Imagine a California where families and workers don't just survive, they flourish. That’s the roadmap.
Better schools, housing that’s affordable, cleaner air, and a health care system that sees you as a human being first.
Let’s make it happen.
Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today:
Active Voting Rights Cases: 158
Active Redistricting Cases: 44
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 85
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 71
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 30
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Trump promised lower costs on “day one.” Instead, Americans are now over $5,000 poorer on average. Meanwhile, Trump’s family has pulled in billions through grift, while he’s focused on monuments and a new ballroom.
Enough with the Epstein elite bullshit. They all need to go.
If you live in Virginia, tomorrow you have a huge opportunity to make it clear to the GOP that if they want to win, it won’t be by changing the rules and redrawing maps. At least, not without a fight. Vote YES on the redistricting vote, and push back!
The price you see should be the price you pay. This is a major win for fans, artists, and venues that have had to operate under Live Nation’s unfair system.
People are fed up with big companies piling on junk fees and getting away with it.
Yikes — “Military advisers intentionally excluded Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes extraction of a downed American airman in Iran, fearing his erratic temper would jeopardize the mission, WSJ reported…” www.jpost.com/internationa...
Financial literacy matters.
But let’s be honest: no budgeting app can fix low wages, high costs, or an economy that keeps working families under pressure.
People need information, and they also need the Trump administration to deliver an economy that works for all people.
Absolutely sickening. Who are we as a nation if we don’t enact laws to protect our children?
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"Take yes for an answer from the manosphere podcasters and bro influencers and former Trump voters and, hell, even the annoying Jill Stein leftists—all of whom are beginning to see Trump and the MAGA movement for the scam they are."
Waste of money. There is nothing triumphant about Trump.
The recent trades predicting U.S. military action minutes before it occurred are alarming and raise questions about who exactly is profiting from a war that has already resulted in untold death and destruction. We need answers.
youtube.com/shorts/bDGnC...
I am in Barcelona today to help unite progressive parties from around the world in a defense of democracy and a war against corruption. A first of its kind event. Necessary to beat back the forces of fascism.
Trump’s tariffs are making life more expensive.
In 2025, households paid about $1,700 more than the year before because of his tariffs.
This year, that added cost is projected to rise to more than $2,500.
Trump's Dept of Justice has seized ballots in AZ and GA. Bondi's out as AG, but Harmeet Dillion, who wants to replace her, wants to grab MI ballots.
They say it's for review, but we know better.
It's to push conspiracies to deceive voters and deny results they don't like.
wapo.st/4clF3es
Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants.
He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A four-hour documentary from 1969 about life in Nazi-occupied France chronicles the way that many ordinary citizens simply lived their lives as if nothing had changed, @dgraham.bsky.social writes. "The Sorrow and the Pity" is more relevant than ever:
It's just not a Sunday unless Donald Trump is explicitly threatening war crimes.
Love the Bulwark.
Jon Ossoff not only has that young, hungry Obama quality, but dare I say, some Bobby Kennedy (Sr.) gravitas, swagger and street cred.
Mayor Pete, mos def either POTUS, VP or Secretary of Defense to rebuild the Pentagon when this orange Caligula orgy finally fucking ends.
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People in local communities have been quietly opposing Trump throughout his second term. And as support for his handling of immigration continues to wane, that open opposition has grown louder and become more emboldened.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley poses for a photo with leaders from the Haitian Bridge Alliance and UndocuBlack Network.
Rep. Laura Gillen stands behind a podium delivering remarks on extending TPS for Haiti.
Josh Bernstein stands behind a podium delivering remarks on extending TPS for Haiti.
Rep. Maxwell Frost stands behind a podium delivering remarks on extending TPS for Haiti.
My grandfather always told me “Plan your work and work your plan.”
And that's exactly how we got the House to pass an extension of TPS for Haiti.
Grateful for our broad, bipartisan coalition we've built.
On to the Senate.
A democracy that can be turned into an authoritarian regime with the use of strictly, narrowly legal mechanisms is not enough. After Trump, legal and even maybe constitutional reforms become the big question:
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
All making over ~ $650k a year pay 24% in taxes. The rest of us under that income pay 30%. The ONLY reason to not tax the wealthy is pure greed. That’s the fault of our government, not the wealthy. Place the blame where it lies and we can fix a lot of problems. Wealth isn’t the issue. Taxation is.
'Dozens of Democratic doctors are running for office in the midterms, including some spurred by opposition to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vaccine stance.'
Good.
GIFT ARTICLE.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Yes
"As illiberal strongmen have discovered in other contexts... after a while, voters, especially moderates, become exhausted by constant messages of fear, hatred, and vituperation..."
foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/12/h...
One columnist signed our letter opposing the Paramount merger
Paramount pulled all its advertising from his publication
That's the Ellisons' vision for a “free press”
A free press isn't a perk of democracy — it's the whole thing
& That's why we fight — more on my weekly column 👇 -TN
“Well, that was fast. The Strait of Hormuz is closed again. It looks like we're headed into a kind of Wayne's World style war on, war off situation.” - @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest update in Trump's Iran war
"In addition to filling the courtroom gallery and two additional overflow rooms, hundreds of protestors rallied outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Baltimore before the case was set to be heard..."
marylandmatters.org/2026/04/15/h...
Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"
The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
