By choosing to attend this event, you are acknowledging the risks involved, and you are committing to participate nonviolently and in accordance with the law, and to work to de-escalate confrontations with Trump supporters or others. You agree (i) not to engage in any act of violence or violation of any applicable law (ii) to […]
On the eve of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday weekend, Congressman John Lewis announced that he will not attend Trump’s swearing-in ceremony. Trump’s response has been to launch a fierce attack against Lewis, accusing the congressman—who has served our nation as a tireless leader of the civil rights movement and for 16 terms […]
By choosing to attend this event, you are acknowledging the risks involved, and you are committing to participate non-violently and in accordance with the law, and to work to de-escalate confrontations with Trump supporters or others. You agree (i) not to engage in any act of violence or violation of any applicable law (ii) to […]
Amid the constant barrage of hate and negativity from the Trump campaign, it can be natural to get frustrated, even angry. But that’s all the more reason why this is a critical moment to remember what we are hopeful for in this election. Why we’re giving it our all. Because here’s the thing: The real […]
U.S. military veterans (including Crystal Cravens, Army, Sergeant, pictured) delivered 100,000 signatures on a petition targeting Sen. John McCain, urging the senator and other GOP leaders to withdraw their endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The action came on the heels of Trump’s unrelenting attack on the Gold Star family of Humayun Khan, a U.S. […]
In a new exclusive video with MoveOn.org Civic Action, Demos Action, and Inequality Media, leading progressives voices Demos’s Heather McGhee and University of California-Berkeley Professor Ian F. Haney López expose the many ways in which Donald Trump uses racism as a strategy to divide Americans—for his own gain and for the benefit of others in […]
A growing chorus of former supporters of Senator Chuck Grassley is urging the Senator to stop playing politics with the U.S. Supreme Court. Sen. Grassley is refusing to uphold his Constitutional duty to consider President’s Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland. Iowan, Jim R., Urbandale, Iowa.
On May 9 and 10, Iowa MoveOn members traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with their senior Senator, Chuck Grassley. As former voters and supporters of Sen. Grassley, they delivered a powerful message that only voters can give: Sen. Grassley, you’ve lost our respect and our vote by playing politics with the Supreme Court. The […]
On April 13, 2016, outside the U.S. Supreme Court, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus joined with working Americans to call on Senate Republicans to do their job and hold hearings and an up-or-down vote on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Chief Judge Merrick Garland. The rally was organized by People For the American Way […]
A week ago, our hearts were broken by the photo of a little boy, drowned, lying alone in the sand. But new images of people with open arms welcoming exhausted Syrian refugees the world over have begun to put our hearts back together. The profound decency of ordinary folks is driving governments to respond to […]