On March 30 2026, the pattern is clear: those in power are normalizing state cruelty, hollowing out basic rights, and testing how much injustice the public will tolerate — from deadly ICE detention and racial profiling, to attacks on abortion care, threats to voting by mail, and an assault on birthright citizenship itself.

But this is not the end of the story. Communities are organizing. Advocates are rising. Truth is breaking through. And people across this country are refusing to surrender their rights, their dignity, or their democracy. Power still belongs to the people — and together, we can protect our communities and each other.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

⚖️ The Shadow Docket Has Ruled for Trump 80 Percent of the Time — and That Is Not Judicial Neutrality

• In the 13 months since Trump’s second inauguration, the Supreme Court has considered more than 35 emergency applications tied to his administration and ruled in its favor roughly 80 percent of the time — usually with no oral argument, minimal briefing, and no public explanation. The Bush and Obama administrations combined filed eight such applications across sixteen years; Trump’s second administration filed nineteen in its first twenty weeks alone. The shadow docket was designed for procedural emergencies. It has become a governing tool. (New York Times)

Why It Matters for Democracy: Power without explanation is power without accountability. Justice Kagan warned in her dissent in Trump v. Slaughter that the emergency docket was being used to transfer authority from Congress to the President — reshaping separation of powers without a single public hearing. When a court sides with one administration eight times out of ten on applications that determine the fate of immigrants, independent agencies, and civil rights — all in the dark — that is not judging. That is governing without consent.

🤝 Trump Ally Used ICE to Deport the Mother of His Child During a Custody Battle

• Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned White House special envoy, reached out last June to David Venturella, a high-ranking ICE official, after learning his Brazilian ex-girlfriend, Amanda Ungaro, was in a Miami jail on fraud charges — and in the middle of a custody dispute over their teenage son. According to records, Zampolli asked whether Ungaro’s undocumented status could be used to his advantage; Venturella promptly called ICE’s Miami office, emphasizing it was a favor for a friend of the president, to ensure agents would pick her up before she could post bail. She was transferred to ICE custody and deported to Brazil. Zampolli denies seeking her deportation, and DHS says she would have been removed regardless — but records show the intervention was real, and that it worked. Seattle Times

Why This Matters: ICE is supposed to enforce immigration law — not adjudicate private custody disputes for White House insiders. When a single phone call from a presidential ally can move an entire deportation, ICE accountability has not just failed — it has been replaced by a patronage system.

🏗️ Maryland Courts Pause ICE’s $102M Secret Detention Warehouse

• ICE purchased a 54-acre commercial warehouse near Williamsport, Maryland, in January for $102.4 million, with plans to convert it into a facility holding 1,500 people — without conducting a mandatory environmental review or holding a single public meeting. The building has four toilets and two water fountains; experts say it would generate four times more wastewater than the site’s infrastructure can handle, with runoff threatening the Potomac River watershed and state-protected species. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown sued under the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, and a federal court issued a temporary restraining order pausing construction while the lawsuit proceeds. ABC News Maryland Attorney General

Why This Matters: ICE is building nationwide mass detention infrastructure in secret, spending hundreds of millions in public dollars with no legal process and no community voice. Maryland’s court victory shows that states retain the power to demand accountability — and that pushing back through the courts can work.

♿ Double Amputee Rodney Taylor Has Spent Over a Year Crawling on Soiled ICE Detention Floors

• Rodney Taylor — who is missing both legs and three fingers on his right hand — has been held for more than a year at a for-profit ICE detention facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, where he has been forced to crawl across floors covered in mold, feces, and bodily fluids to reach the shower, after the facility stopped providing meal accommodations and repeatedly denied him properly calibrated prosthetics. The missing silicone linings have caused open boils; a wheelchair was eventually provided, but using it causes wrist pain due to his missing fingers; and staff have refused medical care multiple times. Representative Pramila Jayapal led 20 members of Congress in a letter to DHS demanding Taylor’s release, with a University of Pennsylvania medical professor calling his conditions “repeated acts of dehumanization.” The Guardian

Why This Matters: The Trump administration’s elimination of federal civil rights and immigration detention oversight offices has removed the mechanisms designed to catch exactly this kind of abuse. Rodney Taylor’s case is not an anomaly — it is what ICE detention produces when no one is watching.

⛪ Minnesota Clergy Win Court Order to Pray with ICE Detainees — After Being Turned Away on Ash Wednesday

• Evangelical Lutheran, United Church of Christ, and Catholic clergy in Minnesota went to court after being repeatedly barred from the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis — including on Ash Wednesday — to offer prayer, sacraments, and pastoral care to detainees held during Operation Metro Surge. On March 20, U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell granted an injunction, ruling that the restrictions constituted irreparable harm to the clergy’s First Amendment rights and violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and ordering DHS to establish clear protocols for in-person pastoral access. Whipple had also blocked three members of Congress and restricted attorney access — making this the second court ruling in weeks to find ICE’s practices at the facility unconstitutional. Seattle Times

Why This Matters: ICE’s refusal to allow clergy during Lent and Ramadan is not a logistical oversight — isolation is the strategy. When lawyers are blocked, members of Congress are turned away, and priests are refused entry, every outside witness to what happens inside is eliminated.

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 💥 Take action: Tell Republicans: End the Shutdown by Reforming ICE and CBP

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• 💸 Take action: This Tax Day, tell Congress to tax the rich and make life more affordable for working people and families

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The No Kings movement is rising nationwide.

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The NO KINGS movement is rising nationwide. Join us. This country does not belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or politicians who rule through fear. It belongs to the people. As Donald Trump pushes for more unchecked power, people across this country are rising together to say what democracy demands: no thrones, no crowns, no kings.

From communities living under fear to an illegal war pushed without the consent of the people, the warning signs are here. When power is abused and Congress refuses to provide real oversight, the danger grows for all of us. That is why people from every corner of this country are standing up together to say our leaders answer to the people, not to one man’s hunger for control.

Now is the time to show up and make that truth impossible to ignore. No illegal wars. No ICE terror. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.

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On March 25, 2026, the pattern is clear: those in power are normalizing state cruelty, hollowing out basic rights, and testing how much injustice the public will tolerate — from deadly ICE detention and racial profiling on tribal land, to attacks on abortion care, threats to voting by mail, and an assault on birthright citizenship itself.

But this is not the end of the story. Communities are organizing. Advocates are rising. Truth is breaking through. And people across this country are refusing to surrender their rights, their dignity, or their democracy. Power still belongs to the people — and together, we can protect our communities and each other.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

💀 Royer Perez-Jimenez, 19, Dies in Florida ICE Jail Previously Flagged for Abuse

• Royer Perez-Jimenez, a 19-year-old from Mexico, died at Glades County Detention Center in Florida after being transferred to ICE custody over a misdemeanor scooter stop. ICE called it a “presumed suicide,” even though he had shown no intake behavioral health concerns, and the facility had already been flagged by Congress for abuse before Trump reopened it in 2025. Truthout
  Why This Matters: Forty-nine people have died in immigration detention since Trump returned to office, and Congress still has not launched a single investigation.

🪶 ICE Is Profiling Native Americans on Sovereign Land — Tribes Are Organizing

• ICE has been stopping enrolled tribal citizens in Washington state, including near Lummi Nation land, despite tribal IDs being federally recognized and Native people being U.S. citizens. In response, tribes are posting sovereignty signs, expanding ID protections, and building legal hotlines as fear disrupts community life and local markets. Seattle Times
  Why This Matters: This is not immigration enforcement. It is racial profiling that targets Native people on their own land.

⚠️ ICE Whistleblower: Agents Graduate Without Knowing How — or When — to Use Deadly Force

Former ICE instructor Ryan Schwank told Congress the agency slashed training from 72 to 42 days and cut core instruction on constitutional limits, lawful arrests, deadly force, and protesters’ rights. ICE plans to rush more than 3,000 new agents through this weakened system. Seattle Times
Why This Matters: When officers are trained less on constitutional rights and use of force, harm is not a mistake. It is a policy choice.

🪖 The Pentagon Is Recruiting Civilian Workers to Volunteer for ICE Operations

• The Pentagon asked civilian employees to volunteer for ICE and CBP operations, and hundreds have already been deployed to help with logistics, detainee management, and planning. This comes as DHS remains in a funding standoff with Congress. The Intercept
  Why This Matters: Military infrastructure is being folded into domestic immigration enforcement while public accountability is bypassed.

🏛️ Trump’s HHS Opens Investigations Into 13 States for Protecting Abortion Coverage

• HHS launched investigations into 13 states that require insurance coverage for abortion care, threatening funding cuts and DOJ action. Advocates say this is federal coercion aimed at states protecting reproductive freedom. The Hill
  Why This Matters: This weaponizes federal power against states trying to preserve abortion access.

🚰 Rep. Mary Miller’s “Clean Water” Bill Is a Junk-Science Assault on Abortion Pills

• Mary Miller’s bill would ban telehealth abortion care and criminalize medication abortion patients using false claims about water contamination. Researchers say there is no scientific basis for it. HuffPost
  Why This Matters: It is an abortion ban disguised as public health policy.

🌴 Florida Advocates Rally for the Reproductive Freedom Act — and Refuse to Back Down

• Advocates rallied at the Florida Capitol for the Reproductive Freedom Act and repeal of the state’s six-week abortion ban, even as Republicans hold a supermajority. WUSF
  Why This Matters: Even in hostile states, people are still organizing for care and freedom.

🗳️ Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Eliminate Mail Ballot Grace Periods Across 29 States

• The Court heard arguments in a case that could end mail ballot grace periods in up to 29 states, threatening access for millions of voters, including military and overseas voters. New York Times
  Why This Matters: This is part of a broader effort to narrow who gets to vote and whose ballot counts.

