Daily Headlines: Fighting Back MAGA schism intensifies over Epstein files, Loomer enlists Vance’s help with “Pam Blondi” July 10, 2025 View Details RESOURCE: Launched in 2025 by former federal data chiefs, DataIndex.us helps you spot and fight government efforts to delete, hide, or alter public data. July 9, 2025 View Details Phoenix billboard depicts Trump as shirtless “Swamp King” surrounded by a MAGA alligator and Tesla with swastika. July 8, 2025 View Details Organizers plan July 17th national protests against Trump administration at courthouses and community spaces, invoking John Lewis’s “good trouble” legacy. July 6, 2025 View Details ADL and Jewish members of Congress criticize Trump for using antisemitic slur “Shylock” at Iowa rally as Trump claims ignorance of term’s meaning. July 4, 2025 View Details Planned Parenthood vows to sue Trump administration over provision in megabill that blocks Medicaid funding for one year. July 4, 2025 View Details Call your representative now as Trump’s megabill slashes over $1 trillion from health care, threatens hospitals and nursing homes, and hands tax cuts to millionaires; see the linked one-page explainer for facts. July 3, 2025 View Details Free spreadsheet maps donors and their contacts tied to three GOP senators weighing Trump’s budget bill. For transparency, not harassment. July 1, 2025 View Details About 1,000 protesters denounce DeSantis’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center as “inhumane” for being built in the Everglades on land indigenous groups call sacred. June 29, 2025 View Details Fighting Back Resource: Guide by attorney Qasim Rashid provides ICE raid protection strategies and organizing tactics. June 28, 2025 View Details Second anti-Trump statue appears on National Mall, features gold TV playing loop of Trump dancing. June 27, 2025 View Details National Guard brothers escort mom to Chicago ICE contractor check-in as Reps. Krishnamoorthi and Jackson are rebuffed at the door. June 26, 2025 View Details Over 20 state attorneys general sue Trump administration for using obscure five-word clause to justify billions in federal funding cuts they claim bypasses Congress. June 25, 2025 View Details Pakistan condemns Trump’s Iran bombing one day after nominating him for Nobel Peace Prize as “genuine peacemaker,” creating diplomatic embarrassment over timing. June 24, 2025 View Details Senate parliamentarian strikes down GOP provision that would have limited courts’ ability to hold Trump officials in contempt. There have been 190 rulings against the administration since January. June 23, 2025 View Details Los Angeles journalists sue DHS Secretary Kristi Noem after agents shot credentialed reporters with rubber bullets and tear gas covering immigration raids. June 22, 2025 View Details LA Dodgers pledge $1 million for immigrant families after facing backlash for silence during ICE raids and one day after denying ICE agents stadium access. June 21, 2025 View Details Dodgers deny ICE and CBP agents entry to Dodger Stadium parking lots Thursday, while DHS insists agents were never there. June 20, 2025 View Details “Dictator Approved” statue appears on National Mall showing gold thumb crushing Statue of Liberty, featuring quotes from Putin and Kim Jong Un praising Trump. June 19, 2025 View Details RESOURCE: 6 tracking tools to monitor Trump administration’s attacks on civil liberties. June 18, 2025 View Details American Bar Association sues Trump over executive orders coercing law firms to abandon clients and causes he dislikes, calling it “blizzard-like chill” on legal profession. June 17, 2025 View Details REMINDER: No Kings post-protest call Monday 8PM EDT for all participants. June 16, 2025 View Details No Kings participants invited to join nationwide debrief call Monday at 8pm EDT to discuss what’s next in the fight after millions rallied across U.S. June 15, 2025 View Details Twenty Willkie Farr attorneys depart for Cooley after Willkie pledged $100 million to avoid Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders while Cooley fights the same orders in court. June 14, 2025 View Details Resource: Wired’s digital security guide for protesters covers phone encryption, avoiding facial recognition, and protecting online privacy as Trump administration deploys surveillance tools against demonstrators. June 13, 2025 View Details Anti-Trump organizers hold strategy call THURSDAY for Saturday protests as No Kings movement prepares mass mobilization. All participants invited! June 12, 2025 View Details ProPublica adds 23 names to DOGE tracker revealing 109 officials including 38 from Musk companies, with backgrounds showing young men from finance and tech cutting agencies that regulated their former employers. June 11, 2025 View Details Smithsonian board asserts independence after Trump claimed he fired National Portrait Gallery director, stating Secretary Bunch makes all personnel decisions with board oversight. June 10, 2025 View Details World Pride 2025 concludes in Washington with defiant