Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!). In no particular order. Scroll down to the matching number of your option: 

1. Oppose the new SAVE Act, H.R. 7296, the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” or the “SAVE America Act” 
2. Again, keep fighting to rein in and, hopefully, to abolish ICE 
3. The Epstein Files Controversy is Not Over 
4. Read and sign a Resistbot letter to our representatives to stop judge-approved mass incarceration  
5. Ban private private equity ownership of hospitals 

Actions 

1) Oppose the new SAVE Act, H.R. 7296, the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” or the “SAVE America Act”: 

     This is a voter suppression bill, pure and simple. It will make voting harder, if not impossible, for millions of eligible voters (including Republicans, especially Republican women) to register to vote and to actually vote, by requiring proof of citizenship not only to register to vote, but also to cast a ballot. It would also prohibit universal voting by mail, block states from counting absentee ballots received after election day, and require frequent voter purges that would kick eligible citizens off the rolls. People without photo ID on which their name matches their birth certificate may be turned away at the polls. Once again, this could disenfranchise millions of voters, including women who took their husbands’ names upon marriage, so their last names don’t match the names on their birth certificates.  

     I, for example, could be hit by a double whammy: Not only did I keep my maiden name (wow, I hate that term!), but as an adult, I also changed my first name to match what I’d been called most of my life, rather than go on with a passport and driver’s license that had my unused birth name on them. Long story, but the short version is that my legal name change was supposed to make things simpler and clearer, not more difficult. And especially not more difficult to exercise my constitutional right as a U.S. citizen, born and bred, to vote in elections. I do have photo IDs that match each other—passport and driver’s license—so perhaps I won’t be asked for my birth certificate, but can I be sure of that? And what of all the women who legally took their husband’s last names using only their marriage certificate to prove that it was okay? And what about Indigenous Americans who don’t have birth certificates, only tribal IDs that don’t include all the newly required information?  

     The vote for H.R. 7296, the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” or the “SAVE America Act,” could happen as soon as this Wednesday, February 11^th. Contact House Representative Jared Golden, who was one of four Democrat Congressmen to vote for the last SAVE Act, and demand that he vote NO on this new SAVE Act, an act that, despite its name, will make it significantly harder, if not outright impossible, for millions of eligible voters to register to vote and to actually vote. It is our right as U.S. citizens to have our voices heard in elections across the nation. Golden had better support our right to vote, rather than cave to pressure from Republicans. 

     There is also another act in the House coming up for a vote soon: H.R.7300, the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act. Along with imposing a proof-of-citizenship requirement for voter registration and a photo ID requirement to vote, this bill would usurp the constitutionally-granted authority of states to administer elections. Tell House Rep. Jared Golden to vote NO on this MEGA Act. 

2) Again, keep fighting to rein in and, hopefully, to abolish ICE: 

     Our Senate reps need to stand firm against ICE and BCP: There must be NO further DHS funding at all until the Senate has agreed to ironclad guardrails for ICE. The way this agency has been abusing both American citizens and undocumented people is outrageous. The “worst of the worst” means people who snuck into this country illegally and proceeded to commit serious crimes—serious crimes, not the occasional speeding ticket. And the “worst of the worst” should be located and apprehended using legal, controlled policies, not stopping any nonwhite-skinned person who speaks with an accent or speaks in another language, brutally grabbing them, scanning their faces with inaccurate ID technology (seehttps://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/ ), handcuffing them, shoving them into unmarked vans, whisking them asap to cruel and torturous detention centers in other states, deporting them to foreign (to them) countries, breaking up families, detaining little children, etc. This is not the behavior of the Founders’ America, or the behavior of civilized people anywhere.  

     There is no excuse for ICE to not be required to follow the same legal guidelines as every other law enforcement agency in our country. ICE agents cannot be allowed to hide their identities behind masks and unprofessional, properly identified uniforms. They cannot be allowed to tear apart families, let alone to detain children without their parents and in inhumane conditions. They cannot be allowed to arrest anyone without proper judicial warrants. ICE officials cannot be allowed to make up the rules for themselves as they go along. The cannot be allowed to intimidate, beat, arrest, or otherwise abuse people in this country legally—and that includes people following legal protocols for asylum or citizenship. Detention centers should not be allowed to abuse children—with or without their families present. They should not be allowed to refuse these people medical treatment, contact with lawyers, and all due process requirements in general.  

     Contact Senators King and Collins and demand that they absolutely refuse to give DHS a penny more or even agree to negotiate this without the above requirements. ICE has to be forced to toe the line or be totally abolished. What’s more, Kristi Noem needs to be impeached and removed, and Stephen Miller needs to be fired. Both need to be prosecuted, but let’s get rid of them first. 

3) The Epstein Files Controversy is Not Over:  

     Per Democracy Now, “Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna has called for Congress to investigate associates of Jeffrey Epstein named in the files and for the full release of the remaining documents. This comes as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the review of Epstein files is over and that no further prosecutions are expected. Blanche, who was formerly President Trump’s personal lawyer, told Fox News that ‘it isn’t a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.’ 

     “Meanwhile, Epstein survivors have criticized the Department of Justice for failing to redact personal information, including some of their identities, as well as email addresses and even nude photos. ‘They were cavalier, at best, when it comes to the survivors, and they took great lengths to protect some of the rich and powerful people who actually committed the crimes and morally heinous acts,’” said Ro Khanna. 

     Khanna also said, “And I am so offended by Deputy Attorney General Blanche saying, ‘Oh, this is just about men who are playboys who are going to parties.’This is about men who knew that Epstein was abusing and raping young girls, saying, ‘I want to show up to parties where these young girls are being paraded, or where these young girls are being raped.’ 

     “And this is the American elite? I mean, the question we have to ask ourselves as a nation is: How have we produced an elite that is so callow, that is so immature, that is so venal, that has so little scruples, and that has such impunity from the rule of law? What have we done wrong in this country that that is our elite?” 

