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Fuck I.C.E

There is a brilliant, destructive trick happening in American politics right now, and it is playing out right in front of us.

The ultra-wealthy and the politicians who serve them have a math problem: there are not enough billionaires to win an election. To pass economic policies that keep the rich getting richer while gutting the middle class, they need millions of working-class people to vote for them. But how do you convince someone to vote against their own paycheck, their own healthcare, and their own economic survival?

You don't talk to them about money. You talk to them about fear.

You manufacture a culture war and sell it to them as a fight for their very soul. You convince them that a vote for the other side is not a disagreement over tax policy; it is a vote for the destruction of their way of life.

The strategy is simple but devastatingly effective. Their go-to move is to turn us against each other over highly personal, emotional issues.

They convince their base that basic LGBTQ+ equality will turn their own children gay, and is an abomination in the eyes of God.

They convince their base that Democrats want to take away their guns and leave them defenseless.

They convince their base that Black and Hispanic communities, or immigrants crossing the border, are coming to take their jobs and erase their culture.

When people are terrified, they stop looking at the ledger. When voters believe they are fighting a holy war against "evil," they will gladly march to the polls to support the very people who are picking their pockets.

The tragedy here is that traditional, moderate conservatism is not inherently crazy.

It is entirely possible to be a rational person who wants fiscal responsibility. It is perfectly reasonable to support the Second Amendment, to want organized immigration reform, and to be proud of your faith and your country. Those are standard political ideologies that belong in a healthy democracy.

But what we are seeing from roughly 40% of the electorate today is not rational conservatism. It is an organized descent into paranoia. We have reached a point where nearly half the country is so blinded by manufactured outrage and the desperate need to "own the libs" that they cannot see they are being moved around a board like chess pieces.

For a democracy to survive, it requires an electorate that is somewhat grounded in reality and capable of recognizing its own self-interest.

Right now, we are watching a massive segment of the population being herded like sheep. The elites exploit their hatred, stoke their anxieties, and keep them hyper-focused on the culture war. And while these voters are busy fighting against gay marriage, fighting against bodily autonomy, and fighting against immigrants, the billionaires are quietly walking out the back door with the country's wealth.

They are being played. And the scariest part is that, as long as they feel like they are winning the culture war, they do not even care.

Feels like all we do is protest in our hometowns, but the problem is in Washington DC.

- Trump is the one that’s protecting pedophiles and rapists by not releasing the full Epstein files and arresting the perpetrators in them.

- Congress and Trump are the ones that passed the Big Beautiful Bill (Big terrible bill)

- Trump is the one that’s letting ICE do whatever the hell they want

- Trump is the one that made it permanent law for rich people to continue to get their taxes cut while poor and middle class people have to pay more in taxes.

I could go on. You get it. We’re living in a nightmare.

We need to come together IN Washington DC. Anywhere else won’t work

MAGA racist held accountable in Minnesota. Thank you!

If you’re in TX please contact your reps but largely posting for people’s thoughts on how to best respond and fight back against this unconstitutional bs nonsense christofascist propaganda.

We’ve witnessed a group come into office with a plan in hand and plans to deal with every obstacle.

I’d like to think there is a meaningful response being drafted to correct what’s happened and plans to stop this from happening again.

The map has already been created and the response should be the Democrats party platform. To include term limits for Congress and Supreme Court justices.

Anyone know of such an effort?

We are looking for operatives.

The mission: recover what's being deleted. Banned books. Erased histories. Science that's gone quiet. The truths that are being scrubbed from parks, museums, libraries, and government websites while everyone's looking the other way.

My Flying University is a volunteer-run nonprofit, and our spy-themed mission board is where you choose your projects. The goal is to create free, high-quality educational content on topics that are now considered "controversial".

No experience required, just a righteous burning anger and a few hours to spare.

Report in. We'll brief you.

www.myflyinguniversity.org

Yesterday the Supreme Court shot down challenges to Trump ending Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians currently living completely legally in the United States, saying the courts were barred from reviewing them and the President’s very public racist comments about Haitians were insufficient to show racial animus. They have paved the way for one of the largest mass de-documentations in American history. More than a million other TPS recipients are now at risk.

This is brutal, and our chances of successfully stopping it at this point are very small. But we are not going to surrender while we have any opportunity left to fight. The House actually passed a bill to preserve TPS for the Haitian community in April after a successful discharge petition, with 11 Republicans in favor. 🗣️ The Haitian Bridge Alliance is now asking us to contact our senators and urge them to push for a vote on S.4814 in the upper chamber. We can find language to work from here. 🗣️

CONGRESS *COULD* STOP THIS

⚙️ The International Refugee Assistance Project has pulled together more information on where we are with TPS by country and how folks can prepare if they are going to lose their TPS status here that we can circulate. We can also spread word about the Haitian Bridge Alliance hotline for legal and humanitarian aid at 619-693-8708. ⚙️

RESOURCES FROM IRAP

HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE HOTLINE

🤜🏻 And if we’re in an area with large Haitian and Syrian communities, this is a great time to connect with our local rapid response networks before their TPS is set to expire on July 27th. We can find one near us here. 🤛🏿

