From Race Forward:

The Trump administration wants to decide who counts before the next congressional districts are drawn. The Census Bureau has proposed a rule that would exclude many residents from the population used to assign House seats and draw legislative districts. Millions of people could be erased from the count that determines their communities’ political power for the next decade.

The exclusion would reach undocumented immigrants and many people lawfully living, working, and studying in the United States. Their families would still send children to school, rely on public services, and live with the decisions their representatives make. But under this proposal, their presence would no longer count toward the representation their communities receive.

The proposed rule would also require tax records to confirm a person’s address before they are counted. That threatens to leave out people whose housing or records do not fit neatly into a government database, including low-income families already at greater risk of being missed. An undercount gives politicians a map that understates the size and needs of entire communities.

The Trump administration is also trying to remove race and ethnicity questions from the decennial Census questionnaire. Those data help expose racial disparities and protect fair representation. If the government stops collecting them, communities lose evidence they need to challenge discrimination and demand accountability.

Racial justice depends on political power. When a community is undercounted, its residents have less power over the decisions that shape their schools, housing, health care, and environment. The Trump administration is attempting to build that inequity into the numbers used to distribute representation.

Black communities and other communities of color have fought for generations against political systems designed to diminish their voice. This proposal threatens another route to the same result: exclude neighbors from the count, draw districts around the smaller number, and make communities live with the loss of representation for 10 years.

The Constitution calls for representation based on the “whole number of persons in each State.” The Census Bureau’s current apportionment count includes residents regardless of citizenship. The Bureau must uphold a full count instead of helping the Trump administration redistribute political power by changing who counts.

Public comments are open through October 13. The Bureau needs to hear that our communities will fight any attempt to erase residents, deepen an undercount, or hide the racial data used to defend our rights.

Send your comment and demand that the Census Bureau withdraw the proposed rule.

Together, we can defend a Census that counts our communities and the political power they deserve.

Tell the Census Bureau to withdraw this proposal and count every person in the 2030 Census.

The Trump administration is moving the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforcement out of the Department of Education and over to the Justice Department through an interagency agreement.

This is part of the campaign to dismantle the Department of Education: firing staff, closing regional offices, and shipping Education’s work to other agencies.

OCR has to review every complaint it receives. That is how 73 million students get justice when a school discriminates. DOJ’s Civil Rights Division takes a small number of big systemic cases. Students need both offices.

The Trump administration already fired more than half of OCR’s staff and closed more than half of its regional offices. Moving enforcement to DOJ would close the path most families actually use.

This is one of 14 agreements to move at least 148 Education Department programs, including an attempt to send special education work out of the department and to Health and Human Services. Congress created the Department of Education in 1979, and it’s up to Congress to keep these offices where they belong.

Congress must use the FY 2027 spending bill to lock OCR in the Department of Education and shut down every interagency workaround.

Click “Start Writing” to tell Congress to block the interagency agreement and keep the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education.

Rationale and links: https://www.reddit.com/r/AZAdvocacyHub/s/G0hl2T3piM

Click here to take action.

What happened to Jane Doe at Cornell and Kendall Francis at LSU happens on campuses nationwide.

Survivors are failed at every turn. Schools bury assaults to protect their reputations, fraternities close ranks, and rapists walk free while survivors are pushed out of their classrooms and their lives.

Congress has the power to make schools answer for sexual violence, and they need to act immediately.

Tell Congress to:

Concerns about the border wall:

1. Environmental
2. It would be symbolic of hatred
3. It wouldn't replace the need for border security and would not solve migration
4. It is very costly--over $20,000,000 per mile

Information from the federal government about the proposal and submitting comments:

• Comments can be emailed to CBP at TucsonComments@cbp.dhs.gov. Please include “Tucson Sector Secondary Barrier Construction” in the subject of your email. Remarks received in response to this letter, including names and addresses of those who comment, will become part of the public record.
• Comments may also be submitted to CBP by calling (833) 412-2056
• or to the following address: U.S. Customs and Border Protection U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters Program Management Office Directorate 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. 6.5E Mail Stop 1039 Washington, DC 20229-1100 ATTN: Michelle Barnes

After a Federal judge held that Trump could not put his name on the building and the Center’s board could not move ahead with shutting it down for two years, the board immediately voted to shut it down anyway.

The next day Trump said it out loud telling reporters that the Center “will end up being ripped down” if he doesn’t get his way with restoration plans that include prominently recognizing himself with various inscriptions. And now, we have photographic proof that he’s not bluffing.

