The plan to crush the Pro- Palestinian Movement in the U.S.

 The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement.  In U.S. 

Anti Semitism project. Heritage Foundation. 

https://forward.com/news/680626/project-esther-heritage-jewish-conspiracy-antisemitism/

 

NYTimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/project-esther-heritage-foundation-palestine.html

May 19, 2025, 

Defend our Schools: Sacramento

 

Duane, our public schools are under attack, and we need you to stand with us! Federal policies are threatening school funding, essential programs, and our diverse student communities. These attacks hit hardest in neighborhoods already fighting for resources. This moment demands that we unite with unions, families, students, democratic clubs, and community organizations to protect public education.  Can you join us THIS SATURDAY to fight back against federal attacks on our schools?  MAY 17 DAY OF ACTION: FIGHT BACK AGAINST FEDERAL ATTACKS ON OUR SCHOOLS! Date: Saturday, May 17, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 Register Now!                                JOIN US: Can we count on you to stand with our educators & students this Saturday?   Our public education’s future hangs in the balance. But when we stand together, we cannot be ignored.  In Solidarity,  ACCE Sacramento Team

Budgets: California Has Choices

 

Here’s what you need to know:

Policymakers have choices. Our elected leaders — both in Washington and Sacramento — can and should protect basic need programs that support the health and well-being of vulnerable Californians, including children, families, and people with disabilities.

In Congress, our state representatives of both parties should reject cuts, including those that are disguised under the names of "work requirements," "cost-shifts," or "reforms." These are still cuts — and they hurt people by taking away their access to food, health care, and other basic needs.

At the state level, California leaders can choose to balance the budget in ways that blunt federal harm and prioritize people. That includes creating a state tax system where everyone pays their fair share at a time when federal leaders are doing the opposite.

We explain more in our recent commentary featured in CalMatters on why California must take bold action to protect people from harmful federal proposals.

California Budget Project.

Trump’s Utopia

Trump’s Utopia: Today on TAP: He’s borne back ceaselessly into a fictitious past reshaped for his immediate needs.

Vouchers: A Republican Scam : Kevin Kiley

Call. Kevin Kiley.  Congressperson. MAGA,

The evidence is clear: Private school vouchers divert needed funding away from public schools, are a boon to the wealthy and don’t help student achievement. Yet even as President Donald Trump tries to end the federal role in education, he and his allies in Congress want to create a new federal role in education—not for public schools but for a national voucher program.

In Congress, Trump’s allies are trying to sneak a new voucher program into a bill about taxes. But this “tuition tax credit” is nothing more than a national voucher program that also allows people like Elon Musk and Betsy DeVos to turn a profit, personally earning millions of dollars from the scheme, while our public schools, which 90 percent of all students attend, are underfunded and undermined.

Send your letter to Congress telling lawmakers to stop plans to implement a national school voucher program.

We can’t let Republicans representing billionaires insert a national voucher program into a bill with so many cuts to essential services that they hope we won’t notice. Adding a so-called tuition tax credit to their tax bill would:

• Divert billions of dollars in public funds to private schools—even though public schools serve 90 percent of our students.
• Let wealthy taxpayers profit from this voucher scheme even as it channels more taxpayer money to wealthy families already using private schools.
• Harm students with special needs who rely on public school infrastructure and are often not welcome in private schools.
• Allow discrimination with public funds, even as our public schools, which are nondiscriminatory and open to all, do not receive the funding they need.
• Harm food banks, houses of worship, veterans’ organizations and all nonprofits that rely on donations, by creating a financial incentive for donors to direct their money to vouchers instead.

We know vouchers are bad news for our students, schools and communities. The evidence is clear that vouchers don’t help achievement; they have been used mainly by the wealthy who already send their children to private schools, and most important, they deplete essential funding from public schools. We can stop this attack on our schools.

In the same way parents, educators and community members came together across the country last November to defeat vouchers, no matter their political persuasion, we can stand with parents and education advocacy groups now to send a clear message to members of Congress trying to defund public schools through this federal voucher scheme.

Click to send a letter to your members of Congress opposing a tuition tax credit for private schools and a nationalized school voucher program.

