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Thousands of California teachers rally outside SpaceX headquarters to protest Trump-Musk education budget cuts threatening special education and meal programs.

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FOIA request reveals zero EPA employees responded to Trump administration’s call to report colleagues working on DEI programs.

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Indian Ph.D. student granted injunction against deportation after DHS tried to revoke her visa over minor traffic violation from four years ago.

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Last day for (anonymous) public comment as SpaceX seeks to more than double its Cape Canaveral launches, raising concerns for pilots, fishers and wildlife.

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Federal regulators and Austin officials demand Tesla prove its robotaxi plans can handle weather and emergencies before June deployment.

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Episcopal Church quits federal refugee program as presiding bishop condemns Trump for giving white South Africans preferential treatment over millions blocked and still waiting in camps.

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Hundreds protest in Worcester for third straight day after ICE separates Brazilian mother from child during immigration arrest.

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Quakers march 300 miles from New York to Washington to protest Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants supporting faith tradition of activism.

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Angry crowd stops ICE from arresting mother with baby in Massachusetts.

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In rare public criticism, Justice Sotomayor urges lawyers to “stand up” against Trump administration’s attacks on legal profession.

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Haverford College president grilled by GOP reps over refusal to share student discipline details, with some threatening her job and federal funding.

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George W. Bush rebuffs Trump, will skip White House event honoring his mother.

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Website tracks and supports organized boycotts against Trump-aligned companies.

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Voters ejected while confronting GOP’s Lawler over Trump agenda at raucous town hall.

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New York Catholic bishops criticize Trump and White House for AI image showing him as pope days after Francis’s death

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R.E.M. reissues 1981 debut single to support Radio Free Europe after Trump admin freezes funding.

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In historic rebuke, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson calls Trump’s attacks on judges an intimidating threat to democracy and urges courts to show ‘raw courage.’

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Rewind: A short but important primer about staying safe while protesting

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“Your Local Epidemiologist” Katelyn Jetelina offers webinar on influencing health policy this Friday.

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More than 1,000 May Day Strong events will erupt nationwide on Thursday. Show up and stand up for workers’ rights, immigrant justice, and real economic power. Here’s the list.

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Jeffries and Booker stage 12-hour Capitol sit-in protesting GOP budget plan advancing Trump’s agenda.

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NYT/Siena poll shows majority of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance and call second term chaotic.

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May Day coalition plans nationwide protests against Trump-Musk cuts, defending wages, unions, and public services.

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Transportation Dept attorneys accidentally file internal memo admitting Trump admin’s congestion pricing lawsuit is a losing battle, are immediately replaced.

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Over 200 college leaders denounce Trump’s campus crackdown as ‘government overreach’ in open letter.

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Donalds booed and jeered at Florida town hall for backing Musk’s Social Security cuts and data access push.

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Wisconsin governor’s ICE guidance to state employees draws GOP fury over advice to deny access without a warrant.

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National May Day protests set, organizing call Wednesday.

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Protesters rally in all 50 states against Trump policies on immigration, education, and executive power.

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​Protest safely: Know your rights and best practices with this PDF guide.​

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Ex-election security chief Chris Krebs quits private-sector job to fight Trump-ordered probe over 2020

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Schumer blocks Trump’s New York prosecutor picks, calls them part of plan to weaponize the Justice Department.

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Protester tased to audience applause at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s restricted-access town hall; 6 removed, 3 arrested, including for vulgarity.

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Pulitzer winner Julia Angwin helps write survival guide for dissent in Trump’s authoritarian America.

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50501 Organizing Nationwide Protests Saturday

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Sanders warns 36,000 at L.A. rally that Trump is pushing U.S. toward authoritarianism, with Utah and Idaho events next.

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Miami-Dade mayor vetoes fluoride ban, defying RFK Jr. and Trump-aligned health officials.

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Space Force commander in Greenland relieved of command after email distancing base from Vance’s annexation remarks.

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Massachusetts schools chief defies Trump DEI order, says state complies with civil rights law and will keep promoting diversity.

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Maine sues Trump admin for stopping school lunch funding, calls federal action “blatantly illegal”

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Canada launches billboard campaign in U.S. swing states warning tariffs are a tax, as Trump’s trade war escalates.

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New York refuses Trump administration’s demand to end DEI in schools, dismisses threat to cut federal education funding.

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Obama and Harris urge Americans to resist Trump’s second-term crackdowns on dissent, press, and legal rights.

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DemCast releases free digital assets to promote Saturday’s Hands Off Rally.

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Booker takes Senate floor for 25 hours, halts all work, and calls out Democrats for failing to resist Trump.

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Within sight of the White House, DC rally marks Trans Day of Visibility and defiance of Trump’s anti-trans agenda.

