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RootsAction is dedicated to galvanizing people who are committed to economic fairness, equal rights for all, civil liberties, environmental protection -- and defunding endless wars. We mobilize on these issues no matter who is in office. RootsAction.org

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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 28/09/2026
What the U.S. government has spent on attacking Iran ($44 billion) is more than it would spend annually to create universal preschool in the United States ($35 billion). That is without question outrageous. But if you put those two amounts in a picture beside the military spending bill . . .
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 13/08/2026
Our mobile billboard is circling the DNC meeting in Austin right now urging the Resolutions Committee to vote to support a commitment to human rights and to upholding the Leahy Laws! Hey DNC, are you listening to your voters?
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 13/08/2026
We are on the ground in Austin at the DNC Resolutions Committee Meeting! All eyes and ears will be on the Leahy Law resolution -- #24 Will democrats listen to the overwhelmingly majority of their base and commit to following domestic U.S. law or will they fold to the AIPAC lobby again?
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 08/08/2026
Even in moments when positive change is hard to come by at the national level in the United States, RootsAction's online campaigns have been part of successful efforts to create progressive policies at the state level. Check it out: rootsaction.org/state-actions
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 07/08/2026
Congratulations to Justin Pearson!
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 06/08/2026
Congrats @WeWill2026, @AbdulElSayed and @DonavanMI13
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 06/08/2026
Congratulations to Donavan McKinney!
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 05/08/2026
Congratulations to William Lawrence on winning the primary in Michigan-07. We're very glad we supported his campaign and encourage everyone, inlcuding the Democratic Party leadership to read his platform: wewill2026.com#platform
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 05/08/2026
It is long past time for the party’s leaders to wake up to the views of its constituents. While the party establishment continues to accept the influence of the Israel-right-or-wrong lobby, most voters have clearly made up their minds otherwise.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 05/08/2026
Voters showed that they want what progressives have been clamoring for, including Medicare for All, a stop to endless wars, and true economic security.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 05/08/2026
AIPAC fell on its face in Michigan. Despite the fact that AIPAC once again spent a record amount of money in an attempt to buy an election, voters nominated Abdul El-Sayed and rejected AIPAC’s politics of fear and Islamophobia.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 04/08/2026
In an insane age, the Red Scare madness is the establishment's compliment to the vestiges of a functioning democracy. We support: Abdul El-Sayed Donavan McKinney William Lawrence abdulforsenate.com donavanforcongress.com wewill2026.com
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 04/08/2026
Its Congress Improvement Day. We support: Cori Bush Hartzell Gray www.coribush.org hartzellforcongress.com
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 28/07/2026
We support William Lawrence for Congress in MI-07. wewill2026.com
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 15/07/2026
Hakeem Jeffries’s stance is morally unconscionable and politically myopic. Polling has shown that the Democratic Party leadership’s inability to distance itself from the onslaught in Gaza cost its candidates many votes in 2024. This pattern will repeat if the party is unable to change its stance.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 06/07/2026
We support Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate. Share if you agree!
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 09/06/2026
👀 A coalition is calling for Chuck Schumer to step aside as Senate minority leader. A mobile billboard is circling the capital and DNC HQ in DC right now! Write to your Dem Senator now if you agree: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 26/05/2026
A Serious Autopsy: How Democrats Lost the White House democraticautopsy.org
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 17/04/2026
DEMAND CHANGE from the DEMOCRATS! NOSHIP protesters in New Orleans call out the Democrats for supporting US imperialism and funding Israel's actions, despite public demands to stop AIPAC funding and impose an arms embargo.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 17/04/2026
The US-Israel wars in Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and across the Middle East are creating a deep rift between America's ruling class and working people. Most Democrats oppose more aid to Israel, yet Schumer and other top establishment Democrats refuse to listen to their voters.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 15/04/2026
India Walton rallied with protesters outside the #DNC Spring Meeting in New Orleans demanding a release of the 2024 DNC election autopsy and an END to support for AIPAC and genocide in Gaza.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 11/04/2026
"Why are you dropping bombs on babies?" Thank you India Walton and the activists in New Orleans who stood up to the DNC leaders who promised transparency but continue to hide the 2024 campaign autopsy from voters in order to protect the Israeli lobby.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 10/04/2026
They can't avoid us and our message. DNC: LISTEN TO YOUR VOTERS.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 10/04/2026
After the DNC Resolutions Committee yesterday dodged everything about Israel, @indiab.bsky.social and members of Jewish Voice for Peace Action are handing out flyers with Democratic voter polling info to DNC members outside its semiannual meeting and urging them to actually LISTEN to their voters.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 10/04/2026
Our mobile billboard is parked outside the DNC meeting in New Orleans today with clear and urgent messages to Democrats: *72% of Democrats call it a "Genocide". You should too. *Only 39% of Democrats support Schumer as leader. *RELEASE THE ELECTION AUTOPSY
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 08/04/2026
Join RootsAction's Progressive Hub team for LIVE coverage of the Democrats #DNC Spring Meeting in New Orleans, this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Follow along here: progressivehub.net/live/
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 07/04/2026
This is the endpoint of military industrial complex power and a political class that is obsessed with war: An unhinged president with his finger on the button threatening to commit genocide against 93 million people.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 04/03/2026
Last night, the U.S. tested an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM. ICBMs are an immediate threat to public safety. Once launched, ICBMs cannot be recalled, almost guaranteeing a retaliatory strike. The risk of nuclear escalation is too high for the added risk that a test is misinterpreted as nuclear use.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 17/02/2026
RootsAction Mourns the Loss of a Giant. Jesse Jackson was a lifelong leader in the effort to transform the Democratic Party into a vehicle for peace and justice, a struggle he waged at the 1972 Democratic convention where he was a force behind Sen. George McGovern’s antiwar candidacy.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 17/12/2025
The U.S. public is tired of war, disgusted by the genocide, and sick of continued military adventurism. We've been flooding Congressional offices with emails. Now, we're circling the White House and Congress with mobile billboards.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 28/11/2025
Check out this FREE new book that lays out how corporate Democrats paved the way for Trump’s autocracy. Download “The Blue Road to Trump Hell” without charge here: blueroad.info
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 12/11/2025
Starbucks workers are planning to strike, beginning tomorrow, at locations that are unionized. They need our support to gain a fair contract & a living wage. DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE If you go to non-unionized locations, give your name, to be shouted when your order is ready, as "Unionize Now"
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani’s victory belongs to everyone working for human rights and social justice. Despite the efforts by billionaires and supporters of Israel’s genocidal policies, this grassroots campaign has won. (1/2)
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 04/11/2025
@indiab.bsky.social from Buffalo is in NYC reminding voters that the polls are open until 9:00pm! Ignore what the polling says, just get out and vote!
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 28/10/2025
just going to leave this here
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 14/10/2025
📆 Teach-In Alert! RSVP to the Teach-In Network's upcoming teach-ins now, including Q&A with experts. Oct 16: Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament bit.ly/48VCa2v Oct 30: Opposing War with Iran bit.ly/46ROsYx Nov 13: The United States’ Accountability for Palestine bit.ly/3IOpK1S
strategies for nuclear disarmament teach in oct 16 at 8pm et https://bit.ly/48VCa2vopposing war with iran teach-in october 30 at 830 pm ET https://bit.ly/46ROsYxUS accountability for Palestine teach in Nov 13 at 8:30pm ET https://bit.ly/3IOpK1S
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 07/10/2025
For years, local governments & police departments have cooperated with federal agencies through the Joint Terrorism Task Forces. Now, through Trump's new NPSM-7 directive, these task forces will focus on “leftist” groups. History shows us what happens when our movements are targeted by the feds.
In NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” President Trump directs the Justice Department, the FBI, and other national security agencies and departments to fight his version of political violence in America, retooling a network of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to focus on “leftist” political violence in America. This vast counterterrorism army, made up of federal, state, and local agents would, as Trump aide Stephen Miller said, form “the central hub of that effort.”

NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.”
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 06/10/2025
Watch coverage of the petition to remove the UC president on KTVU "I was honestly pretty shocked. I feel like Berkeley's whole thing is that they protect free speech and individuality," said Charlie Wood, a Cal student. Sign the petition now: bit.ly/FireUCPresid...
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 01/10/2025
Whatever Google may have meant by its slogan "Don't be evil," let's make it clear: genocide counts as evil. Demand Big Tech, including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, cancel all contracts with Israel’s government now. Take Action! bit.ly/4ojI5TJ
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 23/09/2025
Free speech rights should never be infringed, especially in universities. Please sign this petition urging the UC Regents to fire the UC president James Milliken: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re... Protect academic freedom & sign the petition! @pdamerica.bsky.social @collegedemocrats.bsky.social
FIRE THE UC PRESIDENT.
PROTECT ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
The President of the University of California, in chilling disregard of the First Amendment, reported the names and other important information of students to the Trump Administration. These students have their futures at risk due to a nebulous connection to alleged antisemitism. The University of California has disregarded this entirely, opting instead to bend to the whims of President Trump.
We urge the University of California Board of Regents to remove the current UC president and replace him with a leader willing to defend academic freedom instead of betraying it.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 09/09/2025
🚨 TONIGHT @ 8:30pm ET🚨 RSVP to join the Teach-In: Gaza and the Democratic Party: What’s Next for Organizing Against Genocide? bit.ly/gazaanddemoc... 🚨And on Thursday @ 8pm ET🚨 RSVP to join the Teach-In: How 9/11 Changed The World bit.ly/911andtheworld Submit your own questions LIVE for Q&A!
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 08/09/2025
What it means to be "at war" has shifted dramatically. Norman Solomon explains. Read the article, now on Salon www.salon.com/2025/09/08/f...
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 26/08/2025
RootsAction statement on DNC’s defeat of resolution for arms embargo on Israel: "A party that refuses to call for an end to arming genocide is a party that is continuing the moral collapse of the Biden administration that made the start of the genocide possible." Full statement below 👇
RootsAction statement on DNC’s defeat of resolution for arms embargo on Israel
 