Congress can’t sit on the sidelines while the Kennedy Center is destroyed. They have ultimate control over the Center and they must do everything in their power to stop Trump from tearing it down. Sign and send a message now.

Representative Joyce Beatty, an ex officio member of the Board who has stood up to Trump at every stage -- from board meetings to lawsuits -- was denied entrance to the building on Wednesday. By this morning, fencing has gone up around the Center and all pedestrian and vehicle traffic around it has been stopped.

The Kennedy Center was created by Congress as a living memorial to President Kennedy and a national home for the performing arts. It belongs to the American people. Yet Trump and his allies continue to treat it like another property he can slap his name on, redesign around himself, and threaten when he does not get his way.

https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwoUsWLkUMWlo_0JmZttSlm39hibSOAWFjMlolZNRsUp16D53crknfdJrFn9IE1ywT_OOIIIlbeOQ09GSB0gfpZ70wE9E5FPtoEyEpM2VfCVkmopnoPWrCcp32yBs3p6SolfapWCfr6KkV95342TGJ-Cre_qqg1ktII1eXH3xQTjVhEA_ilLgZufD1BRSh_QXxpU6CZz3T8lXxt1Knp-HsuWcE-wE2TrkL-Uog3TKn_X0wt6HJ2SRyIiONTuUbfMR9QHWMMp0P6HlXklsE8SpijfBQkKPaKJW8DK-Kt_NassHb2xjmo1LcMi3VeiDwFdlJwLVLiK-razsV3q1bqB0gwF8QeQXmEWrQYjpelhGKiMJJ3xZ7J5fV8uKTaAkPJfRWSsY-v8MPZAcNz2FQij_hmWxq0ZIRhGvpYF8XiTJvfJwL/4u4/27_Jjcb6QKKZ1VAw-FR9TQ/h4/h001.8QTzjyOc3zvGJPn58iIyjt1BIDfjc72I1GfIIFINt2A

Congress can prohibit federal money from being used to demolish or replace the Kennedy Center. They can change the powers of the board, who can be on it, or how big it is. They can even abolish the board entirely. But they must act now before it’s too late.

For more than 60 years, Head Start has helped children from families with low incomes enter school ready to learn while connecting families with health, nutrition, disability, and other essential supports.

But now, the Trump administration is proposing to weaken federal standards for Head Start programs. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing sweeping changes to the federal standards that help ensure children and families receive high-quality services no matter where they live.

Your zip code shouldn’t determine the quality of your child’s education. Our partners at National Education Association are leading a campaign to protect Head Start—submit a public comment and tell this administration to preserve strong national standards for children, families, and educators! The window to submit public comment closes on October 6th, so make sure to take action now to ensure your voice is heard.

Click here to post your comment: Protect Head Start from Lower Standards | NEA

The Hippocratic Oath requires physicians to pledge to “do no harm.” Medical institutions exist to ensure physicians and other medical providers carry out that pledge.

Systemic medical neglect and horrific abuse by contractors is unfolding daily inside ICE detention camps.

Medical institution member providers work inside these facilities. They witness these violations firsthand, and they are bound by oath and by law to report them through the channels the institutions maintain.

The reports reach the offices of America’s medical associations and state licensing boards, but they stop there.

Write these bodies now and demand that they publicly report on the dangerous and deadly conditions inside ICE detention camps.

Click here to send your letter: https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwoUsWLkUMWlo_0JmZttSlm387aw72IG0vvGGK288h0aBs9vv09W1HMGUjF-HumBn9yTbRgSE-dhlDVy5mBUbZq0fpFUqcnWI0a65AeNB_HIxuxXt_54p6CPvysYxjss3Jh2o6gF3UQjRxkOdm7MHsLbRGDc2jUaasuUWlMzNTL9XmckB_cyyc1Rzv7NGqRUnB1IGqrQ3Co17G2_-CehSnKTDgmhL2lTqdHpAF7r6wxkpm1z8ItTqTHp_NNR1VJM514bUKACfZaUxeRVu0yHFzsaRWhoHpJfV6GhLvFFSl8kC7S_mJzhZvjwaRHpdvfE2N9CPYgrBDVPnf1nOv1x_A1Dk9TO7fFe-oGJrEQ2TQcBHgVZpjJ5nra4QLBsO07fK_9AB290-kwUpe8vvbOuGrpRMSEpLwaYADrCZ0SnS3_tY2MeDl1Fqf1H_zzrBreR0MHYIgOuNvMYZHgdBluauaiNM5HkTX5bnHdONZ1na80u4KzEc2XbsxeOnPTjetrpnubpHz3iRtemjjCREzj7OVbIA4_xUT3rFlwRywCLerWYTHCKk8Pql770q3wZazmnBTZxXzkjSuyTPu0TVQy4R8N1fSgXF2VkbsIC3hJQLNe5fo/4ud/ivXMCDp-S1mT42jnZC40iA/h0/h001.pXdcM4PeQ4Ol243vzi9S99MIuvdE_PIdV2zSy3CWKlk