In Unity,
Randi Weingarten
AFT President

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The evidence is clear: Private school vouchers divert needed funding away from public schools, are a boon to the wealthy and don’t help student achievement. Yet even as President Donald Trump tries to end the federal role in education, he and his allies in Congress want to create a new federal role in education—not for public schools but for a national voucher program.

In Congress, Trump’s allies are trying to sneak a new voucher program into a bill about taxes. But this “tuition tax credit” is nothing more than a national voucher program that also allows people like Elon Musk and Betsy DeVos to turn a profit, personally earning millions of dollars from the scheme, while our public schools, which 90 percent of all students attend, are underfunded and undermined.

Send your letter to Congress telling lawmakers to stop plans to implement a national school voucher program.

We can’t let Republicans representing billionaires insert a national voucher program into a bill with so many cuts to essential services that they hope we won’t notice. Adding a so-called tuition tax credit to their tax bill would:

• Divert billions of dollars in public funds to private schools—even though public schools serve 90 percent of our students.
• Let wealthy taxpayers profit from this voucher scheme even as it channels more taxpayer money to wealthy families already using private schools.
• Harm students with special needs who rely on public school infrastructure and are often not welcome in private schools.
• Allow discrimination with public funds, even as our public schools, which are nondiscriminatory and open to all, do not receive the funding they need.
• Harm food banks, houses of worship, veterans’ organizations and all nonprofits that rely on donations, by creating a financial incentive for donors to direct their money to vouchers instead.

We know vouchers are bad news for our students, schools and communities. The evidence is clear that vouchers don’t help achievement; they have been used mainly by the wealthy who already send their children to private schools, and most important, they deplete essential funding from public schools. We can stop this attack on our schools.

In the same way parents, educators and community members came together across the country last November to defeat vouchers, no matter their political persuasion, we can stand with parents and education advocacy groups now to send a clear message to members of Congress trying to defund public schools through this federal voucher scheme.

Click to send a letter to your members of Congress opposing a tuition tax credit for private schools and a nationalized school voucher program.

In Unity,
Randi Weingarten
AFT President

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Crypto Is a Scam , Corrupt, and Funds Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

 Donald Trump and Elon Musk are moving full speed ahead on a corrupt and dangerous bill to let them issue their OWN private money - which could bring down our entire financial system.

The Senate could vote THIS WEEK so please write  or call your Senators today.

In March, the historically corrupt and dangerous GENIUS Act passed the Senate Banking Committee with five Democratic votes: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Mark Warner (VA), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE) and Andy Kim (NJ).

Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) is the Democratic co-author of the bill, and she was rewarded with a “Crypto Champion” award from the crypto industry, along with Angela Alsobrooks (MD).

Trump is no GENIUS, but he is corrupt. This year, Trump has made nearly $3 BILLION on his corrupt crypto deals. Right after The Banking Committee voted on the bill, Trump launched his own stablecoin (USD1) and it’s already being used to finance corrupt business deals in the Middle East.

Musk is no GENIUS either. DOGE has proven he's a cruel, vicious idiot who slashes essential workers and services and then lies about it. And Tesla's stock crash proves he's no GENIUS at business either.

The GENIUS Act establishes useless financial "safeguards" for the new wild west of Big Tech private currencies (so called “stablecoins”).

It begs for more big financial bailouts when the companies get shaky, and people run to redeem the private currencies for actual cash - the exact kind of run on the banks that caused the Great Depression.

The bill also ignores core consumer protections that apply to the payments we make every day through our debit card or Venmo account. If you get scammed or charged junk fees when using these new private currencies, you may be on your own. (And don't bother calling Kash Patel's FBI.)

It also lacks privacy safeguards to prevent Elon Musk and other Big Tech billionaires from surveilling your transactions. Doesn't that give you the chills?

The bill actually turbocharges a payment system that is already GENIUS for terrorists, cartels, and sanctions targets like Iran and Russia.

It does not close money laundering and terrorist financing vulnerabilities that bad actors can exploit. Recent analyses concluded that stablecoins have become the “new epicentre of crypto fraud” and the “new kingpin of illicit crypto activity.”

For all these reasons, Democrats must stop Trump, Musk and their techbro cronies from issuing their own stablecoins, without any guardrails to protect consumers, to protect national security, or to protect the financial stability of our economy. 

Tell Chuck Schumer and ALL Senate Democrats to filibuster the GENIUS Act.

