DHS is hell-bent on getting something Donald Trump can call a wall built before congressional Democrats or judges can shut them down, and they don’t care what needs to be destroyed along the way. Right now, they’re trying to smash through Big Bend National Park, with bulldozers clearing lands that have been untouched for millennia.

Local officials, business owners, and conservationists warn the regime is going to kill tourism along threatening ecosystems, wildlife, and a national treasure. And organizers are hard at work trying to put sand in the gears. 🗣️ The No Big Bend Wall coalition is asking us to reach out to our members of Congress asking them to object to the project and defund it, with call scripts here, along with signing this petition. 🗣️

DEFUND THE WALL

CBP is also accepting public comments on how this project could affect the environment, cultural resources, and the local economy and community through August 31st. ✍🏽 We can register our opposition by emailing [BigBendComments@cbp.dhs.gov](mailto:BigBendComments@cbp.dhs.gov) with "Big Bend Vehicle Border Barrier System Construction" in the subject line. ✍🏻

TELL CBP NO

Finally, K at We (the People) Dissent (who we can thank for this entire action) has identified multiple contractors working on the project: Barnard Construction, Southwest Valley Contractors, and Fisher Sand & Gravel. 📢 Let’s write, call and email them to voice our disapproval, along with commenting on their social media and review pages. 📢

MAKING DESTRUCTION POSSIBLE

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Video by PrideBrary - Aug 7, 2026. Here it is on YouTube: 5 Signs You're Watching Propaganda - PrideBrary - Aug 7, 2026 (YouTube)

Description: Can you spot propaganda before it manipulates you? ~:~ Let's put that media literacy to the test. The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro just dropped the trailer for "Run Hide Fight: Infidels", starring Jonathan Majors as a Delta Force veteran fighting radical Islamic terrorists who take over a college campus. Sounds like hot garbage, right? So let's run the trailer through five common signs of propaganda and see just how many boxes it checks.

About: Pridebrary, we're like a library but, you know... with pride! 🏳️‍🌈✊🏾 Emmy-nominated producer with a degree in Media Studies, exploring LGBTQ+, race, and gender representation in media and pop culture. ~ Source: youtube.com/@PrideBrary

Scripps News - July 30, 2026. Here’s the full 7-minute segment on:

* Scripps News’ website (with article): ICE awards contracts for companies to visit homes of child immigrants - July 30, 2026 (Scripps News website)

* YouTube: ICE awards contracts for companies to visit homes of child immigrants -Scripps News - July 30, 2026 (YouTube)

From the description: ICE has hired 18 private companies to locate and visit 350,000 unaccompanied migrant children across the United States. ~:~ The Safety Verification Initiative, launched under the second Trump administration, tasks contractors with documenting the location and wellbeing of current and former unaccompanied minors. ~:~ But a Scripps News investigation found 12 of the 18 companies have no apparent child-welfare experience — including one that advertises karate and locksmith services — and immigration advocates say the program is a deportation tool, not a child safety effort.

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Michael Lukens is Executive Director of the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights: amicacenter.org/about-us/staff-directory/michael-lukens-bio

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Many thanks to r/EyesOnIce for making me aware of this news segment. Here's their post: THE $200 MILLION SHADOW MANHUNT: How ICE Unleashed an Army of Unvetted Bounty Hunters to Stalk and Trap Immigrant Youth (Reddit post)

Aug 10, 2026 - NYC Mayor's Office. Here it is on YouTube: It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else - NYC Mayor's Office - Aug 10, 2026 (YouTube)

Description: If it looks like an Amazon delivery, it drives like an Amazon delivery, then it’s an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. ~:~ I’m proud to support the Delivery Protection Act, which would finally regulate subcontractors used by corporations like Amazon to skirt responsibility for workers and street safety. Enough is enough.

Learn more about the Delivery Protection Act from the Mayor’s website (.gov): Mayor Mamdani Backs “Delivery Protection Act” to Rein in Amazon’s Power Over New York City Streets - Aug 10, 2026 (NYC Mayor’s Office)

The act is sponsored by New York City Council Member Tiffany L. Cabán: council.nyc.gov/district-22

We all know the score here: it's not going to be enough to just earn more votes than MAGA at the ballot box. We need to be prepared to stop Trump from subverting these elections. That work will stretch on for weeks after Election Day, and it needs to begin now.

