Emily Galvin-Almanza on Trump’s Davos disaster and ongoing cover up of the Epstein Files.

“People don’t actually want what this administration has to offer. And the shocking nature of it has caused more people to have to pay attention to politics than, I think, ever before. So If we organize, we have an opportunity to show the entire world that we as a people can be relied upon even when our government cannot be. And I think that would be an incredible feat of restoration that is worth believing in and worth organizing for and worth fighting for in the months we have between now and November.”–Emily Galvin-Almanza

FIVE MINUTE NEWS Jan 25, 2026 Emily Galvin-Almanza joins Anthony Davis to discuss Trump’s handling of international relations after the disaster in Davos, and ongoing cover up of the Epstein Files. The NATO fallout and damage done to traditional allies. Trump’s mental health and his abuses of power, especially from within the Department of Justice, in a country that could be on the brink of war with itself – only on The Weekend Show.

Could ‘guerrilla solar’ be the answer to your skyrocketing PG&E bill?

Plug-in solar panels are cheaper, quicker to deploy, and accessible to homeowners with shady roofs or renters with no roofs at all

By Katherine Ellison,ContributorUpdated Jan 24, 2026 3:41 p.m.

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Bright Saver co-founder Rupert Mayer installs plug-in solar panels in the backyard of a home in Berkeley in September. In theory, the savings start after the panels are set up and the system is plugged into a standard outlet.Jessica Christian/S.F. Chronicle

A year ago, my husband and I joined the clean energy revolution and evicted fossil fuels from our home. They didn’t go quietly.

We cashed in rebates and tax credits — thanks, President Biden! — and swapped out our gas-powered appliances for electrics. With all those new, efficient appliances, I expected cheaper utility bills. 

Instead, they doubled.

Only later did I learn that heating your home with electricity costs nearly twice as much as using gas. Besides making life more expensive, the complicated reasons for that price gap help explain why we’re not moving faster to curb greenhouse gas emissions that are endangering life on Earth.

Rooftop solar could have softened the blow if our roof weren’t so shaded and the price (up to $30,000) wasn’t so high. So we turned down our thermostat, bundled up and fumed over reports of record profits for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in a state with the nation’s second-highest electricity rates

Recently, however, I’ve been thrilled to learn about a potentially game-changing development: The rapidly emerging market of plug-in solar panels that are cheaper, quicker to deploy and accessible to homeowners with shady roofs or renters with no roofs at all.

Vendors say you can simply set up the panels facing the sun, plug them into a standard outlet and start saving. Systems sell for about a 10th of the cost of rooftop solar. Theoretically, you treat them like appliances, with no need to deal with contractors, permits or inspections.

“People can take action who haven’t been able to take action,” Cora Stryker, a co-founder of Bright Saver, a Bay Area-based nonprofit vendor, told me.

Hundreds of Californians have bought plug-in systems from vendors, including Bright Saver, which is running limited pilots, and CraftStrom, a more established, Houston-based firm that has sold 4,000 systems in 35 states during the last four years, according to its co-founder, Michael Scherer.

“We’re selling hundreds of these every week, and 16% of our sales are in California,” Scherer told me. His website promises: “No permits. No utility. Just power.”

Plug-in solar is a modern twist on an older American impulse: DIY power. Around the time of the 1979 oil crisis, Home Power magazine popularized the term “guerrilla solar” for handy homeowners who wired up panels without permits. The movement sputtered after utilities and regulators cracked down, and the U.S. rooftop solar industry took off as a legitimate — albeit expensive, time-consuming, and, ultimately, elitist alternative. Only about 7% of U.S. homes now have rooftop solar.

Europe took a different path. In Germany, after years of lobbying by clean energy and industry groups, a certification body released the first guideline for “balcony solar” in 2017. Some 4 million Germans, most of them unregistered, have since bought plug-in balkonkraftwerke, sold in hardware stores for the equivalent of a few hundred dollars. Germany also recently strengthened the rights of renters to install them.

In May, Utah became the first U.S. state to exempt small, portable solar devices (under 1,200 watts) from utility interconnection requirements, while also setting basic safety standards. Republican state Rep. Raymond Ward championed the bill after reading about Germany’s market.