California Teachers Coordinate Bargaining Power

 

After years of grinding for wage gains that were quickly wiped out by California’s soaring cost of living, unionized educators are about to make a power move. 

In the midst of President Donald Trump’s attack on the federal Department of Education and the state’s own struggle with the myriad issues facing its public school system, the teachers’ unions say they’ll coordinate strategies across multiple California districts that together serve more than 1 million students.

Whether they will win better contracts in their individual districts, many of which are fighting ongoing budget issues, is an open question. But some of those who’ve been on the front lines of the education battle in the state feel they have little to lose.

“We have a staffing crisis, and it’s worst in areas where teachers are needed the most. If we want to fully staff our schools, we need a living wage,” said Kyle Weinberg, a special education teacher and president of the 7,000-member San Diego Education Association. “This is why this statewide effort is so critical, and why we in San Diego are all in.”

Under the plan, announced this week by the California Teachers Association, roughly 77,000 educators in 32 districts – about a quarter of the union’s full membership – will bargain for contracts around a shared set of core issues: improved wages, smaller class sizes, fully-staffed schools and more resources for students. (The California Teachers Association is a donor to Capital & Main). 

The union can’t negotiate for such improvements on a large-scale basis; the individual districts have to do that for themselves. But through a carefully orchestrated series of moves over the past several years, many of the state’s largest districts have aligned their contracts to expire on the same day, June 30.

The hope is that the implications of labor strife at the same time in so many major school districts – Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego – will ratchet up public pressure and prompt more responsive bargaining in each area.

“I don’t say this lightly: We are facing a crisis in our public schools,” said David Goldberg, president of the California Teachers Association, which represents about 310,000 public education workers. “There are not enough educators on our school campuses.”

During a news conference, Goldberg noted that California ranks in the bottom five in the U.S. for class size ratio and sits at 48^th for access to school counselors. A survey of its own members by the union, meanwhile, found that four in 10 are considering leaving the profession – in large measure, they say, because they can’t afford to live near the schools where they work.

The result of such pressures, the union says, is inadequate staffing that can erode the quality of public education. And in a job marketplace in which choosing to become a teacher may mean a struggle to pay for basic needs, California is lagging to keep up. The state has had to figure out ways to fast-track the credentialing process in order to get more teachers into the pipeline, but it still faces a significant shortage.

“The sacrifices that educators are making is significant,” said Lauren Pomrantz, a first-grade teacher and president of the Live Oak Elementary Teachers Association, a 100-member group in Santa Cruz County. “We’re often using our own funds to buy classroom supplies, and the reality is that not one school district in this county pays even the statewide average, even though studies show year after year that Santa Cruz is one of the least affordable places for teachers in the United States.”

This theme of unaffordability is not new; California teachers have been sounding the alarm for years about their incremental wage gains being quickly overwhelmed by runaway housing and living costs. But never before has the statewide union helped coordinate efforts by local districts to both time their contract bargaining and sharpen their message.

The California Teachers Association, which also counts school counselors, psychologists, librarians, support staff and other non-supervisory employees among its members, has often faced battles regarding messaging.

The state’s average salary for public school teachers in 2022-23, for example, was a seemingly robust $95,160, according to the California Department of Education. But that raw number doesn’t account for cost of living, especially housing, in the state’s largest and most expensive metropolitan areas. It also doesn’t reflect the reality that starting salaries for most teachers run in the mid-$50,000s – a tough sell in a place like L.A. or San Jose.

A recent report by the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research found that California has been falling behind for decades in teacher pay – and that average weekly salaries have remained flat since 2003, once the cost of living is taken into account.

Over the past 45 years, the inflation-adjusted average weekly wage of California teachers has risen 26.3%, while the average pay of nonteaching college graduates in the state is up 70%. Put simply, people are choosing other jobs. “Both the long-term trends and the recent trends have been troubling,” said Sylvia Allegretto, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

How much school districts have left to give is another question. With declining enrollment a reality, and state funding generally based on average daily attendance, many districts have found themselves strapped for cash and either considering closing schools or actively doing so. Leaders in Oakland have been considering multiple closures to trim a budget deficit estimated at between $75 million and $95 million.