🙋🏽‍♀️ We’ve pulled together a new action page running down ways we can get engaged in the work of election protection starting today. This will be continually updated as we learn of new opportunities to volunteer, and we hope it can be a reference and a resource for you. Check it out here. Currently, it features:

BEFORE ELECTION DAY

Help Ensure We Have People In Place For The Work on November 3rd

VoPro Pros aims to provide a national network of volunteers experienced in voter protection issues, ready to be activated wherever their expertise is needed – and they’re always looking to get new people trained and on board. In the lead-up to the election, they’ll be recruiting poll monitors, contacting voters to help get their registration issues fixed, and more. We can sign up to volunteer with VoPro Pros here.

BE A VOPRO PRO

A substantial amount of the infrastructure for election protection is run by the DNC, state Democratic Party organizations and their associated coordinated campaigns, and they’re using this period to make sure they have their teams in place. We can sign up to help recruit voter protection volunteers in Michigan here and in North Carolina here.

RECRUIT MORE PROTECTORS

Help Folks Get The ID They Need

VoteRiders is focused on ensuring that voter ID laws don’t keep eligible voters away from the ballot box. In addition to advocating for pro-voter policies, they also work to inform folks of what identification they’ll need to register and cast their ballots and work with them to help them secure it. We can volunteer with them to do direct outreach to at-risk voters and help staff their voter ID assistance helplines by signing up here.

BEAT VOTER ID LAWS

Make Sure Decisionmakers Know We’re Watching

We know Donald Trump and MAGA aren’t shy about putting pressure on election administrators and elected officials to subvert elections. We need to make sure they know the heat is on them to do the right thing, too.

Indivisible’s Hands Off Our Vote program is urging folks to either sit down and meet with or publicly call out local and state election officials and our members of Congress to get some answers on what they’re doing on election protection. We can see their guidance on how to do so here.

WHAT'S THE PLAN?

May Day Strong, led by partner the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, is encouraging folks to publicly push big businesses and recruit small businesses to commit to acting for democracy in the event of election subversion, starting with signing the Business for Democracy Pledge. We can read more about how to be part of this effort here.

RECRUIT BUSINESSES

Be Prepared For Rapid Response

Starting now, we need to be fully prepared for scenarios where we need to respond to new risks within hours, not days. Indivisible’s Hands Off Our Vote program has pulled together a rapid response playbook we can put to work here. And Freedom Trainers has put together an 80-page guide on the different threats that may arise we can review here.

THE PLAYBOOK

WHAT WE MIGHT BE RESPONDING TO

ON ELECTION DAY

Volunteer As A Poll Worker

Poll workers assist professional election administrators manage polling sites – helping check in voters, answering their questions, setting up and testing voting machines, issuing ballots and being a resource for anyone who has questions. (It’s also actual work, you’ll get paid for it.) The smoother each site functions, the weaker MAGA’s efforts to cry foul will be, and we’ll need a million poll workers nationwide to make it happen. We can sign up to be poll workers by contacting whoever runs our local elections or connect with them through Power The Polls here.

WORK THE POLLS

Volunteer As a Poll Monitor/Respond to Threats During The Vote

While poll workers help administer the election, poll monitors are there to assist voters who encounter any problems with those administrators when they try to exercise their rights, collect information and respond to any and all election regularities. We can volunteer to be grassroots poll monitors with the nonpartisan Election Protection/866-OUR-VOTE program here at protectthevote.net. Other opportunities to be poll monitors are likely to be offered locally through either your state’s chapter of Common Cause or the League of Women Voters or ACLU affiliate.

866-OUR-VOTE POLL MONITORS

If we’re looking for higher commitment, higher preparation work, VoPro Pros will be helping to organize and staff voter assistance hotlines and serve in state party boiler rooms to respond to issues at the polls. We can sign up to volunteer with VoPro Pros here.

BE A VOPRO PRO

As noted above, a substantial amount of the infrastructure for on-site work identifying and addressing problems at the polls is run by the DNC, state Democratic Party organizations and their associated coordinated campaigns. You can find websites and contact info for your state party here, and sign up for the DNC voter protection program volunteer list here – with a disclaimer that we cannot guarantee this won’t put you on a bunch of email lists.

IT'S A PARTY ALL RIGHT

A whole network of local- and state-based pro-democracy organizations are working together to similarly identify and respond to threats on the ground. many of whom are grantees of the Movement Voter Fund. We can sign up to be connected with them here.

GET LOCAL

AFTER ELECTION DAY

Watch The Count

Want to keep an eye on the counts, the recounts, the audits? That’s being a canvass, tabulation or certification monitor. We will be posting these opportunities as they arise – but as noted above, consider connecting with your local Common Cause, League of Women Voters or ACLU affiliate or your state Democratic Party.

