Corporate America is Killing Democracy

 https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-last-stand-of-the-corporate-democrats?

Robert Reich 

Teachers Join Democracy Defenders

 

Every voter, regardless of party, should be able to trust that their ballot can be cast safely and will be counted fairly. Yet voters run into problems that shouldn’t happen: confusing rules, long lines, challenged mail ballots, polling-place disruptions and urgent questions that no one answers in time. We’re facing more challenges than ever this upcoming election, with mid-decade redistricting, challenges to vote-by-mail, and a constant assault on elections by the current occupant of the White House. Ten states have changed their congressional maps since last summer. And unfortunately politicians have used redistricting to tilt the playing field—choosing their voters instead of letting voters choose them.  These barriers should never stand between a voter, their ballot and their voice. That’s why the AFT is recruiting 5,000 Democracy Defenders nationwide. The first step is simple: Join us virtually for the Democracy Defenders kickoff, live on Aug. 11 at 7 p.m. EDT. The Supreme Court’s Callais decision this spring made things worse by gutting the Voting Rights Act, diluting Black voters’ power and limiting communities’ ability to elect representatives of their choice. And even though mail-in voting has been proven repeatedly to be safe and secure, sweeping changes have been made regarding how mail ballots are sent, tracked and tied to voter-eligibility lists. Those changes are already being fought in court, leaving voters and election officials facing even more uncertainty than usual.  That’s where we come in. Join us on Aug. 11 at 7 p.m. EDT and learn more about how you can become a Democracy Defender with the AFT. Democracy Defenders are AFT members and allies trained to protect the right to vote in their own communities—helping voters understand their options for casting a ballot early or by mail, watching for threats to voter access, connecting voters with election-protection resources, and making sure every eligible voter can vote and that every vote gets counted. You don’t need to be an elections expert to get involved. At the kickoff, we’ll walk you through the training, tools and support you need to protect the vote in your community. Whether you serve as a poll worker, drive neighbors to the polls or help voters find accurate information, every election depends on ordinary people like you stepping up to defend every voter’s right to be heard. That’s exactly what Democracy Defenders is all about. Join us on Aug. 11 at 7 p.m. EDT for the Democracy Defenders kickoff. In unity, Randi Weingarten AFT President More to come from Teachers Defending Democracy.  Follow this site.

Why Fascists Fear Teachers

Why Fascists Fear Teachers 

by Randi Weingarten

President, AFT

Teachers are under siege not for anything they do wrong, but for what they do right.

An excellent read. (2025)

The title of my new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers, is intended as a warning, but it may belie what the book is at its core: a love letter to teachers. I write about teachers’ seemingly small everyday acts, like fostering empathy, confidence, critical thinking and mastery, that cultivate opportunity and humanity in our young people. And I look back at historic acts of heroism, such as the teachers in Norway who were among the first and most resolute to protest the Nazi takeover, even when the Nazis tried to violently force them into submission. When I heard that story many years ago, I would never have believed that echoes of authoritarianism would reverberate in the United States today. Nor could I have imagined that this book would come into the world at a time when heinous acts of political violence are occurring with horrifying frequency, violence that I condemn with every fiber of my being. Yet here we are.

 

Weingarten signing her book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers, on Sept. 16 in New York. Photo credit: Mario Jose Ibarra 

I try in this book to answer several questions. Teachers are widely recognized and appreciated for dedicating themselves to helping all children reach their unique potential. So why are there so many attacks on teachers? Why do so many extremist politicians think it’s OK to smear and insult teachers? Why are we seeing the defunding of already strapped schools, the book bans, the censoring of honest history and so many other actions that prevent our children from getting the education they deserve? Why are these actions, which are warning signs of increasing authoritarianism, happening in the United States today?

The answer is that authoritarians fear a well-educated citizenry. They fear what educators do—the teaching of critical thinking, of honest history, of pluralism—because their brand of greed, power and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse, educated citizens. Public education is essential to a free and fair America, and teachers are essential to public education. We’re under siege not for anything we do wrong, but for all the things we do right.

