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  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM

Press freedom is under attack by Attorney General Pam Bondi

As Trump weaponizes the DOJ against journalists, Congress must act now to defend essential press freedoms. John, Trump’s Department of Justice is no longer defending the law. It’s targeting the enemies he perceives in the free press. Attorney General Pam Bondi has made the DOJ’…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM

Support legal action against the unconstitutional DOGE

Trump’s DOGE scheme is an unconstitutional power grab that guts vital services without Congress’s consent. Sign the grassroots amicus brief to help stop it in court. John, A sweeping coalition of unions, nonprofit organizations, and legal advocates has just launched the most con…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM

Expose Trump’s lawless deportation machine

Trump deported hundreds into a torture camp, without due process. The Senate can force answers. John, When a democracy stops defending due process, it stops being a democracy. That’s exactly what happened when Donald Trump secretly deported over 200 immigrants, without a single…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM

Reinstate the experts America lost to Trump’s political purge

Donald Trump tried to gut our government by purging honest public servants. It’s time to fight back. Urge Congress to pass the REHIRE and PREP Acts now. John, Donald Trump didn’t just attack the press, the courts, or our elections. He launched a full-scale political purge of Ame…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM

790,000 children could lose the childcare they need

They want to gut Head Start a lifeline for families in Black, Brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities. John, Right now, Republicans in Congress and the White House are considering slashing, or even eliminating entirely, Head Start, a program that has helped working …
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM

The IRS just sold out undocumented taxpayers

The IRS just broke its promise to undocumented taxpayers by agreeing to share their data with ICE. John, The IRS just broke a decades-long promise. In a quiet, chilling agreement, it will now begin funneling tax information about undocumented immigrants directly to ICE. Milli…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM

Demand action: No more stock deals in the halls of power.

Marjorie Taylor Greene made up to $300K in trades right before a market swing, after Trump’s tariff reversal. Did she know? Demand Congress ban insider trading in its own ranks NOW. John, Trump tanked the stock market with a reckless tariff announcement, only to walk it back a…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM

Tell NIH and NSF: Stop cutting critical health research now

Incredibly, Trump’s Executive Orders wiped out billions of dollars in research for any grants containing the words “women” or “diversity.” The NIH and NSF must resist these cuts. John, Frankly, it’s unconscionable. Three of Trump’s Executive Orders issued in his first two days …
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM

Reject Trump’s military parade now!

Donald Trump is planning a massive, $100 million military parade in the capital for his 79th birthday. Talk about “waste, fraud, and abuse!” John, The same week Donald Trump warned Americans they may not be able to afford toys for their children’s Christmas this year, he also an…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM

Tell Congress: No more money for mass deportations!

While families lose food stamps and health care, ICE is set to get a 600% budget increase to expand detention centers John, Right now, Congress is drafting a federal budget that will funnel billions into ICE for an unprecedented expansion of mass deportation and private detentio…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s judicial takeover

The JUDGES Act is a MAGA-endorsed court-packing scheme designed to hand Trump 22 new lifetime judgeships John, The JUDGES Act is not a judicial reform, it’s a judicial coup. This MAGA-backed bill would create 22 new federal judgeships so Trump can handpick every single one. Tha…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM

Pass Senator Shaheen's bill prohibiting the companies of Special Government Employees, like Elon Musk, from Receiving Federal Contracts or Grant Payments now!

There are no checks on Elon Musk’s power to slash government agencies and hand the contracts over to his own companies. Senator Shaheen’s new bill would prevent this. John, Elon Musk isn’t just the richest man in the world -- he has recently become one of the most dangerous to …
  Everett Kelley & the DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM

Our union has been beating them in court, so now they want to get rid of our union.

John, My name is Everett Kelley, and I am the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees. I represent 820,000 federal and DC government workers – and we are being attacked by Donald Trump and Elon Musk in retaliation against AFGE members standing coura…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM

Fight for a Fair Economy, a People’s Government, and Rights for All

100 days in, and only the wealthy are winning in Trump’s America. Fight for the People’s Promise: a living wage, strong communities, and equal rights for all! John, Who’s winning in Trump’s America? It’s not the people -- and it’s certainly not Democracy. Donald Trump promised …
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM

End cannabis prohibition and invest in communities harmed

The war on drugs devastated Black and Brown communities. The Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act will fix generational wrongs John, For decades, the war on drugs has meant one thing for communities of color: criminalization, incarceration, and economic devastation.…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM

Tell the Smithsonian Board to reject Trump’s censorship

Trump’s new executive order threatens to gut the Smithsonian’s integrity, bully its museums into silence, and erase real U.S. history. John, Donald Trump just signed an executive order that targets one of America’s most treasured institutions, the Smithsonian. It’s called “Resto…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM

They’re coming for the USPS, stop them cold

Trump’s cronies want to shred the Post Office and sell the scraps. John, Trump doesn’t just want to privatize the USPS, he wants to gut it, dismantle it, and hand it over to the same billionaires who bankroll his campaigns. We’re talking about a full-blown corporate raid on…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM

Trump just gutted energy aid for millions

The Trump administration just took a sledgehammer to a life-saving energy program for low-income Americans. John, The Trump administration has axed the entire federal team managing LIHEAP the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. This program provides a lifeline to mill…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Trump’s war on reproductive health must be stopped

Trump’s plan means fewer cancer screenings, less access to birth control, and more people without care. John, Donald Trump is escalating his all-out assault on reproductive rights targeting both Planned Parenthood and the Title X family planning program. Title X is the nation’s…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM

Protect workers, defend democracy

Trump stripped thousands of federal workers of their bargaining rights. Now Congress has a chance to reverse it. John, Donald Trump’s latest executive order did what we’ve come to expect from him: slash rights, weaken the government, and wage war on the very people who keep th…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Trump’s plan would kill American manufacturing

Trump just called the CHIPS and Science Act “a horrible, horrible thing.” That’s not just a lie, it's a threat. John, Donald Trump just stood before Congress and told one of his biggest lies yet, calling the CHIPS and Science Act “a horrible, horrible thing.” Let’s be clear: tha…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM

Republicans want to make registering to vote harder than buying a gun

The SAVE Act is a coordinated attack on the right to vote. Add your name now to demand the Senate stop it cold. John, The so-called SAVE Act just passed the House. But don’t let the name fool you, this isn’t about saving anything, it’s about suppressing your voice, your vote, an…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM

Keep the Post Office public, independent, and strong

Trump’s billionaire cronies are back with a privatization scheme that puts your mail, jobs, and democracy at risk. It’s time for Congress to act. John, Donald Trump and his billionaire backers have resurrected a dangerous plan to dismantle and sell off the U.S. Postal Service, …
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM

Collective bargaining is under attack -- help us fight back

John, If Donald Trump gets his way, millions of federal workers won’t be serving the American people, they’ll be serving him. Under a new Executive Order, Trump laid the groundwork for a mass purge of civil servants. He wants to replace experienced, nonpartisan professionals …
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM

Stop the IRS from becoming ICE’s snitch

This new IRS-ICE data sharing deal is a betrayal of public trust and a weapon against immigrants. John, The IRS was never meant to be a deportation tool. Yet today, thanks to a dangerous new agreement between the Treasury and DHS, the IRS is poised to hand over sensitive taxpaye…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM

There’s no such thing as a safe Republican district

Democrats are flipping red seats and the GOP is on its heels. John, The Republican Party is on defense, even in places they once called safe. In Florida, Democrats surged by 15 points. In Pennsylvania, we flipped a GOP seat that hadn’t changed hands in a century. And in Wiscons…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM

Schumer is leading us off a cliff.

Schumer surrendered to Trump and Musk. Our democracy cannot afford this kind of leadership John, Chuck Schumer just gave Donald Trump and Elon Musk everything they wanted, without a fight. Instead of uniting Senate Democrats to block an extremist budget that rips apart governmen…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM

No president should have this much power over the economy

Trump’s tariffs wiped out trillions. Congress must act now to stop this kind of economic chaos from happening again John, Donald Trump used his unilateral tariff authority to send global markets into a tailspin. Trillions of dollars in value were wiped out. Retirement savings pl…
  Free Speech For People via DFA Advocacy Fund · [email protected]
April 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM

No Kings in America

Tell Congress to Impeach Trump. Again. John, Over 340,000 people have signed our petition calling on Congress to start impeachment proceedings against President Trump. We need to show that Americans across the country refuse to allow Trump and his allies to destroy our democracy…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM

Why is Gavin Newsom legitimizing Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon?

Gavin Newsom has been a powerful voice against Trumpism. But now he’s giving the far-right a platform on his podcast. John, California Governor Gavin Newsom has earned a reputation as one of the Democratic Party’s boldest fighters. He’s stood toe-to-toe with Trump’s cronies, call…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM

Tell Congress: Get Billionaire Money Out of Politics

Billionaire dollars are distorting every aspect of American politics. We must continue to demand real reform John, When billionaires buy elections, democracy dies. Democracy doesn’t die overnight -- it gets sold off, piece by piece, to the highest bidder. In the 2024 elections…
  Everett Kelley, AFGE for the DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM

We’ll see Trump in court

An important message from the American Federation of Government Employees John, In the dead of night, Donald Trump’s administration issued a disgraceful and retaliatory Executive Order declaring war on working people by denying our collective bargaining rights. This order was a…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM

TELL THE FEC: Investigate Elon Musk’s Election Bribery

Though he failed, Elon Musk’s attempts to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court election included illegal bribes that must be investigated by the FEC. John, Elon Musk’s latest political stunt wasn’t just an embarrassment for him -- it was a damning indictment of how unchecked mone…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM

No student should be arrested for free speech -- demand justice for Rumeysa Ozturk

A Tufts University student was arrested and forced into a van to be deported for having written an op-ed criticizing the university’s policies toward Gaza. This threatens all of our rights. John, On March 25, federal agents carried out a previously unthinkable assault on bas…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM

Cory Booker fought for 25 hours. Let’s fight with him.