 “I’m like, well, why can’t I buy one of those?”  Ward told Third Act.

Sixteen other states are now considering similar laws, according to Stryker. That includes California, where state Sen. Scott Wiener recently proposed a bill he said would address recent “disastrous rate hikes.” Senate Bill 868 would create a carve-out for small, plug-in systems — barring utilities from charging fees or even requesting notification — while also requiring certified safety features.

With the writing on the wall, energy companies are scrambling to respond.

“We fully support customer-owned clean energy and the growing interest in distributed energy resources,” PG&E spokesperson Paul Doherty told me.  Yet they must be “used responsibly,” he added, meaning, among other things, with local building permits and utility interconnection agreements to ensure safety.

The California Public Utilities Commission agrees that local permits and interconnection applications are required, even for customers who plan to limit generation to home consumption. But enforcement is the weak link. As long as the plug-in systems don’t feed into the grid, as many don’t, or cause a fire — short of home inspections — regulators can’t detect them. Indeed, Doherty said that PG&E has yet to receive a single application for an interconnection agreement.

That doesn’t mean there won’t be broader impacts. As more customers lower their bills by generating some of their own power, those who can’t will shoulder more utility fixed costs, such as transmission wires and maintenance. UC Berkeley energy economist Severin Borenstein called this “the exploding solar cost shift.”

The bright side, Borenstein told me, is that plug-in solar could force a political reckoning in which legislators finally deal with some hard and long-avoided questions.

“Technology doesn’t wait,” CraftStrom’s Scherer said, adding that before he left his former high-level job with NRG Energy/Reliant, he told his bosses: “Democratization of power production is coming, and if you think you can survive by burning oil and selling it, you will die off.”

For now, early plug-in solar adopters are left on their own, trying to sort out competing claims in a fragmented market with more hype than clarity. In a recent interview with PBS, Bright Saver’s Stryker referred to the panels as “tiny,” but as listed on the company’s website, they are about the size of an average door and weigh 45 pounds.

“The idea that a random middle-aged person is just going to flick a switch is not realistic,” Borenstein said.

And while plug-in systems cost far less than rooftop solar, they aren’t cheap. Bright Saver’s website lists a system with two 400-watt panels plus a microinverter and battery for $3,138, which it said can be paid off with savings in 5.8 years. (Tariffs inflate the price, since the supply chain runs through China.) Stryker estimated that such a system would help offset at most just 20% of an average household’s energy.

And as far as the DIY of it all, Bright Saver’s website notes that “minor electrician work may be necessary” for tasks including installing a dedicated circuit and proper outdoor outlet protection. An energy monitor included in the kit to minimize power export to the grid needs to be mounted inside a breaker panel. None of these are jobs I’d trust to a YouTube tutorial.

Finally, safety concerns aren’t unreasonable, despite Germany’s excellent record. Overloading a home with solar power could overtax wires and cause fires. Poorly designed or installed systems could export power to the grid unexpectedly, risking harm to line workers in an outage.

On Jan. 8, UL Solutions, a leading U.S. certification body, released comprehensive performance and safety standards for U.S. plug-in solar systems, which should help consumers make easier and wiser choices.

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Nevertheless, the complicated science and politics of plug-in panels have started to overload my neural circuits. For now, I plan to wait until the rules get clearer and comparison shopping gets easier.

Still, plug-in solar feels like one of the brightest developments in years in an otherwise discouraging energy landscape. It promises a small wedge of leverage for people like me, who’ve learned the hard way that joining California’s clean-energy revolution can be powerfully expensive.

Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent and author/co-author of 12 nonfiction books.

Jan 24, 2026

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‘Cowardice in the Face of Fascism’: Fury at House Democrats Willing to Fund ICE

House Lawmakers Vote On Extending Obamacare Subsidies And Overriding Trump Vetoes

US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) (speaks alongside Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) and Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) during a news conference at the US Capitol on January 8, 2026, in Washington, DC.

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“We need a strong, unflinching opposition party that is united against the president’s personal paramilitary force,” said Justice Democrats.

