Support Young People Taking Action to End Gun Violence

Support Young People Taking Action to End Gun Violence

Support Young People Taking Action to End Gun Violence

You can also join a campaign to kick politicians beholden to the gun lobby out of office.

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After last week’s horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, brave student survivors wasted no time before calling out adults for failing to address the gun violence that has plagued the United States for their entire lives. Their peers across the country then followed their lead with plans for school walkouts and a “lie-in” in front of the White House. This week’s Take Action Now focuses on ways we can all support this inspiring organizing.

Take Action Now gives you three meaningful actions you can take each week, whatever your schedule. Sign up here to get actions like these in your inbox every Tuesday.

NO TIME TO SPARE?

Students at Stoneman Douglas are calling for us to join them on March 24 in Washington, DC, and cities across the country for the March for Our Lives to demand legislation to stop gun violence. Of course, it takes resources to pull off an event of this size. Support their efforts by making a donation.

GOT SOME TIME?

Get ready to march. Sign up here to receive updates on March 24 actions in DC and near you. You can also spread the word about or, if you’re a student or an educator, participate in nationwide student-led school walkouts planned for March 14 and April 20.

READY TO DIG IN?

Stoneman Douglas student Cameron Kasky ended an essay for CNN by stating, “We can’t vote, but you can, so make it count.” Heed his call by joining Everytown For Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America’s “Throw Them Out” five-action plan to kick elected officials beholden to the gun lobby out of office. You can get involved by calling your representatives, registering your friends to vote, getting candidates on the record on gun control, or even running for office yourself. Click here to join the campaign.

Support independent journalism that does not fall in line

Even before February 28, the reasons for Donald Trump’s imploding approval rating were abundantly clear: untrammeled corruption and personal enrichment to the tune of billions of dollars during an affordability crisis, a foreign policy guided only by his own derelict sense of morality, and the deployment of a murderous campaign of occupation, detention, and deportation on American streets. 

Now an undeclared, unauthorized, unpopular, and unconstitutional war of aggression against Iran has spread like wildfire through the region and into Europe. A new “forever war”—with an ever-increasing likelihood of American troops on the ground—may very well be upon us.  

As we’ve seen over and over, this administration uses lies, misdirection, and attempts to flood the zone to justify its abuses of power at home and abroad. Just as Trump, Marco Rubio, and Pete Hegseth offer erratic and contradictory rationales for the attacks on Iran, the administration is also spreading the lie that the upcoming midterm elections are under threat from noncitizens on voter rolls. When these lies go unchecked, they become the basis for further authoritarian encroachment and war. 

In these dark times, independent journalism is uniquely able to uncover the falsehoods that threaten our republic—and civilians around the world—and shine a bright light on the truth. 

The Nation’s experienced team of writers, editors, and fact-checkers understands the scale of what we’re up against and the urgency with which we have to act. That’s why we’re publishing critical reporting and analysis of the war on Iran, ICE violence at home, new forms of voter suppression emerging in the courts, and much more. 

But this journalism is possible only with your support.

This March, The Nation needs to raise $50,000 to ensure that we have the resources for reporting and analysis that sets the record straight and empowers people of conscience to organize. Will you donate today?

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