     Damn good questions that deserve honest answers. Contact Congressman Jared Golden and urge him to demand that the DOJ release all documents legally mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. He should also call for public hearings and investigations into alleged abuses revealed by the documents, call for the resignations of Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Deputy Todd Blanche, and support articles of impeachment and move to convict Donald Trump (thanks to 5calls.org for the language). Contact Senators King and Collins and urge them  to cosponsor and otherwise speak out in support of Senator Ron Wyden’s bill, S.2746 (the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act), which would require the Secretary of the Treasury to produce suspicious activity reports relating to Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. Republicans are currently blocking this bill. The very idea that anyone with any integrity would block this bill should prompt us to ask WHY? Who are they protecting? All this needs to be revealed, no matter the fallout.  

4) Read and sign a Resistbot letter to our representatives to stop judge-approved mass incarceration: 

https://resist.bot/petitions/PUOZIA

5) Ban private equity ownership of hospitals: 

https://action.ips-dc.org/a/inequality-private-equity-hospitals?ms=tjp260204

Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m a constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored. 

Contact info:
Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

Find your State Representative: 
By name: Here
By district: Here

Find your State Senator:
By name: Here
By district: Here

(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)

Yours in Civic Action, 

Bold Coast Civic Alliance

Dates to keep in mind: 

February 17^th: National Day of Lobbying to Impeach Trump, organized by 50501. This is intended to be in-district lobbying, but I will be surprised if it isn’t supported by protests all over.  https://www.mobilize.us/50501missouri-1/c/dday/event/create/

March 28^th: The next national No Kings protest. 

Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!), as always, in no particular order. Scroll down to the matching number of your option: 

1. Demand an investigation of the seizure of Georgia 2020 ballots by the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence 
2. De-fund/Abolish ICE 
3. Support S. 2746, the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act 
4. Continue to Boycott Target and contact them directly 
5. Help get detainees released 
6. Four Maine-specific actions 

Actions 

1) Demand an investigation of the seizure of Georgia 2020 ballots by the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence: 

     Rather than me attempting to summarize, just read this this article. It’s longish but actually a fun read (I found it kind of fun, anyway), and it’s full of talking points you can use when you contact Senators King and Collins and Representative Golden and demand that they push the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to immediately open an investigation into the recent seizure of Fulton County, Georgia, 2020 ballots by the FBI and Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. First of all, Gabbard had no business being there, and her explanation for her presence doesn’t add up. Second, well, read the article. If you email rather than (or in addition to) calling, share this article directly, even if you have to copy and paste the whole thing (if their online forms will let you). I’m no lawyer, but it looks like there’s some interesting points here that could all too easily be overshadowed by the Minneapolis/ICE situation. As I said, read it yourself and see what you think. 

     If you have the energy and interest, you could also contact the heads of both Intelligence committees: 

     Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: 

       Chair: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)   

                     (202) 224-2353  

https://www.cotton.senate.gov/contact/contact-tom

              Vice Chair: Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) 

(202) 224-2023 https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactPage 

             House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: 

              Chair: Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR-1) 

                           (202) 225-4076 

https://crawford.house.gov/contact

              Vice Chair: Rep. Trent Kelly (R-MS-1) 

                           (202) 225-4306 

                           No email option except for constituents. 

2) Defund ICE:  

     Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries seem to be doing their usual thing of falling back to their usual weak stances while calling it “bi-partisanship.” (That’s Jared Golden’s playbook, too.) Their proposed reforms are little more than asking ICE to observe minimum standards of conduct that apply to every law enforcement agency in America. We need to see real reform. The alternative is for us all to live in a country where an uncontrolled paramilitary roams the streets, executing people who are not threatening them, shooting, punching, pepper-spraying and tear-gassing people directly in the face just for exercising their Constitutional right to speak out and bear witness. (Remember the guy who boasted in a text about getting 7 bullet holes with 5 bullets? Or the guy who said, “It’s like Call of Duty!” and was answered by something like, “So cool!”) We need a well-trained, controlled force that does due diligence in identifying and locating illegal aliens who have criminal records or are arrested committing a crime, not these “ICEholes” (I didn’t make that up; I saw it on a protest sign) who are over-armed and under-trained, and who think they are playing army on an Xbox. And who have no clue how to operate inside a city full of innocent bystanders, no idea (or interest in) how to de-escalate tensions, and are too wired and scared to hold back their own violent reactions.  

     Contact Susan Collins and Angus King and thank them both for voting in favor of the Sanders Amendment which clawed back $75 Billion of the money allocated to ICE and CBP in the “One Big Beautiful Sadistic Bill,” and also thank Senator King for cosponsoring Mark Kelly’s S. 3683, the Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act of 2026. 

Tell them both that more is needed:  

• There should be no votes on any DHS funding unless and until the White House commits to removing ICE and CBP forces from our communities and Congress conducts a full investigation into enforcement practices, use of force, and civil rights violations. 
• The entire $170 Billion slush fund that was approved for ICE and CBP in that bill should be stripped out, and ICE and CBP must be defunded until they meet standards of conduct for police professionals (including uncovered faces, body cams, identification badges, and an end to the detention and deportation of American citizens and immigrants who are in the U.S. lawfully.  
• Stop enforcement at sensitive locations, including hospitals, schools, houses of worship, and community service sites — a critical issue for service providers, faith-based organizations, and community networks. 
• End family and child detention and prohibit any new contracts with private detention companies. 
• Stop immigration enforcement based on racial profiling or any discriminatory targeting. 
• Stop warrantless arrests. 
• Ensure accountability for abuses by federal officers and end qualified immunity. 
    Contact Jared Golden and lay out the same demands for him. 
  Some other resources for countering ICE: 

• Get some whistles to give out in case of ICE appearances. You can get free 3D-printed whistles or just donate to the people doing this here. 
• Indivisible’s ICE our for GOOD campaign:  https://indivisible.org/campaigns/halt-ice-terror/   
• Learn how to reduce the risk of your private data being exposed to the state or right-wing actors while observing ICE’s activities to hold them accountable: https://activistchecklist.org/ice/  
• Learn the SALUTE method for documenting the presence of federal agents: https://www.nysylc.org/ice-watch   
   

3) Support S. 2746, the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act: 

     Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the Ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee (that oversees US banking) has been demanding access to Epstein’s finances. To this end, he introduced S. 2746 (the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act), which would require the Secretary of the Treasury to produce suspicious activity reports relating to Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. Republicans are currently blocking this bill.  