The Founding Fathers believed public education was a bulwark against tyranny. Why Fascists Fear Teachers lays out the plot to undermine public education, which a conservative activist declared outright required his allies to be “ruthless and brutal.”

Extremists are executing that plot with alarming resolve: Starve public schools of the funds they need to succeed, then criticize them for their shortcomings. Erode trust in public schools by stoking fear and division, including attempting to pit parents against teachers. And replace them with homeschooling and private, religious and online schools. All toward their end goal of destroying public education as we know it, atomizing and balkanizing education in America, bullying the most vulnerable among us and leaving the students with the greatest needs in public schools with the most meager resources.

I tell the stories of teachers who have fought for their students and for the promise of public education. I hope educators will see themselves in its pages. And I hope it will help parents, students, policymakers and everyone invested in our nation’s future understand why teachers and public schools are essential to individual opportunity, our collective prosperity and the survival of our democracy.

That feels especially crucial as the country reels from another horrific political assassination. Political violence is never acceptable. Never. As every living former president has said in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, all Americans must condemn violence and de-escalate the tensions roiling the country. In many ways, teachers can serve as the antidote to them, by helping students navigate this trauma and division and by modeling civil discourse.

No one should condone—and certainly no one should celebrate—violence. But in this highly charged moment, many people are paying a high price for exercising constitutionally protected speech, and some have even been accused of hate speech for decrying hate speech. We must recommit as a nation to the right to express ourselves nonviolently without fear and to resolving disagreements peacefully and civilly.

Ninety percent of America’s young people attend public schools, where educators strive to prepare them with the fundamentals for full and productive lives—with the academic foundation they need, of course, as well as the ability to participate in civic life and to work together across differences. Our public schools are America’s great engine of opportunity. They are where teachers dedicate themselves to providing children of every background an education that is safe, welcoming, relevant and engaging. When we strengthen our public schools and support our children’s teachers, we sustain the American dream and democracy itself.

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Trump/Authoritarian Regime Attacks Education

 

Unless we act, the first national voucher program will go into effect on January 1, 2027, pouring tens of millions of dollars into unaccountable private and religious schools.   Email your elected officials in Congress right now and tell them to keep public funds in public schools. Tell them to repeal the national voucher program.

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The private school voucher program was championed by Project 2025 and Besty DeVos and designed to funnel public funds into unaccountable K-12 private and religious schools.  Estimates of the program’s total annual cost are as high as $50 billion. The program also requires taxpayers in rural areas to foot the bill for a program that is largely inaccessible to them, as rural areas have little, if any, access to private schools.  Instead of supporting unaccountable private schools, we could use the funds to support our public schools—where 90% of students go—lowering class sizes, feeding hungry students, and offering more after-school programs.   Tell your representatives in Congress to repeal the national voucher program.  Our public schools welcome everyone and help all students learn and achieve their dreams, no matter their race, background, or ability.   We need to strengthen our public schools, not undermine them with voucher programs that take funding away.  In solidarity, The NEA EdAction Team Also Read. Why Fascist Hate Teachers; Public Education and the Future of Democracy.  Why Do Fascists Fear Teachers? https://www.aft.org/ae/spring2026/weingarten_wolfson

Building Democracy

https://youtu.be/2dVtW9VqdUQ?si=nuGVk_ntF8d7jp6y

Join the Effort to Protect Public Education and Democracy

 

Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers describes the problem well.

Why Do Authoritarians Fear Teachers?

Because We Teach Critical Thinking

Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers. 2025. 

“Critical thinking is the heart of democracy, the muscle at the core that keeps democracy healthy and strong. We don’t tell our students who to vote for; we don’t tell our students what to believe. We teach them how to think for themselves, why democracy is important, and how they’re an important part of making it work and making it better. But rather than help teachers build a stronger America based on knowledge and truth and freedom of thought, fascists use fear, bullying, and culture wars to try to shut down teaching and democracy.

Ironically, there is one thing fascists and teachers agree on—that we cannot create a truly democratic, inclusive nation committed to opportunity for all without public schools. Fascists fight against public education because they want to control our minds, control our ideas, and control the future. And what do teachers do? We teach. It’s that simple. Class after class, year after year, we equip the next generation to think for themselves and preserve our nation’s precious bond between individual liberty, opportunity, and the common good.”

