We had an expected but significant victory at a federal court in Boston last week, as Judge Indira Talwani ruled Trump’s executive order directing the creation of federal lists of voters and asking the U.S. Postal Service to only deliver mail-in ballots to people on those lists was unconstitutional. With time running short to implement this particular system of voter suppression, we are probably safe from it for these midterms. But Trump is expected to appeal, so we need to keep covering our bases.

TODAY is the final day to put forward public comments on USPS’ proposal for how to put this order into practice. Let’s make sure we’re speaking up to protect mail-in voting! We can submit them to the Federal Register here, and find resources on how to draft them from Lawyers Defending American Democracy here.

One of the main takeaways from this captured Supreme Court’s term was their complicity in subverting democracy. But they’re headed off to their busy summer of book tours and billionaire-funded vacations, and it’s our time to stand up for it – to, as the late John Lewis put it, make some Good Trouble.

We’re just over TWO WEEKS from Good Trouble Lives On, a three-day celebration of Congressman Lewis’ legacy where activists across the country will resist attacks on the right to vote with voter registration drives, helping people check their voter status, educating their community on what they’ll need to make their ballot count and more. We’ve got more than 200 events already on the books nationwide. (Rogan’s List is a proud Good Trouble Lives On partner!)

On TUESDAY at 8PM, organizers are holding a mass call to talk about this weekend of action and how we can be part of it as hosts and attendees. 📣 Folks who want to learn more or just get hyped can sign up here. 📣

MASS CALL TUESDAY

🪧 If we’re ready to get engaged in the fight for the vote post-Voting Rights Act, we can find Good Trouble Lives On events already on the books near us on the map here or on Mobilize here. 🪧

EVENTS NEAR US

And if we’re interested in being a host, there’s still time to register our events – we’ll get access to staff support, trainings and a host toolkit full of resources we can use. 💪🏿 We can join a host training TONIGHT at 7PM ET here and find a registration link here! 💪🏻

STEP UP AND HOST

Featured in today’s List:

• Deadline TODAY to submit public comments against USPS proposal to interfere with mail-in voting
• Phonebank through August 4th to stop a right-wing takeover of the Kansas Supreme Court and prevent Republicans from sabotaging the ballot initiative process in Missouri
• Tell senators to filibuster the Clarity Act, protect us from crypto corruption
• Keep calling for justice for Kohen Wiley – demand Walmart release their footage
• America turns 250 this weekend, and we’re celebrating by committing to fight for a more perfect union in the next 250 years - attend Declaration of Resistance vigils hosted by the American Friends Service Committee and Free America actions with Women’s March in communities nationwide wide for July 4th!

The community-by-community fight against the human warehouses is continuing. ICE is still trying to push forward with their plans to cram 1,500 people into a converted industrial site near Williamsport, Maryland, holding more captives than they indicated and increasing the impact on local sewage systems more than they pledged. Right now local activists are working to take advantage of an open public comment period for an environmental assessment to stop them – a period that exists thanks to a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general.

✍🏻 TODAY is the final day to submit our environmental comments to DHS. The great folks at Hagerstown Rapid Response have set up a form to make our voices heard with instructions on how to speak up effectively here and outlined concerns we can raise here - and they’re specifically asking people to speak up from anywhere. Let’s use their tool to register our objections to this ICE camp. ✍🏾

While we've got 19 days left to weigh in on the proposal to unravel key protections against unsafe levels of forever chemicals in our water, the virtual public hearing on this proposal is coming up fast on July 7th at 11AM ET. 📝 TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY for us to register to attend and comment at this hearing. We can do so here. 📝

REGISTER TO TESTIFY FOR CLEAN WATER

We do NOT need to be lawyers or policy experts to have an impact – personal stories and concerns about the harms of PFAS on everyone who would be impacted all matter, and we can read prepared remarks. 💪🏻 Earthjustice has put together a public comment toolkit with tips on how to prepare, guidance on the proposal and how to participate in the hearing here. 💪🏿

TOOLKIT TO TESTIFY

(While we hope this is of interest to SUFS supporters, this is NOT a SUFS initiative.)

One thing is clear at the end of this disastrous Supreme Court term: we need to fix the courts, and we need Democrats to prove they understand that. That can start with refusing to rubber stamp their budget hikes, but there’s in fact an even easier ask: don’t vote yes when Trump tries to stuff the federal judiciary with more reactionary foot soldiers. And alarmingly, some Democratic senators haven’t been clearing the bar.