     Call Senators King and Collins to urge them to cosponsor S. 2746. Also remind them that the list of impeachable offenses that Trump has committed in the first year of his second term is long and clear. It is way past time for Susan Collins to stop supporting Trump, and for Angus King to consider being a little less careful/reasonable. 

4) Continue to Boycott Target and contact them directly:  

     Target has officially sent the police to clear peaceful protestors out of its stores in MN. These protestors were doing sit-ins to demand that Target stop being complicit with ICE. Call 800-440-0680 or email them at guest.service@target.com to tell them to stop collaborating with or supporting ICE and CBP in any way. 

5) Help get detainees released: 

     Two organizations, Nefesh and CLUE, have created a fund to secure the release of Los Angeles community members from immigration detention. This campaign is an opportunity to unite families and free innocent people from ICE detention facilities in the LA area.  

     CLUE’s Immigrant Detention Bond Fund is the largest fund of its kind in the country. They have been able to get over 100 people released in the past six months. One hundred percent of donations go directly to bonds (minus credit card fees, if that’s how you choose to give). Even better, after each case is resolved, the bond money is returned to CLUE’s fund. That means your donation will go on helping more detained individuals. 

     You can donate here. 

Maine-specific actions: 

• See the national DeICE-ing action above 
• Learn how to counter Christian Nationalism (from the Washington County Dems): 
  If you have studied Christian Nationalism at all, you already know it is a threat to democracy and our way of life. It is the philosophical underpinning of Project 2025, whose founders and followers are actively attempting to destroy freedom of religion in our country. If you are interested in learning how to join the fight against it, you can attend a workshop on Countering Christian Nationalism at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ellsworth on Sunday, Feb. 8^th, from noon to 1:30pm. Led by members from Multifaith Justice Maine (part of the Maine People’s Alliance), this workshop will consist of two parts: 1) learning about Christian Nationalism, its moral and spiritual framing, political impact, and its support of authoritarianism; and 2) discussing how to implement counter-framing as a multifaith community and use nonviolent civil resistance as a countermeasure.   

• Help keep the Maine State House of Representatives blue (from the Washington County Democrats): 
       The Dems hold the Majority of the state House by a very slim margin. On February 24^th, there will be a special election for the Maine House District 94 seat, which was recently vacated by a Democrat. Now Democrat Scott Harriman is running for that seat against a MAGA Barbie-type Republican, and he’ll need all the help he can get to defeat her. (I wonder sometimes how many of these MAGA women are natural blondes…but that is neither here nor there.) Do what you can to support his campaign: 
  — Send a donation up to $500 to: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/scott-harriman-1 
  — Join a canvassing effort on a Saturday morning: 2/7, 2/14 or 2/21.  To join, sign up here: https://www.mobilize.us/mainedems/event/877498/ 
  — Join a phone bank on a Monday evening 2/9, 2/1, or 2/23.  Sign up here: https://www.mobilize.us/mainedems/event/886901/ 
• Push Maine to pass into law a detention camp profits tax in our state: 
       Many of DHS’s detention camps are run by private companies paid by taxpayer dollars. For example, CoreCivic has signed contracts to run detention facilities worth over $680 million in taxpayer dollars since last January. They reported $538 million in revenue in the second quarter of 2025. Over the same period, GEO Group made $632 million. So, while the government has claimed it can’t afford to make sure health insurance and childcare affordable to everyone, it has paid more than $1B of our money for detention centers that are no better than concentration camps. And CEOs and shareholders are getting richer than ever from taxpayer dollars. 
       States can tax corporations doing business within our borders. In California, lawmakers have proposed AB 1633, a bill to aggressively tax the profits of privately-run detention centers and redirect those revenues to immigration-related services.  
       Contact Governor Janet Mills and your representatives in the Maine State Senate and House of Representatives and urge them to introduce a detention camp profits tax in Maine. CEOs and shareholders can’t be allowed to get rich off the taxpayers by locking up our friends and neighbors. 

Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m a constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored. 

Contact info:
Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

Find your State Representative: 
By name: Here
By district: Here

Find your State Senator:
By name: Here
By district: Here

(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)

Yours in Civic Action, 

Bold Coast Civic Alliance

Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!) Scroll down to the matching number of your option: 

1. Support taking DHS funding out of the package voting for funding everything else 
2. Oppose the MEGA (Make Elections Great Again) Act and the Save America Act (a more extreme version of the SAVE Act: 
3. Fight for the ACA Premium Tax Credit extension 
4. Oppose the targeting of journalists by the Trump administration 
5. Get ALL the Epstein files out ASAP and prioritize protecting the victims 
6. Put a candle in your window 
7. Keep looking for ways to stop enabling/supporting companies that are not in line with our values 

Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m a constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored. 

Contact info:
Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

Find your State Representative: 
By name: Here
By district: Here

Find your State Senator:
By name: Here
By district: Here

(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)

Actions 

1) Support taking DHS funding out of the package voting for funding everything else: 

     This week the House will be voting on H.R. 7148, the funding package without DHS included. Contact Representative Golden to urge him to approve this package with funding for DHS to be acted on separately. Pressure him to stand tough on the DHS funding: NO further funding for DHS should be allowed without serious changes to control the lawless way ICE and CBP have been operating in U.S. cities. Yes, FEMA and the Coast Guard, etc., will be affected, but this is too important to compromise on. 