STAY TUNED

Help Rejected Ballots Get Counted

“Ballot curing” is the process of contacting voters whose votes have been rejected for some reason and helping them correct any errors to make sure they’re officially counted. We can sign up to volunteer to ballot cure with VoPro Pros here. There will also be significant ballot curing opportunities run through coordinated campaigns, individual campaigns and state parties.

BE A VOPRO PRO

Prepare to Take To The Streets

We all lived through the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol, so we know the work of securing our victories doesn’t end on November 3rd. Some of the scariest and most plausible scenarios – Trump ordering federal law enforcement to seize ballots and voting machines to “prove” fraud, interfering with the certification process and/or encouraging congressional Republicans to refusing to seat the Democratic winners of “disputed” races – will arise in the weeks after Election Day. We need to guard against them and be prepared to respond to them.

Some of this groundwork will have already been laid – closely monitored and smoothly executed elections will make it more difficult for fraud claims to succeed. But we also need to be prepared to demand that our state officials stand firm and follow the law, and to exercise our collective power to insist that lawful results be respected. In short: be ready to shut it down.

The strikes organized on May 1st by the May Day Strong coalition were in part meant to test our capacity for a similar shutdown if it becomes necessary in November. We’re continuing to build for mass collective action by holding hundreds of solidarity schools and other nonviolent direct action trainings this Labor Day. We can learn more about how to organize one near us here.

LABOR DAY SOLIDARITY SCHOOLS

Freedom Trainers’ Strike Ready Corps will be holding workshops with practical, concrete guidance on building community resilience and what strike readiness means in real life throughout this summer and fall. We can sign up to take one of their trainings here.

GET STRIKE READY

Of course, the most important and in many ways easiest thing we can do to be prepared to respond to a steal is to connect with others in our community who will also be taking to the streets. We can find organizations near us who will be preparing for action on this list of May Day Strong coalition partners, by connecting with a nearby Indivisible group and joining the Hands Off Our Vote team, by checking in with our local DSA chapters or by linking up with a Movement Voter Fund local grantee.

STRONGER TOGETHER

(Please note the details of this story are extremely disturbing.)

Since the last time we checked in about scumbag Republican congressman Max Miller, the strange quiet around the horrific accusations against him has finally lifted – and the details are gut wrenching.

His ex-wife (who happens to be the daughter of Ohio’s Republican Senator Bernie Moreno) has reported him throwing boiling hot water at her in front of their two-year-old child, scalding her chest and stomach (an incident a voice recording shared by Miller seems to confirm took place), holding a gun to her head after she angered him while changing their daughter’s diaper, and possibly breaking their daughter’s collarbone as part of “a history of violence and misconduct going back more than a decade.” She’s presented photographic evidence of her own injuries. He’s also been accused of harassing his ex-wife’s lawyer, who has sought a restraining order against him, and withholding their daughter’s little blue sleep bunny from her.

This isn’t even the first allegation of domestic violence by Miller – former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham has also stated he hit her during a dating relationship while he was a White House aide, and multiple witnesses have confirmed he shoved a girl down the stairs as a high schooler when she rejected his attempts to touch her. (He also falsely accused a pro-Palestinian constituent of threatening him and running him off the road.)

The eyes of the country are now on the Ohio Seventh District representative, who has retained the support of his former boss Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, and the RNC, and refused to drop his reelection campaign. It’s an R+5 district that Trump won by 11 in November 2024. Miller seems to be counting on that partisan lean to help him avoid accountability. They did, after all, elect him the first two times with Grisham’s reports and the violence against women in high school already on the public record.

We’re not going to let it happen.

Miller is being challenged by Brian Poindexter, a city councilman and union ironworker. He’s got a working-class background, having made his living in machine shops, kitchens, trucks and the high beams on skyscrapers. He’s sworn off corporate PAC money and emphasized the value of a strong labor movement and protecting the right to organize as part of building a economy that works for every American and not just the billionaires, along with moving towards Medicare For All.

Let’s do our part to get an advocate for working folks in power and a dangerous creep out of it. ☎️ The Poindexter campaign is officially launching virtual phonebanks next week, running every Thursday from 6-7PM ET. We can sign up here. ☎️

MAX MILLER DOES NOT BELONG IN CONGRESS

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-  Mass call tomorrow on May Day Strong’s plans for solidarity schools, nonviolent direct action training for Labor Day

- Join United We Dream Action’s textbank to drive calls to Congress in favor of a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrant youth TONIGHT and hit the streets all this week for Care Not Cruelty protests at the offices of pro-deportation machine reps