We Want Kids to Think—and Read—for Themselves

Excerpt from  Why Do Fascists Fear Teachers?

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Read the book. Why Fascists Fear Teachers.  Public Education and The Future of Democracy. 2025. 

A project to organize and support efforts to Defend Democracy with a focus on public education is developing.  Watch this blog for more.  There is a place for you- dear reader. 

America’s colleges and universities are the “envy of the world,” driving economic growth and providing better lives for students and their families, said AFT President Randi Weingarten at a launch of the blueprint April 15 in Texas.

“But instead of investing in the next generation, the federal government is stripping hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants, attacking diversity, saddling millions of borrowers with student debt and abolishing minority-serving institutions—all in a cynical attempt to punish political enemies and control knowledge.”

The new policy platform, “A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education,” details a vision where colleges and universities, not corporations, are treated as key forces in creating a functional democracy.

 

Teaching Democracy Through Critical Thinking, Civic Participation, and Democratic Engagement

Democracy depends upon an informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizenry. Public education plays a central role in preparing students not only for careers and personal success, but also for meaningful participation in democratic society.

Goal:  to assist teachers to shape their teaching toward preserving democracy.  To  encourage teachers to teach about and encourage democracy in our nation, state, and local institutions, including schools

To assist teachers  and faculty in resisting the increasing demands from the authoritarian right  that  right wing ideology be taught as truth or normal  in our schools. 

“Educate yourselves because we will need all of your intelligence.” Antonio Gramsci.

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Vote ! Voté

Xavier Becerra has actual governing experience. Tom Steyer has never held elected office and is trying to buy this election. 

Becerra:

• 30+ years of actual public service

• 24 years in Congress

• California’s first Latino Attorney General

• First Latino HHS Secretary in US history

• Built his entire career defending working people, immigrants, and families

• His resume was earned,  not purchased

Steyer:

• Never held elected office. Not one day in government. Ever.

• Ran for president in 2020, spent $250 million, won zero delegates, dropped out after losing three straight contests.

• Now wants to run the world’s fifth largest economy with zero governing experience

• His qualification is his checkbook. That is not enough.

Xavier Becerra has actual governing experience. Tom Steyer has never held elected office and is trying to buy this election. 

Becerra:

• 30+ years of actual public service

• 24 years in Congress

• California’s first Latino Attorney General

• First Latino HHS Secretary in US history

• Built his entire career defending working people, immigrants, and families

• His resume was earned,  not purchased

Steyer:

• Never held elected office. Not one day in government. Ever.

• Ran for president in 2020, spent $250 million, won zero delegates, dropped out after losing three straight contests.

• Now wants to run the world’s fifth largest economy with zero governing experience

• His qualification is his checkbook. That is not enough.

 

The Judge That Shook the MAGA Tree

 https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/a-truly-amazing-exercise-of-justice?

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/a-truly-amazing-exercise-of-justice

Some good news for you, today– It was just on Thursday that we filed to block any funds being paid out from Donald Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” – aka, the “slush fund.” Well, it didn’t even take 24 hours – in fact, barely more than 12 – for a federal court to take action in our case: The Trump-Vance administration is barred from taking any more action on their slush fund. That means Trump and his allies can’t take any further action related to the fund, including transferring money to it, considering submitted claims, or disbursing taxpayer dollars. The next step is our hearing planned for June 12th. This is a huge win for the American people and taxpayers across the country, especially because there had already been a filing to request nearly $3 million from that fund. Now, a federal court has put the brakes on everything – and that’s because of your support of this work. Thanks – and have a great weekend. We sure will. Democracy Forward

Teachers Defending Immigrants and Democracy

Teachers: Work Together to Defend Democracy.

As pressures on faculty from the Trump regime increase, 

I am working on a project Defend Democracy  using Google doc to assist teachers and faculty to work together standing up in  support public education and our constitutional rights and responsibilities. 

There is a great deal of important organizing going on. 