⛪ Catholic Bishops File a Searing Moral Rebuke to Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

• The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s birthright citizenship order, calling it a moral and constitutional failure. Slate
  Why This Matters: Birthright citizenship exists to stop governments from declaring some children less worthy than others.

💸 2,000 Tariff Lawsuits and Counting — Companies Demand Refunds as Trump Stalls

• After the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs, more than 2,000 companies sued for refunds while the administration tried to delay accountability. Bloomberg
  Why This Matters: Courts checked executive overreach once. Now they must make that accountability real.

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 💥 Take action: Tell Republicans: End the Shutdown by Reforming ICE and CBP

• ✅ Take action: Denounce Trump’s Inhumane Response to Robert Mueller’s Death

• ➡️ Take action: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

• 📢 Take action: Submit an official comment rejecting the criminalization of dissent

• 💸 Take action: This Tax Day, tell Congress to tax the rich and make life more affordable for working people and families

• 🗳️ Take action: Tell Congress to stop the SAVE America Act and defend the right to vote

• 🪖 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran and vote no on the draft

• 📣 Take action: Tell Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution and stop Trump’s illegal war in Iran

• 🛑 Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

These are not random headlines. They are warning signs of a governing strategy built on cruelty, fear, and unchecked power: a young man dead in an ICE jail known for abuse, Native people profiled on sovereign land, undertrained agents rushed into the field, Pentagon support for immigration enforcement, and new attacks on abortion access, voting rights, and birthright citizenship. This is what abuse of power looks like when it stops pretending to be normal.

But the story does not end there. Courts are stepping in, advocates are sounding the alarm, and communities are refusing to surrender their rights or their dignity. Hope is not passive. It is people telling the truth, protecting one another, and showing up again and again until justice cannot be ignored.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

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On March 24, 2026, the pattern is clear: those in power are bypassing Congress, bending democracy, and stripping away protections people rely on — from emergency weapons sales and a backroom Montana handoff to attacks on climate authority, frozen drought aid, dark money, and renewed surveillance.

But this is not the end of the story. States are suing. Judges are pushing back. Communities are learning, organizing, and refusing to look away.

Hope does not come from those abusing power. It comes from people who keep showing up, speaking out, defending one another, and turning truth into action. Power still belongs to the people — and together, we can protect our communities and each other.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

⚔️ Trump used “emergency” powers to arm foreign nations. The administration pushed through more than $23 billion in weapons sales to the UAE, Kuwait, and Jordan without a congressional vote. Why it matters: when presidents can declare an emergency and bypass Congress, constitutional war powers are being ignored. New York Times

🗳️ Montana Republicans sidelined voters. A senator withdrew just after the filing deadline, clearing the path for a Trump-backed successor and shutting out real competition. Why it matters: democracy is hollowed out when insiders handpick power before voters cast a ballot. Seattle Times

✈️ Congress skipped the pain it created. While TSA officers worked unpaid and travelers faced huge airport lines, lawmakers kept using an expedited security perk. Why it matters: when leaders are insulated from the harm they cause, accountability collapses. The Hill

⚖️ States and cities are defending the EPA’s climate authority. Twenty-four states, ten cities, and five counties sued over repeal of the EPA endangerment finding. Why it matters: gutting it would cripple federal climate protections for years. Seattle Times

💸 The administration’s climate “savings” claim falls apart. Fact-checking found the touted $1.3 trillion ignores benefits, while EPA analysis points to major net costs. Why it matters: polluter math leaves working families paying more. Mother Jones

🌾 Farmers and tribal communities were left waiting for drought aid. Up to $400 million in promised USDA water-saving grants has been frozen without explanation. Why it matters: climate denial gets real fast when drought-hit communities lose promised help. Mother Jones

🦋 Monarch butterflies are rebounding — but still vulnerable. The eastern monarch population rose 64% this winter, though it remains far below historic levels. Why it matters: recovery is possible only if habitat and climate protections stay in place. The Guardian

🗳️ AIPAC poured $21 million into Illinois primaries. The spending targeted Democrats unwilling to offer unconditional support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Why it matters: when outside money floods primaries, donors can drown out voters. The New York Times

🕵️ Democrats drew a line on warrantless surveillance. House Democrats united against a clean Section 702 renewal without reforms. Why it matters: unchecked spying powers in authoritarian hands threaten democracy. The Hill

⚖️ Klobuchar moved to check monopoly-friendly deals. Her bill would require real court review of antitrust settlements and expose side deals. Why it matters: consumers lose when enforcement becomes a favor bank for corporate power. The Hill

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 💥 Take action: Tell Republicans: End the Shutdown by Reforming ICE and CBP

• Take action: Find a NO KINGS Event near you

• Take action: Sign up for How to have conversations about No Kings that move people

• Take action: Host a NO KINGS event

• Take action: Learn more about the NO KINGS Movement

• Take action: Tell Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution and stop Trump’s illegal war in Iran

• 📢 Take action: Submit an official comment rejecting the criminalization of dissent

• 💸 Take action: This Tax Day, tell Congress to tax the rich and make life more affordable for working people and families

• 🗳️ Take action: Tell Congress to stop the SAVE America Act and defend the right to vote

• 🪖 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran and vote no on the draft

• 🛑 Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

These are not random headlines. They are warning signs of a governing strategy built to sideline the public, reward insiders, weaken accountability, and force ordinary people to absorb the damage. Emergency weapons sales without a vote. Backroom political deals that lock voters out. Climate protections gutted while drought aid sits frozen. Dark money flooding elections. Surveillance powers expanded while corporate monopolies get a wink and a nod. This is what corruption looks like when it stops pretending to be normal.

But the story does not end with abuse. Across the country, people are rising. States and cities are going to court. Lawmakers are drawing hard lines against warrantless spying and corporate giveaways. Communities are refusing silence, refusing cynicism, and refusing to hand over democracy to donors, profiteers, and power-hungry elites. People power is not a slogan. It is the force that disrupts their plans.

Hope is not soft. Hope is organized. Hope is neighbors telling the truth out loud, communities protecting one another, and ordinary people showing up again and again until justice cannot be ignored. Accountability does not appear because the powerful grow a conscience. We build it. We demand it. We sustain it. The work is ours. The future is ours. And the power is still in the hands of the people.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

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This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

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On March 23, 2026, the pattern is clear: those in power are trying to erase climate truth, gut protections, and make ordinary people pay the price — from record heat driven by fossil fuels, to attacks on EPA authority, to immigrant families facing unlawful cruelty and broken public trust.

But this is not the end of the story. States are suing. Judges are pushing back. Communities are learning, organizing, and refusing to look away. From people demanding climate truth in our parks to neighbors building knowledge in virtual classrooms, resistance is alive.

Hope does not come from those abusing power. It comes from people who keep showing up, speaking out, defending one another, and turning truth into action. Power still belongs to the people — and together, we can protect our planet, our communities, and each other.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

🌡 The West Is Breaking Every March Heat Record — And Science Says Climate Change Made It Happen

• Phoenix hit 106°F, and Arizona and California broke all-time March heat records as temperatures ran 20 to 30 degrees above average. World Weather Attribution found the heatwave would have been virtually impossible without fossil fuel pollution, which added up to 7°F. The Guardian

Why This Matters: This is the climate crisis arriving ahead of schedule. Extreme heat is the deadliest weather hazard in the U.S., and early-season heat hits low-income households, outdoor workers, and frontline communities first.

🏛️ Trump Is Erasing Climate and Civil Rights History From Our Parks — While Honoring a White Supremacist

• The administration flagged park exhibits on slavery, Native history, civil rights, and climate change for removal, while the Newlands Memorial fountain honoring a white supremacist remains untouched. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: Erasing climate science and civil rights history while preserving white supremacist monuments is a choice to protect power and bury truth.

⚖️ Trump Gutted the EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change — 24 States Are Suing to Get It Back

• In February 2026, the administration repealed the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, the legal basis for major federal climate rules. On March 19, twenty-four states, D.C., and others sued to restore it. The Hill

Why This Matters: The science did not change. The policy changed to protect fossil fuel profits while communities face more heat, floods, and dirty air.

📚 Fearing Climate Chaos, New Yorkers Are Turning to Virtual Classrooms for Answers

• As climate anxiety grows, people across New York are joining online classes and workshops to learn, prepare, and organize. New York State also mandated K-12 climate education. New York Times

Why This Matters: Education is resistance. Informed communities are harder to mislead and better prepared to act.

💰 IRS Broke Federal Law By Sharing Taxpayer Addresses With ICE 42,695 Times, Judge Rules

• A federal judge ruled the IRS unlawfully shared confidential taxpayer home addresses with ICE about 42,695 times under a data-sharing arrangement the court called “patently deficient.” Seattle Times

Why This Matters: Immigrants who paid taxes and followed the rules were betrayed by the government’s misuse of private information.

🌎 Deporting People to Countries They’ve Never Lived In — With Six Hours’ Notice — Is Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules

• A federal judge in Boston ruled ICE’s third-country deportation policy unconstitutional, finding six hours’ notice does not satisfy due process. Truthout

Why This Matters: Six hours is not due process. It is designed to move people before lawyers or courts can stop an unlawful deportation.

🍁 Canadian Mom With Valid Work Visa and Autistic 7-Year-Old Daughter Detained at Texas Checkpoint, Sent to Dilley

• Tania Warner, a Canadian woman living legally in Texas on a valid work visa, and her autistic seven-year-old daughter were detained at an interior checkpoint and sent to Dilley after a routine trip home. The Guardian

Why This Matters: Legal status is no longer a shield. The checkpoint is the new border.

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• Take action: Tell Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution and stop Trump’s illegal war in Iran

• 📢 Take action: Submit an official comment rejecting the criminalization of dissent

• 💸 Take action: This Tax Day, tell Congress to tax the rich and make life more affordable for working people and families

• 🗳️ Take action: Tell Congress to stop the SAVE America Act and defend the right to vote

• 🪖 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran and vote no on the draft

• 🛑 Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

Today’s stories are not isolated headlines. They reveal a broader strategy: erase truth, weaken protections, criminalize vulnerability, and make ordinary people carry the cost — whether through climate denial in our parks, attacks on the EPA’s power, unlawful data-sharing with ICE, or detentions and deportations that ignore basic human dignity and due process.

