Americans of Conscience Checklist: April 10, 2026

This Week’s Actions

Good news: Wins for democracy, equality, kindness, and planet.

• Protestors nationwide and internationally break turnout records during March’s No Kings protest against the presidential administration’s unconstitutional, corrupt, and violent actions.
• Lawmakers from both parties call for the president’s removal via the 25th Amendment on grounds that he is unfit to lead the United States.
• A federal court in Massachusetts rules that the Health and Human Services secretary’s changes to the recommended childhood vaccine schedule and the makeup and function of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices violated federal law.
• DHS temporarily pauses its bid to acquire nearly two dozen industrial warehouses across the country intended to concentrate people detained by immigration personnel.
• A federal court blocks a policy that terminated temporary parole status for more than 900,000 people who were granted that status after entering the U.S. using the CBP One mobile app.
• A U.S. District Court rejects the administration’s attempt to eliminate a 40-year-old court order that protects the due process rights of unaccompanied children in immigration custody.
• An Eastern District of California court again bars Border Patrol from detaining people in the Central Valley without documenting specific facts and reasoning for the stops. 
• The First Circuit Court of Appeals rejects the administration’s request to overturn a court order blocking their attempts to implement unlawful and unreasonable restrictions that shift funding away from proven solutions to homelessness. 
• A U.S. District Court finds the president violated the 1st Amendment by ordering NPR defunded.
• NJ prohibits ICE and other law enforcement agencies from wearing masks to hide their identities.
• WA strengthens restrictions on untraceable, 3D-printed firearms.
• WI: Gov. Tony Evers (D) vetoes several bills that would have violated the rights of young transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Wisconsinites.
• A jury finds Meta and Google liable for their role in fueling the youth mental health crisis by deliberately designing their platforms to be addictive.
• Children’s entertainer and educator Ms. Rachel (Rachel Accurso) uses her platform to highlight the dangerous conditions imposed on children held at the Dilley Immigration Center in Texas and to call for the center’s closure.
• Following Ms. Rachel’s advocacy, 9-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez and his family leave ICE detention on humanitarian parole 
• Leqaa Kordia leaves ICE detention after being held for a year and ordered released on bond by an immigration court three times.
• Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen share with the world their view of never-before-seen parts of the moon—along with heartfelt messages and science glee.
• The Quapaw Nation restores their agricultural lands following a century of environmental damage from the U.S.’s mining practices.
• The officers who protected the Capitol during the January 6, 2021 insurrection have been honored with a commemorative plaque near the Capitol’s West Front.
• IL: Thousands more disabled residents now have access to ABLE accounts, in which they can build savings without it counting against income and asset limits for lifelines like Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income.
• MN sues the DOJ and DHS for access to evidence in the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the injury of another man at the hands of ICE personnel.
• NM prohibits armed federal agents at polling sites and introduces a pathway for voters and election workers to file civil lawsuits over intimidation or obstruction at the polls.
• WA: A U.S. district court finds that state lawmakers were within their rights to decline press passes to three media figures who do not qualify as journalists due to their political advocacy.
• 17 states sue the administration over a policy requiring higher education institutions to collect data to prove they aren’t considering race in student admissions.
• Boston allocates $4.5M in city and philanthropic funding for immigration services such as legal aid, language classes, and family support.
• After decades of advocacy, Virginia Beach restructures their election system so all voters have an equal voice in local elections.
• A Canadian development company declines to sell an industrial building in Ashland, VA that was set to be turned into an ICE processing facility.
• Liberty Vans staffed by volunteers travel to immigrant communities to offer legal support, document ICE operations, and show solidarity with families.
• Nashville Noticias reporter Estefany Rodríguez returns home from immigration detention just over two weeks after being detained while reporting on ICE activity.
• 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.
• About 3,800 workers at JBS USA-owned meatpacking plants strike for higher wages and better healthcare.
• With school curricula falling short, Wendy Pfrenger creates a free, comprehensive, and inclusive sex education program at her church.
• Canada’s Supreme Court sets a welcoming example by enshrining the right to access subsidized daycare for asylum seeking families in Québec province.
• China’s environmental ministry declares that giant pandas are no longer endangered.
• The Tennessee Aquarium website streams a 24-hour live river otter cam.

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