Last Friday, FISA Section 702 expired over leadership’s refusal to add significant protections against unfettered spying on Americans and concerns the newly appointed Bill Pulte would weaponize available information against Trump’s enemies as he’d done in his previous position. On Thursday, Trump nominated Jay Clayton, a less flamboyant but equally dangerous hatchet man, trying to jump start both Clayton’s quick confirmation and Section 702’s renewal. Our MoCs cannot fall for this trap. They must stand strong, opposing both the unqualified Clayton and Section 702’s reauthorization without significant reforms.

To weaponize national intelligence, Trump just appointed Bill Pulte, his ludicrously unqualified and massively dangerous political attack dog, Acting Director of National Intelligence. Congress must refuse to even consider reauthorizing FISA Section 702, one of our most objectionable and widely abused surveillance policies, which Trump badly wants, until Pulte’s removed and the statute is amended to protect Americans from warrantless surveillance by eliminating “backdoor searches” and the “data broker loophole.” 

Oppose the persecution of our own citizens and organizations called for under Trump’s Executive Order NSPM-7. Tell Congress to reject all funding for the Joint Mission Center and the historic crackdown on free speech and the right to protest it represents. Dissent, the cornerstone of democracy, is patriotic.

While Americans skip doctors’ appointments, cut back on groceries, and struggle to pay for gas, Donald Trump, our most corrupt president, has been colluding with his appointed DOJ, Treasury, and IRS leaders both to undeservedly enrich his already unjustly pardoned J6 insurrectionists and other MAGA lackeys with stolen taxpayer dollars and to protect his family and their businesses from the legal obligation faced by all other Americans to annually pay their taxes. Congress must immediately stop this assault on our Constitution, our Treasury, and the rule of law.

At the same time families are getting crushed by the price of groceries, gas, housing, and healthcare, Trump and his MAGA lackeys are preparing to spend their taxpayer dollars to separate families, warehouse human being, militarize our neighborhoods, and fund Trump’s gilded palace, rather than lowering costs for working families. Americans don’t want or need this cruel destruction of families and communities or Trump’s vanity ballroom. Our Members of Congress must prevent these obscene uses of taxpayer funds.

Costs associated with AI-driven large scale data centers—electrical, water, and land use; diminished home values; noise and air pollution, and more—are creating massive problems for communities in which they seek to locate, leading to organized local resistance from both sides of the aisle. We are calling for federal and state regulation now.

Last week’s Callais decision marks the end of America’s experiment with multiracial democracy, dragging the U.S. back to the Jim Crow era. Because the 6 racist, anti-democracy, ultra-conservatives in the SCOTUS majority regularly misconstrue both the Constitution and Congressional intent, Supreme Court reform must be part of democracy reform—which needs to begin immediately.

Big Oil companies have knowingly fueled catastrophic climate damages for decades, while lying about the dangers to protect their profits. Now, as communities are taking action to make polluters pay, Big Oil’s MAGA lackeys want to completely prevent any liability. Since the start of the Iran war, their profits have risen dramatically, while we’re all stuck paying higher gas prices. Our MoCs must oppose blanket immunity in whatever legislation it might appear and push instead to recoup Big Oil’s unjustified windfall profits.

Last September, Donald Trump signed a sweeping and unconstitutional executive order called NSPM-7, for which he is now demanding Congress appropriate a whopping $166 million increase to his counterterrorism budget. The order directs federal law enforcement to proactively investigate and arrest progressive activists and organizations as likely "domestic terrorists.” As such, it threatens human rights, civil liberties, freedom of speech, and democracy-building. 

Our Constitution provides two ways to remove a president who poses a clear and present danger to the country—one by impeachment and the other through invocation of the 25^th Amendment by the Vice-President and a Cabinet majority. While both are long shots, Congress cannot continue to ignore Trump’s multitude of high crimes and misdemeanors or his cognitive decline and bizarre, unhinged behavior. Instead, our Members of Congress must begin the process of removing him from office before it’s too late.