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
đ Trumpâs Trade Negotiator Says Response to Court Loss Would Be Immediate
The Trump administration has signaled that if the Supreme Court strikes down its sweeping global tariffs â imposed under an emergency law now being legally challenged â it would almost immediately enact new levies to maintain its aggressive trade agenda, according to Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. The pending Supreme Court decision represents a major test of presidential authority over trade powers and could reshape U.S. economic policy depending on the outcome. â The New York Times
Why This Matters: This puts judicial checks and balances on a collision course with expansive executive power, threatening to erode legal limits if the administration can simply rebrand and reimpose controversial tariffs regardless of court rulings. The stakes are huge for global markets, U.S. consumers, and constitutional authority over trade policy, affecting everything from prices to international relations.
đ The Supreme Courtâs Shadowy Plan to Subvert Democracy
Elie Mystal in the Nation breaks down the Supreme Courtâs âshadow docket,â where the justices make high-impact decisions on emergency applications and procedural rulings without full briefing or oral arguments, often with limited explanation and minimal transparency. Critics argue this opaque process has become a tool for shifting major legal outcomes without the scrutiny of the regular docket. âIn making frequent, ill use of the âshadow docket,â the high court is not just handing Trump policy victories. Itâs upending the rule of law.â â The Nation
Why This Matters: The expansion of the shadow docket undermines democratic accountability and public understanding of the Courtâs role, concentrating power in an unelected body while bypassing the deliberative process that underpins the rule of law.
đ New Study Finds Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich
A study by economists at Columbia and Yale determined the court has become more polarized in recent decades. A new academic study shows that the Supreme Court has been more likely to rule in favor of wealthy litigants and business interests over ordinary individuals, reversing historical trends and widening gaps in legal outcomes based on economic status. The findings suggest the ideological leanings of the current Court are reshaping access to justice in ways that benefit the affluent. â HuffPost
Why This Matters: If legal decisions consistently favor the wealthy, it can erode confidence in equal justice under law and widen socioeconomic disparities by making the legal system less responsive to the needs of everyday people.
These cases may look disconnectedâbut together, they reveal a Court wielding immense power with diminishing accountability.
đ F.D.A. Decisions on Abortion Pill Were Based on Science, New Analysis Finds
Political and scientific debates are intensifying in Washington over the abortion drug mifepristone, with Republicans pushing for tighter FDA restrictions amid safety questions, while major medical groups and studies emphasize the drugâs long track record of proven safety. âA study of more than 5,000 pages of agency documents on mifepristone over 12 years found that agency leaders almost always followed the evidence-based recommendations of scientists.ââ New York Times
Why This Matters: Mifepristone is used in the majority of U.S. abortions, so proposed regulatory changes could dramatically affect access to medication abortion nationwide â especially in states with bans on surgical procedures.
đşđ¸ Trumpâs first year weakened abortion rights even further
A report from the Center for Reproductive Rights details how President Trumpâs second term has seen numerous federal actions that restrict abortion access, from removing emergency abortion guidance to defunding clinics and limiting family planning resources. â Reproductive Rights
Why This Matters: These federal policy shifts are reshaping reproductive healthcare access across the U.S., affecting not just abortion but broader services such as contraception and pregnancy care, with long-term impacts on health equity.
đż RISE Collective clinic is continuing Boulderâs long abortion legacy
After the historic Boulder Abortion Clinic closed last year, former staff launched RISE Collective to continue providing reproductive health services, including abortion care, maintaining Boulderâs legacy as a destination for later-term procedures. The clinicâs cooperative ownership model reflects a community-focused response to dwindling access in the wider U.S. landscape. â KNGU
Why This Matters: As abortion access shrinks nationwide, RISE Collective represents a proactive effort to preserve essential reproductive care and equity in a community with a long history of providing it.
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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