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It’s a great day to ask why Howard Lutnick lied about visiting Epstein Island and still has a job, paid for by your tax dollars.

We have to make sure during this difficult time that we keep speaking up, that we keep showing up, and that we keep standing up.

This is your reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

In what world is firing missiles, drones, and boats at our Sailors not a ceasefire violation? If Pete Hegseth is in the room, common sense isn’t.

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What’s worse than a ‘do-nothing’ Congress? This one.

This has been the most frustrating year of my service in Congress, and it isn’t close. Mike Johnson is the weakest Speaker in the history of the House. He has turned the people’s branch into a rubber stamp.

Even as Donald Trump usurps legislative authority, Republicans in Congress have said little and done less.

The Founders fought a revolution so we wouldn’t be ruled by one man. Mike Johnson is surrendering that fight each day.

Meanwhile Trump bombed Iran without a vote, dismantled the Department of Education without a vote, and imposed sweeping tariffs without a vote. Johnson did nothing, more concerned with political survival than anything else.

Johnson killed votes on tariffs crushing working families. He blocked a vote on releasing the Epstein files. He buried bipartisan bills under procedural tricks until his own members had to force votes through discharge petitions, setting another record.

In 2025, only 38 bills were signed into law, the lowest first-year total in decades. The House set a record this century for fewest votes cast in the first session of a Congress.

What’s worse than a ‘do-nothing’ Congress? This one.

Even as Donald Trump usurps legislative authority, Republicans in Congress have said little and done less.

May the 4th be with you!

If 13 young people could face down Jim Crow with nothing but their convictions, we can finish what they started. We can and we must pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and protect the right to vote once and for all.

Just last week, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais. The fight John Lewis bled for is being unraveled in real time.

Their courage forced the federal government to enforce desegregation in interstate travel and helped build the movement that won the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

He was 21 years old, and he refused to be denied the equality this country had promised him. They were beaten. Their bus was firebombed. They were arrested by the hundreds. And they kept going.

When southern states refused to follow SCOTUS rulings banning segregation in interstate travel, 13 activists from the CORE boarded buses and changed America forever. The first Freedom Ride left Washington, DC 65 years ago today. My late, great colleague and friend, John Lewis, was on that bus.

Today would be a great day for Trump to fire Pete Hegseth and replace him with someone who is actually competent. Every American and every servicemember would be safer for it.

Reposted byMike Levin