- Tell Your State to Ban Forever Chemicals
People are dying, suffering, and being born with birth defects.With a broken federal government, let's tell states to step up.
The United States must recognize a Palestinian state
It’s time for us to stop supplying Israel with weapons used to kill civilians and recognize a Palestinian state.Please add your name to this petition by Congressman Ro Khanna.
Tell Your State to Ban Forever Chemicals
People are dying, suffering, and being born with birth defects.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Your State Can Unmask ICE
California has passed a ban on ICE agents wearing masks in the state. Your state can do the same. Every state should.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Your State Can Stop Making Prisoners Pay for Phone Calls
While locked up, isolated, and unproductive, a prisoner (or their loved one) in most U.S. states can be forced to pay exorbitant amounts of money to make a phone call -- vastly more than anyone outside of prison.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State Legislators and Governor: Free Pre-K For All Now!
If New Mexico can do it, so can your state.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Make Your State a Nuclear Free Zone
Let's prevent a spread of nuclear energy.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Tax the Super Wealthy
Massachusetts has created a very successful way to tax the very wealthy. Your state can easily do it too. Only Washington D.C. and these six states have a higher tax rate for the wealthiest: CA, HI, NY, NJ, OR, MN.
Please email your state legislators.
Fix the Minimum Wage in Your State
Let's fix this once and for all.
Email your state legislators and governor.
Let's Fix the Electoral College Problem
What do you say we stop allowing candidates who lose the national popular vote to ever enter the White House as president again?
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Make Voter Registration Automatic in Your State
Every election season, thousands of volunteers toil endless hours on a task that need not exist at all: registering voters. And voters are denied the right to vote when told they are not registered.
End Life Sentences Without Parole for Those Under 21
According to a neuroscientist at MIT: "As a number of researchers have put it, ‘the rental car companies have it right.’ The brain isn’t fully mature at 16, when we are allowed to drive, or at 18, when we are allowed to vote, or at 21, when we are allowed to drink, but closer to 25, when we are allowed to rent a car."
Ban Slavery in Your State
Some states still allow slavery, most of them as punishment for crime, as in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Abolish the Death Penalty
The death penalty's slow death is accelerating.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Put Limits on Political Action Committees to Eliminate Super PACs
A political action committee called a Super PAC can spend unlimited money promoting a candidate and can take unlimited money from individuals -- or can in most states, but not any longer in Maine.
Tell your governor and state legislators that we need this same reform now.
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News and Views
- Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed
From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.
more - Tireless advocacy delivers victory
A grand coalition and legal support won a hard-fought struggle to stop Holtec’s radioactive waste dump, writes Kevin Kamps
more - New Mexico is providing free childcare for all. It’s time for others to do the same
For four years, New Mexico has been on a distressing losing streak.
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