YOUR ACTION FOR THE DAY:
Look up the numbers for both your Senator AND your Representative here. Today we are calling both:
(If it’s Hagerty, his DC voicemail is still full. Find his local numbers here: https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/office-locations/)
Once you’re connected, here’s what you could say:
“My name is ____ and I’m one of your constituents from [CITY] who is being harmed by Musk’s attempts to gut crucial programs that Congress has already funded.
Congress sets the budget – not Elon Musk. I urge you to treat this like the constitutional crisis it is by stopping business as usual in the Senate until Trump and Musk back down.”
If no one picks up, please leave a message – it’ll count!
AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS
A federal judge appointed by President Bush has ordered the Trump administration to restore public health websites with critical medical information that doctors use to care for patients.
Many companies are defying the Trump administration and proudly celebrating Black History Month… including Southwest Airlines. (See photo below.)
The city of Knoxville is PROUDLY celebrating Black History Month.
Oregon, Washington, and Minnesota have sued Trump for his executive order banning any kind of gender confirming care under the age of 19.
Some of our red state MOCs are starting to listen to the tide. On Friday, GOP Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona stood on the house floor foor over 40 minutes criticizing Musk backed plans for the national debt and spending cuts, urging Congress to avoid a “financial armageddon.”
Trump attempted to eliminate approximately 200 employees of USAID, and a federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order so those people have not been fired.
The officials at the Department of Labor got an injunction against Elon Musk or any of his DOGE boys from entering the Department of Labor and messing around with their computers and data.
We now have a second federal judge (appointed by Reagan) who also confirmed that the birthright citizenship executive order is unconstitutional.
Target shareholders are so upset with the company for ending their DEI programs that they are suing the company!
When Trump tried to fire FEC commissioner Ellen Wintroub, she wrote back and said there’s a process and you haven’t followed it so I am still the commissioner of the FEC.
In Oklahoma, a state senator was trying to push a bill to force families who had kids with disabilities to pay for their school services instead of asking the state to do it, and that bill got so much pushback that he actually pulled the bill.
In North Carolina there is a state Supreme Court race that the Democrat candidate won, but the Republican candidate who lost has been using the court system to fight against 60,000 votes that he wanted thrown out. There was originally a Republican appointed judge who was agreeing with him, but in appeal, a Superior Court judge has ruled it is unconstitutional. So as of right now, those 60,000 votes will not be thrown out.
Every single Senate Democrat voted against confirming Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence.
A coalition of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter demanding the removal of Elon Musk’s operatives from the
CFPB.
Democrat Ken Jenkins (NY) won a special election for Westchester County Executive, soundly defeating his Trump-backed opponent.
Let me finish this by reminding you to get loud. If you are already loud, stay loud. And if you haven’t yet, get ready to. Because our voices matter and they DO make a difference!