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.

The extremely unpopular, Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching version of the MAGA Murder Bill Senate Republicans hope to send back to the House is even worse than the House-passed version, willingly consigning many of their constituents to misery, hunger, and death to partially pay for the largest transfer of wealth in American history and blow up the national debt.

Both versions further transform the US into a police state. Cutting access to healthcare and food frees up $50 billion to finish Trump’s useless southern border wall, $8 billion to hire 10,000 masked ICE gestapo agents to daily round up 3000 immigrants and Americans, and $59 billion to build the concentration camps to hold and then deport them—further destroying our civil rights. 

Voting may have already started in the Senate, but there’s still time to contact your Senators, thank them for all opposing the gutting of vital programs our families and communities rely on, and urge them to keep proposing amendments that highlight Republicans’ cruelty and trying to stop its passage however they can. Then call your Representative, who may shortly be voting on the Senate version, and pass along a similar message.

I am horrified and infuriated that Donald Trump is dragging us into another Middle Eastern quagmire. The Constitution does not allow just one man to make this decision, and the Trump Administration cannot be trusted to make it.  

Congress needs to do its job and check their power. As your constituent, I demand that you vote to stop these strikes and block further escalation of attacks on Iran. Do not rubber stamp this unnecessary, unpopular, half-baked war. Please publicly announce you will back the pending War Powers resolutions and support a diplomatic solution. I will be calling you every day to express my abhorrence at Trump’s behavior and remind you of the need for swift congressional action.