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Providing everyday ways to support democracy and each other. "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 27/05/2026
ICE is expanding at an unprecedented pace. We've partnered with @defiance.org and @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social to map prospective detention facilities nationwide. Sign up at gtfoice.org for alerts, events, and actions you can take.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
BREAKING: Ethics complaint just filed against Pam Bondi — & it's damning She ran DOJ like a weapon — & now 100+ scholars, retired judges & retired FL Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince — joined by @democracydefendersfund.org @ldadorg.bsky.social & LFRL — are holding her accountable -TN
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cvm in pvb @cvminpvb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · 21/04/2026
Pennsylvania's appellate court confirmed that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution. This decision is a win for all Pennsylvanians. The government shouldn't be making your healthcare decisions - you should. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
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Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion
In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
With GOP defections, US House passes bill extending legal status for 350,000 Haitians tennesseelookout.com/2026/04/17/r...
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With GOP defections, US House passes bill extending legal status for 350,000 Haitians • Tennessee Lookout
With Republican defections, the U.S. House on Thursday passed a measure to would extend Temporary Protected Status for Haiti for three years.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 17/04/2026
Flipping these two State Supreme Court seats in Georgia next month will be a crucial first step towards flipping the entire court and putting the state on the right path. Georgia, please vote for both @jenjordanga.bsky.social and Miracle Rankin on May 19th. atlantaciviccircle.org/2026/04/15/g...
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Georgia Supreme Court challengers vow to take on corporate power
Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin say the state’s highest court doesn’t serve the people’s interest
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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In a dramatic scene that unfolded in the wee hours this morning, members of the House defeated a ploy by the administration and Speaker Johnson to ram through a 5-year reauthorization of FISA Section 702. Here’s what happened, and what will/should happen next. 1/20
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Dɪᴢᴡɪʀᴇ🌀 @dizwire.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Critical Bill. @criticalbill76.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In a 200-220 vote at about 1:15 a.m. Friday morning, 12 Republicans voted with almost all Democrats against accepting the deal, text of which was revealed just hours before the vote - The Hill 12 Republicans broke rank.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 16/04/2026
A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.
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ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.
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workinprogressmn.bsky.social @workinprogressmn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
ACTION: call these 4 Senators before The Senate vote at 10 a.m. CT to stop copper-nickel mining in the Boundary Waters. VOTE NO ON HJ 140 Sen. Collins (R-ME) (202) 224-2523 Sen. Murkowski (R-AK) (202) 224-6665 Sen. Paul (R-KY) (202) 224-4343 Sen. Curtis (R-UT) (202) 224-5251
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
For years, L.L. Bean stayed silent on politics. You changed that. You contacted them at first they responded with “we don’t engage in politics.” You pushed back anyway and it worked. This is what people power looks like. We’re proud of every single one of you. Thank you. 🙏
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
UPDATE: L.L.Bean YOUR voices were heard. After significant pushback from the outdoor community, L.L. Bean is joining the Save the Forest Service movement. Their LinkedIn statement says it all:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If you are a current or former female Hill staffer who is part of a whisper network about congressmen to avoid, my signal is emgarcia.85 I will protect your identity
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Every day the Senate doesn’t vote is a win. Call your senators. Tell them: Vote NO on H.J. Res. 140. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS Indiana law banning the use of a student ID for voting. A huge victory my law firm, our clients Count US IN and Women4Change Indiana, and the voters of Indiana. Another reminder that when we fight we win! www.democracydocket.com/cases/indian...
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🚨 Count US IN v. Morales
Learn more.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 15/04/2026
We're proud to endorse @warren.senate.gov's Ban Presidential Plunder of Taxpayer Funds Act, which would protect against corrupt payouts to the president and the vice president!
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Democrats seek to bar presidents from collecting settlement money from the government
Lawmakers drafted the bill after President Donald Trump sued the IRS and the Treasury Department for $10 billion over a leak of his tax records to news outlets.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We’re less than a week away from this amazing event! Join us at 12 PM ET on Saturday for a town hall with Mayor @paigecognetti.bsky.social and @captmarkkelly.bsky.social. Sign up using the link below:
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ECU Town Hall with Mayor Paige Cognetti and Sen Mark Kelly · End Citizens United// Let America Vote Action Fund
Join Senator Mark Kelly, Mayor Paige Cognetti, and ECU President Tiffany Muller for a town hall discussion focusing on the issues facing Pennsylvania and their plans to fight corruption in Washington.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Remember this the next time corporations whine about minimum wage increases.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/04/2026
TODAY: The House is expected to vote on reauthorizing a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens. Tell your representative to vote NO and stop the regime from gobbling up mass surveillance data to punish Trump’s enemies and round up immigrants. 👇
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Demand Representatives to Say No to AI Warrantless Mass Surveillance | Indivisible
War on Terror-era legislation that authorized decades of civil liberties-eroding mass surveillance expires on April 19. Let your Representatives know you expect them to reject reauthorization without ...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/04/2026
NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 14/04/2026
There’s already a date onboard for a general strike May 1st, National Strike No work, no school, no shopping www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...
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Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams
Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin announces nationwide general strike on May 1 in next No Kings mass action.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 14/04/2026
Delta Air Lines Inc. quietly scrubbed a pair of key environmental targets from its sustainability web page . 😡
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW: 50 House Democrats introduce legislation to establish a Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties, citing Trump’s unhinged, “volatile & incoherent” actions Bill enables Congress to play its role in 25th Amendment
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/04/2026
Credit where credit is due. Congress is “doing something.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]
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Matt Stoller @matthewstoller.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🔥🔥🔥A thousand writers, directors, and actors signed a letter opposing the Paramount-Warner merger. That's a HUGE deal, since there was massive fear in the industry. It was organized by @markruffalo.bsky.social who I will now call the mayor of Hollywood. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...
