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As Trump Guts Support for Disabled Students, Their Families Are Fighting Back
Disability rights advocates are filing lawsuits as students, teachers and parents organize to protect education.
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Even for Those With the Money to Pay for Essentials, Cash Is Drying Up in Gaza
After 18 months under siege, cash is a scarce commodity in Gaza as many have trouble accessing funds in their accounts.

Labor Was Crucial in Building Public Health Institutions Trump Wants to Destroy
Labor leaders past and present have insisted on expanding the scope of what constitutes health.

Safety Is a Practice We Enact Together: Building Solidarity Under Trump 2.0
As authoritarian forces try to fracture our communities, we must remember that our collective survival is intertwined.

EPA Deletes Pollution Tracking Tools as It Offers Exemptions to Polluters
A new lawsuit is challenging the Trump administration's removal of environmental justice maps and datasets.

“No Tariffs on Sharing”: Tool Libraries Offer Resilience Amid Federal Chaos
As Trump imposes tariffs, tool libraries can serve as a sustainable alternative to consuming more products.
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Mahmoud Khalil Writes From Prison: “Democracy for Some Is No Democracy at All”
“I lie sleepless … in Jena, Louisiana, far from my wife, Noor, who will give birth to our baby in two weeks,” he wrote.

Trump Has Issued 8 “National Emergencies” Since Reentering the White House
Trump's many national emergency declarations take “misuse of this law to a new level,” one critic said.

Chinese Students and Scholars Faced Targeting Before Trump. Now It’s Escalating.
As the US and China jockey for dominance, anti-Chinese bigotry is driving visa denials for students and scholars.

Abortion Bans Criminalize People — and Not Just Those Who Are Pregnant
Post-“Roe,” pregnancy outcomes — and even actions taken to help pregnant people — face escalating criminalization.

Kilmar Abrego García Case Shows Constitutional Crisis Is Here
“Depriving due process is the domino that causes the rest of the legal system to fall,” one constitutional scholar said.

DOGE Aims to Embed Agents in All Nonprofits That Receive Federal Funds
“We can only surmise that these tactics seek to silence us,” said one nonprofit that has been targeted by Trump.

To Combat Trump’s Attacks on Public Education, We Need Democracy in Our Unions
Education workers are mobilizing for a day of action on May 1. Building toward a national walkout should come next.

Fascism Isn’t Coming — It’s Here. Now What?
“We don’t get to choose the people who show up for us and who save us sometimes,” says organizer Ejeris Dixon.
Trump Administration

Van Hollen: Abrego García’s Rights Matter for All Americans
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Trump Slashed Team That Investigates Line-of-Duty Fire Deaths
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This Easter, Let’s Denounce the Christian Zionism That Helps Destroy Palestine
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Critics Slam Trump’s Plan to Fill Federal Government With “Political Cronies”
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More Than 850 Anti-LGBTQ Bills Filed So Far in 2025 — the Most in US History
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SCOTUS Halts Deportation of Venezuelan Migrants After ACLU’s Emergency Petition
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Cop Who Alleged Abrego García’s Gang Ties Was Deemed Unfit by State’s Attorney
“Trump’s assault on education isn’t a distraction — it’s the strategy: the leading edge of enforcing fascism today, and an attempt to indoctrinate the next generation to accept it as normal.”
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Movement Memos

Let’s Be Politically Promiscuous
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We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build Together Across Difference
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Fight Fear, Build Power: Community Defense Works
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Let’s Learn and Live Lessons in Collective Survival Together
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We Won’t Take Risks Alone. Our Relationships Make a Better World Possible.
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How Immigration Organizers Are Gearing Up for Another Trump Era
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We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in Every Venue of Our Lives