protest march toward the White House as LGBTQ+ activists prepare for renewed fight against Trump’s second-term policies. June 9, 2025 View Details Newsom threatens to cut off California’s $80 billion federal tax surplus after Trump threatens university funding cuts. June 8, 2025 View Details Democrats block Trump Justice nominee citing “Vance precedent” after current VP spent months obstructing Biden prosecutors as senator. June 7, 2025 View Details Activists organize 1,000 No Kings protests across US on June 14 to counter Trump’s Flag Day parade with nationwide day of defiance against authoritarianism. Click for map. June 6, 2025 View Details National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet defies Trump’s firing order and continues working as Smithsonian Board of Regents prepares to meet Monday to address presidential overreach. June 5, 2025 View Details RESOURCE: Free social media toolkit to amplify Trump administration’s pattern of disappearing people from American communities through detention, deportation and government retaliation. June 4, 2025 View Details Major corporations abandon law firms that signed deals with Trump administration, preferring lawyers “who don’t run from a fight” as business rewards firms not capitulating to White House. June 3, 2025 View Details FIGHTING BACK RESOURCE: Dr. Paul Shattuck published this viral list of 80 small moves to help you resist authoritarianism while staying human. June 2, 2025 View Details Veterans organize D-Day rally to protest Trump administration plans to cut 83,000 VA jobs and eliminate hundreds of community service contracts. June 1, 2025 View Details Saturday protests target Avelo Airlines at over 50 airports nationwide demanding cancellation of $150 million ICE deportation contract, with activists calling flights “illegal abduction and human trafficking.” May 31, 2025 View Details House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin demands guest list from Trump’s private dinner for major cryptocurrency investors over foreign influence concerns. May 30, 2025 View Details Georgia pastor Jamal Bryant expands his corporate DEI boycott from Target to Dollar General, targeting the retailer for rolling back diversity programs under Trump administration pressure. May 29, 2025 View Details Visibility Brigade publishes 66-page free toolkit for overpass protests aimed at mobilizing 11 million Americans against Trump. May 28, 2025 View Details Environmental groups sue to block Trump’s order opening Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. May 27, 2025 View Details Reminder: Join Indivisible virtual training Tuesday, May 27, and learn tactics to mobilize friends, family, neighbors. May 26, 2025 View Details Seattle police make 16 arrests at counterprotest to conservative Christian group “Mayday USA” event in Capitol Hill after protesters threw bottles and clashed with officers in riot gear. May 25, 2025 View Details Join Indivisible virtual training May 27 to learn how to mobilize friends, family, neighbors May 24, 2025 View Details Fired Copyright Office chief Shira Perlmutter sues Trump administration arguing only Librarian of Congress can remove her, challenging White House authority over legislative branch agency. May 23, 2025 View Details Bruce Springsteen releases EP calling Trump administration “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” as Trump shares meme showing himself hitting Springsteen with golf ball. May 22, 2025 View Details New social media toolkit provides ready-made content for supporters to amplify Rep. McIver’s immigration facility confrontation story online. May 21, 2025 View Details RFK family foundation awards Maine Gov. Mills human rights prize for defying transgender policies of administration where RFK Jr. serves as HHS Secretary. May 20, 2025 View Details Local Democratic officials join thousands in making a 30-mile human chain across Chicago suburbs to protest Trump administration policies. May 19, 2025 View Details Thousands of California teachers rally outside SpaceX headquarters to protest Trump-Musk education budget cuts threatening special education and meal programs. May 18, 2025 View Details FOIA request reveals zero EPA employees responded to Trump administration’s call to report colleagues working on DEI programs. May 17, 2025 View Details Indian Ph.D. student granted injunction against deportation after DHS tried to revoke her visa over minor traffic violation from four years ago. May 16, 2025 View Details Last day for (anonymous) public comment as SpaceX seeks to more than double its Cape Canaveral launches, raising concerns for pilots, fishers and wildlife. May 15, 2025 View Details Federal regulators and Austin officials demand Tesla prove its robotaxi plans can handle weather and emergencies before June deployment. May 14, 2025 View Details 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. May 13, 2025 View Details Hundreds protest in Worcester for third straight day after ICE separates Brazilian mother from child during