Republicans just shut down the federal government to rip away our healthcare and hand Trump another blank check for his dangerous, illegal power grab. Instead of negotiating a budget that protects families and reins in Trump’s lawlessness, Republicans chose to throw working families under the bus. This is the Republicans’ shutdown. They own the damage that comes with it.
Indivisible today announced the launch of its first-ever creator-driven electoral program: the Virginia Creator Campaign. This initiative will mobilize national and regional content creators to reach millions of voters online and seeks to increase early voting, and turn out pro-democracy Virginians in one of the most consequential elections of the decade.
Rep. Jayapal is a tireless champion for working families and a dedicated public servant. We stand firmly with her and commend her courage in the face of these threats. Political violence is designed to intimidate, silence dissent, and put anyone who dares to speak up at risk. There is no place for it in a democracy, and every one must condemn it without hesitation.
Targeting peaceful political dissidents isn’t patriotic, it’s frankly un-American. Trump’s memo is nothing more than a blueprint for intimidation, laying the groundwork to surveil, harass, and dismantle lawful movements for justice and democracy.
Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t reinstated because Disney executives slept on it and had a change of heart. He’s back on air because those executives got a wakeup call from the American public.
Iger’s cowardice is bad for Disney and bad for democracy. There was a time when Disney was on the side of democracy, producing some of the most memorable anti-fascist cartoons of the 1940s to help us win the war. But eighty years later, Iger is tarnishing a great American company’s reputation with his cowardly capitulation to Trump’s goons. Rather than stand up for free speech, he’s falling over to help an unpopular president squash dissent and trample our rights. Shame, Bob, shame.
Americans have the right to free speech without fear of government retribution. What we’re seeing instead is the President colluding with corporate media executives and powerful station owners to muzzle voices he doesn’t like. That’s not just censorship, it’s an authoritarian playbook.