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Donald Trump continues to slash healthcare and critical programs, defund public media, and pad his pockets — and those of his billionaire benefactors — with massive tax breaks and brazen crypto schemes.
Inspired by Bernie Sanders, WE ARE FIGHTING BACK — in Congress and in the streets.
Our Revolution’s Citizen Action Team delivered 70,000 petitions directly to Senate offices, demanding they reject Trump’s brutal budget cuts. We organized dozens of lobby visits — including with GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins — making sure they hear directly from the grassroots about what’s at stake.
We’ve held rallies across the country — and even marched outside Trump’s luxury golf resort, where he was wining and dining with crypto billionaires. Our message is clear: we will not stand by while billionaires bankroll an agenda of greed and hate.
The billionaires funding Trump’s MAGA agenda are using our tax dollars to disappear people.
Today in SoHo, Our Revolution joined labor and community allies to call out Trump crony Antonio Gracias — Elon Musk’s long‑time ally and chief architect of the DOGE immigration task force — for weaponizing Social Security data to target immigrant families.
Gracias’s firm, Valor Equity Partners, is cashing in on AI surveillance and tech used to deport civilians. This is the face of the billionaire class: getting rich off cruelty, exploiting public resources, and treating immigrant communities as disposable.
We’re here to defund oligarchs like Gracias — and fight for a government that serves the people, not the ultra-rich.
Gracias helped design raids on Social Security numbers, bankroll deportation flights, and push policies that tear families apart — all while raising billions to fuel Musk’s empire.
Our Revolution, SEIU, and allies showed up in force today to disrupt this profiteering and dismantle the machinery of hate.
We’re organizing to fight Avelo Airlines in Maryland, Maine, and beyond — to stop Trump’s deportation machine in its tracks. Thanks to public pressure from our members and partners in Burbank, Avelo is no longer flying ICE deportation routes from California or anywhere on the West Coast. Now we’re taking that fight nationwide.
When we organize, we win. And right now, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Yesterday, July 30, for the first time, a majority of Senate Democrats supported a resolution by Senator Bernie Sanders to block an $18 billion weapons sale to Israel—amid the Israeli government’s ongoing assault on Gaza and escalating starvation.
Though the resolution failed by a vote of 27-72—blocked by every Republican and 17 Democrats—this was a watershed moment in U.S. foreign policy and a powerful sign that the Democratic base is reshaping the party’s stance on Israel, militarism, and human rights.
“These votes don’t erase the fact that AIPAC and its billionaire donors have had a stranglehold on Democratic foreign policy for years,” said Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese. “That grip is finally starting to break—but the damage to trust in the Democratic Party and our democracy is real. Base voters see the influence of money, and they’re sick of it.”
While 26 Democrats stood on the right side of history, others revealed troubling contradictions.
Senators Jon Ossoff, Jack Reed, and Sheldon Whitehouse flipped their votes—supporting a similar resolution earlier this year, only to abandon it now, even as the humanitarian crisis deepens. Meanwhile, Senators Chuck Schumer and Cory Booker, both with long histories of defending U.S. military aid to Israel and deep ties to pro-Israel lobby groups like AIPAC, voted to block weapons sales under pressure from a mobilized public.
“They are not leading—they are catching up,” Geevarghese said. “This shift didn’t come from moral clarity in Washington. It came from the moral clarity of the grassroots.”
Despite the backtracking and political hedging by some electeds, the direction of change is clear—and it’s being driven from the ground up.
Polling underscores just how out of step many Democrats in office have been:
As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens, voters are demanding action, not empty rhetoric. You can’t condemn famine while funding the bombs that cause it. The era of blank-check support for Netanyahu’s far-right regime is ending—and the political realignment is being led by ordinary people, not Washington insiders.
At Our Revolution, we’re organizing to make sure this shift is real, lasting, and accountable. The next phase of this fight is here—and we know who’s been standing with the people all along.
Donald Trump is at it again—this time, demanding the Senate cancel its August recess so he can ram through 135 of his dangerous nominees. From extremist judges to unqualified loyalists, Trump is trying to seize control of every level of government—and he’s counting on Senate Democrats to step aside and let him do it.
We cannot let that happen.
Senator Schumer and the rest of the Senate Democratic Caucus still have the power to stop this. They can withhold consent. Deny quorum. Use every rule in the book to delay, obstruct, and fight back. But they won’t act unless they feel the pressure from all of us. That’s where we come in.
Tell Schumer and Senate Democrats: Do everything in your power to block Trump’s extremist nominees.
Let’s be clear—this is not business as usual.
Trump’s nominee list is stacked with loyalists who threaten our rights, our democracy, and the rule of law. Take Emil Bove, Trump’s personal lawyer turned DOJ appointee, now nominated for a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals. Bove has been caught ignoring court orders, misleading judges, and refusing to denounce the January 6 attack. He even declined to rule out Trump running for a third term.
