it's making communities more safe. Are the other 17% braindead or hiding?

You think DHS polling will go up?

I meant that I highly doubt that these Dem. Sen. are on the side of these ICEhole Nazis.

He needs to know he's losing trust with party rank and file.

I left him behind during the first two years of Biden's first term, with all the delays, foot dragging, and shilly-shallying he's done since he's been the Senate Democratic leader.

We shall see if he can read the signs, be discerning and realize that this will be a bigger win than the Democrats have had since we got the ACA passed. Because that's the way to get things done now, not the old school bipartisan game playing. We've been kicked in the teeth every time the GOP gets in power, it is now time to kick back hard.

His own seat may not be at risk, & maybe they can't win back the senate, but every seat counts, even in the House, & he knows that.

IDK. I just think that calling is such an easy thing to do, especially since we all have smart phones. It's much easier than planning a day long protest. Nothing against the protests, but I don't understand why we aren't ringing their phones off the hook. Our reps actually do pay attention to calls & postcards. Somewhere else in this thread I mentioned that the last time we flooded them with calls was the financial crisis of 2008. We the People made the news! Seems like this is just as important.

Not sure what to say? The site/app below tracks issues & bills & has sample text for your calls & postcards. Phone in your resistance! ☎️

https://5calls.org

Let him come back tomorrow to full vmail boxes in DC & NY. And then we should all call all our own reps & do the same. They should be in our contacts list. Our congressional reps actually do pay attention to the number of calls they get. Postcards too, but those are slower.

I wasn't very consistent with calls until I started weekly PT, & now I call every week in my car, after my appointment. It takes ten minutes or less to make three calls. I recycle messages, & some messages are just one liners. It doesn't matter what you say, as much as that you make the calls. Also, you almost always get vmail, rarely a live person. But in case you do...

Not sure what to say? Check out this site/app. They make it easy! They track issues & bills & have sample text for your messages/postcards.

https://5calls.org

Our vote is our voice, but our part in this democracy doesn't stop at the ballot box. We need to use our voice between elections to keep our reps on track & remind them who they work for. The last time we overloaded congressional vmail boxes was the financial crisis of 2008. Isn't saving our country just as important?

Phone in your resistance!! ☎️

Thanks for Schumer's number. I'll be calling for sure! My reps, too. I like the idea of loading their boxes over the weekend.

And use your power to make sure your colleagues don't cave.

I hope I'm wrong.

You're wrong.

Elected Dems could have acted previously and did not.

They still don't. THe 220-207 vote which passed the DHS funding means that the seven DEMS who voted fucking YES changed that from what should have been 213-214 AGAINST.

So yeah, we "don't know they know it" when enough stab us in the back to make sure republicon bullshit passes.

Nevada Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto, who were two of the eight Democrats who voted against their party to end the 43-day government shutdown last year, both said Saturday that they will not support the measure funding DHS. Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, another one of those eight Democrats, already said Friday he would not support funding DHS.

And you know it.

24 Republicans voted against the bill. 7 Democrats voted for it. Without those Democratic votes, it would not have passed.

I do hope things have changes now, but I can’t feel sure.

Post 34 has his phone number.
https://democraticunderground.com/10143604513#post34

We should fill his vmail box up for a nice Monday morning surprise.

Stopgap funding for the government was approved through January 30 -- that's the deadline that is relevant now. Some approps bills have been passed by the House, including the one that covers DHS. But the Senate still needs to act.

The defense shouldn't recieve money either.
Republicans need to get off their knees and reign their guy in. They need to back off of Senator Mark Kelly and support him and his statement which was 100% correct about not obeying illegal orders.

For fucksake they're killing citizens on the streets of Minnesota. Get your asses to the Capital and shut this shit down. NOW!

No more money for ICE Goons.

but I'll believe it when I actually see the final vote defeat it.

There are too many Manchin/Sinema/Fetterman types who see the $$$$$$$$ instead of what's right.

Shaheen 202-224-2841

Hassan 202-224-3324

King 202-224-5344

Durbin 202-224-2152

Fetterman 202-224-4254

I hope they let the Whip do his job.

There are some here who are insisting the bill has nothing to do with ICE and it's no big deal it passed the House.

That's idiotic.

I really hope Schumer doesn't cave again.

win, or just whips cream.

If just enough Democratic votes come out to support it, I will never trust him again.

many times in the past.

That said, I have been calling both my US Senators daily demanding they vote against funding ICE. One staff member last week told me they are getting many calls like this every day.

or whatever large minority number we have.
Lawrence has said over and over that it only takes one, and that US senators are notoriously uncontrollable. Those who only look at interests of their own home turf and donors should be called by any Democrat from anywhere, reasoned with, reprimanded, and primaried, imo, since senators historically have a higher calling to advise & consent and consider the nation overall.

sure, bro

But today's murder gives Dems the political muscle to either kill the ICEhole funding or shut down the government. Schumer, fucking USE IT! Don't let that poor man die in vain. Fucking USE IT!! Strangle the Puke bastards with it!!

Why don't DU people see that? I thought no one would ever say it. But you're brilliant! And that's IT.

We seriously have to call our senators and say that! https://www.senate.gov/general/resources/pdf/senators_phone_list.pdf

from Raider

"Children screaming and crying can be heard as a possible uprising is underway at the ICE Children's Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX (1/24/26)."

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:udnac33pmf2iwcblpeai5a5p/post/3md7645iqgs2z?ref_src=embed

from ‪Magnus Lehnsherr‬

"I,'m told by detainees at Dilley that 80 pct of facility currently protesting--that would be ~1500. Guards physically blocking ppl from joining. Dozens of ICE CBP police cars racing to area. Detainees say protest triggered by news of events in Minneapolis & treatment of 5 yr old."

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You really need to delete this

Until the donor class tells you otherwise. So sick of this guy. We need real fighters.

Think Dems should be changing the leader? Then who should lead the minority.

🙄

I haven't got patience left for empty promises or Democrats who won't fight for us.

I fought all my life for my family , for all of my neighbors, for People of Color, for First People, for people to love whom they chose, for people with disabilities, for people to worship whomever they chose, for the health and future of the entire planet.

I have paid many a price for this and consider it justice performed in good faith.

it's well past time for All Democrats to work as hard as I have and get the justice we All deserve. DAMN WELL!

Maybe they see that the Republicans and Trump have lost significant support over this, and that this is more than likely going to cost them both houses in November.

I can't see the Republicans would ever agree to abolishing DHS and ICE.