During this Congress, our senators have asked his nominees some very basic questions, like “did Trump lose the presidential election in 2020?” and “was the U.S. Capitol attacked by a violent mob on January 6, 2021?” Every single one of them has refused to give a straight answer. Most of them have followed the very same script to dodge it. It’s been ugly, and for many of his nominees it’s just the start of what should disqualify them. Yet 19 Democrats (see list from Patrick McNeil) have voted to confirm at least one of them, refusing to draw some very basic lines for folks who will now have lifetime appointments to shape the law as they see fit.

And this failure is getting even more glaring, with some of our electeds even falling short on the blue slip test.

The blue slip process allows any senator to block a nominee for a district court judge filling a vacancy in their state. It is, frankly, an arcane tradition that Democrats should have killed when they controlled the White House and Senate. But they didn’t, letting Republicans prevent Biden from putting dozens of judges on the federal bench, and it seems like a minimal expectation we now put them to the same full use. Last month, for the first time in Trump’s second term, three Democratic senators returned blue slips and allowed Trump judicial nominees for their states to move forward – (surprise surprise) John Fetterman in Pennsylvania and Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin in Michigan.

We have a long, hard struggle ahead of us to end the right-wing capture of the judicial branch. If we’re going to succeed, we need our electeds to be 100% engaged in the fight, not testing how much surrender they can get away with.

🗣️Let’s reach out to our Democratic senators and let them know we are expecting their total commitment to stopping Trump from stacking the bench with folks with sycophants and extremists – no yes votes on folks who won’t acknowledge reality, no blue slips returned. We can find call scripts and email language here and here, or send this message via Resistbot by texting SIGN PXSAJA to 50409. 🗣️

Also in today’s Rogan’s List:

• FINAL DAY to submit public comments opposing ICE human warehouse in Maryland
• Object to the FCC’s attack on free speech at ABC through MONDAY, apply to speak at a public hearing on proposed rollbacks on protections against forever chemicals in drinking water by day’s end TODAY
• Help progressive Manny Rutinel win a swing seat in Colorado and other primary results
• TONIGHT: Heather Cox Richardson talks about how to reclaim the 250th, Get Free rallies young activists to build on All of U.S. 250 actions

From No Camps California: On July 7th - we are partnering with Road Outrage LA and taking a caravan to stand in solidarity and speak at the Permit Review Hearing in California City. JOIN US by registering on Mobilize today: https://www.mobilize.us/roadoutragela/event/980371/

In the face of retaliatory mass transfers, expedited deportations, solitary confinement, lockdowns, tear gassings and canceled visitations, activists on the ground are reporting that ICE captives at Adelanto and Delaney Hall have made a strategic decision to bring their hunger strikes to an end for now. Both went on for more than a month, and the Jersey strikers in particular managed to push the extreme medical neglect, lack of access to clean food and water, physical and sexual abuse and denial of due process for folks held in the concentration camps back into the national conversation. They also secured the release of pregnant women and several other vulnerable detainees in Newark.

The fight will go on, and right now we need to make sure the regime is still hearing us as they seek to punish those who led these efforts.

Martin Soto, who was an organizer in Delaney Hall and was transferred to Elizabeth, New Jersey for his and his wife Gabriela’s speaking out, has reportedly lost more than 50 pounds in detention. Gabriela is an American citizen currently pregnant with their third child, and he was arrested buying diapers for their 11-month-old. His lawyers have filed a petition for his emergency release. ✍🏿 We can sign this request from Cosecha to increase the public pressure for Martin’s freedom, and contribute to support his legal fight here. ✍🏻

FREE MARTIN SOTO

Kyron Shakeel Swaso, a refugee from Belize who helped pull people together in Adelanto strikes, was ultimately deported to break the strikes. He is now faced with the prospect of rebuilding his life. 💵 The Shut Down Adelanto coalition is encouraging us to donate via Cashapp or Zelle to help him do so via Cashapp or Zelle at 678-517-4788. 💵

SUPPORT SWASO

💵 For the folks still locked up, we can donate to commissary accounts for those in Adelanto here and folks in Delaney Hall here and donate to help CLUE Justice and SOMA Community Cares bond out folks in detention here and here. 💵

BOND OUT FOLKS IN ADELANTO...

