We Still Need to Pass the Dream Act. Take Action to Make It Happen

We Still Need to Pass the Dream Act. Take Action to Make It Happen

We Still Need to Pass the Dream Act. Take Action to Make It Happen

You can also demand that your representatives fight for net neutrality and get started on a campaign to transition your community to 100 percent renewable energy.

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Take Action Now gives you three meaningful actions you can take each week, whatever your schedule. This week, you can call your elected officials to demand that they fight for net neutrality, attend a protest to support the Dreamers, and get started on a campaign to transition your community to 100 percent renewable energy.

Sign up here to get actions like these in your inbox every Tuesday.

NO TIME TO SPARE?

With fifty senators now committed to repealing the FCC’s plan to dismantle net neutrality, we only need one Republican Senator to pass a bill in that body and move our fight to the House. Find out where your senators and representative stand, then call and demand that they vote to save net neutrality.

GOT SOME TIME?

The government spending bill is expiring this Friday, January 19, and Republicans will need Democratic votes to keep the government running. That gives us a crucial opportunity to finally pass the Dream Act and give undocumented youth permanent protection that doesn’t depend on the whims of the administration or the courts. Find a local #NoDreamNoDeal action near you on January 17 or 18 and sign up to demand that your members of Congress stand with Dreamers.

READY TO DIG IN?

The day after President Trump’s first State of the Union, people across the country will gather to watch something much more inspiring: Fossil Free Fast, an event focused on the state of the climate movement and the path ahead to a fossil fuel–free world. You can join the movement by hosting a watch party. Gather with your neighbors to livestream the event featuring Senator Bernie Sanders and activists Bill McKibben and Varshini Prakash, then use a detailed toolkit to begin a campaign to make your community fossil-fuel free. 350.org will even follow up afterward to help with your next steps. Click here to sign up to host your own Fossil Free Fast watch party or to find one near you.

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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