immigration arrest. May 12, 2025 View Details Quakers march 300 miles from New York to Washington to protest Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants supporting faith tradition of activism. May 11, 2025 View Details Angry crowd stops ICE from arresting mother with baby in Massachusetts. May 10, 2025 View Details In rare public criticism, Justice Sotomayor urges lawyers to “stand up” against Trump administration’s attacks on legal profession. May 9, 2025 View Details Haverford College president grilled by GOP reps over refusal to share student discipline details, with some threatening her job and federal funding. May 8, 2025 View Details George W. Bush rebuffs Trump, will skip White House event honoring his mother. May 7, 2025 View Details Website tracks and supports organized boycotts against Trump-aligned companies. May 6, 2025 View Details Voters ejected while confronting GOP’s Lawler over Trump agenda at raucous town hall. May 5, 2025 View Details New York Catholic bishops criticize Trump and White House for AI image showing him as pope days after Francis’s death May 4, 2025 View Details R.E.M. reissues 1981 debut single to support Radio Free Europe after Trump admin freezes funding. May 3, 2025 View Details 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.’ May 2, 2025 View Details Rewind: A short but important primer about staying safe while protesting May 1, 2025 View Details “Your Local Epidemiologist” Katelyn Jetelina offers webinar on influencing health policy this Friday. April 30, 2025 View Details 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. April 29, 2025 View Details Jeffries and Booker stage 12-hour Capitol sit-in protesting GOP budget plan advancing Trump’s agenda. April 28, 2025 View Details NYT/Siena poll shows majority of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance and call second term chaotic. April 27, 2025 View Details May Day coalition plans nationwide protests against Trump-Musk cuts, defending wages, unions, and public services. April 26, 2025 View Details Transportation Dept attorneys accidentally file internal memo admitting Trump admin’s congestion pricing lawsuit is a losing battle, are immediately replaced. April 25, 2025 View Details Over 200 college leaders denounce Trump’s campus crackdown as ‘government overreach’ in open letter. April 24, 2025 View Details Donalds booed and jeered at Florida town hall for backing Musk’s Social Security cuts and data access push. April 23, 2025 View Details Wisconsin governor’s ICE guidance to state employees draws GOP fury over advice to deny access without a warrant. April 22, 2025 View Details National May Day protests set, organizing call Wednesday. April 21, 2025 View Details Protesters rally in all 50 states against Trump policies on immigration, education, and executive power. April 20, 2025 View Details Protest safely: Know your rights and best practices with this PDF guide. April 19, 2025 View Details Ex-election security chief Chris Krebs quits private-sector job to fight Trump-ordered probe over 2020 April 18, 2025 View Details Schumer blocks Trump’s New York prosecutor picks, calls them part of plan to weaponize the Justice Department. April 17, 2025 View Details Protester tased to audience applause at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s restricted-access town hall; 6 removed, 3 arrested, including for vulgarity. April 16, 2025 View Details Pulitzer winner Julia Angwin helps write survival guide for dissent in Trump’s authoritarian America. April 15, 2025 View Details 50501 Organizing Nationwide Protests Saturday April 14, 2025 View Details Sanders warns 36,000 at L.A. rally that Trump is pushing U.S. toward authoritarianism, with Utah and Idaho events next. April 13, 2025 View Details Miami-Dade mayor vetoes fluoride ban, defying RFK Jr. and Trump-aligned health officials. April 12, 2025 View Details Space Force commander in Greenland relieved of command after email distancing base from Vance’s annexation remarks. April 11, 2025 View Details Massachusetts schools chief defies Trump DEI order, says state complies with civil rights law and will keep promoting diversity. April 10, 2025 View Details Maine sues Trump admin for stopping school lunch funding, calls federal action “blatantly illegal” April 8, 2025 View Details Canada launches billboard campaign in U.S. swing states warning tariffs are a tax, as Trump’s trade war escalates. April 7, 2025 View Details New York refuses Trump administration’s demand to end DEI in schools, dismisses threat to cut federal education funding. April 6, 2025 View Details Obama and Harris urge Americans to resist Trump’s second-term crackdowns on dissent, press, and legal rights. April 5, 2025 View Details DemCast releases free digital assets to promote Saturday’s Hands Off Rally. April 4, 2025 View Details Booker takes Senate floor for 25 hours, halts all work, and calls out Democrats for failing to resist Trump. April 2, 2025 View Details Within sight of the White House, DC rally marks