...AND IN DELANEY HALL

Finally, these will not be the last of our friends and neighbors to turn to hunger strikes as a tactic behind the barbed wire. ⚙️ La Resistencia in Washington State have prepared a guide on how to support strikes inside detention centers based on their experience doing so since 2014, and Make The Road States has put together a terrific action toolkit on how we can organize in our communities against corporate collaborators and our local concentration camps and proposed human warehouses we can put to use. ⚙️

A RAPID RESPONSE GUIDE TO STRIKE SUPPORT

If our electeds had any doubt about the power of the data center resistance, last Tuesday’s primaries in Utah should clear it right up. Republican voters voted out two incumbent county commissioners in Box Elder County, both of whom cleared the way for multi-millionaire investor Kevin O’Leary to foist a massive hyperscale data center project on their community. Even more noticeably, GOPers also unseated Stuart Adams, the longest-serving president of the Utah State Senate in its history and one of the state’s most powerful politicians, in favor of a challenger who called him out for ignoring the public’s concerns about “the Stratos project.”

The lesson, in plain language: stop the tech bros, or we’ll replace you with someone who will.

Let’s see if our governors and state legislators got the message. 🗣️ We can find updated call scripts and email language here and here to urge them to support a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers in our state, or send or send them this message directly via Resistbot by texting SIGN PXDBHJ to 50409. 🗣️

Also in today’s Rogan’s List:

• While we’re waiting for final Supreme Court rulings, tell senators to vote no on Trump judicial nominee Benjamin Flowers
• Activists shut down hunger strikes in Adelanto, Delaney Hall – help the leaders push back against retaliation, help bond out those still locked up, and prepare to support the next round of strikes
• Phonebank to help unseat Cory Mills
• Pride Month is over, let’s commit to taking some easy actions to support the LGBTQ+ community year-round
• ICE is trying to cram 1,500 people into a human warehouse in Maryland, and Hagerstown Rapid Response is rallying folks to stop them - submit a public comment opposing the project by TOMORROW

For all of Donald Trump’s continued tantrums about the justices blocking his tariffs, the October 2025 term has mostly seen right wingers getting their usual ransom payments from the hijacked Supreme Court. It happened again this morning with a 6-3 majority vastly expanding presidential power over independent commissions.

They’ve ignored their own precedents, their claims to loyalty to the original meaning of the Constitution, history and common sense, but they’ve served well in the exact role that Trump, Mitch McConnell and Leonard Leo intended as they’ve captured this institution: the judicial arm of the Republican Party. For the sake of progressive values and our democracy, we need our leaders to take action to rebalance and rebuild the Supreme Court, as soon as possible.

That work can start right now.

Congress is currently considering the Supreme Court’s appropriations request for the next fiscal year. They’re asking for a 10% funding boost in this year’s Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act (H.R. 8495). 🗣️ Congressional Democrats can and should push back against this request and oppose this bill if it does not cut the Court’s budget. 🗣️

🗣️ We can find call scripts and email language to use with our members of Congress here and here, or text SIGN PAUAUS to 50409 to send this message via Resistbot. 🗣️

CALL OUR REPS

EMAIL OUR REPS

Given where we are in the appropriations process, the sheer number of other battles to fight in government spending, and the reality that no one’s seriously considering it yet, it’s not at all likely it will happen. But we should ask for it anyways. Why?

• It’s a useful test for how serious individual Democrats are about the change we need to fix the Court
• It’s an opportunity for us to communicate to Democratic electeds that we’re damn serious about it
• If it gains elite support, it’s a form of pressure on the justices themselves
• It helps reset the expectation in our politics that the Supreme Court will be treated as a political actor

I wrote a lot more about this you can read here.

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• Deadline TODAY to submit public comments against Trump forcing trans folks out of federally-funded shelters
• Join weekly Thursday phonebanks into a district Dems lost by 799 votes in 2024
• Activists pushing for Pennsylvania county to cancel contract with ICE, GEO Group to run detention camp - help them raise the pressure on local lawmakers
• BP doubles profits from Iran War, locks out workers trying to protect their jobs - support folks on the picket line and help feed their families
• We’re taking on the concentration camp financiers - join the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition TONIGHT AT 7PM ET for a webinar on how we can get our cities to divest!

For all of Donald Trump’s continued tantrums about the justices blocking his tariffs, the October 2025 term has mostly seen right wingers getting their usual ransom payments from the hijacked Supreme Court. It happened again this morning with a 6-3 majority vastly expanding presidential power over independent commissions.