But wi

After years of grinding for wage gains that were quickly wiped out by California’s soaring cost of living, unionized educators are about to make a power move. 

In the midst of President Donald Trump’s attack on the federal Department of Education and the state’s own struggle with the myriad issues facing its public school system, the teachers’ unions say they’ll coordinate strategies across multiple California districts that together serve more than 1 million students.

Whether they will win better contracts in their individual districts, many of which are fighting ongoing budget issues, is an open question. But some of those who’ve been on the front lines of the education battle in the state feel they have little to lose.

“We have a staffing crisis, and it’s worst in areas where teachers are needed the most. If we want to fully staff our schools, we need a living wage,” said Kyle Weinberg, a special education teacher and president of the 7,000-member San Diego Education Association. “This is why this statewide effort is so critical, and why we in San Diego are all in.”

Under the plan, announced this week by the California Teachers Association, roughly 77,000 educators in 32 districts – about a quarter of the union’s full membership – will bargain for contracts around a shared set of core issues: improved wages, smaller class sizes, fully-staffed schools and more resources for students. (The California Teachers Association is a donor to Capital & Main). 

The union can’t negotiate for such improvements on a large-scale basis; the individual districts have to do that for themselves. But through a carefully orchestrated series of moves over the past several years, many of the state’s largest districts have aligned their contracts to expire on the same day, June 30.

The hope is that the implications of labor strife at the same time in so many major school districts – Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego – will ratchet up public pressure and prompt more responsive bargaining in each area.

“I don’t say this lightly: We are facing a crisis in our public schools,” said David Goldberg, president of the California Teachers Association, which represents about 310,000 public education workers. “There are not enough educators on our school campuses.”

During a news conference, Goldberg noted that California ranks in the bottom five in the U.S. for class size ratio and sits at 48^th for access to school counselors. A survey of its own members by the union, meanwhile, found that four in 10 are considering leaving the profession – in large measure, they say, because they can’t afford to live near the schools where they work.

The result of such pressures, the union says, is inadequate staffing that can erode the quality of public education. And in a job marketplace in which choosing to become a teacher may mean a struggle to pay for basic needs, California is lagging to keep up. The state has had to figure out ways to fast-track the credentialing process in order to get more teachers into the pipeline, but it still faces a significant shortage.

“The sacrifices that educators are making is significant,” said Lauren Pomrantz, a first-grade teacher and president of the Live Oak Elementary Teachers Association, a 100-member group in Santa Cruz County. “We’re often using our own funds to buy classroom supplies, and the reality is that not one school district in this county pays even the statewide average, even though studies show year after year that Santa Cruz is one of the least affordable places for teachers in the United States.”

This theme of unaffordability is not new; California teachers have been sounding the alarm for years about their incremental wage gains being quickly overwhelmed by runaway housing and living costs. But never before has the statewide union helped coordinate efforts by local districts to both time their contract bargaining and sharpen their message.

The California Teachers Association, which also counts school counselors, psychologists, librarians, support staff and other non-supervisory employees among its members, has often faced battles regarding messaging.

The state’s average salary for public school teachers in 2022-23, for example, was a seemingly robust $95,160, according to the California Department of Education. But that raw number doesn’t account for cost of living, especially housing, in the state’s largest and most expensive metropolitan areas. It also doesn’t reflect the reality that starting salaries for most teachers run in the mid-$50,000s – a tough sell in a place like L.A. or San Jose.

A recent report by the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research found that California has been falling behind for decades in teacher pay – and that average weekly salaries have remained flat since 2003, once the cost of living is taken into account.

Over the past 45 years, the inflation-adjusted average weekly wage of California teachers has risen 26.3%, while the average pay of nonteaching college graduates in the state is up 70%. Put simply, people are choosing other jobs. “Both the long-term trends and the recent trends have been troubling,” said Sylvia Allegretto, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

How much school districts have left to give is another question. With declining enrollment a reality, and state funding generally based on average daily attendance, many districts have found themselves strapped for cash and either considering closing schools or actively doing so. Leaders in Oakland have been considering multiple closures to trim a budget deficit estimated at between $75 million and $95 million.

But without adequate teaching staffs, simply keeping schools open won’t solve the issue. And while the California Teachers Association will continue to plead with state legislators to improve funding, Goldberg said, teachers in the local districts will ultimately be fighting many of their own battles.