2) Oppose the MEGA (Make Elections Great Again) Act and the Save America Act (a more extreme version of the SAVE Act: 

       Last week, House Republicans introduced yet another bill that would restrict voting access while claiming to address election fraud—a problem that doesn’t actually exist. The Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act, similar to the previously House-passed SAVE Act, would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and mandate photo ID at the polls. Millions of Americans—especially people with disabilities, young voters, and Black and Hispanic communities—don’t possess the documents these requirements would demand. Married women who took their husband’s last names would have serious problems due to their birth certificates (if they have them) not matching the name on their more current IDs, such as driver’s licenses and passports.  

     By mandating extensive changes such as requiring states to reject mail-in ballots that arrive after polls close on election day, eliminating universal vote-by-mail programs, and banning ranked-choice voting in federal elections this legislation would also override the states’ constitutionally-granted power to run elections. 

     Despite the GOP’s repeated false assertions, election fraud in the United States is extremely rare. The real danger to democratic elections comes from Republican efforts to erode public trust in election security and suppress voter turnout ahead of this fall’s midterm elections. 

     Contact Representative Golden to tell him that you are still disappointed in him for voting in favor of the SAVE Act and demand that he reject the MEGA Act and the new Save America Act, as well as all the deceptive misinformation about election fraud and interference. 

3) Fight for the ACA Premium Tax Credit extension:  

    Now that the ACA premium tax credits have expired, households across the country are drowning in healthcare bills. Taking away affordable healthcare from Americans in order to pay for tax breaks for billionaires is unacceptable. Without these tax credits, millions of Americans are being forced to choose between feeding their families and having healthcare.  

   Contact Senators King and Collins to urge them to pass the ACA Premium Tax Credit extensions. 

4) Oppose the targeting of journalists by the Trump administration: 

    Controlling journalists is a clear part of the fascist playbook. We can’t allow that to happen here. Contact Senators King and Collins to demand that the denounce these partisan targeting of journalist who are doing nothing but investigating and reporting that is completely allowed by the First Amendment. Our Senators need to stand up to protect the First Amendment and the independence of the press. 

5) Get ALL the Epstein files out ASAP and prioritize protecting the victims: 

      It is unbelievable that the DOJ still hasn’t released all the Epstein files as required by the  Epstein Files Transparency Act. Plus, last week’s tranche of files not only didn’t protect the victims, but also listed some of their full names and showed photos of them as young girls. Isn’t that a crime? Pam Bondi needs to be fired and brought up on charges for what lawyers are calling “the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history.” I’m sure there are plenty of other charges that could be brought against her for her weaponization of the DOJ in service to Donald Trump.  

     Contact Representative Golden and remind him to support Congressmen Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie in filing inherent contempt charges against Pam Bondi and/or any other tack they might take to enforce the Epstein Transparency Law that Bondi is clearly ignoring. 

6) Put a candle in your window: 

   This is an easy one. There’s a new campaign called We Are the Light. Simply put a candle in your window to shine a light amidst the darkness. Place candles in your windows every night until the assault on our freedom ends, to remind one another that we are not alone. 

7) Keep looking for ways to stop enabling/supporting companies that are not in line with our values: 

     Here’s a new website that lists and explains all the corporations that are directly enabling the Trump administration’s nasty policies and/or helping ICE and CBP: https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/ I know it’s hard to turn away from a lot of these big services so many of us rely on all the time, so my suggestion is to look at your options and start by boycotting those whose nonuse won’t make life too difficult for you. 

Yours in Civic Action, 

Bold Coast Civic Alliance

The next nationwide No Kings Day is scheduled for March 28^th. Mark it on your calendars. More information will be coming as plans continue to develop. 

Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!) Scroll down to the matching number of your option: 

1. No further funding for ICE (and DHS and Customs & Border Patrol) 
2. Impeach and remove Attorney General Pam Bondi 
3. Resist with your wallet 
4. Demand that Target, Hilton, and Enterprise stop supporting ICE 
5. Oppose AI-driven Medicare denials 
6. Social Media and messaging guidance  

Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m a constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored. 

Contact info:
Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

Find your State Representative: 
By name: Here
By district: Here

Find your State Senator:
By name: Here
By district: Here

(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)

Actions 

1) Keep calling our Senators and Congressman over and over, as long as it takes, to push for no further funding for ICE (and DHS and Customs & Border Patrol) until huge changes are made: 

     We need to see some big changes before we can support the DHS funding bill (personally, I am against funding it at all, but that’s just me). 1) ICE and CBP must leave Minneapolis and other American cities: no more funding federal enforcement agencies that are terrorizing American cities. 2) The killings of both Renee Good and Alex Pretti must have full, independent investigations—no more allowing the FBI to push out Minnesota state and Minneapolis city investigators. 3) No more detaining and deporting U.S. citizens: ICE and CBP can no longer be allowed (never mind encouraged) to grab just about anyone with brown skin in order to fulfill arbitrary and generally  bullshit quotas dictated by nutjob Stephen Miller. Every single arrest and detention  must be done following constitutional law/due process. Which also means no more unconstitutional home break-ins with anything less than a proper warrant signed by a judge. It is illegal for DHS to just issue a blanket statement to their employees that they only need an internal DHS memo to break into people’s homes. 4) Stephen Miller, who has never been elected or approved for any kind of official government position, must be removed, Kristi Noem must step down or be impeached, and Greg Bovino must be investigated.  

     We need to make clear to all our representatives in Congress that the American people are fed up and will not stand for our lawmakers being lawbreakers and abrogating their own oath-bound responsibilities to protect the U.S. constitution and their constituents. They work for us, not for ICE or CBP, and not for Project 2025. Enough is enough. 

