When a leader presides over preventable deaths and then tries to hide the truth, families don’t get answers, evidence disappears, those responsible keep their jobs, and the system stays deadly. Impeachment forces hearings, demands sworn testimony, and exposes truths powerful people want to keep buried. This is why Congress must hold Kristi Noem accountable for her agents’ brazen violence against immigrants and citizens alike.

The millions of Americans protesting daily across the country against Trump’s Gestapo’s occupation of our cities, with its accompanying brutality and indiscriminate violence against residents, demand that Congress, rather than silently allowing these abuses to continue, hear their pleas to end this war on their constituents by putting MAGA on notice they’ll only approve the budget if all additional funding for detention beds and ICE enforcement is removed and meaningful reforms to end militarized police practices added. 

As militarized, masked raids on civilian neighborhoods expand, civilian casualties are increasing without accountability. ICE agents are not de-escalating situations. Instead, they’re increasing bloodshed through reckless, cruel, masked paramilitary fear-stoking. Intimidation is not a tactic; it is the whole point.”  Renee Good was neither the beginning nor the end of this violence. Congress must intervene.

How can the public trust leaders who use information at their disposal for personal gain rather than for the public good? Congress can no longer dodge this question. Members either stand with the American people or with a broken status quo that benefits their pocketbooks. It’s time to force a debate on whether banning stock trading should be limited to Congress or apply more broadly. 

When Members of Congress work on our behalf, they deserve our thanks, even if unsuccessful. So, when calling to wish them a joyous holiday season, please also thank those voting to end Trump’s unconstitutional deadly war against Venezuela, against criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors, and against the bloated national Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that gave Trump funds to continue his unconstitutional activities here and abroad, calling out at the same time votes against their constituents’ interests.

Under Trump, ICE has become a tyrannical white supremacist agency of extremists who operate with impunity, violate human rights, target immigrants, and tear families apart. Their depravities are unconstitutional and extreme. Abolishing ICE is no radical proposition; it is imperative.  

For the last three months, as part of the Trump administration’s unauthorized bombing campaign in the Caribbean and Pacific, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered, and the military has carried out, the intentional killing of at least 87 unarmed people in tiny boats who posed no immediate threat to our country Hegseth has also been found to have put American troops at risk by his reckless handling of classified information.  For these egregious crimes, unless he immediately resigns, he must be impeached.

On November 26, a vetted Afghan asylee, who’d worked with CIA forces in Afghanistan for a decade, shot two National Guard members deployed in D.C. in violation of a court order. In response, Trump immediately halted all asylum decisions, suspended all Afghan immigration requests, and paused migration from all Third World countries—turning this isolated incident into a national crisis that could only be cured by “remigration,” a Nazi-era term long used by white nationalists as a euphemism for ethnic cleansing. 

Trump’s calls for the execution of Members of Congress whose only crime was reminding service members that military law requires them to follow legal, but not illegal, orders are reprehensible and require the immediate commencement of impeachment proceedings. The members Trump wants punished are, instead, providing an important service and deserve our thanks.

Trump is declining mentally. He sleeps through meetings, can’t remember Hakeem Jeffries’ name, and claims to have stopped non-existent conflicts between “Cambodia and Armenia” (4,000 miles apart), “Azerbaijan and Albania” (meaning Armenia), and “Pakistan and Iran” (meaning India). Where is the legacy media in all this? Does media consolidation in the hands of a few billionaires undermine a democracy whose government might vote to tax billionaires? 

The American people deserve leaders who can deliver results and are willing to stand up to Trump’s bullying, not leaders, like Schumer and Durbin who, because they fold instead, must be replaced. Democrats must stop rewarding bad-faith tactics with political victories, since every time we give in, it teaches them that cruelty works. Please hold firm—protecting healthcare, defending workers, and refusing to reopen the government on a foundation of lies.