We  are gathering materials, resources, and lessons plans for teachers and faculty to assist  in presenting   knowledge, skills and attitudes which engage in and promote democracy.   For example, there are  important materials on the role of immigrants in the U.S. and how to support immigrant students  during the current political  assault are  available.  At times this part of the approach to promotion of democracy  has been known as civic education. 

Example of existing policy on dealing with Immigration Enforcement,  Twin Rivers Unified School District.  Sacramento, California. 

https://www.f3law.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Responding-to-Immigration-and-Customs-Enforcement-on-School-Grounds.pdf

 

Immigrants and Immigration Resources and Lesson Plans.

Association of California School Administrators. 

https://content.acsa.org/immigrants-immigration-resource-guide/

Many more in the Google doc.  Including Share my lesson plans from the American Federation of Teachers. 

A first step is to consider: How are students understanding the current political/economy and the political forces advancing  the authoritarian agenda in this age of  AI and social media dominating more balanced news coverage. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CrLpHJXDvu87NS5VrwqUuvidD8dtVlNshImkg6ikrIE/edit?usp=sharing

If readers know of additional sources, please post links in the comments area of this blog. 

In our defense of democracy, there is no neutral ground. 

Teachers. Don’t give up on democracy.

Your participation is needed In this crisis of democracy.   Lets work together. 

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Ads are Killing the Internet

 You may have noticed.

Here is what the American Prospect is substituting.