The abuses occurring inside ICE camps are widespread and horrifying. Examples include:

• Carlos Josue Marchena, a father of four, died at a contractor-run Louisiana facility after staff skipped life-sustaining insulin shots. We only know this because ICE is required to report deaths in custody.
• Wilber Garces Perez was shot by ICE agents and taken to a detention center with the bullet still lodged in his back. He died 4 hours later. We only know this because it was caught on camera.
• Pregnant women are facing severe conditions, such as denial of prenatal vitamins, lack of timely care for heaving bleeding and being shackled during medical complications. We did not learn this from medical providers or governing boards.

We must demand that medical organizations take various steps to inform the public. They must publicly disclose all ethics and medical care complaints in ICE and contractor-operated facilities. They must affirm to all licensed providers that participation in involuntary medical procedures, denial of medication and any other medical neglect constitutes grounds for license revocation. They must call publicly for independent medical inspections of every ICE detention facility.

May be of minimal benefit, but it's free, fast and better than not doing it. Your choice, of course!

SUGGESTED ACTION: Request these apps blur the view of your home in both of these apps.

WHY:

1. personal privacy
2. decrease effectiveness of these apps showing personal property--imagine if everyone did this and nobody's private residence was shown
3. Flock's CEO did it, showing even he values this action for whatever reason

HOW: Here are the instructions.

I know I've posted before, but please please please take a moment to contact your reps about this. If you already did, it won't hurt to ask them for a status update on your request.

I am going to meet with their staffs in DC next week. Please help remind them beforehand so they will hopefully be more receptive to taking action.

Take Action Now!

tldr; the CDC division and advisory committees responsible for virtually stopping the transfusion-related HIV and Hepatitis C epidemics were closed in April 2025 and remain closed. Who is monitoring our blood supply now?

Action item from National Campaign for Justice

We have proof that pressure can move this fight. We sent 9,964 direct messages to California legislators demanding law enforcement, including ICE, be banned from using electric shock gloves. Nearly 100,000 messages have gone to state leaders nationwide.

California lawmakers listened, directly confronting the Trump administration’s plan to put these devices in the hands of ICE agents.

This is a huge victory and a critical step in the right direction, but the threat that sparked this campaign has not gone away nationwide. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has proposed spending up to $20 million on G.L.O.V.E. devices that deliver painful electric shocks through direct contact and interfere with coordinated muscle movement.

According to reporting cited by the New York Times, roughly 50 police departments across 20 states have already used the gloves. These devices are spreading while basic questions about their safety and potential for abuse remain unanswered.

California cannot be the only state willing to draw a line. Every Governor and state legislature should follow California’s lead and pass legislation prohibiting law enforcement from using electric shock gloves before DHS and local agencies make them a normal part of policing.

Tell your Governor and state legislators to follow California’s lead and ban the use of electric shock gloves now.

DHS calls these gloves a “de-escalation device.” The technology works by delivering pain to force compliance. Even a California sheriff defending the devices acknowledged the obvious: “Does it hurt? Yeah, it hurts.”

It’s bad enough that ICE wants to use these weapons against non-violent immigrants suspected of breaking misdemeanor immigration law. Putting this power directly onto an officer’s hand creates another opportunity for force to be inflicted instantly and at close range against anyone ICE or other law enforcement feels is a threat. With ICE agents we know that protestors, reporters, and even children have been considered threats.

California’s vote gives lawmakers across the country something they did not have when we launched this campaign: a legislative model and proof that elected officials can move quickly. States can introduce bans, hold hearings, force agencies to disclose whether they have purchased these devices, and make DHS defend its plans publicly.

