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  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
June 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM

Defund Trump’s military circus in D.C.

Trump wants a $45 million military parade on his birthday. It’s time to shut it down. Demand Congress stop this taxpayer-funded spectacle. John, In a clear display of authoritarianism, Donald Trump wants to throw himself a birthday parade with tanks, missiles, and uniformed tr…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
June 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM

The GOP is targeting food banks, shelters, and legal aid

The House just passed a tax bill that threatens food banks, shelters, and health clinics. John, House Republicans just voted to strangle the nonprofits that people rely on most. Their new tax scheme doesn’t just favor the rich, it deliberately punishes charities that serve our…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
June 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM

Defend the Arctic Refuge and fight climate collapse

The Arctic Refuge protects the planet from global warming. Now we must protect it. John, The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a breathtaking wilderness. It’s one of the most critical climate stabilizers on Earth -- and it’s in peril. Spanning millions of acres of t…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM

Defend workers. Defend our airports. Stop Trump’s TSA attack.

Trump wants to kill the TSA union and hand airport security to private cronies. John, After 9/11, Americans demanded safer skies. We got the TSA, a unified, public system with national standards and dedicated professionals. But now, Trump and his MAGA cronies are trying to dism…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM

The FEC must reject Trump’s abuse of power

Trump can’t stand criticism from anyone as famous as he is. Now he wants to use the FEC to investigate artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Oprah, and Bono. John, Free speech is the foundation of our democracy, which no president can take away. Donald Trump…
  Everett Kelley & the DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM

My union needs your help

Donald Trump is trying to defund and abolish our union while we fight back. John, My name is Everett Kelley. I’m the President of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), and I need your help. President Donald Trump issued an executive order a couple of weeks ago…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM

Stop the pseudoscience: Reject Casey Means for Surgeon General

Trump has nominated an anti-vaccine social media influencer without a medical license for Surgeon General. The Senate must reject the nomination now. John, The Surgeon General is often called the “Nation’s Doctor” -- a title that implies a combination of rigorous training in the…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM

Reject the Big Beautiful Bill and its attacks on communities

Tell Congress to invest in communities, not deportations, private prisons, and weapons contractors. John, The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act is big, all right -- it’s over 1,000 pages -- but it’s anything but beautiful. It’s a sweeping, draconian budget that sells out w…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM

Recognize the Safety Bill of Rights or face the consequences

Amazon warehouses are among the most dangerous workplaces in America. Now, workers are demanding change, or they’re ready to strike. Stand with them. John, Amazon brags about two-day shipping and warehouse efficiency. But what they don’t want you to know? Their warehouses are m…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM

Free Speech means losing your degree at NYU

A student spoke out for Palestine. NYU is punishing him. We need your voice--now. John, At his own graduation, in front of his classmates, faculty, and family, Logan Rozos stood up and told the truth that a genocide is unfolding in Gaza, and that the U.S. is bankrolling it. Fo…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM

The GOP Congress’ attempt to erode judicial checks and balances

The GOP is pushing the so-called “No Rogue Rulings Act” in an attempt to strip judges of their ability to provide Constitutional checks and balances to the executive branch John, The No Rogue Rulings Act isn’t about stopping “rogue rulings.” It’s about removing all the checks …
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM

Oppose Trump’s plan to hijack the federal workforce

Trump’s plot to purge our government of nonpartisan professionals and install MAGA cronies must be stopped. John, Donald Trump is once again trying to dismantle our democracy by targeting the federal civil service. His goal is to purge experienced public servants and replace t…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM

One in three federal workers is a veteran

Protect earned benefits. Defend federal jobs. Preserve democracy. John, The Trump administration and Congress are floating cuts that would gut veterans’ healthcare, pension programs, and federal job protections. One in three federal employees is a veteran. If Washington axes the…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM

Stop treating workers like disposable machines

Amazon workers are demanding life-saving protections. John, Every day, Amazon workers are risking their bodies to deliver packages to your door. And every day, Amazon’s corporate executives treat those injuries as nothing more than collateral damage, a "cost of doing business." …
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Tell Congress: Tax the Rich!

You know the tax system is skewed when even 70% of Republicans support raising taxes on the rich. It’s time to fix this, not give huge tax cuts to the top 1%. John, Trump’s billionaire tax cuts aren’t just unfair, they’re a threat to democracy. Donald Trump and his Republican a…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM

Protect Medicaid and SNAP

Republicans are rushing to lock in $5.5 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations paid for by gutting healthcare and food assistance for millions. John, Republicans are rushing to pass another massive tax giveaway for the wealthiest Americans, to the tun…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM

Don’t let Congress rip health care away from 80 million Americans.

Medicaid saves lives. The GOP wants to gut it by $880 billion and strip coverage from millions. Fight back now. John, Republicans in Congress are pushing a radical budget plan that would slash $880 billion from Medicaid over the next decade. It’s a calculated attack on child…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM

The Senate can stop Trump’s crypto scam

The Senate will vote again, as soon as Monday, on whether to fast-track a dangerous crypto bill backed by Trump and Musk. John, This is all hands on deck. We can stop Trump’s crypto scam, if Democrats stand strong and filibuster the GENIUS Act. Trump’s corruption is becoming so…
  DFA AF Team · [email protected]
May 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM

Don’t let Trump turn DC into a war zone

This is about more than tanks and fighter jets, it’s about stopping a dictator’s fantasy dead in its tracks John, Donald Trump is planning a military spectacle straight out of a dictator’s playbook, a $100 MILLION parade to glorify himself while veterans sleep on the streets a…
  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…