Category Archives: Action Alerts
Take Action | Trump Is Vandalizing Our Wild Heritage
Former Governor and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt implores us to take action to save our precious public lands. Trump is traveling to Utah on Monday, where he will be greeted by protestors in Salt Lake City. Trump will not even visit the monuments he intends to scale back: Bears Ear and Grand Staircase Escalante. He’s […]
Continue readingTax Scam Days for Action!
Coconino Democrats join Indivisible groups around the country to stop the tax bill in the Senate. Our Senators, McCain and Flake, are key to the success we need. In Northern Arizona, we have little opportunity, without hours of travel, to join the sit-ins that will be taking place. But we can flood the phone and […]
Continue readingCall, Write, Fax: It Matters That We Stop the Tax Bill
Newsweek just named Jeff Flake and John McCain as two of only a small handful of Senators who could kill Trump’s terrible tax bill. These are our Senators and they will listen to YOU more than anyone from any other state. Call, write, and Resistbot (Text 504-09) or fax. Here’s Senator McCain’s email contact form Here’s […]
Continue readingAction Alert: Save the ACA (yes, again)
As of last night, Congressional Republicans are coming after the Affordable Care Act again as they reach for cash to pay for their massive corporate tax cut and elimination of the tax on estates valued at over $5 million. Call and tell your Senators and Representatives that this is just plain wrong. From WaPo, Finance […]
Continue readingTake Action: Stop Talley Appointment to the Federal Bench
Update 11/13/17: It just got worse. Talley failed to disclose that he is married to a White House lawyer who is a witness in the Mueller investigation. Original post: Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee — on a party-line vote — recommended the confirmation of Brent J. Talley as a federal district judge. This is […]
Continue readingTake Action: Stop the Tax Bill
(This article has been updated with additional information and references.) Republicans plan to ram a tax bill through Congress before Thanksgiving. We need to give this as much protest as we gave to their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Call, write, and fax every day between now and Thanksgiving. Never before has a […]
Continue readingDemand Congress Protect the Mueller Investigation
“The Trump political and legal strategy is about to get very radical.”1 While we have been celebrating the revelations from the Papadopoulos guilty plea and the hints of Mueller’s strategy contained in the Manafort/Gates indictment, Fox News listeners and Wall Street Journal readers have been hearing a very different perspective. Trump apologists are calling for […]
Continue readingDemand Action on Clean Power – from ADP
The facts speak for themselves: Arizona would be one of the hardest hit states by the effects of climate change. But if we invest in clean power, we could be one of the states to most benefit from solar and other renewables. That’s why we need you to add your name right now as a supporter of the Clean Power Plan […]
Continue readingFacts About Guns in the U.S. — and Two Action Alerts
The tragedy in Las Vegas last night has evoked a burst of conversation about gun control. Here is a useful article to prepare you to have conversations with those who say “guns don’t kill, people do.” The bottom line on all the statistics presented in that article: The states that have tighter gun restrictions have […]
Continue readingDefend the ACA: Oppose Graham-Cassidy
WHAT’S HAPPENING: The Republicans are taking another run at “repeal and replace.” They have until Sept. 30 to slide through a bill with just 50 votes (plus Mike Pence). Their defeats earlier this summer don’t seem to be discouraging them. There is now a move in the Senate to pass a new bill sponsored by Senators Graham, […]
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