Power to the People News — March 23, 2026
Power to the People News for March 23, 2026 highlights climate crisis, immigrant justice, and the growing resistance to abuse of power.
When Power Abuses, the People Respond
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.
📰 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In February 2026, the administration repealed the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, the legal basis for major federal climate rules.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.
The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.