Fight for an End to Gun Violence in Your Community

Fight for an End to Gun Violence in Your Community

Fight for an End to Gun Violence in Your Community

You can also call your representative in the House to demand they fight for net neutrality, and join the Poor People’s Campaign.

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This week’s Take Action Now focuses on state and local solutions to gun violence, next steps in the fight for net neutrality, and the Poor People’s Campaign.

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

NO TIME TO SPARE?

Last week, the Senate voted to overturn the FCC’s decision to destroy net neutrality. Now, the fight moves to the House. Check out Electronic Frontier Foundation’s website to see where your representative stands, then give them a call at (202) 224-3121.

GOT SOME TIME?

People around the country demonstrated at statehouses yesterday to mark the second week of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Tonight at 7:30 pm, the campaign continues with a teach-in on this week’s theme: the connections between poverty and systemic racism. Sign up to attend either in DC or anywhere in the world via livestream.

READY TO DIG IN?

On Friday, the country mourned yet again when a student at Santa Fe High School shot and killed ten of his classmates and teachers and wounded at least thirteen others. While many members of Congress continue to offer little more than the usual “thoughts and prayers” (at least until we vote them out of office), we can fight for change in our own communities. Get started by using the Giffords Law Center’s annual gun law scorecard to look up the laws in your state, then check out Indivisible’s guide to state action on gun control or connect with local actions through groups such as Community Justice Reform Coalition or Moms Demand Action.

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.”

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Onwards,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation

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