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15 days to Good Trouble Lives On
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15 days to Good Trouble Lives On

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

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u/jk4532 — 4 days ago
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We need to demand TOTAL Democratic opposition on Trump's compromised judges

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. 🗣️

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u/jk4532 — 5 days ago
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Starting the fight to fix the Supreme Court in THIS Congress

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.

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u/jk4532 — 7 days ago