The $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement in the MAGA Murder Bill funds the two major components of Trump’s fascist government—an American Gestapo filled with loyal goons, and the concentration camps spread across the country to which his enemies will be sent to be mistreated and tortured.

 Members of Congress, state officials, civic groups, and media outlets must expose and amplify what’s going on in these camps and push back against this Nazi-like behavior. Congress must also investigate and expose the “play-to-pay” corruption of private prison companies American taxpayers are financing and get these concentration camps closed.

On July 4th, catastrophic flooding caused central Texas’ Guadalupe River to rise 26+ feet in just 45 minutes, sweeping away people, including children at summer camps, homes and businesses. At least 120 died, and nearly 200 are still missing. Because of DOGE firings, there was no local meteorologist to pass on NWS flood warnings, and Kristi Noem’s micromanagement delayed FEMA’s response by three days.

Our Members of Congress must do much more than investigate how Trump’s, Musk’s, and Noem’s attacks on the NWS and FEMA hampered preparedness and response efforts. They must connect the dots repeatedly between GOP policy and its lethal consequences—the deaths and destruction across America caused by climate change—and hold Trump and Republicans accountable.

The extremely unpopular, Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching version of the MAGA Murder Bill Senate Republicans hope to send back to the House is even worse than the House-passed version, willingly consigning many of their constituents to misery, hunger, and death to partially pay for the largest transfer of wealth in American history and blow up the national debt.

Both versions further transform the US into a police state. Cutting access to healthcare and food frees up $50 billion to finish Trump’s useless southern border wall, $8 billion to hire 10,000 masked ICE gestapo agents to daily round up 3000 immigrants and Americans, and $59 billion to build the concentration camps to hold and then deport them—further destroying our civil rights. 

Voting may have already started in the Senate, but there’s still time to contact your Senators, thank them for all opposing the gutting of vital programs our families and communities rely on, and urge them to keep proposing amendments that highlight Republicans’ cruelty and trying to stop its passage however they can. Then call your Representative, who may shortly be voting on the Senate version, and pass along a similar message.

I am horrified and infuriated that Donald Trump is dragging us into another Middle Eastern quagmire. The Constitution does not allow just one man to make this decision, and the Trump Administration cannot be trusted to make it.  

Congress needs to do its job and check their power. As your constituent, I demand that you vote to stop these strikes and block further escalation of attacks on Iran. Do not rubber stamp this unnecessary, unpopular, half-baked war. Please publicly announce you will back the pending War Powers resolutions and support a diplomatic solution. I will be calling you every day to express my abhorrence at Trump’s behavior and remind you of the need for swift congressional action.

Trump and his ICE Gestapo are trampling on our Constitution and building a fascist police state in America. ICE also intimidates by detaining and charging “interfering” public figures, and it illegally continues denying Congresspeople access to ICE facilities to check on detained migrants, part of their oversight function.

Our MoCs must stop fascism in its tracks by exposing ICE’s atrocities and cutting off ICE funding. The billions for militarized enforcement in the MAGA Murder Budget Bill now before the Senate, and later returning to the House, must be removed and the administration notified that accountability’s coming when Democrats retake the House.

Trump always wanted to use the military to attack his opponents and quash peaceful protests. In Los Angeles this past weekend he made it happen—manufacturing a supposed “crisis” by sending heavily armed, masked ICE agents using armored trucks, rifles, and stun grenades to raid workplaces and day labor hangouts where immigrants congregated and using the resulting peaceful protests as an excuse to illegally send in both the National Guard and the Marines to further brutalize Los Angelenos. .This is a test run for Trump’s broader agenda, relying on fear, force, and fascistic tactics to silence dissent and dehumanize vulnerable communities.

Like Governor Newsom, our MoCs must hold the Trump administration accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence—dismantling his lies in real time; highlighting that ICE is rounding up and summarily deporting not criminals but average, law-abiding immigrants; and drawing attention to Trump’s illegal use of the National Guard and Marines to squash peaceful protests against his unpopular ICE raids. 

Additionally, they must (1) claw back the reconciliation bill’s funding for ICE and the Pentagon being used to terrorize immigrants and citizens alike; (2) demand hearings on Trump’s illegal militarization; (3) force votes on legislation preventing the President from using the military and National Guard to curtail our First Amendment freedoms;  and, most  importantly, (4) regularly inspect local ICE facilities to draw attention to their unconstitutional treatment of immigrants and citizens.

On June 3, Trump formally asked Congress to take back the entire $1.1 billion already awarded to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through September 2027—an essential source of funding for more than 1,500 local public television and radio stations around the country.  Eliminating CPB funding isn’t about budget cuts. It’s about silencing the free press, obscuring the truth, and clearing the path for unchecked propaganda—a classic authoritarian move. 

Beginning today, my Members of Congress must speak out forcefully against this rescission, paint proponents as First Amendment deniers, educating colleagues and voters how American democracy requires a free and independent press, and promise to hold proponents responsible in 2026 for shutting  down the CPB and creating news deserts in their communities. 

On June 3, Trump formally asked Congress to take back the entire $1.1 billion already awarded to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through September 2027.  

Eliminating CPB funding isn’t about budget cuts. It’s about silencing the free press, obscuring the truth, and clearing the path for unchecked propaganda—a classic authoritarian move. 

Beginning today, my Members of Congress must speak out forcefully against this rescission, paint proponents as First Amendment deniers, educating colleagues and voters how American democracy requires a free and independent press, and promise to hold proponents responsible in 2026 for shutting  down the CPB and creating news deserts in their communities.