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What are we fighting for? To stop the Republican-made health care crisis, cancel the cuts, lower the costs, and save your healthcare. Let’s work together, keep the government open and stop a reckless shutdown.

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Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger

The nation’s leading scientific advisory body just confirmed that greenhouse gases endanger our health. The EPA’s move to undo the protections that cleaned our air and lowered costs is reckless and ignores overwhelming evidence. We cannot let decades of progress be erased.

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Even Justice Alito wrote in 2017 that under the First Amendment, the government “may not ban speech on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend.” Disagreeing doesn’t give government the power to silence speech.

Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger

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Congress Reckons With How to Fund a Government Trump Keeps Reshaping

We have been kept in the dark about sweeping executive branch overhauls driven by Trump’s budget director Russ Vought. Republicans have largely looked the other way. Congress cannot negotiate responsibly when treated like less than a coequal branch.

Some Republican-led appropriations bills push back on the Trump administration’s vision for the federal bureaucracy.

Congress Reckons With How to Fund a Government Trump Keeps Reshaping

Some Republican-led appropriations bills push back on the Trump administration’s vision for the federal bureaucracy.

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Every American should be alarmed when government power is used to pressure a private company to silence a comedian. The First Amendment protects speech we may dislike or disagree with because without that protection no one’s voice is safe.

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E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

If we can’t measure pollution, we can’t protect our air or our future. Ending the EPA greenhouse gas reporting program means flying blind on emissions and leaving communities, businesses, and national security in the dark. America should lead on clean energy, not hide the facts.

E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

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Mike Levin@mikelevin.orgSep 17(source)

Our kids are watching. We must show them violence is never the answer in a democracy. No matter how deep our differences, we have to lower the temperature, reject revenge, and remember: political violence is a disease we must confront together. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Mike Levin@mikelevin.orgSep 17(source)

Coffee prices in the US are up 21 percent over last year, the steepest jump since 1997. With nearly all our coffee imported and huge tariffs slapped on top suppliers, families are being squeezed at the breakfast table. Ordinary Americans should not pay for reckless trade games.

Coffee prices haven’t surged this much in decades | CNN Business

Coffee drinkers are in for a jolt long before their first sip.

Mike Levin@mikelevin.orgSep 17(source)

Tens of millions of Americans rely on mail in voting to make their voices heard, including seniors, military families, people with disabilities and working parents. Ending it is not about security, it is about silencing voters. I will keep fighting to protect every American’s right to vote.

Trump’s tariffs could force nearly 1 million Americans into poverty: study

Using a dubious emergency power to impose sweeping tariffs without Congress could push nearly 1 million Americans into poverty while driving up prices. This executive overreach hurts working families and undermines the constitutional role of Congress. nypost.com/2025/09/11/b...

Tariffs disproportionately slam low-income Americans, who already live paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to lose out on more of their income.

California health programs are vanishing even before federal health cuts are final

Federal cuts are shutting down California health and nutrition programs, closing clinics, canceling classes, and laying off workers. Public health keeps communities healthy and lowers costs. Without it, families across our state will pay the price. calmatters.org/health/2025/...

A judge will decide whether DOGE's health cuts are legal. Local health departments aren't waiting to close clinics, stop programs, cut immunization appointments, and lay off workers anyway.

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Fear over RFK Jr. vaccine panel’s looming decisions on childhood shots

Decades of safe, effective vaccines have protected our kids and kept schools open. Now RFK’s actions could weaken those protections. Whatever your politics, we must stand up for science and the health of America’s children.

The panel will discuss the Covid-19, hepatitis B and the measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccines, as well as the RSV shot.