They’ve ignored their own precedents, their claims to loyalty to the original meaning of the Constitution, history and common sense, but they’ve served well in the exact role that Trump, Mitch McConnell and Leonard Leo intended as they’ve captured this institution: the judicial arm of the Republican Party. For the sake of progressive values and our democracy, we need our leaders to take action to rebalance and rebuild the Supreme Court, as soon as possible.

That work can start right now.

Congress is currently considering the Supreme Court’s appropriations request for the next fiscal year. They’re asking for a 10% funding boost in this year’s Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act (H.R. 8495). 🗣️ Congressional Democrats can and should push back against this request and oppose this bill if it does not cut the Court’s budget. 🗣️

🗣️ We can find call scripts and email language to use with our members of Congress here and here, or text SIGN PAUAUS to 50409 to send this message via Resistbot. 🗣️

CALL OUR REPS

EMAIL OUR REPS

Given where we are in the appropriations process, the sheer number of other battles to fight in government spending, and the reality that no one’s seriously considering it yet, it’s not at all likely it will happen. But we should ask for it anyways. Why?

• It’s a useful test for how serious individual Democrats are about the change we need to fix the Court
• It’s an opportunity for us to communicate to Democratic electeds that we’re damn serious about it
• If it gains elite support, it’s a form of pressure on the justices themselves
• It helps reset the expectation in our politics that the Supreme Court will be treated as a political actor

I wrote a lot more about this you can read here.

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• Deadline TODAY to submit public comments against Trump forcing trans folks out of federally-funded shelters
• Join weekly Thursday phonebanks into a district Dems lost by 799 votes in 2024
• Activists pushing for Pennsylvania county to cancel contract with ICE, GEO Group to run detention camp - help them raise the pressure on local lawmakers
• BP doubles profits from Iran War, locks out workers trying to protect their jobs - support folks on the picket line and help feed their families
• We’re taking on the concentration camp financiers - join the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition TONIGHT AT 7PM ET for a webinar on how we can get our cities to divest!

For all of Donald Trump’s continued tantrums about the justices blocking his tariffs, the October 2025 term has mostly seen right wingers getting their usual ransom payments from the hijacked Supreme Court. It happened again this morning with a 6-3 majority vastly expanding presidential power over independent commissions.

They’ve ignored their own precedents, their claims to loyalty to the original meaning of the Constitution, history and common sense, but they’ve served well in the exact role that Trump, Mitch McConnell and Leonard Leo intended as they’ve captured this institution: the judicial arm of the Republican Party. For the sake of progressive values and our democracy, we need our leaders to take action to rebalance and rebuild the Supreme Court, as soon as possible.

That work can start right now.

Congress is currently considering the Supreme Court’s appropriations request for the next fiscal year. They’re asking for a 10% funding boost in this year’s Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act (H.R. 8495). 🗣️ Congressional Democrats can and should push back against this request and oppose this bill if it does not cut the Court’s budget. 🗣️

🗣️ We can find call scripts and email language to use with our members of Congress here and here, or text SIGN PAUAUS to 50409 to send this message via Resistbot. 🗣️

CALL OUR REPS

EMAIL OUR REPS

Given where we are in the appropriations process, the sheer number of other battles to fight in government spending, and the reality that no one’s seriously considering it yet, it’s not at all likely it will happen. But we should ask for it anyways. Why?

• It’s a useful test for how serious individual Democrats are about the change we need to fix the Court
• It’s an opportunity for us to communicate to Democratic electeds that we’re damn serious about it
• If it gains elite support, it’s a form of pressure on the justices themselves
• It helps reset the expectation in our politics that the Supreme Court will be treated as a political actor

I wrote a lot more about this you can read here.

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• Deadline TODAY to submit public comments against Trump forcing trans folks out of federally-funded shelters
• Join weekly Thursday phonebanks into a district Dems lost by 799 votes in 2024
• Activists pushing for Pennsylvania county to cancel contract with ICE, GEO Group to run detention camp - help them raise the pressure on local lawmakers
• BP doubles profits from Iran War, locks out workers trying to protect their jobs - support folks on the picket line and help feed their families
• We’re taking on the concentration camp financiers - join the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition TONIGHT AT 7PM ET for a webinar on how we can get our cities to divest!