2) Push for the impeachment and removal of Attorney General Pam Bondi: 

Read this article (https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/bondi-minnesota-voter-data-shakedown) and contact Senators King and Collins and House Rep Golden to impeach and remove Attorney General Pam Bondi: 

     There is apparently no low to which this woman will sink in order to suck up to Trump. She is trying to extort Minnesota to give up its voter rolls while at the same time blatantly breaking the new law requiring her to release the Epstein files. Governor Tim Walz put it best: “I would just give a pro tip to the Attorney General. There’s two million documents in the Epstein files we’re still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those.” And as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote: “Congress mandated that Bondi and her DOJ release the full Epstein Files. They refuse, and are breaking the law in hiding them. Pedophile protectors shouldn’t be anywhere NEAR your vote record.” 

3) Resist with your wallet: 

     Follow this Instagram influencer, whose taglines read: “Doing the research so you don’t have to!” and “Sharing alternatives to badly behaving companies, big corps & private equity firms”: https://www.instagram.com/cutoffthespigot/  

     Remember, you don’t have to be perfect and boycott every company that has connections to or otherwise supports Trump and ICE. Just do what you can.  

     Overall, though, I’m more and more convinced that a (successful) general strike is what’s needed to make a point. Hopefully that movement is building.  

4) Demand that Target, Hilton, and Enterprise stop supporting ICE: 

     Send letters to the CEOs of Target, Hilton, and Enterprise for those companies roles in supporting ICE. Use this toolkit to send these letters, with scripts you can rework to be more personal: https://freedcproject.org/news/solidarity-with-minnesota-email-the-ceos-of-target-hilton-and-enterprise 

5) Oppose AI-driven Medicare denials: 

     Traditional, government-run Medicare is the closest thing we have to universal healthcare (only for those of us over 65, of course), a system with little to no prior authorizations required, so that patients and doctors—not corporations—make most of the care decisions.  The system called Medicare Advantage is actually privatized healthcare subsidized by the government and has resulted in denials, delays, and billions of dollars siphoned off into CEO bonuses and shareholder profits. Medicare Advantage is rife with corruption, introduces more red tape, and costs taxpayers $150 billion more a year than traditional Medicare.  

      Now Trump’s Medicare chief, Dr. Oz, has begun a pilot program in six states (Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington) that would hand traditional Medicare over to private companies using artificial intelligence to override doctors’ decisions. You can read more about it here. It’s not that something like this isn’t worth testing; it’s the way it’s being implemented, without transparency and just claiming that it will save the government money and make everything easier for everyone.  

     Contact Senators King and Collins and Congressman Golden and urge them to stop this privatization scheme, or at least pause it until all questions are satisfactorily answered and all healthcare providers and patients are fully informed and allowed to opt out of this new program. You can also use the letter-writing-and-sending tool provided by the Action Network (https://actionnetwork.org/letters/say-no-to-ai-denials); you can use their script, though it’s always better to personalize it.  

6) Social Media and messaging guidance: 

     This was supposedly posted by MLK’s daughter. I don’t know if that’s true, but it looks like good advice to me, so I’m sharing it: 

 I. Don’t use his name; EVER (45 will do) 

2. Remember this is a regime and he is not acting alone; 

3. Do not argue with those who support him–it doesn’t work; 

4. Focus on his POLICIES, not his orange-ness and his mental state; 

5. Keep your message positive; they want the country to be angry and fearful because this is the soil from which their darkest policies will grow; 

6. No more helpless/hopeless talk; 

7. Support artists and the arts; 

8. Be careful not to spread fake news. Check it; 

9. Take care of yourselves; and 

IO. Resist! 

When you post or talk about him, don’t assign his actions to him, assign them to “The Republican Administration” or “The Republicans.” This will have several effects: the 

Republican legislators will either have to take responsibility for their association with him or stand up for what some of them don’t like; he will not get the focus of attention he craves. 

Yours in Civic Action, 

Bold Coast Civic Alliance

p.s. Two resources to use and share widely: 

A)  The ACLU of Maine has a “know your rights” page: www.aclumaine.org/know-your-rights/ 

B)  From the National Immigration Law Center, how to tell a judicial warrant from an administrative warrant (ICE agents have been using a lot of the latter): https://www.nilc.org/resources/know-your-rights-warrants/ 

I know everyone is super upset about what’s been happening in Minneapolis, especially with ICE now in Maine, but let’s try hard not to forget about the Epstein papers. We need to ramp up or at least not let up the pressure on the DOJ to release those files. Congress must do whatever it can to enforce the law they voted in to get those files released. Bondi is not complying, so she will have to be coerced. We can’t let Trump think we don’t care about those files anymore. It’s the only thing that seems to really scare him. I’m not doing a specific action because this is one we can all probably do in our sleep now. So just keep doing what you’ve been doing! 

Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!) Scroll down to the matching number of your option: 

1)      Time for elected Republicans to stop the insanity 

2)      Block increased funding for ICE and CBP 

3)      Support Minnesotans, especially those in Minneapolis 

4)      Maine-specific: Help Claire Weinberg get on the 2026 ballot for Maine State Senate 

Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m a constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored. 

Contact info:

Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

Find your State Representative: 
By name: Here
By district: Here

(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)

Actions 

1) Time for elected Republicans to stop the insanity: 

     According to G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers (www.gelliottmorris.com/):   

“All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump—3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.” 

      Contact Susan Collins to demand that she get a spine, refuse to fund ICE any further, and stop supporting the actions of Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino, Pete Hegseth, etc. She should denounce the clown car running our government and exhort her colleagues to retake Congress’s Constitutionally vested powers to be a check on the executive office. 

2) Block increased funding for ICE and CBP: 

     Last week, the House passed a DHS funding bill with the help of 7 Democrats—including our very own Jared Golden. Contact Jared Golden and tell him how disappointed you are with his crossing the aisle to vote with the GOP on giving ICE and CBP more funding without sufficient guardrails controlling their behavior. 

     This week the Senate is likely to vote on the bill. ICE and CBP already have more money than they should need for proper immigration enforcement—money that has been stripped from other federal agencies—ones that actually help taxpayers. What’s more, no one is doing anything to rein in these out-of-control, gun-nut “agents” who are breaking into people’s homes without a judicial warrant (against the 4^th Amendment), kidnapping and terrorizing people, using unnecessary and vicious force against peaceful protestors, and generally wreaking criminal havoc against the people of our country.  

