#1 - Social Security Works Asks - "Have you heard about Project 2025?" 

From David Sirota, the Lever:

It’s a radical plan that Trump’s allies aim to implement if he wins the presidential election. Project 2025 would reshape the entire government, roll back regulatory safeguards, and give billionaires and corporations sweeping control of American life.

The 922-page blueprint to dismantle the federal government is the grand finale of a secret plan written by a Supreme Court justice more than 50 years ago. It was a step-by-step plan to seize power from the people and entrench it in the hands of a few elites. First, they used the courts to dismantle campaign finance laws, and then they unleashed a torrent of dark money to buy elections for plutocrat-friendly candidates. To counter this plot, we must reverse the Court’s catastrophic Citizens United decision.

When you sign, you’ll also receive access to a new documentary podcast detailing the never-before-reported details of the decades-long plan that led us to Project 2025.

The Lever’s new chart-topping investigative podcast series Master Plan answers the question we’re all asking: How did everything become so corrupt?

In this series, we expose how Project 2025 emerged as part of a coordinated scheme to subvert the American political system so that it works only for the rich and powerful. We’ve spent two years reporting this story — you won’t want to miss what we’ve found. 

SIGN HERE — Tell Congressional Democrats to pass the Democracy For All Amendment so we can begin to fight back against plans like Project 2025. You’ll then be sent a link to hear Master Plan and gain access to free news updates from The Lever.

Action #2 - Repeal WEP - in process

UPDATE: The Discharge Petition for HR.82 – the Social Security Fairness Act was successful! It received 218 signatures, and is now closed.

HOWEVER: Given the severe nature of the possible shutdown, moving forward, the repeal process over the coming weeks will be a well-choreographed scenario closely guided by the offices of Congressman Graves and Congresswoman Spanberger.

WHAT WE CAN DO?

- Thank your Reps if they signed the discharge petition.

- Refrain from making partisan comments about these bills on social media.

WHAT WE KNOW: The bill will be considered during the lame-duck session, often when serious legislation is enacted.

WHAT WE DONT KNOW: The exact date when the motion to discharge will be considered and a vote to discharge. This could be as early as late next week, during a proforma session (short periods when Congress must meet during recess periods, following a three-day rule), or upon return after the long recess.

Given the critical and delicate issues about federal government funding, we do not know when this will happen, and legislators will decide; we play no part in this matter.

WEP Background Information can be found on this page


Action #2 - Publish the Equal Right Amendment

We still need the ERA published as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

You can help! Tell President Biden to Publish the ERA.

Grab your phone and text President Biden at 302-404-0880

Personalize your note and please feel free to use any of this to get started:

  • Please publish the 28th Amendment (Equal Rights) in our Constitution.
  • Gender equality is really important to me because _____________. Please ensure publication of the 28th Amendment (Equal Rights) in our Constitution.
  • The American Bar Association urges implementation of our 28th Amendment (Equal Rights) and it is time for the National Archivist to fix the historical gender gap in our Constitution.

Thank you!

Shari Temple, DA ERA Task Force Chair


Action #4 - Impeach Thomas and Alito

This week we found out about the newest Supreme Court scandal. Yet another undisclosed trip by Justice Clarence Thomas, on Harlan Crow’s private jet in 2010, this time from Hawaii to New Zealand and back.

It seems this steady drip, drip, drip of undisclosed gifts is never ending.

This is just one of multiple scandals of bias and undue influence involving Justices Clarence Thomas, but he’s not the only justice with issues. Samuel Alito’s conflicts of interest are numerous too. Both Thomas and Alito and their wives have shown public support for the January 6 insurrection, but both justices failed to recuse themselves from the related cases involving Trump, the 2020 election, and the insurrection.

This repeated failure to recuse themselves is the primary basis on which Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed articles of impeachment against both justices. Now we are calling on the House to follow through with the next step: impeachment.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said impeachment is necessary due to the justices’ “pattern of refusal to recuse from consequential matters before the court in which they hold widely documented financial and personal entanglements” -- failures which, she writes, “constitute a grave threat to American rule of law, the integrity of our democracy, and one of the clearest cases for which the tool of impeachment was designed.”

This unchecked crisis of corruption on the Supreme Court has spiraled into a constitutional crisis threatening American democracy across the board, and Congress should not wait another day to Take Action!


Action #5 - Send a letter to CEOs of Major Banks

"Inequality Media Civic Action has created a letter that we can all send to the CEOs of Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase demanding that they denounce Project 2025 which calls for purging nonpartisan experts from every government agency, and replacing them with loyal Trump foot soldiers who will commit to carrying out the most extreme policies ever laid out in such detail.

The Heritage Foundation is already vetting resumes and interviewing applicants to build a white, Christian nationalist government, to fill the positions of the 50,000 government employees Trump intends to fire -- on day one. They plan to eviscerate the Environmental Protection Agency, eliminate the Commission on Civil Rights, and close down any agency that protects consumers or fosters diversity and inclusion.

This is not America. They must put all Americans first!"


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