Why We’re Removing Our Programmatic Ads Programmatic advertising is the technology behind banner ads, sidebars, and pop-up videos you see on websites—the ones that seem to “follow you around” based on what you’ve been browsing. Unlike a directly sold ad, where a brand negotiates a deal with a specific website to show their message, programmatic advertising uses automated technology to instantly match ads to audiences across millions of sites at once. This is why you might see an ad for shoes on a news site right after shopping for sneakers; your data is used to supply advertisers with likely audiences for their products. This is not neutral technology. It is built on surveillance and monopoly power: two forces that the Prospect exists to challenge. Our readers are not products to be bought and sold by corporations. But that’s exactly what happens every time someone loads one of our pages with programmatic ads. An act of democratic engagement—reading independent journalism—gets transformed into a monetization event for a handful of tech giants. The reader’s attention, behavior, and personal data become a commodity, packaged and resold through a supply chain riddled with fraud, opaque middlemen, and unscrupulous actors. And we, as a publisher, must admit to being an accomplice in that transaction. That ends today. Starting April 6, 2026, The American Prospect is removing all programmatic advertising from our website. We think you and your personal data deserve more respect than we were providing. We think it will provide you with a healthier and more beneficial experience. And we want to explain to you why. The damage from programmatic advertising is real and visible. Ads slow down our site, create security vulnerabilities for readers, and interrupt the reading process. They create real barriers for readers on older devices and slower connections, the very people who may already face obstacles accessing quality information. Some subscription-based websites offer “whitelists” for people who pay to remove ads, but everyone else is stuck; in fact, many sites demand that users take down ad blockers before accessing their content. With programmatic ads virtually ubiquitous, readers have vanishingly few options: Either they visit sites that are bloated with ads that make the page barely readable and load slowly, or are forced to pay for expensive subscriptions to access quality information locked behind paywalls. The costs extend beyond our site. The entire digital advertising system is an engine of waste: economically, environmentally, and editorially. The energy consumed by ad servers, real-time bidding exchanges, and data centers that track billions of impressions per day is enormous, with no public accountability. The ability to track real-time data about user tastes and behaviors invites predatory companies to capitalize on the information asymmetry to exploit and abuse customers, while the collection of all this data on centralized servers leads to data breaches and invasions of privacy. And it’s not even clear that more honest advertisers benefit from it very much; there are legions of stories about fraud and manipulation suggesting that tech platforms aren’t providing much value for every ad dollar. Meanwhile, the revenue that does reach publishers is a fraction of what advertisers spend, siphoned off by layers of intermediaries adding little to no value. The broader consequences for the media ecosystem have been catastrophic. When advertising revenue migrated from publishers to platforms, local newsrooms lost the financial foundation that had sustained them for decades. Facebook and particularly Google, which controls the auctions for programmatic ads, take an enormous cut of the revenues of advertising for themselves, leaving publishers with a tiny fraction. This advertising technology business has been officially labeled a monopoly in federal court—as you may have read in the Prospect—and the judge will soon rule on the remedy phase of that lawsuit. The result for the news business has been well documented: thousands of communities with no local coverage, no accountability journalism, no one watching the school board or attending the city council meeting. Readers migrate to free sources of information on platforms owned by tech monopolies, which have little incentive to do anything other than manipulate them into staying on the platform as long as possible in order to show them ads and harvest their personal data. We have a media environment where readers, watchers, and listeners receive a steady diet of deteriorating online content while our democratic institutions and social fabric erode. Ad-driven business models have also warped editorial judgment. The logic of programmatic advertising creates an incentive structure that does violence to public-service journalism: more clicks, more page views, more time on site at any cost. This has given us sensationalized headlines, slop aggregation, and the degradation of social media into a traffic machine optimized for emotional manipulation rather than informed discourse. Nothing about this is particularly new. Almost eight years ago to the day, our executive editor David Dayen wrote a story called “Ban Targeted Advertising,” making the same arguments that programmatic ads don’t serve readers or even advertisers, facilitate monopoly, expose user data to breaches and other harms, and corrode a free and open press. That story led to federal legislation, but Congress has never been able to find a way to solve this problem. The Prospect has always tried to resist the pressures of clickbait and the self-defeating drive for audience reach. But as long as we participate in the programmatic advertising system, we are complicit in it. We benefit from the same surveillance infrastructure we critique. That’s a contradiction we can’t defend. And we’re not going to defend it anymore. If you’re a Prospect reader, you’ll notice the difference immediately. When you open our website on your device, our articles will load faster. Your phone won’t stutter through a wall of ad scripts. You won’t accidentally tap a banner when you’re trying to scroll. It will just be a faster, cleaner, more respectful reading experience. Other sites offer something like this—if you pay. We’re going to provide this experience to every single reader, regardless of their ability to purchase a subscription. We see it as an experiment and a question: Can a nonprofit news organization sustain itself through the trust and generosity of its readers without selling their attention and data to the highest bidder? We think the answer is yes. Over the next year, we plan to redesign our site with readers at the center of all of our decisions. Where banner ads that tracked your information once sat, you’ll instead find clear paths to support our work, read more of our journalism, and join our community. We’re not going to offset this lost revenue by putting up a paywall either. The Prospect will still be free for all to read. What we are trying to do is earn and keep your trust. We believe there are serious problems with the business model and incentive structure for businesses for which programmatic advertising is a key revenue stream. The Prospect wants to be untethered from the economic pressures that push for the type of engagement strategy that is aimed at algorithmic optimization at the expense of readers. Too many businesses in our economy have cast aside the concept of providing a good product at a reasonable price, in favor of surveillance pricing and consolidation. By deliberately forgoing ad revenue and building a business model based on voluntary financial support from readers, we’re investing in a relationship built on respect rather than extraction. That’s a fundamentally different proposition than most of what exists in digital media today, and we think it’s a better one. The crisis in journalism is, in large part, a crisis of business models. Newsrooms across the country have been hollowed out by a digital advertising system that concentrates revenue in the hands of a few platforms while leaving publishers to fight over scraps. The answer can’t be more of the same. We’re not the first publication to question the ad-supported model. But so far as we know, we may be the first nonprofit newsroom to run a rigorous, publicly documented experiment to test the alternative. We’re going to measure everything: site performance, reader engagement, donation and subscription behavior, reader satisfaction. And we’re going to publish what we learn so that other independent outlets can build on our experience. If going programmatic ad-free makes the Prospect stronger, then what we’ve done is create a proof of concept for reader-supported journalism everywhere. Our hope is that we can demonstrate that a publication can align its business model with its editorial values and come out the other side better for it. How can you help? Become a monthly donor. Recurring gifts are the foundation of reader-supported journalism. Even $5 a month tells us that this model can work. It’s the single most powerful thing you can do to support this experiment. 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And you’ll have a news organization that doesn’t treat you, the reader, as just another revenue stream.