Stephen Prager

Jan 22, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)

Even as opposition to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement reaches a fever pitch among voters and within the Democratic caucus amid report after report of abject lawlessness by the agency, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is refusing to whip the votes that would be necessary to stop the funding bill from passing as it heads to a vote on Thursday.

Democratic negotiators on the House Appropriations Committee have pushed their colleagues to accept a “compromise” bill that keeps agency funding flat while supposedly adding new “guardrails” on the agency’s actions.

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‘A Surrender to Trump’s Lawlessness’: Democrats Warned Against Giving ICE More Money

However, as David Dayen explained on Wednesday for the American Prospect, the bill “falls short of imposing true accountability on ICE in the wake of the murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis.”

It “flat-funds” ICE at current levels for the fiscal year, although in real terms it’s an increase to the budget, because the previous year included a one-time “anomaly” of additional spending. It restricts spending on detention that could theoretically lower capacity to 41,500 beds from a proposed 50,000. And there are some limitations on what DHS can shift from other agencies into ICE. But because the bill includes no penalties or enforcing mechanisms to ensure that its funding directives are actually adhered to, these funding boundaries are not terribly meaningful.

Democratic lawmakers forced other “guardrails” into the bill, like funding for oversight of detention facilities and mandatory body cameras for ICE agents. And additional training is mandated for agents who interact with the public. But other measures, like blocking the detention and deportation of U.S. citizens or borrowing enforcement personnel from other agencies, weren’t added to the bill. And the funding, once again, is not guaranteed, given that the Trump administration has routinely withheld or shifted around funding without pushback from Congress.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, who served as the chief negotiator for the bill, has struggled to defend it in the face of reports that ICE is abducting young childrenharassing and detaining US citizens, and has been directed to break into homes without a warrant in violation of the Fourth Amendment as a matter of policy.

“It is complicated,” DeLauro admitted during a meeting of the House Rules Committee, “when you’re both trying to govern, and you’re trying to resist what may be infringements, to thread that needle and try to be able to move forward.”

However, heading into Thursday’s vote, she has maintained that a government shutdown affecting other critical agencies would be more damaging.

“I understand that many of my Democratic colleagues may be dissatisfied with any bill that funds ICE,” she said. “I share their frustration with the out-of-control agency. I encourage my colleagues to review the bill and determine what is best for their constituents and communities.”

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who has been one of Congress’ most outspoken opponents of the bill from the beginning, said that while he understands his colleagues’ objections, he believes that “the political police force Trump is building at DHS—and their daily violation of the law—threatens to unwind our republic.”

“It’s not just Minnesota. DHS is ignoring the law everywhere,” he wrote in a lengthy post on social media. “I’m just back from Texas, where DHS is thumbing their nose at the law, disappearing legal residents and kids. Why? Because there are no consequences, they think they will get a bipartisan vote to fund their illegality.”

He said Democrats should be demanding more for their votes, including “stopping DHS from moving personnel—e.g. [Customs and Border Protection]—out of their budgeted missions; requiring warrants for arrests; restoring training and identification protocols.” While he acknowledged that the party “had a hard job,” he said, “there are no meaningful new restraints in this bill.”

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) joined in, saying, “I will not facilitate the lawlessness of an agency that is murdering young mothers, threatening peaceful protestors with assault rifles, and kidnapping elderly Americans out of their homes.”

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who said he was “leading the opposition” to the bill, explained in a video posted to social media that “the ICE budget under [former President Joe Biden] was $10 billion a year. Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill increased it by $18 billion a year for the next four years. Today, they want to memorialize that and triple ICE’s budget.”

“No Democrat should vote yes on this bill,” he continued. “Frankly, we need to tear down the ICE agency and have a new federal agency to enforce immigration law under the Justice Department.”

Acknowledging that there is not yet sufficient support on Capitol Hill to outright abolish or defund the agency, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) has also called for blocking the funds and introduced its own legislation that would limit the use of force by agents.

According to the Guardian, the majority of the 213 Democratic members of the House are expected to vote against the funding bill. But for it to stand any chance of being blocked, total party unity would be necessary, and some of the 218 Republicans would either need to defect or fail to show up for the vote.