The DNC’s rejection of the arms-embargo resolution amounts to rejection of human decency as well as rejection of the vast majority of Democrats across the country. A party that refuses to call for an end to arming genocide is a party that is continuing the moral collapse of the Biden administration that made the start of the genocide possible.
 
Across the United States, young Democrats and others have worked tirelessly to offer the party the opportunity to turn away from its complicity with Israel’s continuous mass killing of civilians in Gaza. The election of a new DNC chair could have made creative and essential use of that opportunity. Instead, the leadership of the new chair Ken Martin – accompanied by the ‘sheepership’ of so many DNC members – has reinforced and perpetuated the shameful refusal to stand up and speak out for a halt to U.S. enabling of the ongoing large-scale atrocities against Palestinian people.
 
RootsAction will continue to work with grassroots activists and organizations to challenge the insidious culture of conformity and participation in the destructive politics of militarism. In an era when the Trump regime is becoming ever more cruel and fascistic, the solution is the opposite of accommodation to the U.S.-Israeli policies of mass slaughter. The solution includes solidarity with Palestinian people and all others who suffer from injustice, oppression and horrific violence.
 
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 25/08/2025
Why has the death (& cover up) of Los Angeles anti-ICE protester Adrienne Villa gone virtually unreported? There is very little information about this alarming incident. An utter failure by local and national media. This deserves much more attention!
She protested ICE. She died from hanging in custody.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 21/08/2025
NEW: Progressive Groups Announce Support for DNC Resolution Urging “Arms Embargo” & “Suspension of Military Aid to Israel” @pdamerica.bsky.social, RootsAction & @our-revolution.bsky.social are supporting a resolution for “an immediate ceasefire, arms embargo & suspension of military aid to Israel”
Progressive Groups Announce Support for DNC Resolution Urging “Arms Embargo” and “Suspension of Military Aid to Israel”
by Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and Our Revolution on August 21, 2025
Three national activist organizations — Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and Our Revolution — announced Thursday that they are supporting a resolution for “an immediate ceasefire, an arms embargo and suspension of military aid to Israel” that is set for consideration when the Democratic National Committee meets next week.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 19/08/2025
This is a "problem" 🤔🤔🤔
poll showing party ID support for israel's military action in gaza

71% for republicans
25% for indys
8% for dems
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 19/08/2025
"Eventually Israel could find it has a lot in common with apartheid-era South Africa." 🥲
Opinion | Americans Are Changing Their Views of Israel. That’s a Problem.
Eventually Israel could find it has a lot in common with apartheid-era South Africa
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 19/08/2025
ICE, RAIDS, DETENTIONS, & DEPORTATION teach-in From ICEBlock to neighborhood patrols, #KnowYourRights pushback on raids to boycotting airlines over deportation flights, there are dozens of ways people are resisting. Thursday, August 21st @ 8 pm ET Sign up here: teachinnetwork.org/ice-teach-in/
ICE, RAIDS, DETENTIONS, & DEPORTATION teach-in 
and what decent people can do about it

RSVP 
Thursday, August 21st @ 8 pm ET

list & pictures of speakers:

Francisco García
India Walton
Nanci Palacios

Rivera Sun
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 28/07/2025
THURSDAY 7/31 5PT/8ET: Join our teach-in on U.S. militarism under Trump. We’ll talk with @vanjackson.bsky.social, William Hartung, & @tkbarnes.bsky.social on how the administration is managing the war machine, at home & abroad. REGISTER here: teachinnetwork.org/nationalcall @quincyinst.bsky.social
event flyer 

National teach in 
Trump's Approach to Militarism 
Thursday, July 31 at 8pm ET, 5pm PT

Speakers list with pictures:
Taylor Barnes, Reporter, Inkstick Media
William Hartung, Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute
Van Jackson, Professor and Podcast Host

RSVP, thursday, july 31 8 pm ET
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 14/07/2025
The rest of Youman Wilder’s MSNBC interview can be found here: Listen to how he calls out the bystanders who did nothing!
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