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Tell Congress: You can’t silence dissent with tear gas

by DrewAction, allies, Home October 1, 2025October 1, 20250 comments

If you’ve been watching the news lately, you’ve likely seen footage of federal agents using tear gas to suppress and disperse protestors. After being teargassed outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility near Chicago, Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss said “It was impossible to breathe, and really, really scary.” Congressional candidates and elected officials like Mayor …

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Time for a Billionaires Income Tax

by DrewAction, allies, Home September 25, 2025September 25, 20251 comment

All year we’ve been talking about how fossil fuels and billionaires — we call them the Oiligarchs — are teaming up to promote fascism and pollution. That’s why we named our climate march last weekend “Make Billionaires Pay.” And it’s why we took nonviolent direct action to delay Trump’s speech to the United Nations a …

Make Billionaires pay march Sept 20 2025

Make Billionaires Pay for Climate Chaos

by DrewAction, allies, Home August 25, 2025August 25, 20251 comment

Every day Trump and the Billionaires move their fossil fueled fascist agenda forward, and every day we resist. But it’s tought to watch the rich keep getting richer off the backs of the poor, our labor, and the destruction of our climate. Billionaires keep getting richer, and experts predict that Elon Musk will become the …

Stop Trump’s scheme to make climate denial law at the EPA

by DrewAction, allies, Home August 21, 2025September 16, 20251 comment

September 15 – Just a quick update, this week is the last chance to tell the EPA: The Endangerment Finding must stay. Resounding public testimony in opposition convinced the EPA to add additional days of public hearings and allow a bit more time for us to file comments. But the outcome appears the same. This …

Defending the rule of law in our states and cities

Defending the rule of law locally from fossil fueled fascism

by DrewAction, allies, Home August 18, 2025August 18, 2025Comments are Disabled

All this year, we’ve been talking about the unholy alliance between big tech, billionaires, and fossil fuels – the Oiligarchs, as we call them – who team up to promote fossil fueled fascism. But while things are very much not ok at the federal level, some local leaders and a lot of local activists are …

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No more fossil fueled fascist billionaires

by DrewAction, allies, Home August 14, 2025August 20, 20254 comments

Aug 20 update – The first round of actions taking on billionaires who rig the system for fossil fueled fascism starts tomorrow – with big actions in California, DC, and New York, as well as smaller events from North Carolina to Chicago and many other places in between. Click here to find and join an action …

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The Solar Sprint starts now.

by DrewAction, allies, Home August 6, 2025August 28, 20252 comments

End of August Update — More than 30,000 of you have contacted your governor to tell them to get on board with the Solar Sprint, and more than 300 events are already planned for Sun Day, September 21. But there’s still a ton of room to grow both our advocacy and our celebration for solar …

SIGN NOW: No Trump Energy Commission

by DrewHome July 23, 2025July 23, 2025Comments are Disabled

For years we’ve worked with Beyond Extreme Energy and other partners to reform and re-make the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. With Trump back in the White House, it’s safe to say we had modest and shrinking expectations for FERC reform. But since the commission currently has two Democrats, two Republicans, and one vacancy, I had …

Good trouble lives on

by DrewAction, allies, Home July 3, 2025July 17, 20251 comment

Live stream from our Chicago Flagship event starts at 8:00PM Et / 7:00pm CT. Many other local events are already happening or starting soon! Find yours at https://goodtroubleliveson.org/ or click here. July 10 – Quick update for those who love good trouble: There are now more than 1,000 individual events planned for July 17 and …

Call now: No budget deal for fossil fueled fascists

by DrewAction, allies May 20, 2025July 2, 20251 comment

July 1 – The Senate voted 51-50 with JD Vance breaking the tie to pass Trump’s fossil fueled fascist budget bill. Three Republicans — Susan Collins, Thom Tillis & Rand Paul — voted against it. No Democrat voted in favor. As we’ve been telling you for weeks and in an extensive series of emails and …