Help show every Democrat that if they want grassroots dollars, they’d better show grassroots courage. John, When Senator Cory Booker took the floor, he didn’t just speak, he made history. Twenty-five hours straight. No food. No water. Just a Constitution in one hand and a nation…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
April 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM

Cory Booker didn’t cave. Schumer did.

Cory Booker just made history by delivering the longest Senate speech ever, over 25 hours condemning Trump’s attacks on our democracy. John, As you’ve probably heard by now, Cory Booker just shattered records… and excuses. In the longest Senate speech in U.S. history, Booker sta…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM

Religious leaders must confront Trump’s hate, not echo it

It’s time for faith leaders to tell the truth about immigrants and stop enabling a culture of cruelty. John, When Donald Trump calls immigrants “vermin” and claims they are “poisoning the blood of our country,” he’s not just spewing hate, he’s invoking the language of genocide. …
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM

Stop the deportations: Protect refugees from danger

The Trump administration has announced plans to deport more than half a million people granted legal status as refugees from violence. We must denounce this cruel policy. John, The Trump administration is once again targeting the most vulnerable -- people who have already fl…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM

Hold Trump’s security risks accountable now

Without even realizing it, the National Security Advisor invited a journalist to a Signal group chat discussing war plans. Every incompetent official involved should resign or be fired. John, Gross incompetence is no excuse: this was criminal recklessness. War plans, includin…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM

Trump’s foreign policy is a gift to Putin. We reject it

Trump doesn’t speak for all of us. Join the Americans standing with Ukraine. John, Donald Trump is moving fast to finish what Putin started. Within weeks of taking office, Trump paused all military aid to Ukraine, an unconscionable act in the face of Russia’s ongoing invasion. …
  Rashida Tlaib via the DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM

Sign to rein in the weapons industry’s influence over politics:

John, With U.S. weapons, the Israeli military has violated the temporary ceasefire in Gaza, killing over 400 people -- including over 170 children -- the first day they resumed intense bombing.1 Additionally, the Trump administration bombed Yemen, killing children and other civi…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM

Protesting Tesla is not terrorism

Trump is trying to criminalize dissent. Don’t let him brand peaceful protesters as terrorists. John, Let’s be crystal clear: Protesting Tesla is not terrorism. It’s democracy in action. But Donald Trump, in his unholy alliance with billionaire oligarch Elon Musk is threatening…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM

U.S.-made weapons are ending up in cartel hands

Trump has made it easier for firearms to flow into the hands of violent criminals. John, Each year, nearly half a million U.S.-made firearms are trafficked south into Mexico, fueling the drug trade, cartel warfare, and the very crisis that politicians claim to care about. The so…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM

It’s time: Tesla must fire Elon Musk

Elon Musk is torching Tesla’s mission and its stock value. Demand the Board fire him now. John, Elon Musk has completely abandoned Tesla’s clean energy mission to play fossil fuel footsoldier for Donald Trump. With Musk running the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency…
  Social Security Works and the DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM

The Greatest Threat to Social Security in Its 90-Year History

Yesterday's headline says it all: Social Security is facing its greatest threat in its 90-year history. Please see the urgent message from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, below and then rush a split donation to fund the fight to save Social Security now. J…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM

Demand Congress protect journalism from Trump’s dangerous takeover

The Trump regime is trying to strong-arm the press and public media into representing only pro-Trump views. This is profoundly autocratic and a threat to democracy. John, Trump and his allies are waging an all-out assault on the free press -- one of the pillars of democracy. H…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Congress must stop Musk’s attack on Social Security

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are dismantling Social Security, shutting down offices and slashing staff. John, Elon Musk has taken over Social Security, and the results are catastrophic. Offices are closing. Wait times for disability benefits are stretching past a year. Millions of…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM

Stop Elon Musk’s Billionaires’ Bill

This bill would have disastrous consequences for pension funds, institutional investors, 401Ks, and the millions of people who rely on investments for retirement security. John, Please see this urgent message from our friends at Americans for Financial Reform and then sign a…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM

Protect our energy choices and right to protest: Reject the ALEC-backed bill

Big Oil has teamed up with far-right mega-lobby ALEC to pass state bills that prohibit contracting with companies that refuse to work with Big Oil. Governors must veto these bills. John, Big Oil’s war on free speech is an attack on democracy. Big Oil isn’t just polluting our …
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
March 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM

Protect our National Parks from DOGE cuts

Elon Musk is slashing jobs, gutting park budgets, and endangering our public lands. John, Elon Musk and his sham Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are on a reckless mission to gut America’s national parks. More than 1,000 National Park Service employees have already …