      There can be no new DHS funding bill until: ICE and CBP pull out of Minneapolis; independent investigations into Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s murders are started; Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino are removed; Stephen Miller is fired, and Federal funding for ICE is frozen. We need real, solid change before more innocent people are murdered by our government.  

     Contact Senators Angus King and Susan Collins to remind them that Congress is supposed to protect and uphold the Constitution and to demand that they vote NO on giving ICE and Border Patrol even more funding. There can be no wavering. (And remind Susan Collins that this is a moment not for supporting her party but for supporting the entire country. People are being killed. She can help stop the killing. Nothing less is acceptable. If she doesn’t, she’ll have the blood of the next murder victim on her hands.) 

     And from the Chop Wood, Carry Water substack newsletter: 

     Let’s call John Thune in his capacity as Senate Majority Leader. (202) 224-2321 or (605) 225-8823 or (605) 334-9596 or (605) 348-7551. Obviously the DC number is best but if you can’t get through do use one of the others! 

     We can say something like: 

     “My name is ______ and I’m an American citizen from [state]. I’m calling Senator Thune in his capacity as Senate Majority Leader to ask him to please strip the DHS funding bill out and make it a standalone bill so the other appropriations bills can be passed and the DHS bill can be reworked. This should not be a partisan moment. We are begging you to help us. ICE and DHS are violating our Constitutional rights and executing innocent people. We are scared. We need immediate reform or more people will die. Thanks.” 

     And finally, on this subject, a good piece on messaging what’s going on in Minnesota: https://reframingamerica.substack.com/p/one-pager 

3) Support Minnesotans, especially those in Minneapolis: 

     Check out this growing list of support ideas: https://linktr.ee/SWMPLS_Response  

4) Maine-specific:  

 Help Claire Weinberg get on the 2026 ballot for Maine State Senate:       

     For those of you who are aware, our esteemed (not) Maine State Congressman is Billy Bob Faulkingham. Now that he’s termed out in the Maine House of Representatives, he’s decided to run for Maine State Senate. We need to stop him, but no Democrat has put their hat in the ring…until now. Claire Weinberg, owner of the cool business Dulse & Rugosa (best all-natural shampoo bars and other fun stuff!), has decided that it is unacceptable that we have no Democrat running against the likes of Billy Bob and has stated her intention to run for the Maine State Senate.

     But to get on the ballot, Claire needs enough signatures from registered Democrats in District 6, her/our district comprising all of Washington County and some of Hancock County. To this end, Claire will be holding an afternoon tea & petition signing at Dulse & Rugosa (337 U.S. Route 1—a gathering of colorful little buildings across the road from Harbor Girl Emporium) every Sunday from 2pm to 4pm. She’ll have petitions to sign for her Senate plans, as well as petitions to sign to get Nirav Shah (head of Maine CDC during Covid) on the ballot for Governor.  

    Go sign! If you have the wherewithal, grab some petitions to get more signatures. Do whatever you can to help. We can’t have the Republicans running unopposed. (Note that petitions are town specific: You must sign only the petition for the town in which you are registered to vote. 

Yours in Civic Action, 

Bold Coast Civic Alliance

Due to time constraints, this email is short today.  

Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!) Scroll down to the matching number of your option: 

1. Watch Jack Smith’s public testimony live TODAY  
2. Save the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from Mining Pollution 
3. Sign the MayDayStrong solidarity pledge 

Actions 

1) Watch Jack Smith’s public testimony TODAY at 10am ET: 

     Share this with as many people as possible (I know it’s last minute—sorry about that!) and watch it yourself. I wish I knew a way to get MAGA people to watch. You can stream it live here or on CSPAN 2, if you have access to it. 

2) Save the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from Mining Pollution: 

     In 2023, the Biden administration implemented a 20-year moratorium on mining in the Rainy River watershed, which is next to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the most visited wilderness area in the country. Since last June, the Trump administration and members of Congress have been working to dismantle these protections for the Boundary Waters. Now Congressional Republicans have moved closer to lifting that ban, despite environmentalists’ warnings that toxic runoff from mining devastate the Boundary Waters and the wildlife that makes their homes there.  

     The end goal seems to be to grant mining leases to Twin Metals (a mining company owned by a foreign corporation), while also preventing any future mining bans within the watershed area. This would further the administration’s push to make mining and resource extraction the primary uses of our public lands and waters. What’s more, Congressional action would have a more permanent effect than an executive order, which can be undone by a future administration. 

     The Senate could take this up at any time. The good news is that a previous attempt to roll this back last summer was stopped by a ruling by the Senate Parliamentarian, and it’s possible this attempt could end the same way. But there’s no guarantee. So if environmental protection is important to you, contact Senators King and Collins and urge them to vote against rolling back this rule.  

3) Sign the MayDayStrong solidarity pledge: 

     The May Day Coalition is working toward a huge national protest on May 1^st. If you’re so inclined, sign their pledge to help the effort. To have an effect, it needs to be HUGE. Read more here or go straight to the pledge.  If you’re involved with one of the larger organizations, talk to them about making sure we have large events planned locally. 

Contact info:

Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m a constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored. 

Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

Find your State Representative: 
By name: Here
By district: Here

(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)

Yours in Civic Action, 

Bold Coast Civic Alliance

From Indivisible:

“Congressional Call-in Day

Today, we’re joining the ACLU, MoveOn, and Public Citizen in driving as many calls as we can to Capitol Hill. We want congressional phonelines ringing off the hook with constituents demanding the DHS funding bill include restrictions on ICE and Border Patrol.”