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Top partners at major law firm call Trump’s attacks on lawyers “lawless” and urge the profession to fight back.

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Hundreds march with 200-foot trans pride flag for Transgender Day of Visibility on Monday, defying Utah’s new law banning flags on public property.

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Tesla faces global protest wave Saturday over Musk’s political influence and DOGE leadership.

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Maine defies Trump’s deadline to ban trans athletes, says his order breaks the law and insists neither he nor Gov. Mills can cut local school funding

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The Visibility Brigade has published a helpful guide to civic action, including real ways you can help fight back.

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National Day of Action set for April 5 as Hands Off! and 50501 launch nationwide protests against Trump and Musk’s power grab.

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Tesla trade-ins hit record high as new sales crater and stock drops over 50%, with Musk’s role in Trump administration fueling protests, boycotts, and collapsing consumer confidence.

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Indivisible adds more than 100 new groups in one week, breaking monthly growth records, founder says.

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On day 3 of their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour—with rallies in Phoenix, Vegas, and Denver’s 30,000-strong crowd—AOC and Sanders bring 10,000 more out in Tucson.

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Senate Democrats Launch Whistleblower Portal Targeting Alleged Illegal Activities by Trump and Musk’s DOGE

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Colorado Schools Close Thursday as Thousands of Teachers Rally Against $150M in Cuts

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‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters plan largest action yet as Musk and Trump escalate attacks on demonstrators.

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Nebraska voters jeer GOP congressman over Musk, Ukraine, Trump tariffs, and Medicare at fiery town hall

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Sanders and AOC to rally in Arizona and Colorado as progressives begin mobilizing resistance

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Over 1,000 rally in Boston against Trump and Musk, denouncing mass layoffs and executive overreach.

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Protesters rally at 80 Tesla showrooms over Musk’s Trump ties as Sen. Mark Kelly publicly dumps his Tesla.

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Angry constituents booed and confronted NC GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards at an Asheville town hall before police removed a man and later escorted Edwards out.

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Nearly 100 protesters were arrested after hundreds occupied Trump Tower’s lobby, demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil.

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A NY Indivisible chapter meeting saw nearly three times the expected turnout this week—a glimpse of the power of local organizing in 2025. Read about that and more in Micah Sifry’s smart “The Defiance This Time.”

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An anonymous whistleblower testified in federal court that the government is proceeding with plans to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and fire all employees.

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The hacktivist group Dark Storm claimed responsibility for an ongoing X outage, saying the attack protests Elon Musk and Trump’s actions.

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For the second weekend in a row, protesters confronted JD Vance, this time near his Cincinnati home. He spoke with them but first accused them of chasing his 3-year-old daughter.

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Hundreds protest Musk at Manhattan Tesla showroom, 6 arrested.

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DC, NY, and Boston to host the largest of 32 “Stand Up for Science Protests on Friday.

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Hundreds protest Trump in Conway, NH (pop. 3,842), one of the largest protests in memory.

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Texas Rep. Al Green was ejected from the chamber for continuing to heckle Trump during his speech to Congress.

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800 protesters rallied in Boulder on a Monday to slam Trump admin’s DOGE layoffs that cut hundreds of NOAA jobs.

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Billionaire Mark Cuban urged the fired employees of the government’s 18F department to group together as a consultancy and vowed to invest and help them.

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Over 1,000 protesters, some in Ukrainian blue and gold, swarmed a Vermont town to protest JD Vance on a family ski trip.

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Upside-down US flag hung off Joshua Tree marks start of weekend of national park protests, including Grand Canyon.

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Five former defense secretaries condemned Trump’s “reckless firing” of the Joint Chiefs chair and top officers, urging Congress to block replacements.

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Fired USAID employees and HIV advocates protested in the Capitol including a “die-in”. Police arrested 20 people.

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21 federal employees assigned to DOGE resigned en masse to avoid “carrying out or legitimizing” the agency’s efforts.

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A doctored video of Trump licking Elon Musk’s feet played this morning as Housing & Urban Development employees returned to work

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Hundreds rally at Maine State House backing Gov. Mills’ vow to sue Trump admin to protect state residents

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Hundreds protested Trump policies at the courthouse in Henderson NC (pop. 15,000)

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New trend of protesting at Tesla showrooms saw hundreds show up in San Francisco

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Hundreds rallied at HHS for “Fund Don’t Freeze” protesting Musk’s DOGE and billions cut from public health funding

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200 federal workers and supporters protested in single digit temperatures at Chicago’s Federal Plaza

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50 protests tomorrow in 50 Different States. More: fiftyfifty.one

National Park employees protest mass firings and hiring freezes at Yosemite

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