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J.J. Abrams, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve and Over 1,000 More Sign Open Letter Against Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
J.J. Abrams, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve, Kristen Stewart and more signed an open letter opposing the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Mark Ruffalo, Glenn Close, Ben Stiller, Jane Fonda, John Cusack, Kristen Stewart, JJ Abrams, Katie Phang, John Leguizamo, and over a thousand actors, writers, directors, journalists, producers, composers, and Hollywood executives have signed a letter against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger: 🧵
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 13/04/2026
Over 1,000 major names in Hollywood signed an open letter opposing the Warner Bros/Paramount merger. This includes Denis Villeneuve, J.J. Abrams, Bryan Cranston, Mark Ruffalo, Joaquin Phoenix, Damon Lindelof, Noah Wyle, Glenn Close, Jane Fonda, David Fincher, Ted Danson & more
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.
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Michelle likes democracy. @democracymichelle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When law enforcement officers *create* a problem so dangerous that average citizens feel compelled to intervene in order to serve and protect their community, then the law enforcement officers have moved from a position of enforcing laws to violating them. Fuck ICE.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A win! A federal judge just ordered the government to hand over evidence from ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s killing of Renee Good.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/04/2026
We need Democrats to repeatedly, clearly, and with great specificity talk about the accountability to come for the regime.
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"New research from the #PurgePalantir campaign shows that around 30 state-level pension funds hold #Palantir shares, many of them worth hundreds of millions of dollars apiece—topped by the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), which holds nearly $734 million in shares."
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These State Pension Funds Invest in Palantir
Public pension funds from California to New York hold a combined billions of dollars in Palantir stock, while teachers and other public employees protest their retirement savings funding the tech powe...
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 20/03/2026
My resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision — H.J.Res 122 — has now been co-sponsored by 72 Members of Congress. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
What happened to "America First"?
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Democracy Without Borders @democracywithoutborders.org · 18/03/2026
According to a new assessment by V-Dem, democracy is back at 1978 levels for the average global citizen. The gains of the third wave of democratization since the mid-1970s are almost eradicated. The U.S. is downgraded from liberal to electoral democracy. www.democracywithoutborders.org/41651/
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V-Dem report finds global democracy is back at 1978 levels
V-Dem’s 2026 assessment finds that autocracies outnumber democracies by 92 to 87. With 44 countries worsening and 18 improving, the current wave of autocratization is continuing.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The boycott of OpenAI(ChatGPT) has now surpassed 4 million. We’re also seeing many small businesses (and even some mid-sized companies) cancel their subscriptions. One of the most amazing things over the past year has been watching consumers remind big corporations just how much power they have.
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Where there are helpers, there is hope. @waystohelp.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Interested in what strategies are being used to counter ICE's warehouse plans across the country? Along with their warehouse tracker, in the later half of this video @projectsaltbox.bsky.social lays out effective methods to block warehouse concentration camp developments near you.
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Trump's ICE STUNNED as Contracts Get CANCELLED Nationwide
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I love this.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
House Dems are supporting a bill to ban lawmakers, the President/VP, & their spouses & dependence from trading stocks. As of 3 PM Eastern, there are still 31 Dems who haven’t signed on or committed to sign on. If your rep is on this list, call them & demand they sign the discharge petition!
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Eugene Vindman
Rick Larsen
Brad Schneider
Gil Cisneros
Joyce Beatty
Sean Casten
Brendan Boyle
Gwen Moore
Sharice Davids
Cleo Fields
Haley Stevens
Kim Schrier
Shontel Brown
David Scott
Jahana Hayes
Laura Gillen
Steny Hoyer
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Janelle Bynum

Lauren Underwood
Derek Tran
Jasmine Crockett
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Vicente Gonzalez Jr.
Don Davis
Jim Himes
Lloyd Doggett
Zoe Lofgren
Ed Case

Marc Veasey
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mainewomenforward.bsky.social @mainewomenforward.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
BREAKING: Democrats Jen Mazzocco for State Representative and Ana Tiburcio just won their special elections, successfully defending the Democratic majority in the Pennsylvania House. Congratulations!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
WHISTLEBLOWER: Kash’s personal use of the FBI jet delayed investigators after the Brown U Mass shooting (H/T @atrupar.com )
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Where there are helpers, there is hope. @waystohelp.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
If you'd told me three years ago that I'd be cheering on criminal defense lawyers, I'd have laughed in your face. This is a great project by Steven Salky and the NACDL to keep an eye on!
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Lawyer project preserves record of RADICAL DOJ corruption under Trump
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Where there are helpers, there is hope. @waystohelp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
If you are in Georgia, make sure you are registered to vote and know when your voting days are!
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 23/02/2026
Please read -- the New York City Bar Association is an organizational that should be listened to -- POTUS may call all critics "left-wing lunatics," but the City Bar is definitely not that! And they are sounding the alarm...
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 20/02/2026
I wrote about some of them here. But there are so many other lawyers and businesses who stepped up. They all should be celebrated today. Not the Supreme Court. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Conservative Legal Advocates Working to Kill Trump’s Tariffs
The New Civil Liberties Alliance is mounting a constitutional challenge to one of the biggest policy questions of our time. Will others follow?
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