This Week’s Actions
Action 1: Defend democracy and reject authoritarian rule.
Thank you to the 230 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
March 28 is a national day of action, building on the success of the June 2025 and October 2025 “No Kings” protests that drew at least 5 million and 7 million participants, respectively. There are many ways to protest that don’t involve marching in the streets, including attending a livestreamed accessible rally, amplifying the #NoKings message on social media, displaying a light (LED or candle) in your window nightly to show solidarity, and sharing factual information on the rights of protesters and the rights of anyone approached by immigration enforcement.
Source: 50501, No Kings, Stand Up for Science
Action 2: Protect medically vulnerable people in ICE detention.
Thank you to the 188 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Contact: Your two senators and one House representative (call, write, or email).
Script: Hello, I’m ______ from [ZIP], and I’m worried about medical neglect of those in ICE custody, many of whom are in the country legally. I urge you to visit detention sites in our state to conduct oversight, and to demand the release of medically vulnerable detainees, including pregnant women and those experiencing serious conditions. Please act now to protect these people from further harm, and to call for the closure of all ICE detention facilities.
Action 3: Oppose again the anti-voter, anti-voting “SAVE America” Act.
Thank you to the 220 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
In the past six weeks, 989 AoCC subscribers opposed this discriminatory, anti-voting bill together. It has already passed in the House.
Contact: Your two senators (call, write, or email).
Script: Hello, I’m ______ from [ZIP], asking you to oppose the SAVE America Act (S. 1383), which passed the House on Feb. 11. This bill would prevent millions of married women who have changed their names from registering and voting. It would affect the roughly 170 million Americans without a passport and the 9% of the population that moved in the last year. It would allow recurring purges of voter rolls, end mail voting nationwide, and burden voters to prove their citizenship when registering and show photo ID when voting. I am asking you to block this bill using procedural tools like the filibuster and to vote “NO” if this harmful voter suppression bill comes up for a vote. Thank you.
Sources: Brennan Center, MomsRising, Southern Poverty Law Center, Stand Up America
Action 4: Protect ecosystems and communities from offshore drilling.
Thank you to the 144 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Postcard to: Secretary Doug Burgum
Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20240
Script: Hello, I’m ______, reaching out from ______ [STATE] to oppose opening more than a billion acres of federal waters to offshore drilling. Oil spills and drilling impacts have the potential to devastate our climate, ecosystems, and vulnerable species, as well as coastal communities and industries. With more than enough energy to meet U.S. demand, this reckless plan serves the interests of oil and gas CEOs at the expense of the American people and our planet’s future.
Alternate: Use the NRDC letter to contact Secretary Burgum and voice your opposition.
Bonus: Submit public comments on the Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Sales in the Northern, Central, and Southern California Program Areas by March 30th.
Source: NRDC
Action 5: Tell your MoCs: Recess isn’t a holiday—it’s accountability time.
Thank you to the 18 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Contact: The local (non-DC) offices of your two senators and one House representative (call, write, or email).
Script: Hi, my name is _____ and I’m a constituent from [ZIP]. Would you please tell me when [Sen./Rep. NAME] is holding town hall meetings during the upcoming two-week work period?
If no meetings are planned, say: It’s an important part of [Sen./Rep. NAME]’s job to meet with constituents in their home districts, and I have questions I’d like to ask [them]. Will you take my information to let me know when they hold the next town hall?
If meetings are planned, ask: Would you give me the location and details? Will there be an opportunity to ask questions? Thank you.
Source: AoCC
Action 6: Protect your state’s voters from unwarranted and biased purges.
Thank you to the 46 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Contact: Your state’s Secretary of State and your county election officials (look up).
Script: Hello, I’m ______ from [ZIP], calling to urge you to use ERIC as a trustworthy solution for maintaining accurate voter rolls. I’m urging you not to buy or use the software programs EagleAI, ELLY, or Psephos to clean voter rolls. These programs rely on data scraped from public records, which introduces privacy risks. They also produce an unacceptably high level of false positives, meaning eligible voters could be wrongfully purged from voter rolls. Thank you.
