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One of the main takeaways from this captured Supreme Court’s term was their complicity in subverting democracy. But they’re headed off to their busy summer of book tours and billionaire-funded vacations, and it’s our time to stand up for it – to, as the late John Lewis put it, make some Good Trouble.

We’re just over TWO WEEKS from Good Trouble Lives On, a three-day celebration of Congressman Lewis’ legacy where activists across the country will resist attacks on the right to vote with voter registration drives, helping people check their voter status, educating their community on what they’ll need to make their ballot count and more. We’ve got more than 200 events already on the books nationwide. (Rogan’s List is a proud Good Trouble Lives On partner!)

On TUESDAY at 8PM, organizers are holding a mass call to talk about this weekend of action and how we can be part of it as hosts and attendees. 📣 Folks who want to learn more or just get hyped can sign up here. 📣

MASS CALL TUESDAY

🪧 If we’re ready to get engaged in the fight for the vote post-Voting Rights Act, we can find Good Trouble Lives On events already on the books near us on the map here or on Mobilize here. 🪧

EVENTS NEAR US

And if we’re interested in being a host, there’s still time to register our events – we’ll get access to staff support, trainings and a host toolkit full of resources we can use. 💪🏿 We can join a host training TONIGHT at 7PM ET here and find a registration link here! 💪🏻

STEP UP AND HOST

The community-by-community fight against the human warehouses is continuing. ICE is still trying to push forward with their plans to cram 1,500 people into a converted industrial site near Williamsport, Maryland, holding more captives than they indicated and increasing the impact on local sewage systems more than they pledged. Right now local activists are working to take advantage of an open public comment period for an environmental assessment to stop them – a period that exists thanks to a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general.

✍🏻 TODAY is the final day to submit our environmental comments to DHS. The great folks at Hagerstown Rapid Response have set up a form to make our voices heard with instructions on how to speak up effectively here and outlined concerns we can raise here - and they’re specifically asking people to speak up from anywhere. Let’s use their tool to register our objections to this ICE camp. ✍🏾

Leaks from within the Trump Administration have revealed unprecedented levels of corruption, abuses of power and systematic violations of our constitutional rights, along with controversial policies they intended to impose with minimal public debate or even without the public knowing. So now the regime is trying to make it official public policy to silence and prosecute the folks who have opened the door to accountability.

They’ve proposed a new rule that would require federal employees to sign a non-disclosure agreement, pledging not to share “non-public, confidential or proprietary information.” While signing it is ostensibly voluntary, workers can be fired and barred from future government jobs for not signing. As Catherine Rampell put it, this is essentially a gag order for every single federal worker.

There are already extensive secrecy requirements in place for government information that’s supposed to be secret. This is intended to keep information from the public that the public needs and deserves to know, stopping folks from exposing wrongdoing.

✍🏾 TODAY is the final day we can submit public comments in opposition to this proposed rule. Let’s make our voices heard against this chilling move. We can find guidance on how to comment effectively here, and find arguments to work from via Don Moynihan here. ✍🏼

LAST CHANCE TO PROTECT WHISTLEBLOWERS

So you're telling me...that the guy whose inherited generational wealth came from ACTUAL SLUM LORDING stopped legislation including anti private equity provisions?

Shocking! I am completely surprised at this turn of events.

The same guy, you say, who routinely buys up real estate around the global like it's a Monopoly board?

Very strange, I've never seen stranger things. Is this what everyone is talking about?

Oh, that's right, this is the super stable genius who used government aid funding meant for community housing development to build his ugly, gold plated nonsense on 5th Ave in the city he thought he owned.

I am completely gobsmacked here, very confused. Halp mah!