 2:06 PM

We’re one step away from firing DeJoy

The Senate needs to confirm Biden’s USPS board nominees. Dear Friend, It's the first few days of December, and retailers are already unable to guarantee Christmas delivery for purchases—thanks to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.1 But it's not just gifts that are delayed. Prescription …
  Tax the 1% · [email protected]
December 4, 2021 at 10:35 PM

Billionaires must pay their fair share. Period

Congress must pass a wealth tax. Dear Friend, In a year and a half, Elon Musk has increased his wealth from $25 billion to nearly $300 billion—more money than ten million people making $15 an hour could make in a year.1 A wealth tax won't stop him from being staggeringly rich.—but it…
  Supreme Court Alert · [email protected]
December 2, 2021 at 9:35 PM

Sign the petition: The Supreme Court is about to overturn Roe v. Wade

Hi,  Right-wing justices on the Supreme Court are on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade and ending abortion rights. And Democrats aren't moving quickly enough to stop them. Yesterday the Supreme Court heard arguments regarding Mississippi's attempt to outlaw abortions. And just a …
  Stop Corporate Democrats · [email protected]
November 24, 2021 at 3:07 PM

NYT shocking Manchin and Sinema exposé

Wealthy donors are paying to stop Build Back Better. Dear Friend, The New York Times just published a scathing exposé of how Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin are taking money from wealthy, right-wing donors in order to stop the Build Back Better bill.1 The Times also highlight…
  Stop Elon Musk · [email protected]
November 17, 2021 at 4:03 PM

Sign the petition: Tax the billionaires

Hi, At the beginning of the pandemic, Elon Musk was worth $25 billion.1 Now he's worth nearly $300 billion -- but is waging a Twitter war with Bernie Sanders to avoid higher taxes.  After Bernie tweeted "We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period," Musk s…
  Save Net Neutrality · [email protected]
November 15, 2021 at 5:18 PM

Biden nominates two for FCC. Here’s what’s next.

We must get the Senate to confirm Biden’s two FCC nominees as soon as possible. Dear Friend, This is big: President Biden has nominated Acting Chair Jessica Rosenworcel to be permanent chair of the FCC. The president has also named former FCC advisor and advocate for the public inter…
  Tihi Hayslett, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]
November 11, 2021 at 11:10 PM

Sign the petition: Paid Family Leave must stay in Build Back Better!

Hi, Congress passed an infrastructure bill, but the fight isn't over. It's time to mobilize to support a good paid family leave program as part of the Build Back Better agenda. The US is the only post-industrialized country without paid family leave. That means that during times whe…
  Stop Comcast · [email protected]
November 5, 2021 at 4:45 PM

Sign the petition: Stop Comcast

Hi, Breaking news: President Joe Biden announced two nominations to the Federal Communications Commission -- a big step that could help restore net neutrality. Biden will nominate Jessica Rosenworcel as permanent Chair and add Gigi Sohn as a 5th commissioner to the FCC. Both have a …
  Stop McConnell · [email protected]
November 4, 2021 at 2:18 PM

Sign the petition: Biden wants to end the filibuster

Hi, Mitch McConnell just filibustered the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act for the fourth time this year. Thankfully, President Joe Biden announced recently that he is open to ending the filibuster to get key voting rights legislation passed. There's not a moment to lose. Do…