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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, 20230 comments

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 …

Last Chance to Stop Willow

by DrewAction, allies, Home March 2, 2023March 2, 20231 comment

Last Month, the Biden administration took another step closer to the bring of climate catastrophe by approving the Willow Arctic oil project in Alaska. Biden ran on climate change, and repeatedly promised to ban fossil fuel extraction on public lands and waters, and especially in the sensitive Arctic. Biden lied. Since taking office his Administration has …

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Big Oil is stealing from the working class. Tax their windfall profits!

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 13, 2023February 13, 2023Comments are Disabled

Last week at his State of the Union address, President Biden took time to call out the excessive profits the oil industry has been posting: BP had just announced a $27.7 billion profit for 2022, more than doubling last year’s earnings. This announcement comes at the tail end of a record-shattering fourth quarter and 2022 …

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 …

Joye Braun day of action at the white house Jan 19 2023

Spark Joy(e) Extinguish Fossil Fuels – a beautiful day to honor a beautiful soul

by DrewAction, allies January 21, 2023January 24, 2023Comments are Disabled

Late Friday night we wrapped up the amazing Spark Joy(e), Extinguish Fossil Fuels day of action. If you missed the earlier posts and emails, this was to honor Joye Braun, a true warrior for climate justice and a force of nature who died late last year. In her honor, hundreds of people rallied in dozens …

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 …

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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 …