Prepare for the Big March - No Kings -Indivisble

 

In this week's newsletter we share No Kings resources, tools to get Congress to act to end Trump's war and push back against ICE's plan to warehouse people, and much more -- but first, Ezra calls on Indivisibles to make No Kings on March 28 our biggest protest ever. Paul, It’s been a long harsh winter, but the ice is melting, and it’s time for No Kings Spring. In these newsletters, I try to inform with a bias towards action. The only way out of this mess is by recruiting a lot more people to do a lot more organizing in a lot of more communities. There’s no bigger or better opportunity to make progress against the fascists in the month of March than No Kings 3.  No Kings 3 will be historic because we will make it historic. Less than two weeks out, I can now confirm that there will be more No Kings protests on March 28 than on any previous day in American history.  But, as with Hands Off last April, No Kings last June, and No Kings 2 last October, I know this isn’t done until it’s done. We need this to be an enormous, historic rebuke to Trump’s regime. But whether it’s successful depends on far more than just me or Indivisible -- it depends on the leadership, courage, and commitment of millions of people around the globe.  This is a grassroots-driven event, which means it will succeed or fail because of what we all do to organize, recruit, and prepare. There are no corporate sponsors, there’s no massive advertising campaign, and despite what the right-wing wackjobs obsess about, nobody’s sending big checks to protestors. It’s up to us -- all of us.  The good news is we’re not alone. Momentum is building -- you can hear it. Last weekend, Leah and I went down to Selma for the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee's commemoration of the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the fight for a real, multiracial democracy. We were there because Indivisible received the Freedom Flame award, and we wanted to experience the history of that pivotal moment in Civil Rights History first-hand. I’d recommend anyone and everyone go next year. You’ll learn from and be inspired by the leaders who paved the road for our democracy with blood, sweat, and tears.  You’ll also find lots of friends. We were humbled when Faya Ora Rose Touré, the civil rights legend who cofounded the Jubilee, came up to us and shared a song she'd written for No Kings. You can see the lyrics here. All of us can organize. I love that No Kings is becoming so well-known that talented people all over the world are creating art in support of the movement. Nils Lofgren -- guitarist for the E Street band with Bruce Springsteen -- sent us his new song: No Kings, No Hate, No Fear. Neither he nor Springsteen had planned to write new protest music or even go on tour this spring, but after the crackdown in the Twin Cities, they decided they had to do a No Kings protest tour, kicking off in Minneapolis after the flagship No Kings protest there on March 28.  But you don’t have to be a world famous artist to help make No King 3 into something historic. I’m not talking about money -- I’m talking about effort. With twelve days left to go, here are the three things I’d recommend: Register your local No Kings events! If your No Kings protest isn’t yet on the map, you’ve got until Wednesday, March 25 at 11:59pm PT to register it. Rule of thumb: if you go to the map and can’t find a protest within 30 minutes of where you live, start planning your own!  Train up. If you’re looking for training on safety, de-escalation, marketing, digital, or constitutional rights, we’ve got you covered. If your Indivisible group needs support, reach out to your organizer to walk you through the esources we provide. Ultimately this is up to you and your group, but you’re not alone and we can help! Recruit. Yes you should post to social media, but don’t just rely on the largely regime-friendly tech platforms to spread the word. At your favorite coffee shop, on Nextdoor, or among friends -- invite folks to join you. Find three people who didn't attend No Kings last year. Have a conversation about the moment we’re in, and ask them to come with you on March 28. This is old-school and more time consuming than just posting online -- but nothing is more effective at actually building the movement. As Faya Rose put it, without democracy, we cannot be free. That’s why we march, that’s why we sing: No kings, no kings. In solidarity,  Ezra Levin  Co-Executive Director, Indivisible Your weekly to-dos Tell Congress: Stop Trump's War! Since Trump launched his war on Iran, as of this writing, thirteen US servicemembers, more than 1,400 Iranians, and hundreds of civilians across the region have been killed. Tell your Members of Congress to use every lever they have to end it: conduct oversight; force more votes on War Powers Resolutions; restrict funding; and oppose the war publicly.