Trans Day of Visibility and defiance of Trump’s anti-trans agenda. April 1, 2025 View Details Top partners at major law firm call Trump’s attacks on lawyers “lawless” and urge the profession to fight back. March 31, 2025 View Details 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. March 30, 2025 View Details Tesla faces global protest wave Saturday over Musk’s political influence and DOGE leadership. March 29, 2025 View Details 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 March 28, 2025 View Details The Visibility Brigade has published a helpful guide to civic action, including real ways you can help fight back. March 27, 2025 View Details National Day of Action set for April 5 as Hands Off! and 50501 launch nationwide protests against Trump and Musk’s power grab. March 26, 2025 View Details 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. March 25, 2025 View Details Indivisible adds more than 100 new groups in one week, breaking monthly growth records, founder says. March 24, 2025 View Details 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. March 23, 2025 View Details Senate Democrats Launch Whistleblower Portal Targeting Alleged Illegal Activities by Trump and Musk’s DOGE March 22, 2025 View Details Colorado Schools Close Thursday as Thousands of Teachers Rally Against $150M in Cuts March 21, 2025 View Details ‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters plan largest action yet as Musk and Trump escalate attacks on demonstrators. March 20, 2025 View Details Nebraska voters jeer GOP congressman over Musk, Ukraine, Trump tariffs, and Medicare at fiery town hall March 19, 2025 View Details Sanders and AOC to rally in Arizona and Colorado as progressives begin mobilizing resistance March 18, 2025 View Details Over 1,000 rally in Boston against Trump and Musk, denouncing mass layoffs and executive overreach. March 17, 2025 View Details Protesters rally at 80 Tesla showrooms over Musk’s Trump ties as Sen. Mark Kelly publicly dumps his Tesla. March 16, 2025 View Details 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. March 15, 2025 View Details Nearly 100 protesters were arrested after hundreds occupied Trump Tower’s lobby, demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil. March 14, 2025 View Details 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.” March 13, 2025 View Details 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. March 12, 2025 View Details The hacktivist group Dark Storm claimed responsibility for an ongoing X outage, saying the attack protests Elon Musk and Trump’s actions. March 11, 2025 View Details 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. March 10, 2025 View Details Hundreds protest Musk at Manhattan Tesla showroom, 6 arrested. March 9, 2025 View Details DC, NY, and Boston to host the largest of 32 “Stand Up for Science Protests on Friday. March 8, 2025 View Details Hundreds protest Trump in Conway, NH (pop. 3,842), one of the largest protests in memory. March 7, 2025 View Details Texas Rep. Al Green was ejected from the chamber for continuing to heckle Trump during his speech to Congress. March 6, 2025 View Details 800 protesters rallied in Boulder on a Monday to slam Trump admin’s DOGE layoffs that cut hundreds of NOAA jobs. March 5, 2025 View Details 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. March 4, 2025 View Details Over 1,000 protesters, some in Ukrainian blue and gold, swarmed a Vermont town to protest JD Vance on a family ski trip. March 2, 2025 View Details Upside-down US flag hung off Joshua Tree marks start of weekend of national park protests, including Grand Canyon. March 1, 2025 View Details Five former defense secretaries condemned Trump’s “reckless firing” of the Joint Chiefs chair and top officers, urging Congress to block replacements. February 28, 2025 View Details Fired USAID employees and HIV advocates protested in the Capitol including a “die-in”. Police arrested 20 people. February 27, 2025 View Details 21 federal employees assigned to DOGE resigned en masse to avoid “carrying out or legitimizing” the agency’s efforts. February 26, 2025 View Details A doctored video of Trump licking Elon Musk’s feet played this morning as Housing & Urban Development employees returned to work February 25, 2025 View Details Hundreds rally at Maine State House backing Gov. Mills’ vow to sue Trump admin to protect state residents February 25, 2025 View Details Hundreds protested Trump policies at the courthouse in Henderson NC (pop. 15,000) February 25, 2025 View Details New trend of protesting at Tesla showrooms saw hundreds show up in San Francisco February 25, 2025 View Details Hundreds rallied at HHS for “Fund Don’t Freeze” protesting Musk’s DOGE and billions cut from public health funding February 25, 2025 View Details 200 federal workers and supporters protested in single digit temperatures at Chicago’s Federal Plaza February 25, 2025 View Details 50 protests tomorrow in 50 Different States. 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