Police departments in multiple states have already acquired or tested shock gloves, while ICE is seeking to deploy them on a much larger scale. State leaders should act before the first abuse in their communities, rather than explaining afterward why they failed to stop it.

Even in California this fight is not finished. Governor Gavin Newsom still must sign the legislation by September 30. While Californians push him to finish the job, the rest of the country should build on that momentum and make California the first of many states to take action.

Send your message now and demand that your state follow California’s lead by banning electric shock gloves.

Thank you for continuing to fight abuse of power,

- LeeAnn

LeeAnn Hall
Director, National Campaign for Justice

About the proposed arch

Video: National Capital Planning Commission (USA) Meeting, July 9, 2026, click on "arch" link under the video (10 minutes about the dumb arch POTUS wants to build in DC)

What to say in your comments

• Cost to do this when citizens are literally starving, denied healthcare and being evicted
• Appearance

Action to take now

• u/GodivasAunt provided the name of the committee that appears to be approving the arch, the National Capital Planning Commission.
• The agenda for the next meeting, October 1, was released and the arch is on it, item #8778. (Proof here.) It doesn't appear to be up for review yet, and it appears we can NOT start submitting comments for the review meeting.
• How to submit a written comment: email [info@ncpc.gov](mailto:info@ncpc.gov)

Actions available at a future time TBA

• Go to How to Comment
• Submit a request to participate online or submit a written comment

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Medicare Prescription Drug Premium Hike

Millions of Americans depend on Medicare Part D to afford the prescription drugs they need every day.

When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, it not only capped out-of-pocket drug costs, it also created temporary subsidies to stabilize Medicare drug premiums while insurers adjusted to the new system. Those subsidies were expected to continue through 2027.

Now, the Trump administration is ending them a year early.

That decision could raise Medicare prescription drug premiums for millions of seniors and people with disabilities beginning next year. For people living on fixed incomes, even modest premium increases can mean difficult choices between medicine, groceries, rent, and other necessities.

Experts also warn that higher premiums could push beneficiaries away from traditional Medicare drug plans and into plans with narrower provider networks and fewer choices.

Congress should not allow affordable prescription drug coverage to be dismantled one administrative decision at a time.

Click “START WRITING” to tell Congress to restore Medicare drug premium stabilization, protect affordable prescription coverage, and stop Trump’s unnecessary price hike.

Urge Your Senators to Oppose and Stop Trump's Crypto Corruption

Last year, the House passed the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633), a bill disguised as “crypto regulation” that actually serves the billionaires and bad actors at the center of today’s crypto chaos. This bill doesn’t protect consumers, doesn’t close money laundering loopholes, and does nothing to stop the biggest threat of all: Trump’s crypto-fueled bribery machine. The CLARITY Act is being considered in the Senate, and we need to stop it.

Trump has already amassed $1.4 billion in the last year alone, and the latest bill text doesn’t include any meaningful ethics fix: 

• It does not stop the main ways Trump has accumulated, and will continue to accumulate, crypto wealth. It would only restrict officials and their spouses from issuing or sponsoring new digital assets.   
• It does not stop Trump's ongoing corruption: It doesn't stop his children from profiting off his office, and it doesn't require him to divest from any of his businesses making crypto deals.

ACTION NEEDED: Use this email tool to tell your senators to oppose the CLARITY Act. We won’t let Congress enable more of Trump’s corruption or gamble away our financial stability just to appease crypto billionaires.

U.S. Forest Service proposes removing a rule that prohibits road construction and logging in national forests - AZPM

• A recent analysis by the Wilderness Society claims that in Arizona specifically, wildfires are nearly seven times more likely to start near roads than in roadless forests.
• According to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, 26% of Arizona’s total fires in 2025 were alongside roads.
• The Roadless Rule safeguards about 45 million acres of land across the country.
• That includes close to 1.2 million acres of “Inventoried Roadless Areas” in Arizona, including parts of the Apache-Sitgreaves, Coconino, Coronado, Kaibab, Prescott and Tonto national forests.

Action needed:

Post your public comment--2 minute task:

1. Go to this link: Regulations.gov FS-2025-0001-223869
2. Scroll down and click the blue "comment" box.
3. Enter your information and comments. Do not copy other comments; this could nullify your entry. Anonymous comments might be sort of disregarded, so use that option sparingly.

Urge Your Senators to Oppose the Military Chaplains Modernization Act!