Source: AoCC
Action 7: Advocate for a Voting Rights Act in your state.
Thank you to the 28 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
If you live in AL, AZ, FL, GA, LA, MD, MI, MS, MO, NJ, OK, TX, or VT, your state has introduced legislation that would create a state-level VRA. Find the bill number(s) here by scrolling down to “Table 2: Proposed Legislation,” and contact your two state legislators (look up).
Script: Hello, I’m ______ from [ZIP], calling to ask you to protect all of [STATE]’s voters with a state-level Voting Rights Act. Passing [BILL # FROM TABLE] would strengthen voting rights protections for voters of color, voters with disabilities, and voters with limited English proficiency. Can I count on your support in passing this crucial legislation? Thank you.
If you live in CA, CO, CT, IL, MN, NY, OR, VA, or WA, your state has already enacted a state-level VRA into law. Contact your state legislators (look up) to thank them and urge them to keep your VRA from being repealed.
If you live in AK, AR, DE, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, ME, MA, MT, NE, NV, NH, NM, NC, ND, OH, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, WV, WI, or WY, contact your state legislators (look up) to ask them to introduce a state-level VRA.
Source: Black Voters Matter Fund, AoCC
Action 8: Reach out to ICE detainees with a message of hope.
Thank you to the 20 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Detained immigrants enduring abuse and inhumane conditions like inadequate medical care, prolonged isolation, poor nutrition, and limited communication need to know they are loved and valued, and to have their dignity affirmed. Even a letter communicating solidarity and respect can help them feel seen and known, and a little less alone in the face of the fear and suffering ICE agents are spreading in our communities.
Take Action: Join United We Dream in hosting a Letter Writing Gathering. Fill out this interest form to commit to inviting your circle to write letters to immigrants in detention and offer hope and human connection to those who need it most. When you sign up, you’ll receive a link to a toolkit with information on next steps.
Source: United We Dream
Action 9: Take credit for showing up in your own community.
Thank you to the 104 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
It’s our hope that using the Checklist inspires you to become more involved in specific issues and/or local action. In the last two weeks, did you volunteer, do service, advocate, or support a local or state cause? Check the box to let us know!
Source: AoCC
Acts of Gratitude
We believe in gratitude as a tool for change. We will print a letter of thanks from Americans of Conscience with your signature and mail it to the recipient. Your information will be removed from this website no later than four weeks after the Checklist’s publication date.
Thank Reps. Maxwell Frost (D–FL), Frederica Wilson (D–FL), and Jamie Raskin (D–MD) for introducing the Fight Book Bans Act, which will support public school students’ right to access diverse school library materials by preventing state censorship.
If you’d like to mail your own personal expression of gratitude, use these addresses:
MF: 1224 Longworth HOB, Washington, DC 20515
FW: 2080 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515
JR: 2242 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515
Thank you to the 138 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Good News
If you find good news for democracy, equality, and the planet, share it with us here!
Progress on issues previously featured in the Checklist
- For now, Temporary Protected Status holders from Somalia can remain in the U.S. after a federal district court postponed the removal of their TPS.
Good news: Wins for democracy, equality, kindness, and planet.
- Indigenous tribes regain stewardship of 7.5M acres of land and Pacific coastal waters that were stolen from them by the U.S. Congress of 1850 in violation of prior treaties.
- A federal court blocks the Health and Human Services secretary from restricting federal funding for gender-affirming healthcare for minors.
- A federal district court blocks enforcement of a policy that would subject people to arrests or detention for not obtaining lawful permanent resident status within a year of applying for refuge in the U.S., a timeline that is outside of applicants’ control.
- A U.S. district court orders Voice of America to reinstate 1,000 employees whose jobs were cut under the agency’s previous leader.
