It is now being reported that House and Senate negotiators are trying to finalize a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that may be voted on before the Thanksgiving recess. Tell your MoC’s to make sure the NDAA restricts the President’s war powers.

By “protecting the oil fields” in Syria, Trump is engaging in unilateral and illegal warfare that may constitute a war crime. Tell your MoC’s to introduce a War Powers act to block the unauthorized military activity.

ICE is trying to get around AB32 by establishing private prison contracts before the law kicks in. Tell state officials not to let them get away with it!

If the House votes articles of impeachment, the trial in the Senate will be under the control of Republicans who will do everything they can to prevent Trump from being convicted. If Trump is acquitted, he will be an even greater danger to democracy. Therefore, the House should not send articles of impeachment to the Senate until there is some likelihood of winning a conviction.

Trump wants to take away the food assistance of millions of Americans. Now’s the time to speak up!

Submit a public comment to the Food and Nutrition Service opposing their new cuts to SNAP that would cut vital food aid to working American families.

SB24, which would make medication abortion available in student health centers at California's state colleges and universities, passed both houses of the legislature last session, but Gov. Brown vetoed it. Gov. Newsom said he would sign it into law if it passed the legislature again. It has done so, and he now needs to keep his promise.

If the House votes articles of impeachment, the trial in the Senate will be under the control of Republicans who will do everything they can to prevent Trump from being convicted. If Trump is acquitted, he will be an even greater danger to democracy. Therefore, the House should not send articles of impeachment to the Senate until there is some likelihood of winning a conviction.

Even under scrutiny from the Mueller report, Trump attempted to leverage military aid for Ukraine to get dirt on his political opponent Biden. A gross abuse of power that happened in the open, this cannot be tolerated. More and more Democrats have been coming out for impeachment as a result - tell Pelosi to start impeachment proceedings without delay!

Governor Newsom is threatening to veto environmental bill SB1. Demand that he signs it!

Many young people leaving foster care after they reach adulthood become homeless soon after losing the child welfare system’s support, and, among those who do, more than half experience multiple episodes of homelessness. HR 4300 — the Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act — would help address this tragic policy failure by making Housing Choice Vouchers available to more at-risk foster youth, to help them rent housing at an affordable cost during these vulnerable transition years. Ask that Speaker Pelosi support and Congresswoman Speier co-sponsor this important bipartisan bill.

Please contact the Senator's office and insist that she co-sponsor S. 631, which admits D.C. into the Union as the 51st state, with all the Congressional representation afforded to each state. Every citizen deserves to have a voice and be counted!

The Trump Department of Labor announced plans to make sweeping revisions to the H-2A agricultural guest worker program to the detriment of farm workers. The proposed H-2A changes would weaken key protections for farm workers, limiting their ability to obtain employment with H-2A employers and exposing H-2A workers to greater vulnerability and costs. You can give public comment in opposition to the changes!

In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Congress can use this to check immigration enforcement authorities by cutting off the flow of money to programs that mistreat people coming to the United States.

Submit a public comment to Point Reyes National Seashore, telling them not to kill Tule Elk! Public comments are being collected until Sept 23rd.

The Department of Labor is proposing a new rule for federal contractors granting them the right to discriminate on the basis of *their* religious beliefs if they declare that they adhere to religious principles in how they conduct their business. Submit a public comment opposing this.

For decades the ESA protected the bald eagle and grizzly bears from extinction, now Republicans want to allow oil drilling, coal mining, and logging on their last remaining habitats, but gutting the ESA. Tell your MoC’s to use the Congressional Review Act to stop this rule change!

The Trump administration intends to deport people if they use government services via their Public Charge rule change. Tell your MoC’s to use the Congressional Review Act to stop this rule change!

In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Trump administration programs and schemes can be blocked by denying them funds, and some of their destructive regulation and rule changes can be countered by mandating how funds have to be used.