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Sign to tell the Senate: You can’t filibuster a reckoning on the voting rights act

by DrewAction, allies, Home March 6, 2023March 6, 2023Comments are Disabled

President Biden went to Selma Alabama yesterday to commemorate the 58th anniversary of bloody Sunday, when a brutal police attack on peaceful civil rights protesters as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The attack by police fractured then activist John Lewis’ skull, and the ensuing outrage led directly to the signing of the Voting Rights …

BIden Declare a Climate Emergency poster by Denali Nalamalapu

The most important two words at tonight’s State of the Union: Climate. Emergency.

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 7, 2023February 7, 2023Comments are Disabled

Tonight is the State of the Union address, where the President visits Congress to tell them his plans for the year ahead, and to brag on his achievements from last year. In the course of the speech tonight, Biden will probably talk about climate change, specifically the Inflation reduction Act and its various tax credits …

an image contrasting a polluted background with power lines and a clean foreground with solar panels separated by a gavel and town hall

Nerdy tweets and utility actions in a post Inflation Reduction Act world

by DrewAction, Home, Opinion February 4, 2023February 6, 2023Comments are Disabled

UPDATED Feb 6 -It’s been a busy week behind the scenes as we prepare a series of actions targeting utilities bad behavior, and especially fracked fossil gas. I was trying to get my head around some news and new reports, so I wrote a long twitter thread that drew some … unexpected reactions. I’ve added …

A group holds a stop Manchin's FERC banner outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Stop Manchin’s FERC – a report-back and a new report

by DrewAction, allies, Home January 20, 2023January 24, 20233 comments

Quick message in solidarity and action with our fierce allies at Beyond Extreme Energy – I joined BXE today at an action targeting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) monthly meeting – the first since Democratic Chair Richard Glick was ousted by Joe Manchin late last year. I didn’t think much of Glick, as I’ve …

Ban Trump and all fossil fueled fascists under the 14th amendment

This January 6, ban fossil fueled fascists from the ballot.

by DrewAction, Home January 6, 2023January 6, 2023Comments are Disabled

Today is the second anniversary of the January 6 attempted coup, and things are very different .Last year, on the one year anniversary, we asked you to support Cori Bush’s resolution calling for insurrectionists to be expelled from Congress. Today, those same members — including but not limited to Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Andy Biggs …

2 victories, 6 charts, 1 map, and a whole lot of pictures

by DrewAction, Home, Opinion December 29, 2022February 3, 2023Comments are Disabled

Welcome to our annual charts and graphs summary — Where we try and present some data at the end of the year in a fun and easy to digest fashion. As in past years we’re including a slide deck and a video of this for the visually inclined. But if you’re a reader/writer type, scroll …

Was 2022 a year that changed everything?

by DrewAction, Home, Opinion December 27, 2022December 29, 20221 comment

Happy holidays to all! This post is a look back at 2022, which might end up being remembered as a year that changed everything (to borrow from Naomi Klein). This is a long post, full of links and references mostly to ourselves. It’s linked to by a short-er email, so as always, if you want …

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Gear up in our new store to celebrate the solstice and our work!

by DrewAction, Home December 21, 2022December 21, 20221 comment

Today is the winter solstice – meaning that from now until next summer, the days will only get warmer, longer, and sunnier. It’s fitting that the solstice comes just after we got word that Manchin’s dirty deal has been defeated a fourth (and we hope, final) time this year! Senate negotiators announced early Tuesday that …

We Win! Thanks again for calling to stop Manchin’s Zombie dirty deal

by DrewAction, allies, Home December 15, 2022December 16, 20228 comments

December 15 update – We won, again! For an unprecedented third time, Manchin’s zombie dirty deal has been defeated. It failed on the Senate floor, 47-47, with 60 votes needed for passage. This is yet another huge victory for frontline communities — especially those fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) — and climate justice warriors …

The best way to kill a dirty deal is with environmental justice for all

by DrewAction, allies, Home December 15, 2022December 21, 20221 comment

All month, we’ve been rallying you to kill Manchin’s zombie dirty deal again and again. And it’s essential that we keep doing that work to protect our climate and communities. But there’s a better way to stop pollution and extraction, especially in our most marginalized communities. The better way is called the Environmental Justice for …