Bonus action for Maine:

Contact Governor Mills, thank her for her strong video statement against collaborating with ICE and CBP in Maine, and ask her to submit legislation to this session–asap–that requires Federal agents to have masks off and name badges when they are in Maine. (Thanks, Emanuel, for this one!)  Let your representatives in Maine’s Congress know that you want this to happen. https://www.mainechamber.org/find.html

Contact info:

Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

Find your State Representative: 
By name: Here
By district: Here

(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)

Yours in Civic Action, 

Bold Coast Civic Alliance

Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!) Scroll down to the matching number of your option: 

1. Stop ICE 
2. Keep ICE out of Maine 

Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored. 

Contact info:

Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

Find your State Representative: 
By name: Here
By district: Here

(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)

Actions 

1) Stop ICE: 

    What ICE is doing right now in Minneapolis is beyond the beyond. They are crashing cars, smashing windows, pulling people out of their cars, using mace, pepper bombs, and rubber bullets. They are forcing their way into homes, guns drawn, and using internal DHS “administrative warrants” as their excuse, even though only a real judicial warrant, signed by a judge, can compel someone to open their door and let someone enter their home. Apparently they are driving recklessly, running lights, and going the wrong direction on one-way streets. David Frum wrote in The Atlantic that the main purpose of ICE’s violence “has become theatrical…. ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator.” And Heather Cox Richardson described them thusly: “[They are] decked out as if they are [in] a war zone while parading in groups through the suburbs, cosplaying as military heroes.” 

     Congress’s failure to do anything to stop the violence, lawlessness, and unconstitutionality that are ICE’s modus operandi is appalling. Contact Senators King and Collins and Congressman Golden to demand that ICE be defunded and abolished, Kristi Noem impeached, and the officer who executed Renee Good arrested and charged. Nothing less is acceptable. (If you have had an encounter with ICE or CBP agents, or have witnessed them in action, or know someone who has experienced either, share your story.) 

     And while you have them on the phone or are writing to them, also tell them that Trump’s DOJ needs to drop its sham criminal investigation into Jerome Powell now, before the Central Bank loses its independence and tanks our economy.  

2) Keep ICE out of Maine: 
     Believable rumor has it that ICE and CBP will shortly be coming to southern Maine. Supposedly they are going to send in several hundred agents and stay only a week, but that’s pretty much how the whole mess in Minnesota began. We can’t let them get a foothold in our state. There are moves our state can make: 

•      Use the National Guard to protect our citizens.  

•      Arrest agents who commit crimes.  

•      Charge police, National Guard, CBP, and ICE with crimes when they commit or refuse to stop them: Issue arrest warrants for anyone like Renee Good’s murderer, Jonathan Ross, who commits violence against our communities. Don’t wait for an investigation or the next election: File charges immediately and follow through. Let the Federal Government sue the state—as Governor Mills said, “We’ll see you in court.” 

     See: 

—www.politico.com/news/2026/01/11/states-move-to-rein-in-ice-after-fatal-minnesota-shooting-00721208 

—open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/democrats-must-seize-the-opportunity 

—www.aclumaine.org/preparingforice/ 

          Contact Governor Janet Mills (Governor Janet Mills: 207-287-3531 or https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/contact/share-your-opinion) to urge her to temporarily pause her campaign for Senator to focus on protecting Mainers from Kristi Noem and DHS. After all, if she doesn’t do everything she can to prevent Maine’s cities from turning into Minneapolis (or Chicago or Oregon’s Portland, etc.), she’ll lose the Senate race anyway. To her credit, she has allowed LD1971 to become law (it won’t take effect until spring) and repealed Paul LePage’s 2011 executive order that called for enhanced cooperation between State and Federal officials on immigration enforcement. But that’s not enough.  
     Contact Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (207-626-8800 or email attorney.general@maine.gov) and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (207-626-8400 or https://www.maine.gov/sos/about-us/contact-us-form) and demand that they take every legal step they can to prevent Maine from collaborating with ICE and CBP and to protect Mainers from being harassed or attacked. 
     If you’re up for more active involvement, you can get trained as an ICE Watch hotline operator (https://docs.google.com/document/d/12sMC66ep3CZT2-p5BQSbiFRYOO3J0MkoZjroDcNTr3U/edit). Also make sure everyone you know—especially immigrants and people of color—have the number for Maine’s ICE Watch hotline: 207-544-9989. 

Yours in Civic Action, 

Bold Coast Civic Alliance

Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!) Scroll down to the matching number of your option: 

1)      Oppose Trump’s fuel economy rollbacks 

2)      Support efforts to impeach Kristi Noem  

3)      The Senate must pass a clean extension of the ACA tax credits 

4)      Push Congress to take back its constitutional war powers authority 

5)      Demand the immediate cessation of ICE raids in American cities 

Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m a constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored. 

Contact info:

Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

Find your State Representative: 
By name: Here
By district: Here

(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)

Actions 

1) Oppose Trump’s fuel economy rollbacks: 

     In early December, the Trump administration announced plans to eliminate critical fuel economy protections for passenger cars and trucks by stripping away Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards—a move that, if successful, will mean increased oil consumption, higher costs for consumers at the pump, and further harm to public health through increased refinery pollution. 

     The public comment period on these proposed rollbacks to CAFE standards is open, but only until Tuesday, January 20. Act now: submit a comment to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to demand they uphold the existing CAFE standards. You can comment here here. There’s a script provided, but it’s always a good idea to personalize it. 

2) Support efforts to impeach Kristi Noem: 
     House Representative Robin Kelly has filed articles of impeachment against Noem, accusing her of obstructing Congress, compromising public safety, violating Americans’ due process, and abusing her office for personal benefit. Reps. Maxine Dexter, Emily Randall, and Yassamin Ansar have co-sponsored the bill. I’d add “inciting violence” and “covering up for a murderer” to the list, but hey, it’s a start. 
     Contact Rep. Jared Golden to urge him to cosponsor these articles of impeachment. If he thinks Kristi Noem has done a single thing not harmful to the U.S., he must be living in another world. 