They’ll now do so as part of a coordinated effort. “They’re able to learn from each other, support each other, and build broader pressure statewide,” Goldberg said. “We have to think of different ways to put students and educators first.”

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thout adequate teaching staffs, simply keeping schools open won’t solve the issue. And while the California Teachers Association will continue to plead with state legislators to improve funding, Goldberg said, teachers in the local districts will ultimately be fighting many of their own battles.

They’ll now do so as part of a coordinated effort. “They’re able to learn from each other, support each other, and build broader pressure statewide,” Goldberg said. “We have to think of different ways to put students and educators first.”

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A Strategy to Defeat Donald Trump; New York Times

NYT call for a united front to defend democracy.

There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/opinion/trump-100-days-opposition.html?smid=nytcore-android-share 

 

A May Day for the Age of Trump and Oligarchy

A May Day for the Age of Trump and Oligarchy: Today on TAP: On Thursday, a diverse set of demonstrators will focus on working-class rights and concerns.

What Is Happening is Not Normal.

 

What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.

 

David Brooks.  Conservative columnist. NYT. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?

  

Come Saturday, We Should Reclaim the American Revolution

Come Saturday, We Should Reclaim the American Revolution: Today on TAP: The 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord is a good time to resist mad kings old and new.

RS Seminar- Economic Crisis: Fighting Oligarchy in Folsom.

RS Seminar- Economic Crisis: Fighting Oligarchy in Folsom.:   Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Folsom RSVP today to say you'll join Bernie and AOC in Folsom on Tues...

36,000 Join Sanders and AOC in Los Angeles Today; Fight Oligarchy Tour

 This movement is not about partisan labels or purity tests; it's about class solidarity.

It is about the thousands of people who came out in Los Angeles today to stand together and say our lives deserve dignity and our work deserves respect.

We can either have extreme wealth inequality with the toxic division and corruption that it requires to survive—or we can have a fair economy that guarantees health care to all, for working people, along with a democracy and freedoms that uphold it.

Oligarchy or democracy, but we cannot have both. I've made my choice.

We must fight the oligarchy that has created this nightmare. And that is why I have never taken money from lobbyists or corporations, and it's why I never will.   AOC. 

Venue Change: Sanders and AOC in Folsom California

TPlease be advised that there is a venue change: we will now be at the Folsom Lake College Athletic Track in Folsom, CA.

Here's everything you need to know:

Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Folsom
With Special Guest Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Tuesday, April 15
3:30pm PDT Doors Open
6:00pm PDT Speaking Program Starts
Folsom Lake College Athletic Track

10 College Pkwy, Folsom, CA 95630 

Tariffs, Schmariffs

Tariffs, Schmariffs: Today on TAP: Trump rewards the real offshorers with trillions in tax cuts.

Trump tax give aways to the rich.

Bernie and AOC Coming to Auburn California- Tuesday.

Bernie’s coming to Auburn on Tuesday, April 15, and you’re invited! He’ll be speaking alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about how our movement can come together to take on the Oligarchy and demand a government that works for all of us, not just the wealthy few.

This is going to be a great event, and we’d love to see you there. So, can you make it? Here’s everything you need to know:

Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Auburn
With Special Guest Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Tuesday, April 15
3:30pm PDT Doors Open
6:00pm PDT Speaking Program Starts
Gold Country Fairgrounds and Event Center

209 Fairgate Road, Auburn, CA 95603 

AOC and Oligarchy

I am here to remind you all: we are not powerless in this moment.

People are starting to put the pieces together, 

And that’s important, because the same billionaires that are taking a wrecking ball to our country specialize in getting working people to turn on one another.

I understand that this disdain for working people, by some of the most powerful people in this country, doesn’t just come from them not being raised right.

There’s a word for this kind of thing: corruption.

I understand what it feels like to watch all of this stack up. When the system is stacked against you, it’s hard to feel like anything you do matters.

I can tell you: when I was waitressing, and struggling to put food on the table, for a while there, I tried to keep my head down, work my shifts, and accept that this is just how things are.

But that’s no way to live.