But this is not the whole story. States are suing. Judges are pushing back. Communities are learning, organizing, and refusing to be silenced. From people defending climate truth to neighbors building knowledge in virtual classrooms, the answer to abuse of power is still people power.

Hope is not passive. It is what we build when we tell the truth, protect one another, and keep showing up. Accountability does not survive on its own — people organize it into existence. And that means the work is still ours, and so is the power.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

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On March 21, 2026, the pattern is not coincidental — when power moves this fast to silence the press, criminalize protest, and intimidate witnesses, it is not chaos; it is a plan.

Institutions built to check power are being turned against the people they were designed to protect. The Pentagon threatens Stars and Stripes journalists with court-martial. The Federal Communications Commission chairman uses license revocation to silence Iran war coverage. Federal agents follow legal observers home and shout their addresses at them from moving vehicles. A Texas jury convicts eight people of terrorism for the clothes they wore to a protest. Yet resistance is growing: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's ten months of dissent forced proper oral arguments for 356,000 people facing deportation, a federal judge blocked Arkansas from posting religion in public school classrooms, and thousands in Minneapolis turned collective grief into defiance.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

⚖️ Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Solo Dissents Appear to Have Moved the Supreme Court and Saved Temporary Protected Status for Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants

• After ten months of solo dissents warning that the conservative majority was misusing the shadow docket to rush deportations, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appears to have forced a course correction. The Supreme Court moved Temporary Protected Status cases for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians to full oral arguments in April. (Slate)

🗣️ Chief Justice Roberts Warns That Personal Attacks on Judges Are “Dangerous” but Won’t Name the President Doing It

• Chief Justice John Roberts called personal hostility toward judges dangerous, his first public statement since the president targeted justices who ruled against his tariffs. Roberts declined to name the president; more than 560 violent threats against federal judges were reported last year. (Bloomberg)

✝️ Federal Judge Permanently Blocks Arkansas Law Requiring the Ten Commandments in Every Public School Classroom

• United States District Judge Timothy Brooks permanently blocked Arkansas Act 573, ruling it a clear First Amendment violation. Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced plans to appeal. (Truthout)

🕯️ Grief Is Resistance: How Public Mourning Is Building the Courage to Keep Dissenting

• After federal forces killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, thousands gathered at Powderhorn Park for a public memorial blending Indigenous ceremony, song, and collective mourning. Organizers argue public grief is a proven political strategy rooted in labor and human rights movements that honor the fallen to sustain the living. Truthout

🏳️‍⚧️ The Supreme Court Used the Shadow Docket to Strip Privacy Protections from Transgender Students

• In a 6-to-3 ruling without oral arguments, the conservative majority required educators to disclose students’ gender identity to parents even when doing so could endanger the child. Justice Elena Kagan dissented, accusing the majority of using procedural shortcuts to bypass the court’s own deliberative processes. Slate

✈️ The Administration Launched a War With No Plan to Bring Americans Home

• When the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28, tens of thousands of American citizens were in the region with no government evacuation plan. Senator Elizabeth Warren stated the administration planned the war for months without safeguarding Americans abroad. Seattle Times

👁️ Federal Agents Are Tracking Legal Observers and Showing Up at Their Homes

• Immigration agents in Minnesota identified civilian legal observers by name and home address, following them after lawful monitoring of enforcement operations. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit arguing the conduct violates First and Fourth Amendment protections. The Intercept

⛽ Energy Secretary Admits There Are No Guarantees Gas Prices Will Drop After the Administration’s War on Iran

• Gas prices have surged more than 76 cents per gallon since strikes on Iran began, with department projections showing no return to pre-war levels before the end of 2027. HuffPost

📰 Secretary Hegseth Moves to Turn the Stars and Stripes Military Newspaper Into a Pentagon Propaganda Arm

• A Pentagon memo requires Stars and Stripes to publish content consistent with military discipline standards, language that could expose active-duty reporters to court-martial. The memo also bars wire services including the Associated Press, cutting deployed troops off from independent news. Mother Jones

📡 Federal Communications Commission Chair Threatens to Strip Television Licenses Over Iran War Coverage

• The Federal Communications Commission chairman threatened to revoke broadcast licenses from stations accused of distorting Iran war coverage, directly echoing the president’s complaints. The move follows regulatory intimidation that already led a network to spike a political interview. Mother Jones

✊ Wearing Black to a Protest Is Now “Terrorism” Under the Trump Administration

• A federal jury in Texas convicted eight people of material support for terrorism for wearing all-black clothing to a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, even though only one person fired a weapon. Legal experts warn the verdict sets a precedent for criminalizing constitutionally protected protest. Truthout

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• Take action: Tell Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution and stop Trump’s illegal war in Iran

• 📢 Take action: Submit an official comment rejecting the criminalization of dissent

• 💸 Take action: This Tax Day, tell Congress to tax the rich and make life more affordable for working people and families

• 🗳️ Take action: Tell Congress to stop the SAVE America Act and defend the right to vote

• 🪖 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran and vote no on the draft

• 🛑 Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

Today's stories are not eleven separate events but a single deliberate strategy: silence the press, criminalize protest, strip rights through procedural shortcuts, and leave Americans stranded in a war zone the administration chose to create. The message is consistent — accountability has a price. And still, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson forced real arguments for 356,000 families, Judge Timothy Brooks blocked Arkansas from posting religion in classrooms, and thousands in Minneapolis turned grief into defiance. Accountability does not disappear when power tries to bury it. It gets organized back into existence. Show up. Stay in. The work is ours.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

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This week's stories share a single spine: what happens when power operates without accountability — to law, to the courts, or to the people it is supposed to serve. From a deputy attorney general burying a federal investigation and surveilling legislators, to ICE declaring a court settlement "not applicable," to eight people convicted of terrorism for the color of their clothing, the pattern is consistent: institutions are not just bending the rules — they are declaring openly that the rules no longer apply. The costs land where they always do: families dropping Medicaid to keep disabled children safe, a nine-year-old with autism in a detention cell, and reproductive rights dismantled through federal legislation and mislabeled ballot measures. And yet resistance persists — in senators forcing the DOJ to answer, in 22 states suing to protect patient data, in Kansas organizers who beat this before. The question before us is not whether the damage is real — it is who will organize to stop it.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

🕵️ DOJ Blocking Epstein Files & Surveilling Congress Deputy AG Todd Blanche — Trump’s former personal attorney — personally intervened to stop the DEA from releasing an unredacted 69-page Epstein investigation file. Senators Wyden and Whitehouse allege the DOJ is hiding files in a “black box” and surveilling legislators who try to view them. Bloomberg

💰 Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act Senators Whitehouse and Representative Ro Khanna reintroduced a 50% tax on war-inflated oil profits, returning money to families via quarterly rebates. Gas prices have jumped from $2.94 to $3.84 since the war began. The Guardian

⚖️ Equal Tax Act: Make Billionaires Pay Like the Rest of Us Senator Markey introduced legislation ensuring investment income is taxed at the same rate as wages — closing loopholes that let billionaires pay lower rates than nurses and teachers. Common Dreams

🌍 Democrats Shifting on Israel Ahead of 2026 Democratic candidates are facing voters increasingly critical of unconditional military aid to Israel. AIPAC has spent nearly $14 million targeting four Illinois House races alone. Gov. Newsom used the word “apartheid” to describe West Bank policies. NPR

💊 Hawley Bill Would Revoke FDA Approval of Mifepristone Senator Hawley introduced federal legislation directing the FDA to withdraw approval of mifepristone — used in more than half of all U.S. abortions and in miscarriage care — making its distribution a federal crime. Truthout

🎭 Kansas Republicans Disguise Personhood Amendment as “Equal Rights” Bill SCR 1623 would amend the Kansas Constitution to grant rights “beginning at conception” — but is labeled an “equal rights amendment” in official documents. Kansas voters rejected a nearly identical measure 59-41% in 2022. Truthout

👶 900+ Children Held Illegally Past 20-Day Limit Over 900 children were detained past the Flores Settlement limit; ~270 for over 40 days. A 9-year-old with severe autism spent 80 days in custody while an ICE officer told his father the settlement “is not applicable.” NBC News

⚕️ Medicaid Data Is Now a Deportation Weapon Following a December ruling, Medicaid can share enrollees’ immigration status with ICE — with no restrictions in 28 states. Families, including a mother of a child with Rett Syndrome, are dropping coverage to avoid detention. 22 states have sued. NPR

✊ Wearing Black to a Protest Is Now a Terrorism Conviction Eight people were convicted of material support for terrorism for attending a July 4th ICE protest in black clothing. Only one person fired a weapon. The AG promised more prosecutions. The Intercept

⚖️ Judge Orders ICE to Restore Right to Counsel in Minneapolis A Trump-appointed federal judge ruled ICE “all but extinguished” detainees’ right to counsel during Operation Metro Surge — flying people to Texas within hours, blocking attorney visits, and pressuring detainees to sign removal forms without lawyers present. The Guardian

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• Take action: Tell Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution and stop Trump’s illegal war in Iran

• 📢 Take action: Submit an official comment rejecting the criminalization of dissent

• 💸 Take action: This Tax Day, tell Congress to tax the rich and make life more affordable for working people and families

• 🗳️ Take action: Tell Congress to stop the SAVE America Act and defend the right to vote

• 🪖 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran and vote no on the draft

• 🛑 Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

This week’s stories are not eleven separate events. They are one story told eleven ways — about what it costs when power goes unchecked. A deputy attorney general surveilling the senators who dare to ask questions. ICE agents telling a father, to his face, that a court order no longer applies. Eight people convicted of terrorism for wearing black to a protest. Medicaid data turned into a deportation weapon. Reproductive rights dismantled through federal legislation, mislabeled amendments, and quietly rewritten medical law. The throughline is always the same: the people who bear the cost are never the people who made the decision.