3) The Senate must pass a clean extension of the ACA premium tax credits: 
     Seventeen House Republicans just joined Democrats to pass a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act health care subsidies. Now it is the Senate’s turn. 

     Contact Senators King and Collins to demand that they vote FOR a clean three-year extension of the ACA premium tax credits, one without any restrictions on abortion or gender-affirming care.  

4) Push Congress to take back its constitutional war powers authority: 
    Trump just posted a photo of himself captioned “Acting President of Venezuela.” How not to endear himself to the people of Venezuela or the USA. It’s beyond time for Congress to slap him down. 
    Last week, the Senate passed the initial procedural motion to invoke the War Powers Resolution to force the withdrawal of American troops from Venezuela and bar further use of the U.S. military for “hostilities within or against Venezuela.” Susan Collins and 4 other GOP Senators voted with the Democrats. The final passage vote will be this week, and as we’ve seen before, Susan Collins can’t be relied on to vote against Trump when the vote actually might have meaning.
 
    Contact Senators King and Collins and demand that they vote to invoke the War Powers Resolution. With Senator Collins, start by thanking her for voting for the procedural motion last week and then urge her to stand firm on that stance when the final vote comes up this week.  

5) Demand the immediate cessation of ICE raids in American cities: 
     Contact Senators King and Collins and Congressman Golden and demand that they speak out against the use of Trump’s under-trained, trigger-happy, gestapo goons in American cities. They must oppose the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrant communities and hold this administration accountable for their authoritarian and unlawful tactics. They must demand a full investigation of ICE agents’ indiscriminate use of deadly force against protesters—and agent Jonathan Ross must be arrested and charged with murder. And they must refuse to pass a DHS appropriations bill that fully funds ICE. 

     One more thing: It can’t have been lost on anyone that at the same time that Trump and his DHS are smearing protesters as a means to justify attacking and killing them, Trump is talking about going to war with Iran in order to protect the anti-government protesters there. Remind our Senators and Congressman that the US military should stay out of Iran. Americans don’t want any more forever wars. 

Yours in Civic Action, 

Bold Coast Civic Alliance

Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!) Scroll down to the matching number of your option: 

1. Fight for affordable healthcare 
2. Keep up the anti-war (especially illegal war) message 
3. Boycott Hilton 
4. Sign or rewrite and send a Resistbot letter reminding Congress that congressional oversight is required, not optional 

Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m a constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored. 

Contact info:

Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

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(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)

Actions 

1) Fight for affordable healthcare: 

    House Democrats could move as soon as today to force a vote on extending the expired ACA subsidies for three years. Our representatives–especially GOP–need to hear from you, their constituents, that you want them to vote for the extension without strings attached. Millions of people are already seeing their health insurance premiums rising exponentially. If the subsidies are not extended, many will be forced to choose between feeding their families and having health insurance (without which the costs of healthcare could bankrupt families across the country).
     Bottom line: Republicans want to rip away tax credits from working- and middle-class Americans in order to give tax breaks to the corporations that rip us off. The big irony is that some of those corporations getting tax breaks are the health insurance companies who charge unaffordable premiums to begin with. 

     Contact Rep. Jared Golden to make sure he’s going to vote for a “clean extension” of the Affordable Care Act Tax Credits.  

2) Keep up the anti-war (especially illegal war) message: 
     Senator Tim Kaine plans to force a vote this week to block further military action against Venezuela without congressional approval. “We’ve entered the 250th year of American democracy and cannot allow it to devolve into the tyranny that our founders fought to escape,” he said. If you’re uncertain about the illegality of Trump’s military operation and the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president and his wife (and yes, they are evil, horrible people, but that’s not the point), read this helpful explanation: https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/back-to-legal-basics-on-venezuela.  
     Contact Senators King and Collins and demand that they support Tim Kaine’s war powers resolution. Point out to Susan Collins that this is not a partisan situation: This is legal vs illegal, right vs wrong, good vs evil. It sets a terrible precedent, supporting the idea that military might—not a sovereign nation’s own people—can determine who has power in another country. That goes against everything ever set up after WWII to prevent war across the globe. If Trump wants to revitalize a country, he can begin with our own country, which he has been doing everything in (and outside of) his power to destroy. Enough is enough. Congress has to take back its job and stop this criminal president. 
    Contact Rep. Golden and demand that he support or introduce a similar resolution in the House. Same arguments as above. Plus he’s ex-military and he’s resigning after his term is over, so he should also join Mark Kelly et al in reminding servicemen and -women that they are expected to disobey illegal orders. He’s got nothing to lose. 
 

3) Boycott Hilton: 
     A lot of us were happy with Hilton when the Hampton Inn Lakeville Minneapolis canceled reservations for ICE agents at their hotel. But after the DHS accused the entire Hilton hotel company of helping to “undermine and impede D.H.S. law enforcement,” Hilton responded by sycophantically assuring DHS that it wasn’t their company’s policy, just an act by a rogue franchise. And now that franchise has been removed from the Hilton website as an option for booking a room. So now we should boycott Hilton and tell them—and everyone on social media—why. You can email Hilton at hilton.comments@hilton.comand hiltonhonors@hilton.com. To be on the safe side, send your email to both addresses. If you’re a Hilton Honors member, make sure they know it. So let’s tell Hilton that we refuse to stay in a hotel where ICE agents might be staying—we wouldn’t feel safe around those thugs. Or say whatever you like. Just make sure they know they’ve lost your business until they get with the humanitarian, anti-kidnapping-and-deportation-without-due-process, anti-masked-enforcers program. 
 

4) Sign or rewrite and send a Resistbot letter reminding Congress that congressional oversight is required, not optional: 
     To send the Resistbot letter, text SIGN PHUCNM to 50409, or to @Resistbot on Apple Messages, Messenger, Instagram, or Telegram. To rework it in your own words, you can read the original letter hereand then rework it in your own words and send it to Susan Collins, Angus King, and Jared Golden.

Yours in Civic Action, 

Bold Coast Civic Alliance