The week of June 24, House Democrats will vote on a bill to provide the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with additional funding. The Senate will also be voting on its own bill, which will contain nearly $5 billion for DHS. This is money that Trump can use to expand his detention and deportation machine. …
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Starting later this month, we’re hosting six nights of live readings of the Mueller Report. Most Americans haven’t read the 448-page saga about Russia’s attack on our Democracy and Trump’s fealty to the attackers. Like Shakespeare’s plays, perhaps the Mueller Report is better on stage than on paper. So we’re bringing it to the public, in …
Join us for six nights of live readings of the Mueller Report. Details below. Take Action Tell your Rep to Defund ICE and CPB Last week, the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill to fund agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The bill has some strengths—like taking back …
Republicans Against the Law The Office of Special Counsel, a federal ethics watchdog agency, recommended that Kellyanne Conway be removed from federal office for repeated violations of the Hatch Act—disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while in her official capacity. Donald refused to follow the Depression-era law and the ethics organization’s recommendation. Donald also stated on national TV that he would not …
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Take Action Join the Healthcare Activist Leadership Network to build power for 2020 Are you mad that the lege did nothing significant about healthcare this session? Indivisible Austin has endorsed a new campaign to fight for expanded healthcare access in Texas. This statewide coalition of advocates is looking for individual healthcare champions to build a …
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Seventeen automakers, including Ford, Volvo, GM, and Toyota, signed a letter asking the Mentally Deranged Dotard not to roll back Obama-era auto pollution regulations, promising “an extended period of litigation and instability” if he does. Republicans Finding a Spine A bipartisan group of senators has introduced more than a dozen bills intended to block Donald’s sales of …
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Take Action Tell the do-nothing Senate: Pass the background check bill The House of Representatives has sent over 100 bills to the Senate only to see them languish because Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is not allowing votes. One such bill is H.R. 8, which passed the House with bipartisan support, and would close the gun-show …
Mueller spoke to directly contradict Donald’s repeated assertions that he was completely exonerated and there was “no collusion.” (Donny even made some posters to say so, just like a second-grader!): “If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.” Mueller flat-out said. A growing number of House Democrats—and even one Republican—are ready …
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The Austin Sanctuary Network Needs Your Help Memorial Day Today we honor the men and women who died while serving in the United States military. As the Trump administration yet again rattles its sabers in the Middle East, it’s worth reading the responses from military veterans to this tweet from the official U.S. Army account. …