And yet the resistance is working. Senators Wyden and Whitehouse are forcing the DOJ to answer publicly for its surveillance. Twenty-two states are in court fighting to protect patient data. Kansas organizers beat a personhood amendment before — by 18 points — and they are ready to do it again. A Trump-appointed judge ruled that ICE “all but extinguished” the right to counsel and ordered it restored. None of these are final victories. But all of them prove that accountability doesn’t disappear — it gets organized back into existence. Show up. Stay in. The work is ours.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

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This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

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These are the stories the powerful would rather keep in the dark. These are the realities they hope never break through the noise.

Somehow, there is always money for war, weapons, detention, and deportation. But when people demand affordable housing, accessible healthcare, strong public schools, or relief from crushing costs at the gas pump, grocery store, and kitchen table, we are told to lower our expectations.

That is not an accident. That is a decision. And it is a decision the public deserves to see clearly.

While corporate media polishes the image of those in charge and cushions the blow of their failures, our communities are left carrying the weight. Raids. Evictions. Insulin priced out of reach. Utility shutoff notices. Underfunded schools. Families living in fear that a loved one could disappear without warning. These are not distant political talking points. They are the lived truth of millions of people whose pain is too often treated as invisible.

Power to the People News exists to make sure it is not invisible anymore.

The media has made its choice. We have made ours too.

The same billionaire interests helping erode democracy also shape much of the media environment telling people everything is fine. It is not fine. They are not telling the full story. They are not defending working people. They are protecting a system that rewards greed, normalizes cruelty, and leaves everyday people to fend for themselves.

We are not here to protect that system.
We are here to expose it.

Power to the People News answers to the people, not the powerful. We report on the stories those in power would rather bury. We name the corruption money tries to hide. We shine a light on injustice carried out behind official statements, polished headlines, and empty promises.

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Because people deserve honesty.
Because when people understand what is happening, they can organize.

And when people organize, they create power.
When people create power, they can change what comes next.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🗳️ Take action: Stop Republicans’ new attack on voting rights

• ⚖️ Take action: Tell the DOJ to remove Trump’s banner from headquarters

• 🛡️ Take action: Tell Social Security to stop sharing data with ICE

• 📂 Take action: Demand transparency and release the names in the Epstein files

• 💳 Take action: Tell Congress to cap credit card interest rates at 10%

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.

The movement for defending and protecting democracy starts here.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

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This week's stories share a single spine: what happens when power operates without accountability — to law, to the planet, or to the people it governs. From Trump-appointed judges backing his administration 97% of the time, to sweeping voting restrictions designed to keep millions from the ballot box, to a world hurtling past 1.5°C while the U.S. abandons climate commitments entirely, the pattern is consistent: those who wield authority face no consequences, while those with the least power absorb the most harm. And yet resistance persists — in a congresswoman forcing lawmakers on record to defend the Fourteenth Amendment, in a military archbishop telling troops they may refuse illegal orders, even in a tiny wildflower that evolved its way back from extinction. The question before us is not whether the damage is real — it is who will organize to stop it.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

🌡️ UN Climate Chief: The Iran War Is an “Abject Lesson” in Fossil Fuel Dependence Speaking at the 2026 Green Growth Summit in Brussels, the UN’s top climate official declared that the energy chaos from the Iran war is a direct consequence of fossil fuel dependence. Fossil fuel dependency is “ripping away national security and sovereignty.” Sunlight doesn’t depend on vulnerable shipping straits. In 2025, clean energy renewables overtook coal as the world’s top electricity source, with $2 trillion invested in clean energy — double fossil fuels. UN News / Reuters

🌸 A Tiny Flower Just Proved That Life Will Fight to Survive A landmark Science study documents the first-ever “evolutionary rescue” in wild plants. Researchers tracked the scarlet monkeyflower through California’s 2012–2015 drought and found populations facing extinction rapidly evolved genetic adaptations and rebounded. Scientists caution this won’t work for every species, but it opens new frontiers for conservation planning. USA Today

⚠️ The World Is on Track to Breach 1.5°C Before 2030 New analysis across five global temperature datasets confirms the world will breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit before 2030 — 15 years earlier than projected. The EU responded with a 90% emissions reduction target by 2040. The US under Trump has abandoned protecting the planet entirely. World Economic Forum

⚖️ Trump’s Hand-Picked Judges Are Voting For Him 97% of the Time An analysis of federal appeals court rulings found Trump-appointed judges sided with his administration on emergency stays 97% of the time. Three more conservative judges are now stepping into semi-retirement, giving Trump new vacancies to fill before the midterms. New York Times

🗽 Congress Fights Back: Resolution to Defend the Fourteenth Amendment Rep. Rashida Tlaib and thirteen co-sponsors introduced a resolution calling on Congress to recommit to defending the Fourteenth Amendment — birthright citizenship, due process, and equal protection — as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on Trump’s executive order targeting it. Rep. Tlaib’s Office

🗳️ Republicans Unveil the “MEGA Act” — A National Voter Suppression Blueprint House Republicans unveiled the Make Elections Great Again Act, the most sweeping federal voting restrictions ever attempted. Paired with the SAVE Act’s citizenship documentation requirement, experts warn millions would be disenfranchised — especially married women, rural voters, and communities of color. 69 million Americans lack a birth certificate in their current name. Half don’t have a passport. Democracy News

✝️ Catholic Military Archbishop Tells Troops: You May Disobey Illegal Orders As the Trump administration threatened military force to seize Greenland and deployed troops to Venezuela, the Catholic archbishop for the U.S. armed forces said it “would be morally acceptable” for troops to refuse orders violating their conscience. Three top cardinals simultaneously issued a rare joint statement questioning U.S. foreign policy’s “moral foundation.” Washington Post

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🛑 Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

• 👉 Take Action Now: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

• 📩 Take action: Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act bills

• ⚡ Take action: Tell Congress to subpoena Hegseth about the Iran school attack

• 👉 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran — and vote no on the draft

• 📞 Take action: Call Congress at (202) 224-3121 today — and every day until the vote — and urge your senators and representative to vote no on Mullins for DHS and NO on the SAVE ACT

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack. The Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action is now available.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

This week’s stories are not seven separate events. They are one story told seven ways — about what it costs when power goes unchecked. Judges installed to serve an administration rather than the law. Voting restrictions engineered to keep millions from the ballot box. A planet pushed past 1.5°C while the country that did the most damage walks away from the table. The throughline is always the same: the people who bear the cost are never the people who made the decision.

And yet the resistance is working. A congresswoman forced her colleagues on record to defend the Fourteenth Amendment. A military archbishop told troops they have the moral right to refuse illegal orders. Three Catholic cardinals broke with silence to question the foundations of U.S. foreign policy. And a wildflower in California — facing extinction in a historic drought — evolved fast enough to survive. None of these are final victories. But all of them prove that organized people, and even nature itself, push back against the machinery of harm. Show up. Stay in. The work is ours.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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These are the stories they hope you miss. These are the truths they do not want you to see.

Our government can always seem to find billions for bombs, military operations, detention centers, and deportations. But when people ask for affordable housing, accessible healthcare, strong public schools, or relief from rising gas, grocery, and electricity bills, we are told there is no money left.

That is not just policy. That is a choice. And it is a story that deserves to be told.

While corporate media softens the truth and protects the powerful, our communities are living the consequences. Raids. Evictions. Insulin people cannot afford. Utility shutoff notices. Crumbling schools. Neighbors taken without warning. These are not abstract political debates. They are daily realities for millions of people whose lives rarely make the front page.

Power to the People News exists to change that.

The media has picked a side. So have we.

The same billionaire class helping dismantle democracy also has enormous influence over the media landscape telling you not to worry. They are not speaking for working people. They are not telling the full truth. They are defending a system that rewards greed, excuses cruelty, and abandons everyday communities.

We are not here to protect that system.

Power to the People News is independent, bold, and accountable only to the people. We cover the stories the powerful would rather bury. We expose what money and influence work overtime to conceal. We shine a light on injustice, corruption, and abuse carried out in the name of the public.

Because when people know the truth, they can organize.
When people organize, they build power.
And when people build power, they can change the story.

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Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🗳️ Take action: Stop Republicans’ new attack on voting rights

• ⚖️ Take action: Tell the DOJ to remove Trump’s banner from headquarters

• 🛡️ Take action: Tell Social Security to stop sharing data with ICE

• 📂 Take action: Demand transparency and release the names in the Epstein files

• 💳 Take action: Tell Congress to cap credit card interest rates at 10%

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.