Jeffries has personally stated that he will vote against the bill, and according to two congressional sources who spoke to the Prospect, has “recommended” that other members vote against it. However, the party whip, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and her deputies have not been directed to bring the rest of the caucus into line with that position.

In a statement issued Thursday, Jeffries, Clark, and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) again said they personally planned to vote no on the appropriations bill but gave no guidance to their colleagues.

A source tracking the legislation on Capitol Hill told the Prospect that many Democrats in swing districts are planning to vote for the legislation because “they’re terrified of being labeled anti-law enforcement” and “want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”

Their hesitation comes despite public outrage toward ICE reaching an all-time high, with more of the public now wanting to abolish the agency outright than to keep it, according to a poll conducted earlier this month by YouGov.

Murphy has contended that “the public wants us to make a real fight to stop Trump’s abuse of power and to restore humanity and legality to ICE operations,” adding, “I don’t think a no vote would be out of step with the public. In fact, it’s what they demand: accountability for what’s happening.”

New Republic editor Aaron Regunberg echoed this, encouraging Democrats to “pick the goddamn fight!”

“Americans don’t like what ICE is doing,” he said. “This is clearly the kind of playing field in which a fight—which drives further attention towards ICE’s abuses—is advantageous.

In a statement to Common Dreams, the progressive political action committee Justice Democrats described Jeffries’ refusal to push against the bill as “cowardice in the face of fascism.”

“We need a strong, unflinching opposition party that is united against the president’s personal paramilitary force,” the group said. “Instead, Jeffries is willing to let multiple Democrats vote with Republicans to pass this funding, funneling even more of our tax dollars into state-sponsored terrorism.”

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Eric Swalwell says California should withhold jobs and driver’s licenses from ICE agents

By Sara DiNatale, Staff Writer Jan 23, 2026 (SFChronicle.com)

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Rep. Eric Swalwell, seen on Jan. 22, 2026, has proposed restricting driver’s licenses for ICE agents and banning them from state jobs in California.Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press

As Democrats across the country face calls to rein in abuses of power by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Bay Area Rep. Eric Swalwell has proposed sweeping and aggressive measures to target officers, including by barring them from obtaining driver’s licenses or working in state government.

Swalwell, D-Castro Valley, who is running for governor, in the last week has had increasingly harsh words for ICE and the Trump administration. 

Swalwell joined the other 42 Democrats in California’s House delegation on Thursday to oppose a bill that could send billions of dollars in funding to ICE. The bill passed, but faces a steeper climb in the U.S. Senate. He has made his opposition to President Donald Trump central to his pitch in the governor’s race.

“Once you shoot a mom in the face three times who has stuffies in her glove compartment and Cheerios, not a weapon, not a knife … and you claim that you were justified? Forget it,” Swalwell told CNN Thursday, referring to the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month. “No one asked for this. ICE as it exists today needs to be completely dismantled.” 

Swalwell already floated restricting driver’s licenses for ICE agents in California a few days before Good was shot multiple times inside her SUV while attempting to navigate around ICE officers. 

Swalwell told MS Now, previously MSNBC, earlier this month that ICE agents who conceal their identities behind masks would not be eligible to drive in California under his leadership. California lawmakers last year passed a bill preventing ICE officers from concealing their faces with masks in most instances, but the law is on hold pending a Trump administration lawsuit. A ruling on whether the state can enforce the law as the lawsuit makes its way through the legal process is due any day.

Swalwell doubled down on targeting agents’ licenses following Good’s death and the continued immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota, which has ensnared U.S. citizens, immigrants currently going through the legal process of obtaining citizenship and residents exercising their right to protest. During a nonpartisan candidate forum at the Annual Empower Congress Summit in Los Angeles Jan. 17, Swalwell said again that ICE agents would not be able to drive in California if they hid their faces.

“I will take their driver’s licenses,” he said from a crowded stage shared with seven other candidates. “Good luck walking to work, a–holes.” 

He said he’d also direct state and local law enforcement to use “every power to prosecute” agents for charges of battery, false imprisonment and murder. 