The Resistance Shows Its Strength -Sacramento

 

Today, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab. We expected hundreds of thousands. But at virtually every single event, the crowds eclipsed our estimates. And it’s not over -- people are still marching in some West Coast cities and heading to events in Alaska and Hawaii.  This is the largest day of protest since Trump retook office. And in many small towns and cities, activists are reporting the biggest protests their communities have ever seen as everyday people send a clear, unmistakable message to Trump and Musk: Hands off our healthcare, hands off our civil rights, hands off our schools, our freedoms, and our democracy.  There've been protests in red states, blue states, purple states, DC, and US territories. Outside the United States, too, with protesters showing solidarity in the UK, Portugal, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands. A glimpse of what we’re seeing at a few of the 1,300+ protests across the country:  Boston, MA For many, many more #HandsOff photos, check out our Instagram and Blueskyaccounts.  The Trump administration has spent its first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us, to make us feel powerless, so that we will fall in line, accept the ransacking of our government, the raiding of our social safety net, and the dismantling of our democracy.  And too often, the response from our leaders and those in positions to resist has been abject cowardice. Compliance. Obeying in advance.  But not today. Today we've demonstrated a different path forward. We've modeled the courage and action that we want to see from our leaders, and showed all those who’ve been standing on the sidelines who share our values that they are not alone.  Even more important than the message we’ve sent to Trump, Musk, and MAGA is the signal we’re sending to those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid: The fight for our democracy isn’t over -- it’s just getting going. And whoever they are, wherever they are, we need their voice to win. Today, hundreds of thousands of people attended their first protest of the new Trump era. Hundreds of millions more are going to see coverage of the events or hear about it from your social media posts and want to know how they can get involved. Our ask for you: Tell them. (And if you’re looking to step up your involvement, here’s how YOU can do that, too):  We are stronger when we organize together. Now is the moment for folks to join their local Indivisible group. Indivisible exists to support local organizing. If there’s a part of this country without an Indivisible group -- or if the nearest group isn’t being responsive -- anyone can start a new one. You don’t need to be an expert to get involved. But for anyone looking for a clear “how to” on fighting Trump’s authoritarian vision, we wrote the Indivisible Guide. With Congressional recess coming up and MAGA Republicans plotting to gut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the rich, where going to need a LOT more people showing up in their communities to say “hands off!” Anyone interested in joining this next fight can add their names here. Thank you to everyone who showed up today, hosted an event, or joined us online. This has been the culmination of a lot of hard work, but also the beginning of something much, much bigger.   In solidarity, Indivisible Team   Seeking photos from Sacramento.

Showing Up on April 5.

 

This Saturday is already going to be BIG, but we’re counting on everyone to grab some poster boards, some friends, and a few snacks so they can turn out to make it HISTORICALLY HUGE. The moment could not be bigger or more timely:

1️⃣ The crackdown on peaceful protest is coming. We all know Trump, Musk, and their MAGA enablers will come after peaceful protesters if they can carry on unopposed much longer. And when that crackdown comes, it needs to be alien, inexcusable, indefensible, and untenable.

We’re showing up on April 5 because, if we don’t, it will be so much harder to do so on May 5, June 5, or beyond. Tomorrow is when we set the tone that peaceful protests against this administration are widespread, unstoppable, and only getting bigger.

2️⃣ Our leaders and institutions won’t fight unless we demand it. If anyone expected the powers that be to save us from the fascistic Musk-Trump power grab, they’ve been proven very wrong, very quickly.

Too many institutions -- from law firms to academia to corporations and the media -- have chosen to meekly bow down to Trump and Musk’s demands. Too many congressional Democrats have chosen complicity over bold resistance.

Cory Booker made clear during his historic marathon speech on the Senate floor that he was responding to pressure from his constituents to do more.

The message we send Saturday is aimed at those who share our values as much as it is at Trump and Musk. Together, we’re demanding they do more and fight harder -- knowing that hundreds of thousands of their constituents have their backs if they do.

3️⃣ We have Elon Musk on the ropes. His approval rating is in the toilet. His bid to buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race failed spectacularly. And now Donald Trump’s privately admitting it may be time to show DOGE the door.

By peacefully protesting the Musk-Trump Coup and educating voters about its danger to their pocketbooks and our democracy, Indivisibles and our allies have turned Elon Musk into a political pariah everywhere outside the Oval Office -- and now it’s time to turn up the heat even further.