The movement for defending and protecting democracy starts here.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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This week's stories share a single spine: what happens when power operates without accountability — to law, to the people it governs, or to the bodies it controls. From pregnant children in federal custody being funneled into states where abortion is banned, to a nearly blind refugee left alone in sub-freezing temperatures, to a Supreme Court justice who reversed his own recusal to rule on a case tied to his billionaire friend's investments, the pattern is consistent: those who wield authority face no consequences, while those with the least power absorb the most harm. The question before us is not whether the damage is real — it is who will organize to stop it.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

Reproductive Freedom

The Trump administration is transferring all pregnant unaccompanied minors in federal custody to a single shelter in San Benito, Texas — a state where abortion is nearly entirely banned. Some girls are as young as 13, and at least half became pregnant through rape. A former federal official confirmed the move is “100% and exclusively about abortion.” — The Guardian

Maine’s June 9 Democratic primary has become a national flashpoint. Abortion groups endorsed Gov. Janet Mills over polling-leader Graham Platner, largely because Mills supports keeping the Senate filibuster — the barrier blocking the Women’s Health Protection Act from becoming law. — Slate

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed legislation freeing 30,000 stockpiled mifepristone doses from a cost-recovery requirement that had left them sitting unused and nearly expired. The fix comes as federal lawsuits threaten to ban telehealth abortion prescriptions nationwide. — Seattle Times

ICE Accountability

René López, a U.S. citizen since 1998 through derivative citizenship, spent three years in ICE detention after agents arrested him despite having previously confirmed his citizenship. The 4th Circuit ordered his release last month. He now carries the court ruling everywhere, knowing it may not be enough if agents stop him again. — NBC News

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind 56-year-old Rohingya refugee, was released from Border Patrol custody and dropped alone at a closed Tim Hortons in near-freezing Buffalo temperatures — miles from his home, with no English, and no notification to family or attorneys. His body was found five days later. CBP called it a “courtesy ride to a warm, safe location.” — The Guardian

Body camera footage from local officers directly contradicts DHS’s account of the 2025 killing of 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez, showing his car barely moving with brake lights on when he was shot. DHS had claimed he intentionally struck an agent. No federal charges were filed; the key eyewitness died before giving a sworn statement. — Washington Post

Courts & Democracy

The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in April on whether the administration can strip Temporary Protected Status from roughly 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. In a rare departure, the Court declined to immediately lift protections. — (Bloomberg)

The Alabama Supreme Court expanded stop-and-identify powers, ruling police can demand physical ID from anyone who gives an “incomplete” verbal answer. The case stemmed from the 2022 arrest of Black pastor Michael Jennings, who was stopped while watering a neighbor’s flowers and arrested after declining to show ID — despite being confirmed innocent by the neighbor who called 911. — (Seattle Times)

Justice Samuel Alito reversed his own recusal to participate in a Supreme Court climate liability case involving oil companies in which he holds significant stock — and whose petitioner, Suncor, is a major holding of his billionaire friend Paul Singer, whose private jet Alito has used. Alito offered no explanation for the reversal. — (Slate)

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 👉 Take Action Now: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

• 📩 Take action: Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act bills

• ⚡ Take action: Tell Congress to subpoena Hegseth about the Iran school attack

• 👉 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran — and vote no on the draft

• 📞 Take action: Call Congress at (202) 224-3121 today — and every day until the vote — and urge your senators and representative to vote no on Mullins for DHS and NO on the SAVE ACT

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack. The Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action is now available.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

This week’s stories are not nine separate events. They are one story told nine ways — about what it costs when power goes unchecked. Pregnant children funneled into states where abortion is banned. A nearly blind refugee abandoned in the cold. A U.S. citizen detained for three years despite a court record proving his citizenship. A justice reversing his own recusal to rule in favor of his billionaire friend’s investments. The throughline is always the same: the people who bear the cost are never the people who made the decision.

And yet the resistance is working. The 4th Circuit ordered ICE to release a man it had wrongfully detained for three years. The Supreme Court declined to strip protections from 350,000 Haitian and Syrian families while the case is heard. Washington state fixed a bureaucratic barrier that had left 30,000 doses of mifepristone sitting unused — in time to distribute them before they expired. None of these are final victories. But all of them prove that organized people can slow the machinery of harm. Show up. Stay in. The work is ours.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

Subscribe now

These are the stories they hope you miss. These are the truths they do not want you to see.

Our government can always seem to find billions for bombs, military operations, detention centers, and deportations. But when people ask for affordable housing, accessible healthcare, strong public schools, or relief from rising gas, grocery, and electricity bills, we are told there is no money left.

That is not just policy. That is a choice. And it is a story that deserves to be told.

While corporate media softens the truth and protects the powerful, our communities are living the consequences. Raids. Evictions. Insulin people cannot afford. Utility shutoff notices. Crumbling schools. Neighbors taken without warning. These are not abstract political debates. They are daily realities for millions of people whose lives rarely make the front page.

Power to the People News exists to change that.

The media has picked a side. So have we.

The same billionaire class helping dismantle democracy also has enormous influence over the media landscape telling you not to worry. They are not speaking for working people. They are not telling the full truth. They are defending a system that rewards greed, excuses cruelty, and abandons everyday communities.

We are not here to protect that system.

Power to the People News is independent, bold, and accountable only to the people. We cover the stories the powerful would rather bury. We expose what money and influence work overtime to conceal. We shine a light on injustice, corruption, and abuse carried out in the name of the public.

Because when people know the truth, they can organize.
When people organize, they build power.
And when people build power, they can change the story.

Subscribe now

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🗳️ Take action: Stop Republicans’ new attack on voting rights

• ⚖️ Take action: Tell the DOJ to remove Trump’s banner from headquarters

• 🛡️ Take action: Tell Social Security to stop sharing data with ICE

• 📂 Take action: Demand transparency and release the names in the Epstein files

• 💳 Take action: Tell Congress to cap credit card interest rates at 10%

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.

The movement for defending and protecting democracy starts here.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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This week's stories share a single spine: what happens when power operates without accountability — to law, to people, or to the planet. From the Strait of Hormuz to the Illinois primary ballot, from melting glaciers to the Senate floor, the costs of unchecked authority are landing hardest on the people least responsible for creating them. The question before us is not whether the damage is real — it is who will organize to stop it.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

The Iran War Is Now Targeting Drinking Water

Both the U.S. and Iran have been accused of striking freshwater desalination plants — the facilities that supply drinking water to millions of people across the Persian Gulf. Gulf states get up to 90% of their drinking water from desalination, and attacking those plants violates the Geneva Conventions. Climate change was already making the region more water-scarce; the war is now threatening the last lifeline. This is what fossil fuel dependence looks like at its most brutal: a region so parched it built its civilization on machine-made water, now watching those machines become military targets. Mother Jones

Oil Is Approaching $100 a Barrel — and $200 Is on the Table

With Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz — through which 20% of the world’s oil flows — Brent crude has crossed $100 a barrel, and Iran’s military has threatened to push it to $200. That threshold, economists warn, would tip the global economy into recession. The IEA has authorized the largest emergency reserve release in history, yet prices keep climbing. This is fossil fuel dependence in real time: one war, one chokepoint, and the entire global economy holds its breath. The Atlantic

Maine’s Lobster Catch Falls for the Fourth Straight Year

Maine’s lobster haul dropped to 78.8 million pounds in 2025 — its lowest level since 2008 — as warming oceans push lobsters north toward Canadian waters. The industry lost more than $75 million in value in a single year. For generations of fishing families, this is not a statistic; it is a way of life disappearing beneath the surface of a hotter sea. Maine’s lobstermen didn’t cause the climate crisis — but they are paying for it in empty traps and a future that looks nothing like the past. Seattle Times

Austria’s Glaciers Are Vanishing — 94 Out of 96 Are Retreating

A new report from the Austrian Alpine Club confirms that 94 of Austria’s 96 glaciers retreated over the past two years, with some losing more than 100 meters in length. Austria’s largest glacier, the Pasterze, is actively disintegrating. The club’s vice president was direct: it is no longer a question of saving the glaciers as they were — it is about mitigating the consequences for the people who depend on them for water, power, and agriculture. What is happening in Austria is happening everywhere. This is the long-term cost of fossil fuel politics made visible in ice. Seattle Times

Republicans Stage a Senate Talkathon for a Voter Suppression Bill They Know Will Fail

Senate Majority Leader John Thune launched a days-long — possibly weeks-long — floor talkathon this week on the SAVE America Act, Trump’s self-declared “No. 1 legislative priority.” The bill would require every American to show a passport or certified birth certificate to register to vote, locking out an estimated 21 million Americans who lack those documents. Thune admits it can’t reach 60 votes; Sen. Thom Tillis put the odds of passage at “0%.” They are debating it anyway — to set up a stolen-election narrative if Republicans lose in November. The SAVE Act is not an election security bill. It is a voter purge bill. Seattle Times

Trump’s Tariffs Will Cost Families $2,500 This Year — Even After the Supreme Court Said No

After the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s sweeping tariffs as unlawful, the administration immediately rebuilt its tariff architecture under alternative legal authorities. A study from congressional Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee finds the new regime will cost the average household $2,512 in 2026 — a 44% increase over last year — on top of Iran-war-driven gas price spikes. When the Supreme Court says no and the executive branch says “watch us,” that is the authoritarian playbook in action. Working families bear the full cost. They always do. Seattle Times

AIPAC Floods Illinois Primaries With $20 Million in Dark Money

Today is primary day in Illinois — a direct test of dark money versus people power. AIPAC-linked shell PACs have spent over $20 million across four Chicago-area congressional races, backing centrist candidates against Justice Democrats-endorsed progressives including Junaid Ahmed in the 8th District and Kat Abughazaleh in the 9th. Ahmed is running on $57,000 in PAC money against nearly $4 million in AIPAC-linked spending for his opponent; in a last-ditch move, AIPAC-linked PACs even ran ads boosting a fringe candidate to split Abughazaleh’s vote. “Right now, this race is unlimited money versus people power,” Ahmed said. Follow the results tonight. Axios

The Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Deportation of 356,000 Haitians and Syrians

The Supreme Court halted Trump’s plan to strip Temporary Protected Status from roughly 6,000 Syrians and 350,000 Haitians, blocking their deportation while cases continue. In an unsigned order, the Court set expedited arguments for April — with a final ruling expected by end of June — on whether TPS designations are reviewable by courts at all. Haitians have held these protections since a catastrophic 2010 earthquake; Syrians since 2012 — and Trump himself extended their status in his first term. This temporary stay buys time, but 356,000 lives hang on what nine justices decide this summer. NPR

