NICK ENGELFRIED – As Greenpeace prepares to appeal a devastating verdict in a lawsuit brought by a pipeline company, the environmental group is not only defending itself — but the very right to protest.
Close the Digital Gap Before It Becomes a Ballot Gap
DAKOTA HALL – Why the right’s “always-on” media machine wins, and how we catch up before 2026.
Stop Avelo Movement is Taking Off
COALITION TO STOP AVELO – TWO HUNDRED Anti-Avelo grassroots organizations in nearly ALL of the Avelo destination cities have joined our Coalition. Together, we will force Avelo to stop operating illegal, inhumane and unconstitutional deportation flights for ICE. Please help the Coalition continue to grow. We want to connect with activists everywhere, but especially in Detroit, Dallas, Chicago, Wilmington, DE, Mesa, AZ, and Palm Springs.
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How the Pacific Northwest’s Dream of Green Energy Fell Apart
TONY SCHICK and MONICA SAMAYOA – Oregon and Washington passed aggressive goals to decarbonize their power supply but left it to the Bonneville Power Administration to build the transmission lines needed for wind and solar. The agency hasn’t delivered.
The Extinction Order: Trump’s Executive Order 14270 Doesn’t Deregulate; It Dismantles
JOHN MARKS – On April 9, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14270, blandly titled “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy.” Behind that bureaucratic name is a sweeping directive: Dismantle a century of environmental protections.
Do we Americans have the maturity to deal with the important issues of our time?
BOB TOPPER – The nation is hungry for leadership by decent and honorable men and women, who will respect their oath to the Constitution and dedicate themselves to the common good. An autocracy cannot be the solution, for all of the problems in American society, our liberal democracy is far more successful than any autocracy or theocracy. We must repair the one we have by putting competent people in government not showmen and pretty faces.