đ˘ Power to the People News: When Power Abuses, the People Respond
From ICE violence to climate chaos and voting rights, todayâs Power to the People News exposes abuse of powerâand how people fight back.
Power without accountability is dangerousâand right now, Americans are paying the price. From ICE shootings to voter suppression, from climate disasters to healthcare rollbacks, the same question keeps resurfacing: who is protected, and who is expendable?
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đ° Whatâs Happening Right Now
đşđ¸ More Immigrants Detained by ICE Recount Harsh and Cruel Treatment
Reporting from Minneapolis documents aggressive tactics by ICE agents â including warrantless stops, detentions of both undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens, and chaotic street enforcement â as well as the deep fear and disruption these actions have caused within immigrant and local communities. âOne man targeted at home says agents took âtrophy picturesâ of him on their personal phones.â Activists and residents describe the federal surge as punitive rather than protective. â Mother Jones
𪊠Democrat targeted by Trump attacks âauthoritarianâ effort to intimidate critics
âDonald Trump is borrowing a strategy from authoritarian regimes to intimidate potential critics and discourage them from speaking out, according to a senator under investigation by his administration.â â The Guardian
âď¸ DOJ Vows to Press Charges After Activists Disrupt Church Where Minnesota ICE Official Is a Pastor
Protesters in St. Paul interrupted a church service, accusing a pastor who also holds a federal ICE post of involvement in controversial immigration actions; the Department of Justice is now investigating potential civil rights violations for disrupting worship. â âWhen you think about the federal government unleashing barbaric ICE agents upon our community and all the harm that they have caused, to have someone serving as a pastor who oversees these ICE agents, is almost unfathomable to me,â said Armstrong, who added she is an ordained reverend. âIf people are more concerned about someone coming to a church on a Sunday and disrupting business as usual than they are about the atrocities that we are experiencing in our community, then they need to check their theology and the need to check their hearts.â â The incident comes amid heightened national tensions over immigration enforcement after the deadly shooting of a Minnesota woman by an ICE agent. â The Seattle Times
âď¸ Bayer Gets Supreme Court Hearing in Challenge to Roundup Suits
Bayer has secured Supreme Court review of lawsuits claiming its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The company argues federal regulations should shield it from liability under state law. The outcome could affect thousands of pending cases and corporate accountability standards. â Bloomberg
đłď¸ Trump Ally Can Challenge Rules for Mail-In Ballot
A Trump-aligned challenger has been allowed to contest rules governing mail-in voting. The case could weaken safeguards that expand access to ballots. Voting rights advocates warn the challenge risks undermining fair election processes. â HuffPost
đCalifornia refuses to extradite doctor over abortion pill: âNot today. Not everâ
A California physician is facing criminal prosecution for sending abortion pills to a patient in Louisiana, directly testing interstate shield laws. The case highlights growing legal conflict between states protecting abortion access and those enforcing bans. â The Guardian
đŹ Oscar film BelĂŠn exposes the injustice that helped transform Argentinaâs abortion laws
The Argentinian film BelĂŠn, shortlisted for an Academy Award, tells the true story of a woman wrongly charged with aggravated homicide after a miscarriage under restrictive abortion laws and the ensuing public outcry that helped push the country toward legalizing abortion in 2020. â Ms. Magazine
What You Can Do Today:
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For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the lifeblood of this nationânot handed down by kings or bought by billionaires, but built and sustained by everyday people. It lives in our families and neighborhoods, in classrooms and clinics, on job sites and in voting lines. Itâs the teacher guiding the next generation, the nurse caring for their community, the worker keeping society moving, and the voter who refuses to be silenced.
Power has always belonged to the people. Thatâs why protecting democracy is not optionalâitâs our shared responsibility. When we defend it, we defend one another, our freedoms, and the future we are shaping for generations yet to come.
What We Do Next
Protecting democracy requires more than awarenessâit demands action. This is the moment to move from concern to commitment, and from outrage to organization.
We defend voting rights by registering voters, fighting voter suppression, challenging discriminatory laws, and ensuring every eligible voter can cast a ballot that is counted.
We fight gerrymandering by supporting fair maps, independent redistricting commissions, and legal challenges that stop politicians from rigging elections to protect their own power.
We demand economic fairness because democracy cannot thrive when people are buried under debt, priced out of housing, or forced to choose survival over participation. Economic justice strengthens civic power.
We protect access to healthcare by pushing leaders to expand coverage, lower costs, and stop treating health care as a political bargaining chip instead of a human right.
We hold leaders accountableâat every levelâby calling, organizing, voting, and refusing to let abuses of power go unanswered.
Power has always belonged to the people. Protecting democracy isnât optionalâitâs our shared responsibility.
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