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