For all of Donald Trump’s continued tantrums about the justices blocking his tariffs, the October 2025 term has mostly seen right wingers getting their usual ransom payments from the hijacked Supreme Court. It happened again this morning with a 6-3 majority vastly expanding presidential power over independent commissions.

They’ve ignored their own precedents, their claims to loyalty to the original meaning of the Constitution, history and common sense, but they’ve served well in the exact role that Trump, Mitch McConnell and Leonard Leo intended as they’ve captured this institution: the judicial arm of the Republican Party. For the sake of progressive values and our democracy, we need our leaders to take action to rebalance and rebuild the Supreme Court, as soon as possible.

That work can start right now.

Congress is currently considering the Supreme Court’s appropriations request for the next fiscal year. They’re asking for a 10% funding boost in this year’s Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act (H.R. 8495). 🗣️ Congressional Democrats can and should push back against this request and oppose this bill if it does not cut the Court’s budget. 🗣️

🗣️ We can find call scripts and email language to use with our members of Congress here and here, or text SIGN PAUAUS to 50409 to send this message via Resistbot. 🗣️

CALL OUR REPS

EMAIL OUR REPS

Given where we are in the appropriations process, the sheer number of other battles to fight in government spending, and the reality that no one’s seriously considering it yet, it’s not at all likely it will happen. But we should ask for it anyways. Why?

• It’s a useful test for how serious individual Democrats are about the change we need to fix the Court
• It’s an opportunity for us to communicate to Democratic electeds that we’re damn serious about it
• If it gains elite support, it’s a form of pressure on the justices themselves
• It helps reset the expectation in our politics that the Supreme Court will be treated as a political actor

I wrote a lot more about this you can read here.

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• Deadline TODAY to submit public comments against Trump forcing trans folks out of federally-funded shelters
• Join weekly Thursday phonebanks into a district Dems lost by 799 votes in 2024
• Activists pushing for Pennsylvania county to cancel contract with ICE, GEO Group to run detention camp - help them raise the pressure on local lawmakers
• BP doubles profits from Iran War, locks out workers trying to protect their jobs - support folks on the picket line and help feed their families
• We’re taking on the concentration camp financiers - join the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition TONIGHT AT 7PM ET for a webinar on how we can get our cities to divest!

For all of Donald Trump’s continued tantrums about the justices blocking his tariffs, the October 2025 term has mostly seen right wingers getting their usual ransom payments from the hijacked Supreme Court. It happened again this morning with a 6-3 majority vastly expanding presidential power over independent commissions.

They’ve ignored their own precedents, their claims to loyalty to the original meaning of the Constitution, history and common sense, but they’ve served well in the exact role that Trump, Mitch McConnell and Leonard Leo intended as they’ve captured this institution: the judicial arm of the Republican Party. For the sake of progressive values and our democracy, we need our leaders to take action to rebalance and rebuild the Supreme Court, as soon as possible.

That work can start right now.

Congress is currently considering the Supreme Court’s appropriations request for the next fiscal year. They’re asking for a 10% funding boost in this year’s Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act (H.R. 8495). 🗣️ Congressional Democrats can and should push back against this request and oppose this bill if it does not cut the Court’s budget. 🗣️

🗣️ We can find call scripts and email language to use with our members of Congress here and here, or text SIGN PAUAUS to 50409 to send this message via Resistbot. 🗣️

CALL OUR REPS

EMAIL OUR REPS

Given where we are in the appropriations process, the sheer number of other battles to fight in government spending, and the reality that no one’s seriously considering it yet, it’s not at all likely it will happen. But we should ask for it anyways. Why?

• It’s a useful test for how serious individual Democrats are about the change we need to fix the Court
• It’s an opportunity for us to communicate to Democratic electeds that we’re damn serious about it
• If it gains elite support, it’s a form of pressure on the justices themselves
• It helps reset the expectation in our politics that the Supreme Court will be treated as a political actor

I wrote a lot more about this you can read here.

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• Deadline TODAY to submit public comments against Trump forcing trans folks out of federally-funded shelters
• Join weekly Thursday phonebanks into a district Dems lost by 799 votes in 2024
• Activists pushing for Pennsylvania county to cancel contract with ICE, GEO Group to run detention camp - help them raise the pressure on local lawmakers
• BP doubles profits from Iran War, locks out workers trying to protect their jobs - support folks on the picket line and help feed their families
• We’re taking on the concentration camp financiers - join the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition TONIGHT AT 7PM ET for a webinar on how we can get our cities to divest!