- A federal court in Rhode Island orders the administration to restore a union contract with more than 300,000 Veterans Affairs Department workers, finding the termination of the contract to be retaliatory.
- CO: As of January 2026, abortion care for Medicaid recipients is covered by insurance.
- AR: A federal court upholds public school students’ and staff’s religious freedom by permanently blocking a law requiring classrooms and libraries to display the Ten Commandments.
- NJ passes legislation limiting health facilities and local and state entities from collecting a person’s immigration status and also requiring federal immigration personnel to identify themselves before arresting or detaining someone.
- Jefferson County, CO schools will continue to respect transgender students’ identities even though the federal Dept. of Education ordered the district to implement discriminatory policies.
- Meta must pay $375M in civil penalties after being found liable in a child trafficking case.
- Minneapolis healthcare workers organize to defend patients and colleagues from ICE.
- Parents, families, therapists, and medical providers risk arrest while protesting outside HHS headquarters to demand that the government stop blocking critical medical care for transgender kids.
- 5-year-old Gael and his family are released from immigration detention and return home, where Gael’s health needs can be appropriately addressed.
- High school student Dylan Contreras returns home to his family after 10 months in ICE detention.
- LGBTQ+ and racially diverse congregants find a welcoming spiritual and political community at a Black-led, queer-affirming church in Atlanta.
- Autumn Durald Arkapaw wins the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for her work on Sinners, becoming the first woman of color to win in that category.
- Recently completed wind farms off the coast of New England begin generating power.
- Jerrhan First Charger may remain a student at BYU after the university threatened to suspend him for refusing to cut his traditional Indigenous long braids.
- AZ: While condemning political violence, Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) vetoes a bill that would have raised money for a partisan organization via specialty license plate sales and inserted politics “into a function of government that should remain non-partisan.”
- FL: A federal court rules that the governor cannot unilaterally designate organizations as terrorist groups.
- 21 people who used peaceful civil disobedience to protest unjust ICE activity have their misdemeanor charges dropped by the Cook County, IL state’s attorney’s office.
- Some Americans withhold their federal income tax in protest of federal spending of taxpayer dollars on unjust and violent policies and actions related to immigration, war, and more.
- The Portsmouth and Warren, RI Town Councils vote to reject installing license plate-reading cameras in their towns due to privacy and civil rights concerns.
- Cook County and Chicago high school students vote for the first time under a state law in which 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the general election can register and vote in the primaries.
- March 10 marks the annual National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers.
- Through Global Refuge’s Post-Arrival Stability & Empowerment program in Baltimore, 171 people seeking refuge in the U.S. have received welcome and support with employment, health care, education, emergency housing, and more.
- Global Refuge collects and shares messages of welcome and support for people seeking refuge and other aspiring Americans.
- Organized in part by disability accessibility advocates, volunteers shovel out neglected Boston sidewalks and curb ramps following the historic blizzard of ’26.
- Dr. Zachary Obinna Enumah, Dr. Lawrence B. Brown, Dr. Ivy Mannoh, Dr. Ifeoluwa “Ife” Shoyombo, and Dr. Valentine S. Alia lead the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Service at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the first time in the institution’s history that the vital clinical service is headed by an all-Black team of trauma surgeons.
- Unhoused patients in Los Angeles can access cancer screenings through City of Hope’s Cancer Prevention and Screening mobile clinic.
- A coalition of about 300 restoration ecologists, land managers, and seed growers across 150 institutions works to preserve seeds native to the Midwest in the Chicago Botanic Garden’s seed bank.
- A study published in Lancet Planetary Health finds that even a small increase in use of electric vehicles measurably drops levels of air pollution.
- A pair of endangered condors nest on Yurok tribal land for the first time in more than 100 years.
- In New Zealand, humpback whales are showing promising signs of recovery.
Need inspiration?
- Read the latest message from AoCC’s Founder and Director, Jennifer Hofmann: Spring is showing up—and so can we!
- Why We Pause Before We Act
- Friction Is How Freedom Begins
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