Begin 2018 With Action on the Dream Act, Net Neutrality, and Voter Registration

Begin 2018 With Action on the Dream Act, Net Neutrality, and Voter Registration

Begin 2018 With Action on the Dream Act, Net Neutrality, and Voter Registration

Take Action Now gives you three meaningful actions you can take each week.

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With the passage of a new tax bill that overwhelmingly benefits the rich, a Democratic caucus that continues to fail to protect Dreamers, and the FCC’s decision to put an end to net neutrality, the end of 2017 certainly made it clear that we’ll need even more inspiring organizing in 2018.

Take Action Now gives you three meaningful actions you can take each week, whatever your schedule. You can sign up here to get actions like these in your inbox every Tuesday.

NO TIME TO SPARE?

Despite calls for Democrats to withhold their votes if Congress refused to pass the Dream Act, the House and Senate approved a short-term funding bill just before the holiday recess. With the government funded until January 19, and an average of about 850 DACA recipients losing their protections every week between now and then, we need to keep up the pressure on all Democrats who refused to stand strong. See if your representatives are part of the “deportation caucus” and send them a tweet demanding that they fight for immigrant youth.

GOT SOME TIME?

While the FCC voted to end net neutrality, Congress can reinstate this critical regulation by passing a “resolution of disapproval” to undo the vote. Both Republicans and Democrats have spoken up against the FCC’s decision. Check out where your representatives stand, then use Free Press Action Fund’s call tool and script to give them a call.

READY TO DIG IN?

Last year, we had hopeful election results from Virginia to New Jersey to Alabama, and, already, people across the country are putting in the work to bring us more good news in 2018. Join them by using Indivisible’s voter-registration tool to begin registering voters in your community.

We cannot back down

We now confront a second Trump presidency.

There’s not a moment to lose. We must harness our fears, our grief, and yes, our anger, to resist the dangerous policies Donald Trump will unleash on our country. We rededicate ourselves to our role as journalists and writers of principle and conscience.

Today, we also steel ourselves for the fight ahead. It will demand a fearless spirit, an informed mind, wise analysis, and humane resistance. We face the enactment of Project 2025, a far-right supreme court, political authoritarianism, increasing inequality and record homelessness, a looming climate crisis, and conflicts abroad. The Nation will expose and propose, nurture investigative reporting, and stand together as a community to keep hope and possibility alive. The Nation’s work will continue—as it has in good and not-so-good times—to develop alternative ideas and visions, to deepen our mission of truth-telling and deep reporting, and to further solidarity in a nation divided.

Armed with a remarkable 160 years of bold, independent journalism, our mandate today remains the same as when abolitionists first founded The Nation—to uphold the principles of democracy and freedom, serve as a beacon through the darkest days of resistance, and to envision and struggle for a brighter future.

The day is dark, the forces arrayed are tenacious, but as the late Nation editorial board member Toni Morrison wrote “No! This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

I urge you to stand with The Nation and donate today.

Onwards,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation

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