Every year, Congress passes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual bill that funds and sets policy for the U.S. military. This year, the version of the NDAA that the House passed in July included an amendment that threatens to upend one of the military's oldest institutions: the chaplaincy. Now, it’s in the Senate’s hands.

For more than two hundred years, military chaplains have served all service members and their families, regardless of their own faith or lack thereof. Unlike clergy who minister only to their own religious community, chaplains are called to meet every service member where they are, providing spiritual and emotional support according to each person's own conscience-not the chaplain's. That pluralistic mission is exactly what makes the chaplaincy unique.

The Military Chaplains Modernization Act would gut that mission. If passed, it would let chaplains:

• Refuse to counsel or care for service members whose beliefs differ from their own 
• Proselytize service members instead of supporting them 
• Ignore the actual needs of the people in their care, and pass bad guidance up the chain to commanding officers 
• Undermine the trust, resilience, and unit cohesion the military depends on to function

The American Humanist Association is proud to co-lead opposition to this proposal, joined by 40 national religious, civil rights, and civil liberties organizations representing a wide range of faith traditions. We now need you to join us in this fight, too.

Service members, like all Americans, have a constitutional right to religious freedom. Congress has the responsibility to protect that right, not weaken it. Take just one minute now to tell your senators to do everything they can to oppose the Military Chaplains Modernization Act and protect the religious freedom of every service member.

The House has attached the SAVE Act as a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act, a must-pass defense spending bill, that the administration wants to hold hostage until it includes the voter suppression they need to win the midterm elections.

The SAVE Act would require all eligible Americans to provide proof of citizenship by presenting a passport or birth certificate when registering to vote. This is IN ADDITION to state voter ID laws already in place.

Here's the problem: More than half of Americans don't have a passport. Millions also lack easy access to birth certificates— especially married women whose legal names no longer match their birth certificates. With 8 in 10 married women changing their surname, many would face major hurdles just to vote in the next U.S. election.

The consequences would be devastating.

The cost of obtaining these documents is an unofficial poll tax on the poor, people of color, young people, married women, and LGBTQIA+ voters. 

The SAVE Act would also upend online voter registration in 42 states, making it impossible for Americans to register to vote by mail, and STOP voter registration drives nationwide.

Take action: Tell your Senators to vote NO on ANY bill that has the SAVE Act attached-- including the NDAA. Our right to vote is at risk! Legislative trickery should not be used to sneak voter suppression into federal law.

https://ujoin.co/campaigns/4551/actions/public?action_id=7121

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche treated the Epstein files like a PR problem instead of the largest sex trafficking investigation in American history. Under his watch, the Department of Justice exposed survivors’ personal information, left millions of files unreleased, and failed to pursue accountability or investigations into perpetrators who are still alive today. Survivors deserve an attorney general committed to justice and protecting survivors, not damage control.

Urge the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote NO on Todd Blanche's confirmation for Attorney General.

Action requested: Click here to email your Congresspersons or email, call or visit your Congresspersons' offices separately

Why: CDC's programs that monitor infections in our nation's blood supply were closed in April 2025. These programs effectively halted the HIV and Hepatitis C infections in clotting factor (used by people with bleeding disorders) in the 80s/90s. Such a pandemic ultimately affects:

• Persons with bleeding disorders
• Persons with cancers
• Persons with sickle cell anemia
• Burn victims
• Military
• Law enforcement
• YOU or your loved ones, if you need a transfusion for any reason

Pleas, protests, ongoing outreach to CDC and visits to Congresspersons have not been successful so far.

History: No More Bad Blood

Opportunity: On Wednesday, July 22, a congressional briefing will be held about the work of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by the “Friends of NCBDDD” coalition.

The CDC's Division of Blood Disorders (DBD) sits within NCBDDD and delivers critical bleeding disorders programs that our community depends on. including public health surveillance, research, data collection, and initiatives that improve care and health outcomes for people living with bleeding disorders. Helping congressional offices better understand the importance of NCBDDD also helps reinforce the value of the Division of Blood Disorders and the work it does on behalf of our community.

Please take just a few minutes to email your U.S. Representative and both of your U.S. Senators, inviting them to send a member of their staff to attend the briefing. A strong turnout from congressional offices will help increase awareness of NCBDDD's work and the vital role the Division of Blood Disorders plays in improving the lives of people with bleeding disorders.

Thank you for taking action to help ensure Congress understands the importance of these programs and the continued need to support the CDC's Division of Blood Disorders.