Trump Attacks the Supreme Court and Misrepresents Its Tariff Ruling

After the Court struck down his tariffs as unconstitutional, Trump took to Truth Social to accuse the Court of “unnecessarily ransacking” the U.S. economy and falsely claimed the ruling endorsed his “absolute right” to impose tariffs in another form — a claim fact-checkers confirm the majority opinion does not support. He then publicly praised Justices Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas — who dissented — for their “wisdom and courage.” A president publicly rewarding the justices who ruled in his favor, on a Court with no binding ethics code and no independent oversight, is not a check on power. It is judicial capture in plain sight. The Guardian

Federal Judge Orders $175 Billion in Illegal Tariff Refunds — Administration Is Already Fighting It

Judge Richard Eaton of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that all importers who paid Trump’s now-illegal IEEPA tariffs are entitled to refunds — a potential $175 billion liability for the federal government. A second federal court rejected the administration’s attempt to slow the refund process, and U.S. Customs has acknowledged its system was never designed to process refunds at this scale. The administration collected more than $130 billion under tariffs it had no legal authority to impose, and is now fighting every mechanism designed to return that money. Taxation power belongs to Congress. Courts are saying so. The administration is defying them anyway. Seattle Times

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• ⚡ Take action: Tell Congress to subpoena Hegseth about the Iran school attack

• 👉 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran — and vote no on the draft

• 🔊 Take action: Call your senator (202) 224-3121 and tell them to vote no on Mullin for DHS

• 📢 Take action: Tell state AGs to block the Warner-Paramount mega-merger

• 📋 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump’s illegal war in Iran

• 🎬 Take action: Tell your Secretary of State: No ICE at the polls

• 🚨 Take action: Speak out now to help stop the next Great Recession before it starts

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

This week’s stories are not ten separate events. They are one story told ten ways — about what it costs when power goes unchecked. Desalination plants destroyed. A $2,500 tariff bill landed on families after a court said no. Dark money purchasing congressional seats in broad daylight. Glaciers gone. Lobsters gone. The throughline is always the same: the people who bear the cost are never the people who made the decision.

And yet the resistance is working. Courts are ordering refunds the administration doesn’t want to pay. The Supreme Court blocked the deportation of 356,000 people. Organizers in Illinois forced a $20 million dark money machine to run desperate vote-splitting ads. None of these are final victories — but all of them prove that organized people can slow the machinery of harm. Show up. Stay in. The work is ours.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

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The Truth They Don’t Want You to Know. The Stories They Hope You Never See.

Our government finds billions to fund bombs, military interventions, and the detention and deportation of our neighbors — yet claims there’s nothing left for housing, healthcare, education, or relief from rising gas, food, and electricity costs.

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While corporate media looks away, sanitizes the truth, and platforming the powerful, your communities are living the real headlines. Raids. Evictions. Unaffordable insulin. Shutoff notices. Schools crumbling. Neighbors disappeared. These are not talking points — they are the lived reality of millions of Americans whose stories never make the front page.

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The Media Has Chosen Sides. So Have We.

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💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• ⚖️ Take action: Tell the DOJ to remove Trump’s banner from headquarters

• 🛡️ Take action: Tell Social Security to stop sharing data with ICE

• 📂 Take action: Demand transparency and release the names in the Epstein files

• 💳 Take action: Tell Congress to cap credit card interest rates at 10%

• 🗳️ Take action: Stop Republicans’ new attack on voting rights

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.

The movement for defending and protecting democracy starts here.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

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This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

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The stories this week share a common architecture: power being exercised in the open, with no expectation of consequence. A president rewards donors with policy. An agency builds mass detention infrastructure in secret. Allies are threatened for standing by a neighbor's sovereignty. And the authors of the blueprint being followed are bragging about it. These are not abuses hiding in the shadows — they are the system working exactly as designed.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

The Presidency as a Subscription Service

• A major investigation found that more than half of 346 large post-election donors — contributing to a fundraising haul now topping $2 billion — have directly benefited from White House actions: pardons, dropped enforcement cases, government contracts, and industry-friendly regulatory rollbacks. Corporations including ExxonMobil, Amazon, and Goldman Sachs gave and gained. One former administration official turned lobbyist described the dynamic plainly: the donors were making “business decisions.” Project 2025 explicitly called for weakening campaign finance laws and amplifying donor influence — and that vision is now government reality. Our leverage is our voice, our vote, and our organized people power. New York Times

80,000 People. Warehouses. No Convictions Required.

• Leaked internal documents reveal plans to convert industrial warehouses across seven states into mass detention hubs, each holding up to 10,000 people — the largest expansion of immigration detention in U.S. history. The system is designed as a “feeder pipeline” to accelerate deportations, even though nearly half of those currently detained have no criminal conviction or pending charge. Local officials and human rights advocates have called the plan inhumane and potentially unconstitutional. This is not immigration enforcement. It is a mass coercion apparatus, built with billions of your tax dollars, to pressure people into surrendering their legal rights. Washington Post

Threatening Allies: The Greenland Warning Europe Couldn’t Ignore

• When the administration threatened military action and punishing tariffs against eight European democracies — including the United Kingdom, France, and Germany — for sending troops to Greenland in solidarity with Denmark, it sent shockwaves through the transatlantic alliance. Trump backed down temporarily at Davos, but the warning was unmistakable. When a U.S. president threatens allied democracies with force for defending a neighbor’s sovereignty, that is not a negotiating tactic — it is a declaration of values. Project 2025 envisions an America operating outside international norms, unbound by alliances, answerable to no one. Greenland showed the world exactly what that looks like from the inside. New York Times

Project 2025 Is the Law of the Land — And Its Authors Are Proud

• One year after dismissing Project 2025 as “ridiculous” and claiming ignorance of its authors, the administration has implemented it page by page: ending DEI programs, dismantling the Department of Education, mass immigration enforcement, overhauling the federal workforce. California AG Rob Bonta, who used the document to prepare legal challenges, called it the defining blueprint of Trump’s first year back in power. One of its lead architects compared watching the executive orders to seeing his sketchbook come to life on screen. The gaslighting is over. Project 2025 is not a conspiracy theory — it is the operating system of the current federal government, and the people who wrote it are proud of what they’ve done. NPR

💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🐊 Take action: Shut down Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp

• 💰 Take action: Tell Congress to end the cash-for-deportation scheme

• 🛡️ Take action: Tell Social Security to stop sharing data with ICE

• ⚖️ Take action: Demand accountability for the fatal Minneapolis ICE shooting

• 📣 Take action: Tell Congress to investigate ICE retaliation against protests

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

What makes this week’s stories different from simple scandal is the openness. The donor-to-policy pipeline is documented and defended. The warehouse detention network is under construction and on schedule. The Project 2025 architects are giving interviews. When a government stops hiding what it’s doing, it’s because it no longer believes there will be consequences. That belief is the thing we have to break.

Consequences come from organized people. They come from attorneys general like Rob Bonta who read the blueprint and prepared legal challenges before the orders were even signed. They come from local officials in Social Circle, Georgia — a Trump-supporting town — who are saying no to a 10,000-bed detention facility dropped on their water system without a phone call. They come from the communities, workers, and voters who are refusing to normalize what they are watching unfold.

Democracy is not self-sustaining. It requires people who treat it as worth defending — in courtrooms, in city councils, at the ballot box, and in the streets. The work has always been ours. Right now, it is more urgent than it has been in a long time.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

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Something is being tested right now — not just policies, but the foundational commitments of democratic life. Across the country, the same pattern is playing out in different arenas: those with power quietly expanding it, and those without it finding ways to push back. The stories below are not isolated incidents. They are a portrait of a system under pressure, and of people refusing to simply accept it.

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💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🔊 Tell Congress: Block Trump’s Election Denier Pick to Lead DHS,

  👉 Power up: Reject Markwayne Mullins Confirmation, ☎️ Call your Senator at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to vote NO on Mullin for DHS

• 📢 Be the change Tell State AGs: Block the Warner-Paramount Mega-Merger

• Make your voice heard: 🚫 Not One Dime for Trump’s War, 📋 Sign the petition: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

• 🎬 Speak out now: Tell Your Secretary of State: No ICE at the Polls.

• 🚨Use your voice: Stop the next Great Recession before it starts

• BONUS: 🗳️ Make your voice heard Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• BONUS: 👑🚫 Drive the change Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

The Surveillance Dressed as Safety

• A bipartisan package of “child online safety” bills — including the Kids Online Safety Act — is advancing through the House. The catch: there is no way to verify age without verifying identity, which means these laws would effectively end online anonymity for everyone. Civil liberties groups warn the result would be mass surveillance that exposes whistleblowers, protest organizers, undocumented immigrants, and LGBTQ+ youth. The Heritage Foundation has publicly stated it intends to use KOSA to scrub LGBTQIA+ and abortion content from the internet. And the primary beneficiaries of mandatory ID verification? The very Big Tech companies — including Meta and Elon Musk’s X — that these bills claim to regulate. The Intercept

A War Nobody Voted For

• Six days of Operation Epic Fury cost more than $11.3 billion, according to a closed-door Pentagon briefing to senators — and that number doesn’t include personnel, preparation, or ongoing operations. Munitions replacement costs alone exceed $10 billion. Trump called it a “short-term excursion.” His Defense Secretary called it “only just the beginning.” Seven American service members have died. Congress was never asked to authorize any of it. Politico / NBC News

Stripping Workers, One Contract at a Time

• The Treasury Department has unilaterally terminated collective bargaining agreements covering roughly 150,000 federal workers across 37 agencies — stripping union representation in disciplinary cases and halting ongoing negotiations. A federal court issued an injunction to block it. A Ninth Circuit panel cleared the way anyway. Workers remain on the job while the ground shifts beneath them. Seattle Times / AP

Detroit’s Line in the Sand

• Detroit police officers violated department policy by calling Border Patrol during routine traffic stops, leading to detentions of immigrants who hadn’t been charged with any crime. When the chief initially moved to fire the officers, ICE posted on X encouraging them to join federal ranks. He backed down. The city has maintained a welcoming policy since 2007. The federal government is now working to dismantle it. Guardian