This week, Swalwell went a step further and vowed to make ICE agents “unhireable” in California. 

“As governor, I’ll use my emergency power to tell every state agency we are not, as a policy, hiring ICE agents,” he told Katie Phang on her show on Tuesday. “It’s part of an approach that says either we can be on our heels as the most vulnerable in our community or we can make them react and go on offense.” 

Jan 23, 2026

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Sara DiNatale covers politics and the impacts of the Trump administration’s policies on the Bay Area. She joined the Chronicle in 2025, after a decade reporting across the southern United States.

She was the recipient of a 2024 George Polk Award for her investigation on the Texas residential solar industry as an energy reporter at the San Antonio Express-News. Her investigation led Texas to adopt new state laws to regulate bad actors and scammers. She spent several years covering business, retail, the economy and labor at the Tampa Bay Times and Mississippi Today. Her reporting has been recognized by a series of state-level and national awards, including top honors from the Headliner Foundation, Best of the West and Bill Minor Prize for Investigative Reporting. She’s a graduate of the University at Buffalo and a native of Western New York.

Everything wrong with the DHS funding bill

Everything wrong with the DHS funding bill

❌ The bill increases funding for ICE. If this bill passes, ICE will receive $400 million more for detention and $370 million more for its enforcement budget compared to last year. That’s on top of the $170 billion allocated by Trump’s Big Ugly Bill for his mass deportation machine. ICE is using taxpayer dollars to kill people, invade homes without warrants, and threaten peaceful protestors. The last thing we should be doing is giving them more money to enable their cruelty. 

❌ The reforms included in the bill are completely inadequate. The bill allocates funding for body cameras, officer training, and the DHS Inspector General’s Office, but these measures fall far short of what we need to actually protect our communities. We’ve already seen what ICE thugs are willing to do on camera — one filmed the killing of Renee Good on his own cellphone. And there’s no reason to think that giving the Trump regime more money to investigate itself will stop the violence unfolding in our streets. 

❌ Actual restrictions on ICE were left out. Congress can end Border Patrol deployments to our cities; restrict ICE and Border Patrol’s dragnet operations, racial profiling, and mass surveillance; and prevent these agencies from stealing funds from other programs to run their mass deportation machine. All of these provisions would have real impact on the ground, but none of them were included in this bill. 

There’s still time to act

The DHS funding bill will move to the Senate where we expect a vote next week. Reminder: the bill needs 60 votes to pass, which means Democrats have real leverage here. But they won’t use it unless we force them to. 

Atrociously, 7 House Democrats already voted yes on this bill (list here), and Chuck Schumer is not publicly whipping Senate Democrats to unify in opposition. With a vote on this bill coming next week, we need to act fast and be loud: 

1️⃣ Call your senators today and demand they vote no on the DHS funding bill. After you call, share our script with your family and friends and encourage them to call too. 

2️⃣ Email your senators in opposition to more ICE funding. Calls are more effective than emails, but if you are unable to call or want to call and email, we make it easy to reach your senators instantly. 

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team

Stephen Miller and “The Camp of the Saints”

The Camp of the Saints

Jean Raspail

By the year 2000 there will on present projections be seven billion people swarming on the surface of the Earth. And only nine hundred million of them will be white. What will happen when the teeming billions of the so-called Third World—driven by unbearable hunger and despair, the inevitable consequences of insensate over-population—descend locust-like on the lush lands of the complacent white nations?

Jean Raspail has the rare imagination and courage necessary to face this terrifying question head-on. Readers of whatever color and political persuasion will find in The Camp of the Saints (already a bestseller in France and America) a hypnotically readable novel of compelling power that will disturb, provoke and horrify them by turns. And so powerful is its impact that once you have read it you will need brain surgery to forget it.

About the author

Jean Raspail

Jean Raspail was a French author, traveler and explorer. He was best known for his controversial 1973 novel, The Camp of the Saints, which is about mass third world immigration to Europe.

ChatGPT on “The Camp of the Saints” and Stephen Miller

You’re almost certainly thinking of The Camp of the Saints (1973) by Jean Raspail.