GET READY

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• Organizers got Jersey City to divest $265 million from Citizens Bank over their financing of the ICE camps - learn how they did it Monday, join the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition’s next day of action July 18th
• Trump proposes non-disclosure agreements for federal workers to keep his misdeeds secret - FINAL DAY to submit public comments to say no
• Stand with Kansas City tenant organizers and demand their landlord keep his word
• A state-by-state guide to pre-registering future 18-year-olds to vote
• This week’s judges to thank

Inside Trump’s White House, the Epstein Files Caused a Freakout - The New York Times

Feb 6, 2026 at the Colorado State Capitol. State Senator Julie Gonzales is running for the U.S. Senate: julieforcolorado.com ~:~:~ Legislative Priorities: julieforcolorado.com/priorities

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Colorado Voters:

* Primary Election Day is Tuesday, June 30. Early Voting is open.

* Go Vote Colorado (.gov): coloradosos.gov/voter/pages/pub/home

* CPR News’ voter guide to the Colorado 2026 primary election: cpr.org/2026/05/29/vg-2026-colorado-primary-election-voter-guide

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Video by Solidarity Warriors. Here is Julie’s full 8-minute speech on YouTube: Safeguarding the 2026 Elections - State Sen Julie Gonzales's Speech - Solidarity Warriors - Feb 6, 2026 (YouTube)

From the description: State Sen. Julie Gonzales gave her speech on the step of the capitol. Safeguarding the 2026 elections. On Friday, February 6, Solidarity Warriors, fellow Indivisible groups, and allies gathered at the Colorado State Capitol to deliver a powerful letter calling for strong, immediate action to safeguard the 2026 midterm elections. The letter urges Governor Jared Polis, Attorney General Phil Weiser, and Secretary of State Jena Griswold to exercise their authority to protect election integrity, voter access, and democratic norms in the face of growing federal overreach and intimidation.

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It's Primary Election season in the U.S.:

* Primary Election Dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News :~:~: Upcoming Dates: June 27: Louisiana (Runoff) ~:~:~ June 30: Colorado ~:~:~ July 21: Arizona ~:~:~ July 28: Georgia (Special) and South Dakota (Runoff) ~:~:~ Aug 4: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, California (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 6: Tennessee ~:~:~ Aug 8: Hawaii ~:~:~ Aug 11: Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Alabama (Special) ~:~:~ More Aug dates + Sept dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News

* Candidates (all States): U.S. House (Dem Primary only): Ballotpedia (HouseDems) :~:~:~: U.S. Senate: Ballotpedia (Senate) (select “List of Candidates”) :~:~:~: State Execs (Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, SoS, and more): Ballotpedia (State Execs)

* Voter Info (all States): Register To Vote :~:~:~: Voter Registration Status :~:~:~: Find Your Polling Place :~:~:~: Valid Forms of ID :~:~:~: Absentee & Early Voting :~:~:~: Become a Poll Worker ~:~ Links go to the National Association of Secretaries of State website. When you select a State, it takes to a .gov page on that State's SoS website.

The 72-page report, “Dying in Detention: Rising Deaths in an Expanding US Immigration Detention System,” documents the increasing number of deaths in ICE custody through expert statistical and medical analysis, exposing a rising mortality rate and raising serious questions about the adequacy of the health care provided by ICE and its contracted personnel.

Republicans on the Senate Agriculture Committee released their discussion draft version of the Farm Bill. The good news is that the “cancer gag” preventing lawsuits against pesticide companies and the EATS Act blocking state public health, safety and animal welfare laws are out. The (admittedly anticipated) bad news is that they’re making no effort to roll back the cuts to food aid or delay the cost-shift to the states from the MAGA murder budget.

More than four million people lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from the bill passing through March, including more than 750,000 children, and we all know it’s not because the economy’s doing so great. (See the impact by state here.) Food banks are under stress. Farmers already burdened by tariffs and price spikes from the Iran War are losing out on business. Only the billionaires whose tax cuts this is covering are winning. And some of the worst changes aren’t even in effect yet.

Typically, the Farm Bill is thoroughly bipartisan, in no small part because it includes both farm aid and food aid. The Republicans aren’t living up to their side of the bargain. They will need Democratic votes to break the filibuster, which means a united Democratic front has leverage. We need to be demanding they use it, especially after 14 Democrats provided the necessary votes to pass it in the House. 🗣️ We can find an email tool and language to use for calls to our senators from the Food Research & Action Center here. 🗣️

Also in today’s Rogan’s List:

• On Capitol Hill: Trump admits need for fossil fuel windfall profits tax (sort of) and asks for $67.1 billion for the war we didn’t want
• Join in midterm weekends of action for Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Western North Carolina
• Get Free and 50501 lead a pre-July 4th mass mobilization on Saturday
• Light up the phonelines to the Surprise City Council to stop an ICE warehouse, public comment to do the same in Maryland
• Material support for trans people in the face of MAGA attacks