Most of the news out there today continues to be about the successful nationwide Hands Off! Protests held on Saturday. If you missed my 50 states round up, you can still catch it here. There's also quite a bit of news about Wall Street folks and GOP legislators
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Dear Friends, Yesterday I attended a Hands Off! protest at Oakland City Hall with friends and family. The area in front of City Hall is called Frank Ogawa Plaza. Frank Ogawa was a civil rights leader and the first Japanese American on the Oakland City Council. The plaza is also
Wow. Saturday April 5 was the third nationwide protest and EVERY.SINGLE.STATE showed up and showed out (Here is my coverage of the first 50501 and second 50501). Thousands of people showed up in small towns and big cities, in the rain and wind or in the hot sun.
Happy Hands Off! Day. I'll be heading out to our local protest around lunch time and with over 1000 protests planned, I hope you'll be stepping out and stepping up too! Whether this is your first protest or your 50th, remember that this is just one
It's hard to read the nosedive of the stock markets as a good sign, but it is evidence that Trump's tariffs are widely unpopular in an industry that either supported him or thought he was bluffing. Investors lost more than $2 trillion in value. This will
Short one today but after a big win in Wisconsin and strong showings in Florida, I'm also happy to report a little feistiness on the part of Joe Rogan and Republicans in Congress. The grumbling is a sign of Trump's weakness; the more pushback he gets,
Happy Cory Booker Senate Floor Marathon Speech to all who celebrate. I have to admit, when I watched him passed Strom Thurmond's record, it got a little dusty in the TV room. It was not only a historic correction, since Thurmond was filibustering civil rights legislation, it was
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Welcome to all our new subscribers! If it wasn't clear from the subscription page, let me share a little about what we're doing here. For the first few weeks, it felt like no one was doing anything to push back against Trump. The media had declared
If the categories we cover were in competition with one another, the grassroots would be blowing the Democrats and Disloyal Opposition out of the water. The American people and our allies in other democracies have been escalating their protests and have broken through to the mainstream media with the Tesla
Another short one today because I am mostly (and blessedly) offline this week. Today's really bad news is that Trump is trying to cancel collective bargaining agreements that cover federal workers. Federal workers can't strike, so keep an eye on how the AFL-CIO responds. So
Short one today because life intervened. Send content! Or better yet, get out there and make good trouble! The topics are listed according to the type of action and actor as described in this post. "Democrats" are elected officials, government agencies, unions, and non-profits. "Grassroots"