The Electoral Endgame

• The Trump administration is pushing legislation that would impose strict federal voter ID requirements and expand state authority over election administration in ways critics say open the door to partisan interference. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and administrative manipulation are not new tools — but the scale, speed, and institutional backing are. This is Project 2025’s electoral strategy moving toward law. Mother Jones

Children Detained for Protesting

• In Quakertown, Pennsylvania, a student protest against ICE led to police confrontations, arrests, and extended juvenile detention. Video of the confrontations spread quickly. Parents and community members are demanding answers about why minors exercising their constitutional right to protest were held — and what message authorities intended to send. Seattle Times

Bureaucratic Punishment, No Law Required

• Immigrants released from ICE detention are reporting that their documents — work permits, identification cards — were kept by the agency, making it nearly impossible to work, access services, or rebuild their lives. No judge ordered it. No law requires it. It is administrative punishment carried out without review. Mother Jones

The True Cost of Oil Dependency

• The U.S.-Israeli operation on Iran sent oil prices surging, disrupted global shipping, and spiked U.S. gas prices by more than 25 cents per gallon in a single week. Meanwhile, Greenland’s fishermen — on an island the Trump administration covets but whose people it ignores — are watching their livelihoods dissolve as Arctic sea ice retreats, fishing waters shift, and halibut populations shrink from desperate overfishing. And scientists publishing in Science warn that Trump’s rollback of Endangered Species Act protections, combined with NOAA’s pivot from ocean science to mineral prospecting, may accelerate irreversible coral reef collapse before the next El Niño even arrives in 2026. Taken together, these are not separate crises. They are the compounding costs of choosing extraction over resilience. Seattle Times

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

None of what’s described here is inevitable — and none of it will reverse itself. Writing in The Nation, commentators are calling on Democrats to establish a formal, public-facing accountability project: documenting abuses, building an evidentiary record, developing legal theories for future prosecution. The argument is simple. Impunity accelerates authoritarian behavior. When officials believe consequences are impossible, abuses escalate. Accountability, even prospective accountability, raises the political cost of lawbreaking now.

But formal institutions are only one part of the response. The rest belongs to people — communities demanding answers in Quakertown, Detroit residents pushing back against federal pressure, scientists issuing public warnings at professional and personal risk, workers refusing to quietly accept the erasure of their rights. Democracy does not sustain itself. It is sustained by people who treat it as something worth defending.

That work has always been ours. Right now, it is more urgent than it has been in a long time.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

Join the Resistance

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

The blueprint for fascism is written. The resistance starts here.

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We’re not staying quiet. Power to the People News exists to name what’s happening, connect the dots, and fuel what comes next. If accountability is going to mean anything in this moment, it will be because ordinary people stayed informed, stayed organized, and stayed in it.

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💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🚫 Block Trump’s Election Denier Pick to Lead DHS

• 📢 Be the change Tell State AGs: Block the Warner-Paramount Mega-Merger

• 📋 Sign the petition: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

• 👉 Drive the change Tell Congress: End the Cash-for-Deportation Scheme

• 🚨 Speak out for progress Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan: 4,000 New Oil Spills

• BONUS: 🗳️ Make your voice heard Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• BONUS: 👑🚫 Drive the change Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

🚨 ICE Agents Posed as Police to Arrest Columbia Student

• ICE agents entered a Columbia University residential building by fabricating a missing-child emergency—producing a flyer for a fictional five-year-old—to arrest Azerbaijani senior Ellie Aghayeva. She was later released after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised her case directly with the Trump administration. Retired officers warn that the tactic, part of a documented pattern of agents posing as utility workers, delivery drivers, and police, may cause communities to hesitate to cooperate with real emergency responders. (The Seattle Times)

Why it matters: An agency that impersonates police corrodes the trust that makes emergency policing possible. The next time a real officer needs cooperation from a fearful community, this deception may cost lives.

🎓 Wrongly Deported Student Stranded in Honduras After Court Defied

• Babson College freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloza—mistakenly deported to Honduras while flying home for Thanksgiving—refused a court-ordered return flight after the Trump administration made clear she would be immediately re-deported upon landing. ICE simultaneously told her she would be released while filing paperwork asserting its intent to deport her again. Her attorney called it outright “gamesmanship.” (The New York Times)

Why it matters: A judge issued an explicit order. The government acknowledged its own error. Neither mattered. When due process is optional, no one is safe.

🎸 Radiohead Demands ICE Remove Unauthorized Use of Their Music

• Radiohead demanded that ICE pull a promotional video that used their 1997 song “Let Down”—without permission—as a soundtrack for immigration enforcement propaganda. The band’s statement ended with a direct expletive aimed at ICE. Similar unauthorized uses of music by Sabrina Carpenter and Theo Von have drawn similar rebukes. (NBC News)

Why it matters: The administration is systematically co-opting popular culture to launder its deportation campaign into emotionally resonant content. Artists are an unexpected front line of resistance—and their pushback exposes the machinery.

♠️ ICE’s “Death Cards” Echo Vietnam-Era Psychological Terror

• After what local advocates described as fake traffic stops in Eagle County, Colorado, ICE agents left behind customized ace-of-spades cards printed with the “ICE Denver Field Office” address—a direct echo of kill trophies used by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. The Nation connects the incident to a documented pattern of ICE brutality, including illegal arrests, banned chokeholds, and the shooting deaths of at least five people—including two legal observers—since September. (The Nation)

Why it matters: This is not agents going rogue. It is a deliberate cultivation of violence-as-branding by an agency operating without accountability. When enforcement adopts the language of wartime killing, it is a signal—not an accident.

⚖️ Alito Retirement Speculation Grows

Speculation is mounting about Justice Samuel Alito’s potential retirement. His departure could significantly shift the Court’s ideological balance—in either direction—depending on the political moment in which it occurs. Timing is everything, and public pressure on that timing is not misplaced. (Slate)

💊 Homicide Bills Stall—But Attacks on Abortion Medication Continue

• Republican-backed bills in Illinois, Tennessee, and South Dakota that sought to classify abortion as homicide have stalled or collapsed, facing resistance not just from Democrats, but from national anti-abortion organizations unwilling to absorb the political fallout. That is real progress.

• But quieter battles are advancing. Proposals to criminalize abortion medication are moving forward in Mississippi and South Dakota. Democratic lawmakers in Oregon and New Hampshire are working to strengthen shield laws protecting providers and patients from prosecution originating in restrictive states. (Truthout)

Why it matters: The most extreme criminalization measures are losing momentum—but targeted attacks on medication access and interstate care are filling the void. Shield laws have become a critical line of defense, protecting the infrastructure of care in states where abortion remains legal. The fight did not end. It shifted.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

The threat: agents fabricating emergencies to enter homes, a government filing contradictory court documents to strand a wrongly deported student, and an agency leaving wartime kill trophies at traffic stops — while calling it law enforcement.

The proof: a mayor intervened and a student was released. Artists spoke out and propaganda campaigns lost their soundtracks. Courts are still issuing orders. Communities are still organizing. None of that happened by accident. It happened because people showed up, applied pressure, and refused to be silent.

ICE counts on fear to do the work of enforcement. When communities know their rights, when mayors answer the phone, when bands say no — that machinery breaks down. Accountability is not automatic. It is built, case by case, call by call, by people who refuse to look away.

Share this with someone who needs to read it. Call your member of Congress at (202) 224-3121. Show up to the next action. Stay in the movement not just for the wins, but through the hard parts — because that is where power actually gets built.

Freedom over fascism. Dignity over deportation. Power to the people — every single one of us.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

Join the Resistance

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

The blueprint for fascism is written. The resistance starts here.

Subscribe now

We’re not staying quiet. Power to the People News exists to name what’s happening, connect the dots, and fuel what comes next. If democracy is going to survive this moment, it will be because ordinary people stayed angry, stayed organized, and stayed in it.

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💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 📢 Be the change Tell State AGs: Block the Warner-Paramount Mega-Merger

• 📋 Sign the petition: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

• 🎬 Make your voice heard Stop Burning Fossil Fuels Now

• 👉 Drive the change Tell Congress: End the Cash-for-Deportation Scheme

• 🚨 Speak out for progress Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan: 4,000 New Oil Spills

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

⚡ Alabama Was About to Execute a Man Who Never Pulled the Trigger — Then 67,000 People Said No

• Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, spent more than thirty years on Alabama’s death row for a 1991 robbery in which another man fired the shot. The victim’s own daughter wrote an op-ed urging mercy. Six of eight surviving jurors asked for commutation. Sixty-seven thousand people signed a petition. Today, Governor Kay Ivey commuted his sentence to life. NBC News

Why it matters: This is what people power actually looks like — not in theory, but today, in Alabama. Write that down.

☠️ Former EPA Scientists Sound the Alarm: Trump’s EPA Is Deliberately Making Americans Sicker

• Over 700 former EPA scientists released a report called “Terrible Toxics,” documenting how the Trump administration has weakened or eliminated protections against 12 of the most dangerous pollutants Americans face — PFAS in drinking water, mercury, lead, benzene, and formaldehyde. Former chemical industry lobbyists now run the agency that’s supposed to regulate the chemical industry. The EPA buried its own health research and built a formal mailbox for polluters to request legal exemptions. Mother Jones / Inside Climate News

Why it matters: Children in fence-line communities are breathing what scientists call “a chemical cocktail daily.” When industry executives run the agency built to stop them, that’s not governance — it’s a heist.

⛽ Trump’s Iran War Is Costing You at the Pump — And He Doesn’t Care

• Trump launched military strikes on Iran with no congressional authorization and no plan to protect American families from the economic fallout. Gas prices hit a national average of $3.47 — up nearly 50 cents in a single week — costing Americans an estimated $1.5 billion more at the pump this week alone. When reporters asked about it, Trump called it “a little glitch” and shrugged: “if they rise, they rise.” Just 29% of Americans approve of the strikes. New York Times

Why it matters: He promised cheap gas. He launched an unauthorized war. Now working families across red states and blue states are absorbing the cost while he looks away. That’s a government accountability story — and voters everywhere are feeling it at every fill-up.

