Things You Can Do Right Now

1. Call our senators to work with the "sane" Republican senators to oppose the nominations of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tulsi Gabbard as director of national security, Kash Patel as director of the FBI and Russell Vought as head of the office of management and budget. These are the nominees that Indivisible.org has identified as the worst.

2. Call our senators and thank them for voting "no" on H.R. 29, the Laken Riley bill. The House passed this really bad bill on Jan. 7. Twelve Democrats voted for the bill, allowing it to pass and reach Trump's desk by the end of the week.

3. Call Rep. Randall and thank her for voting "NO" on H.R. 28, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025. As Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) wrote, "[t]his bill would require girls as young as four to face humiliating physical inspections of their private parts by adult strangers. Furthermore, the bill does not clarify who would be responsible for “inspecting” the girls’ private parts." This bill passed the House by a vote of 218-206. Just two "Democrats" (Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) voted in favor of this bill.

4. Contact Kitsap County Commissioner Christine Rolfes and urge her to convene a meeting of city and county law enforcement officials to agree on what they will do during ICE/CBP actions. (There is confusion about what Washington's Keep Washington Working law really means.)

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Score Card

Good news! President Biden has done one of the things we asked him to do before leaving office: commute to life in prison without possibility of parole the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row. The remaining three are Dylann Roof for the 2015 murder of nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Robert Bowers for the 2018 murder of 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for murdering three people near the finish line at the Boston Marathan in 2013.

Good news! The DOJ released Volume 1 of Jack Smith's report on Jan. 13. The Bad News is that the DOJ has allowed the release of Vol. 2 to be bogged down by Judge Aileen Cannon. Now that Biden is no longer president, it is likely we'll not see the report for at least four years.

Sad that it has come to this: President Biden issued pardons for members of the Jan. 6 committee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley and Biden's two brothers (James and Frank), his sister Valerie and their spouses.

President Biden affirmed that the Equal Rights Amendment is the 28th Amendment to the Constitution but did not order the archivist to publish it in the Federal Register as has been done in the past.