It’s a French novel that imagines a dystopian future in which a massive wave of impoverished migrants from the Global South (“nonwhite hordes,” in the book’s framing) arrives in Europe and causes the collapse of Western civilization. The book is explicitly racist, filled with dehumanizing language, and is widely described by scholars as a foundational text of modern white-nationalist ideology.

Why it’s linked to Stephen Miller

  • The book has been repeatedly reported as a favorite or formative influence of Stephen Miller.
  • Former colleagues and journalists have said Miller praised it and recommended it.
  • Its themes line up closely with rhetoric he later used: invasiondemographic replacement, and civilizational collapse.

How it’s generally viewed

  • Mainstream critics: see it as propaganda masquerading as literature.
  • Far-right movements: treat it as almost prophetic.
  • Literary reputation: minimal outside extremist circles; it’s remembered mainly for its ideology, not its craft.

Stand with Minnesota

Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE

This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org

*Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from people I know or I am connected with. I cannot vouch for all the individual GoFundMes, but it is up to you to decide where to give. If you have something to add please DM me at @ziibiing.com on BlueSky, I update it often.

Buy/Donate Materials:

Food Support 

Rent Relief Funds:

Mutual Aid Funds:

  • Lyndale School Mutual Aid Fund
  • CANMN: Community Aid Network (CANMN) is a grassroots volunteer-led organization located in the Bancroft neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN. We work to build solidarity with our neighbors, organize volunteers and redistribute resources to ensure everyone has the means for dignified survival.
  • Pow Wow Grounds Coffee Shop, venmo @powwowgrounds. A pit stop for observers and hub for the Indigenous community in South Minneapolis. They are also looking for donations of Tobacco, blankets, hand warmers, whistles, coffee, air mattresses
  • Indigenous Protector Movement
  • Neighbors Helping Neighbors Mutual Aid Fund

GoFundMes 

(I am only including campaigns that haven’t met their goals):

Individuals:

Funds for Schools:

Funds for Employees:

Funds for Communities:

Organizations Doing Work On The Ground:

  • Immigrant Law Center of MN: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILCM) is a nonprofit organization that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota. ILCM provides services based on our capacity. ILCM has a generally high demand for services. Unfortunately, we may not always be able to assist someone. If we cannot assist you, we will refer you to another trusted organization or immigration attorney.
  • COPAL MN: COPAL, Communities Organizing Latine Power and Action, is a member-based organization established in 2018 to improve the quality of life of Latine families. Over the past six years, COPAL has evolved to become a well-known, grassroots power-building, and visionary transnational organization.
  • UNIDOS MN: Unidos MN is a grassroots organization that builds power with Minnesota’s working families to advance social, racial, and economic justice for all. Born from the strength of the DREAMER movement, we place immigration, education, and climate justice at the heart of our work. As an intersectional and intergenerational organization led by women and multiracial communities, we unite people from all backgrounds to fight for a future where everyone can thrive—no exceptions.
  • MIRAC: MIRAC is an all-volunteer, grassroots, multiracial, and multinational immigrant rights mass-movement organization. MIRAC fights for legalization for all, an end to immigration raids and deportations, an end to all anti-immigrant laws, and full equality in all areas of life.
  • SWOP: Support Sex Workers Impacted by ICE Presence

Events:

(docs.google.com)

There’s still time to act

The DHS funding bill will move to the Senate where we expect a vote next week. Reminder: the bill needs 60 votes to pass, which means Democrats have real leverage here. But they won’t use it unless we force them to. 

Atrociously, 7 House Democrats already voted yes on this bill (list here), and Chuck Schumer is not publicly whipping Senate Democrats to unify in opposition. With a vote on this bill coming next week, we need to act fast and be loud: 

1️⃣ Call your senators today and demand they vote no on the DHS funding bill. After you call, share our script with your family and friends and encourage them to call too. 

2️⃣ Email your senators in opposition to more ICE funding. Calls are more effective than emails, but if you are unable to call or want to call and email, we make it easy to reach your senators instantly. 

3️⃣ Read and share our updated explainer. This fight is complicated and changing quickly, so we’ve updated our explainer and added a section on frequently asked questions.

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team