🗳️ The FBI Is Subpoenaing 2020 Election Records — And Trump Is Cheering

• A federal grand jury subpoenaed Arizona Senate records related to the 2020 Maricopa County election — the same election multiple audits, courts, and Republican officials confirmed Biden won. That audit even found Biden received more votes than the official tally. Trump’s response on Truth Social: “Great!!!” This follows a January FBI raid on Georgia election offices. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes called it plainly: “the weaponization of federal law enforcement in service of crackpots and lies.” Politico

Why it matters: This isn’t law enforcement. It’s voter suppression dressed in a federal badge — and it’s aimed directly at the 2026 midterms.

🏫 Tennessee Wants to Slam the Schoolhouse Door on Immigrant Children

• Tennessee Republicans are advancing a bill to let public schools turn away undocumented children and force teachers to report students’ immigration status — a direct attack on the 1982 Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing every child the right to a public education. The Heritage Foundation, architects of Project 2025, is explicitly pushing all 50 states to pass similar laws. Six already have. The Intercept

Why it matters: When one group of children gets pushed out, their siblings and classmates stop showing up too. The goal isn’t education policy. It’s erasure.

🗳️ The Administration Won’t Say If Armed Officers Will Be at Your Polling Place. Democrats Are Suing to Find Out.

• The DNC filed a federal lawsuit after eleven Freedom of Information Act requests — sent in October to the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense — went unanswered for five months. The central question: does the administration plan to deploy armed federal agents at polling places in the 2026 midterms? The White House press secretary has refused to rule it out. Federal law already prohibits it — but a law only protects you if someone is willing to enforce it. New York Times

Why it matters: Free elections don’t survive armed intimidation. The resistance and demand for safe and secure elections starts now, not on Election Day.

⚖️ Congress Just Put Itself on the Record About a War It Never Authorized

• Democrats — joined by Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie — forced floor votes on War Powers resolutions demanding Trump withdraw forces from Iran. Both failed, largely along party lines. Six American service members have already died. But the votes accomplished exactly what the administration feared: every member of Congress is now on the record, for or against an unauthorized war a majority of Americans oppose. Remember their names in November. The Guardian

Why it matters: The Constitution is clear — Congress declares war. When Republicans rubber-stamp unauthorized strikes and block every attempt at oversight, they aren’t governing. They’re abdicating. The framers designed this system for exactly this moment.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

This week gave us both the threat and the proof.

The threat: a government poisoning the air, relitigating lost elections with federal subpoenas, and launching wars no one voted for — while shrugging off the cost families pay.

The proof: 67,000 signatures changed a man’s fate in Alabama. Local organizing has derailed detention facility sites across the country. Every member of Congress is now on record. None of that happened by accident. It happened because people showed up, spoke out, and built power.

Democracy doesn’t live in monuments. It lives in the grind — the petitions, the phone calls, the showing up when it’s inconvenient. Share this post with someone who needs to read it. Bring someone to the next action. Stay in the movement not just for the wins, but through the hard parts — because that’s where democracy actually gets built.

Freedom over fascism. Progress over fear. Power to the people — every single one of us.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

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📰 Stories Shaping Power to the People Right Now

🧳 ICE Moves to Deport an Iranian Adoptee Raised by a U.S. Veteran — NPR

• A woman adopted from Iran as a child by a U.S. veteran faces deportation proceedings due to a documented gap in citizenship law. Internationally adopted children are vulnerable when parents fail to complete naturalization paperwork. Under aggressive enforcement, that gap has become a weapon. The family is fighting in court — and the outcome could affect thousands of adoptees nationwide.

• Why it matters: This isn't a bureaucratic oversight — it's a policy choice. When citizenship law has a gap, aggressive enforcement turns that gap into a deportation pipeline. A veteran served this country. His daughter grew up American. If the courts don't intervene, thousands of adoptees could face the same fate simply because their parents trusted a system that failed them.

🎖️ An Army Veteran Sues After Three Days of Wrongful ICE Detention — The Guardian

• An Army veteran was detained by ICE for three days before the agency acknowledged it had the wrong person. He is now suing for the identification failure and for a system with no real-time mechanism to correct its own error.

• Why it matters: When the government can detain a veteran by mistake and face no immediate accountability, the message to everyone else is unmistakable.

🧱 A Trump Campaign Banner Hung on the Justice Department Building — HuffPost

• A massive banner bearing the president’s name was displayed on the exterior of the DOJ — an institution whose independence from political loyalty is foundational to the rule of law. Legal scholars and former DOJ officials called it a deliberate signal that the department serves the president, not the public.

• Why it matters: Under authoritarianism, symbols are never just symbols.

🪧 Rep. Al Green Escorted Out of SOTU After Confronting Racist Propaganda — Axios

• Rep. Al Green was removed from the House chamber during the State of the Union for holding a sign reading ‘BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT APES!’ — a direct response to a Truth Social post tied to racist imagery. Republican lawmakers physically tried to seize the sign.

• Why it matters: When racist propaganda is normalized at the highest levels of government, public dissent becomes a moral obligation.

🏚️ Can Trump’s Mass Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped? — The Intercept

• ICE is planning to convert commercial warehouses into mass detention facilities with minimal oversight. In at least one case, sustained local backlash successfully derailed a proposed site.

• Why it matters: Mass detention normalizes cruelty and diverts public resources into cages. Local resistance is democracy in action — and often the fastest line of defense when federal oversight fails.

🕵️ Whistleblower Alleges FBI Director Kash Patel Is Undermining Investigations — The Guardian

• A whistleblower relayed to Sen. Dick Durbin alleges that FBI Director Kash Patel’s decisions have disrupted bureau operations and delayed investigative responses. Durbin is calling for an independent watchdog review.

• Why it matters: An independent law enforcement apparatus is a load-bearing pillar of democratic governance. If the FBI is being politicized, every citizen has a stake in this story.

🕵️‍♂️ Florida Eyes Domestic Surveillance Expansion — Muslim Communities Sound the Alarm — The Intercept

• Florida lawmakers are advancing counterterrorism-style surveillance proposals. Muslim communities warn they will be disproportionately targeted, and civil rights organizations point to a long history of domestic spy powers being misused against communities of color and political dissidents.

• Why it matters: Surveillance infrastructure, once built, rarely shrinks. Stopping discriminatory targeting early is a question of what kind of democracy we’re willing to accept.

🔥 What Comes Next: The Work Is Ours

For nearly 250 years, American democracy has never been handed down by kings or bought by billionaires. It has been built — and defended — by ordinary people. Teachers and nurses. Workers and voters. People who showed up when it was hard and stayed when it cost something. That lineage belongs to us. The next chapter is ours to write.

Democracy is not a monument. It is a practice. When we organize, vote, and resist together, we assert who we are: a people who believe that power belongs to the many, not the few. That freedom over fascism is not a slogan — it is a standard we hold each other to. That progress is possible. That the future has not been written yet.

You already took action at the top of this page. Good. Now share this post with someone who needs to read it. Show up to the next action. Bring a neighbor. Stay in the movement — not just for the wins, but through the grind, because that’s where democracy actually lives.

Freedom over fascism. Progress over fear. Power to the people — every single one of us.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

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📰 What’s Happening Right Now

💰 Trump Pocketed At Least $1.4 Billion in First Year Back in Office in Unprecedented ‘Exploitation of the Presidency’

• A watchdog analysis found that Donald Trump and his family accumulated at least $1.4 billion during his first year back in office, linking policy decisions, business ventures, and financial gains to what critics describe as an extraordinary use of presidential power for private enrichment. The report argues this pattern reflects a broader system of conflicts of interest between governing and personal profit. Common Dreams

Why This Matters:
Allegations of large-scale personal profit tied to presidential authority raise serious ethical and constitutional questions about corruption, conflicts of interest, and democratic accountability. The controversy underscores ongoing debates about safeguards needed to protect public office from private gain.

🌍 Trump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says

• A new Human Rights Watch report warns that nearly three-quarters of the world’s population now lives under autocratic rule, describing a global “democratic recession” driven in part by actions from the United States under President Trump alongside sustained pressure from China and Russia. The report details attacks on democratic norms, media, courts, and civil society, while urging democratic nations and social movements to unite to defend the rules-based international order. — The Guardian

Why This Matters: The erosion of democratic governance and human rights across major global powers signals a systemic threat to international law, accountability, and civil liberties worldwide. Without coordinated resistance from democratic institutions and civil society, the weakening of the rules-based order could accelerate authoritarian influence and endanger fundamental freedoms for billions.

🧑‍⚖️ ICE places ankle monitor on Md. woman who provided U.S. birth certificate

• A Maryland woman, Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, was detained by ICE for 25 days despite presenting a U.S. birth certificate, immunization records, and other evidence supporting her citizenship, and is now required to wear an ankle monitor while the government continues its case. Her lawyers assert that the federal agency shifted the burden of proof unfairly onto her, raising due-process concerns over federal immigration enforcement. The Washington Post

Why This Matters: This case highlights serious civil-rights and procedural issues in immigration enforcement, potentially setting a precedent that could affect other U.S. citizens wrongly targeted in the immigration system.

• Children across the United States are experiencing fear, grief, and disrupted learning as immigration raids affect families, with educators and therapists reporting rising trauma, absences, and emotional distress among students. Millions of children live with undocumented relatives or face deportation risks themselves, intensifying anxiety even as communities mobilize support networks to protect students’ safety and education. Truthout

Why This Matters: Immigration enforcement is shaping childhood stability, mental health, and access to education for millions, raising urgent concerns about long-term social and developmental harm. Protecting students’ safety and learning environments is central to community wellbeing and equal opportunity.

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