At last Friday’s meeting in Alaska, Trump revealed himself as Putin’s fawning supplicant, rolling out the red carpet for this war criminal. On Monday, Zelensky, accompanied by the leaders of the EU, NATO, Germany, France, Britain, and Italy, tried, largely unsuccessfully, to get Trump to change his perspective.

Toward this end, our MoCs must immediately begin pressuring the Trump administration to: (1) support Ukraine with a ceasefire agreement that maintains Ukraine’s control over its territory, (2) continue to provide the necessary military and diplomatic assistance required to ensure Ukraine’s independence, and (3) respect Ukraine’s input and not bow to Putin’s agenda in any peace deal it brokers. 

August 6 is the Voting Rights Act (VRA)’s 60^th anniversary.  Despite its popularity, the Roberts Court has whittled away its protections. The result: a torrent of voter suppression schemes, systematically disenfranchising tens of thousands of American voters. And Trump’s baseless voter fraud claims, attempts to tighten voting restrictions, and requests for GOP-controlled states to engage in mid-decade gerrymandering have made things even worse.

 On July 29, just 8 days before the VRA’s anniversary, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was officially reintroduced in both chambers. Let’s thank our MoCs for their strong support for voting rights and our Senators for their press conference. But they cannot stop here. Instead, they must use this anniversary to get as much publicity as possible, while simultaneously exposing Trump and his MAGA allies for the authoritarians they are—working to destroy rather than strengthen our democracy.

With little resistance, Trump’s forcing America down a cruel, corrupt, and authoritarian path—assisted by SCOTUS’ MAGA majority anointing him king and MAGA Congresspeople refusing to constrain him.

Senate Democrats have only recently awoken from their apathy and started fighting back. Let’s thank our Senators for their efforts, while reminding them to remain strong, united, and committed to using all available weapons to (1) slow down Trump’s cruel and inhumane authoritarian agenda and (2) make clear to the American public how serious and destructive it really is.

Trump corrupted SCOTUS, filled his administration with sycophants, and neutered Congress. Now he’s trying to appoint judges like Emil Bove—loyal not to the Constitution and the rule of law but only to him—who should be disbarred, not elevated to a lifetime Court of Appeals appointment as early as July 29.

As your constituent, I need you to do everything possible to keep Emil Bove off the bench. After thanking your Democratic colleagues and GOP Senators Collins and Murkowski for standing firm for the rule of law, demand the proceedings be paused to hear from the whistleblowers and delay the vote until angry constituents convince at least two additional GOP Senators to honor their oath by voting “no.” 

Why is Trump refusing to release the Epstein Files he promised the MAGA base he’d do if elected? Because they contain unflattering references about him or worse which he’s desperate to keep secret.

Don’t be fooled by Trump’s desperate attempt to lay the blame elsewhere---having A-G Bondi seek confidential grand jury testimony, which, even if released, wouldn’t contain information about the powerful people enabling Epstein’s crimes. What does contain this information is the FBI’s 100,000-document file the DOJ ordered 1,000 FBI employees to comb through and flag every mention of Trump.

By signing the circulation discharge petition our MoCs would be demanding accountability for everyone who helped Epstein, covered for him, or looked the other way. The file’s release will also help Sen. Wyden better track Epstein’s vast sex-trafficking network.

The $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement in the MAGA Murder Bill funds the two major components of Trump’s fascist government—an American Gestapo filled with loyal goons, and the concentration camps spread across the country to which his enemies will be sent to be mistreated and tortured.

 Members of Congress, state officials, civic groups, and media outlets must expose and amplify what’s going on in these camps and push back against this Nazi-like behavior. Congress must also investigate and expose the “play-to-pay” corruption of private prison companies American taxpayers are financing and get these concentration camps closed.

On July 4th, catastrophic flooding caused central Texas’ Guadalupe River to rise 26+ feet in just 45 minutes, sweeping away people, including children at summer camps, homes and businesses. At least 120 died, and nearly 200 are still missing. Because of DOGE firings, there was no local meteorologist to pass on NWS flood warnings, and Kristi Noem’s micromanagement delayed FEMA’s response by three days.

Our Members of Congress must do much more than investigate how Trump’s, Musk’s, and Noem’s attacks on the NWS and FEMA hampered preparedness and response efforts. They must connect the dots repeatedly between GOP policy and its lethal consequences—the deaths and destruction across America caused by climate change—and hold Trump and Republicans accountable.