Or Jeanine Pirro, the far-right former Fox News host now nominated to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. Or Michael Waltz, Trump’s disgraced former national security advisor—resurfacing as Trump’s pick for U.N. ambassador.
These are not normal nominations. These are power plays by an aspiring autocrat.
And yet—right now—some Republicans are trying to cut a deal with Democrats to fast-track these confirmations so they can get out of town for summer break.
We need to make our voices heard. Loudly.
This is no time for Democrats to play nice. We’re demanding they hold the line, hold the floor, and hold Trump accountable. Because if we don’t fight now, these extremists could shape our courts, our laws, and our lives for decades to come.
Demand Senate Democrats use every tool to stop Trump’s nominees.
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This is it — the make-or-break week for Trump’s latest assault on the public good.
By Friday, the Senate must vote on Trump’s so-called rescissions package — a dangerous maneuver to claw back billions in funding already approved by Congress. At the top of the target list? Public media and global health programs that millions rely on for accurate information, education, and life-saving services.
Trump’s aim is clear: defund PBS, NPR, and other public media, while gutting critical international health efforts — all to appease the far-right and dismantle programs that provide truth, science, and global stability.
But there’s good news: this anti-democratic stunt only succeeds if Republicans can hold the line. They can’t afford to lose more than four votes — and some key GOP Senators are already wavering thanks to public pressure.
That’s where we come in.
Our Revolution is in a full sprint this week — mobilizing members across the country to flood Senate offices with calls, letters, and messages from constituents who care deeply about saving public media and defending global health investments.
We’re organizing in key states, setting up virtual lobby visits with critical swing-vote Senators, and delivering the voices of over 70,000 grassroots supporters demanding that Congress say NO to Trump’s reckless rescissions package.
These programs are not partisan luxuries — they are pillars of a functioning society. Whether it’s PBS in a rural classroom or disease prevention efforts across borders, the funding Trump wants to wipe out serves the public interest, not corporate profit.
If the Senate doesn’t act by July 18, this rescissions package will die — but until then, the threat is real, and the clock is ticking.
📣 Join our effort to stop Trump’s rescissions and protect what matters:
We’re delivering 70,000 grassroots signatures to members of Congress on Tuesday, July 15 — and your voice should be part of it.
Together, we can stop this cynical attack on public media, defend global health, and remind Congress that the people — not Trump’s billionaire donors — are watching.
— The Our Revolution Team
From Maine to Mississippi, Alaska to Florida, Our Revolution is mobilizing across the country to stop Trump’s “Big Ugly Bill” — a devastating attack on working families that would gut Medicaid, slash SNAP, and pour billions into deportation and corporate handouts.
We’re putting targeted pressure on key Senate Republicans like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, and others — making sure they hear directly from their constituents through our virtual lobby visits. In state after state, real people are joining our DC team on Zoom to speak face-to-face with top Senate staff and demand:
No cuts to Medicaid. No cuts to SNAP. No cuts to rural hospitals.
“My husband has diabetes. If they close our clinic, we’d have to drive two hours to see a doctor. We’re growing a bigger garden this year—just in case they cut more.”
— Randy, Alaska
“I deliver mail to a 99-year-old vet who depends on me for his meds. I’m fighting so Social Security is still there when I need it, too.”
— Patricia, Mississippi
This is people-powered resistance — and it’s working. With pressure mounting in the Senate, we’re now just three GOP votes away from stopping this cruel legislation dead in its tracks.
In just the past few weeks alone, we’ve brought grassroots voices into meetings with Senate offices in Oklahoma, North Carolina, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, and more. These stories are impossible to ignore — and they’re shaking loose cracks in Republican support for Trump’s toxic budget.
Now is the time to turn up the heat.
🗣️ Add your voice and join the fight:
This is what people-powered resistance looks like — and we can only do it because of our movement and our activists taking a stand.
— The Our Revolution Team
We’re thrilled to celebrate a major people-powered victory: Zohran Kwame Mamdani has won the first round of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, defeating disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo and taking the lead in the race to become the city’s next mayor.
With nearly 44% of first-choice votes, Zohran’s commanding lead is a direct result of tireless grassroots organizing, a bold progressive vision, and deep support from working-class communities across all five boroughs. Backed by Our Revolution, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Zohran ran on a transformative agenda: free public transit, universal childcare, rent relief, city-owned grocery stores, and taxing the ultra-wealthy to pay for it.
This is more than a political victory — it’s a clear rejection of oligarch politics and a powerful step toward a New York City that puts people before profit.
“This campaign is proving that a united grassroots can take on billionaires and win,” said Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese. “We’re proud to have stood with Zohran from the beginning — and we’re ready to finish this fight.”
Stay tuned as ranked-choice tabulations continue — but for now, we celebrate a major milestone for the progressive movement in the heart of America’s largest city.
Let’s keep organizing. Let’s keep winning.
— The Our Revolution Team
