Don’t Let Congress Gut the Americans with Disabilities Act

Don’t Let Congress Gut the Americans with Disabilities Act

Don’t Let Congress Gut the Americans with Disabilities Act

You can also get your friends to call Congress to oppose Trump’s infrastructure plan and support undocumented youth walking from New York City to DC.

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NO TIME TO SPARE?

The House could vote this week on the ADA Education and Reform Act (HR 620), a bill that would gut the historic Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). HR 620 would put the onus on people with disabilities to educate and confront non-compliant businesses and would allow those businesses to remain inaccessible for years without penalty. Call your representative in the House at 202-224-3121 and demand that they reject HR 620. You can find more information from ADAPT here and from the ACLU here.

GOT SOME TIME?

Organizers across the country are fighting back after President Trump revealed an infrastructure plan geared to help big business, not the American people. Join them by getting at least five of your friends to call their members of Congress. Email them Color of Change’s call tool, share it on Facebook, or tweet using the hashtags #InfrastructureScam and #MillionsofJobs.

READY TO DIG IN?

Beginning on February 15, undocumented youth and allies will be walking the 250-miles from New York City to Washington, DC to demand a clean Dream Act and to uplift the stories of immigrants. You can support “The Walk to Stay Home” by walking for a time, providing a space to house walkers, hosting a solidarity event, or simply donating money or supplies. Sign up here and organizers will be in touch with next steps.

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. 

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