Five By Fifteen

Just learned about these folks: www.fivebyfifteen.org

Great tips for getting and staying engaged.

April 19th is the next Hands off rally. We need ten times as many people.

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

Yellowhammer Fund won its lawsuit against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. The court made it clear: Alabama’s laws do not extend beyond state lines to penalize people for getting or assisting with legal healthcare elsewhere.

Postcards for #JudgeSusanCrawford in Wisconsin!

34,000 people turned out for @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social in Denver!

“History isn’t made by the people who sit back and mock. It’s made by the folks who show up, give a shit, and are directionally okay with looking ridiculous in the process. The folks who understand that trying is the only way we’ve ever changed a good Goddamn thing.”
- Joan Westenberg

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Ready for tomorrow! See you in Montpelier!

Resist List Noncooperation Database DELVE DEEPER WITH MOVEMENT RESEARCHERS’ DATABASES AND COMPILATIONS OF ACTION Researcher Jeremy Pressman is writing semi-regular reports about...

#HopeScroll!

choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/...

Welcome to Vermont!

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

Thank you.

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

🗣️WATCH: “Pull your head up. We got this. We are in this together.”

@tequilamjohnson.bsky.social gets a standing ovation in rural Tennessee as she points to the resilience of Black folks throughout history to say Trump is not a hurdle that 🇺🇸 can’t overcome.

Nate Brought | Maryland I am the Director of the Executive Secretariat at the National Institutes of Health until COB Friday, February 28.

"For as long as it takes, GOLIKEHELLMACHINE will publish stories of federal workers, contractors, and others who’ve been impacted by the Trump Administration and DOGE’s cuts to the federal workforce." golikehellmachine.com/doge-is-four...

@washingtonpost.com banned this ad.

I’m asking you to check back in. A few minutes each day. Each one of us needs to be a witness.

Updated protest info!

Sorry - the protest I mentioned was last week. But these folks have way more planned. Check em out!

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social Daily press briefings please! Be the voice of the Resistance!

This website has just popped up as a protest clearinghouse where all organizers can list their actions!

www.nvunheard.org

This tip sheet - Bullying of LGBT Youth and Those Perceived
to Have Different Sexual Orientations - from StopBullying.gov will likely be taken down, since it's a federal website. However, here's all the info!

Venceremos!

Fixed it!

What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

Yo!

Emailed VT Reps and Sens on the Envt & Transpo committees abt billboard trucks:

1) In violation of anti-billboard law
2) Contributing to GHG emissions

Chair of House Transpo Committee:

"Shared your feedback to the Agency of Transportation who is having their legal team look at the entire issue."

Will Iran hang Pakhshan for helping women and children? Demand her freedom! Join this urgent global call to save Pakhshan’s life:

An important campaign from our friends at @avaaz.bsky.social