Organizing Jax for Progress
FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Monday, July 23, 2018
Submitted by Joanne Pero
PROTECT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL: VOTE NO ON KAVANAUGH
FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Friday, July 20, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty
DEMAND CONGRESS COUNTER TRUMP’S SIDING WITH RUSSIA
At a press conference following a closed door meeting with Russian authoritarian President Vladimir Putin on July 16 in Helsinki, Trump rejected the findings of his own U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia was responsible for the attacks on the 2016 election and instead readily accepted Putin’s denial. His obsequious deference to Putin over American law…
FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Thursday, July 19, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty
ENSURE LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
The more than 2,000 children who were forcefully separated from their parents at the border are now going through the process of immigration hearings. Because seeking asylum is not a crime, the standard requirement for court-appointed attorneys is not in place for these children. The result is that children as young as 3 years old are left to rep…
FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty
DEMAND CONGRESS COUNTER TRUMP’S SIDING WITH RUSSIA
At a press conference following a closed door meeting with Russian authoritarian President Vladimir Putin on July 16 in Helsinki, Trump rejected the findings of his own U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia was responsible for the attacks on the 2016 election and instead readily accepted Putin’s denial. His obsequious deference to Putin over American …
FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty
PROTECT IMMIGRANT FAMILIES WITH TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS
Trump’s zero tolerance border policy, which has led to unconscionable family separations, is not the only policy threatening to tear immigrant families apart. The termination of temporary protected status (TPS) for 406,000 immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and Honduras is also a dire threat to immigrant families. TPS allows immigrants from coun…
URGENT ADDITIONAL DAILY ACTION—MON.-FRI., JULY 16-20, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty
TELL YOUR MoCS: TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IF TRUMP FIRES ROSENSTEIN
(Please try to make the following call each day this week.)
FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Monday, July 16, 2018
Submitted by: Margaret Petty
BLOCK BRETT KAVANAUGH FOR THE US SUPREME COURT
On July 9, Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh spent 12 years on the D.C. Circuit appeals court, where he repeatedly issued extremist opinions. While the Supreme Court is intended to be apolitical, Kavanaugh also has a history of partisanship, even participating in the drafting of the Kenneth Starr report that laid the groundwork …
FEDERAL DAILY ACTION – Friday, July 13, 2018
STOP KAVANAUGH APPOINTMENT
Submitted by Jean Sealey & Cari Boyce
Contact Senator Rubio (202 224-3041 or 904 354-4300) and Senator Nelson (202 224-5274 or 904 346-4500) and your House Representatives to tell them the American people will not accept the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court upon the recommendation of a president who is himself under criminal investigation. Allowing Donald Trump to nominate anyone for the upcomi…
FEDERAL DAILY ACTION – Thursday, July 12, 2018
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT NEEDED NOW
Submitted by Jean Sealey
Contact Senator Rubio (202 224-3041 or 904 354-4300) and Senator Nelson (202 224-5274 or 904 346-4500) and your House Representatives to tell them it is time to assert their duty to oversee and challenge, if necessary, actions of the president that have questionable outcomes related to the protection, security, civil rights and benefit of the American people. Recent acti…
FEDERAL DAILY ACTION Wednesday, July 11, 2018
BLOCK KAVANAUGH TO PRESERVE INDEPENDENT SCOTUS
Submitted by Jean Sealey
Contact Senator Rubio (202 224-3041 or 904 354-4300) and Senator Nelson (202 224-5274 or 904 346-4500) and your representatives in the House to tell them the checks and balances system of government created by the Constitution rests on the premise of three independent branches of government. That system already is precarious with one party solidly in control o…
