Nebraska Poor People's Campaign

Today, we are holding #MoralMonday actions across the nation, as a moral response to yesterday’s White House “Rededicate 250" gathering, which promoted a distorted theology being used to justify war and policy violence. Read our press release and join us: breachrepairers.org/get-involved/n…

🔊 Voting-rights demonstrators are marching through Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, drawing a direct line to 1965. Hear more on Reuters World News reut.rs/3RJS3T0

The Orleans Justice Center is proving that HEALING is possible even in the darkest places. By treating our brothers struggling with trauma and mental health challenges with dignity and compassion, this unit is showing what can happen when humanity replaces neglect and community replaces violence. Far too many lives can be changed or lost when mental health care is ignored.

The redistricting happening in Southern states is “a historic reversal of what the Voting Rights Act brought” and could lead to “homogenous white delegations to the South.” From our friends at @reveal: motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

Democratic candidates in Georgia's governor primary race have staked claims in charting a new voting rights agenda, to set the state apart from other southern states that are initiating gerrymandering plans to erase majority-Black districts. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/in…

A lesbian couple in Key West is suing the city after officials threatened them with daily fines over a rainbow-painted fence created in protest of Florida’s removal of Pride crosswalks.

About 1 in 4 trans people in the U.S. now live in a state that has created a new criminal penalty tied to their daily lives. truthdig.com/articles/state…

A high school senior who lived through homelessness much of his childhood was accepted to 65 colleges, and plans to attend an Ivy League school in the fall. abcnews.link/78Tm1Ld

Carmen Navas, the 82-year-old mother who spent nearly a year searching for her detained son in Venezuela, has died just 10 days after the government confirmed he had died in state custody, the NGO that handled his case reported reut.rs/4eNdnAK

John Roberts has been dismantling the country’s most important civil rights law for over 40 years. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

Where did gerrymandering come from, and where is it taking American democracy? Our explainer has answers: bit.ly/3MqI6FI

We all want the same things—jobs that pay a living wage, access to affordable housing, and a brighter future for our children. That’s why we’re using this moment to make #UnionsForAll a reality and win a better life.

Republicans could lose their supermajority in the officially nonpartisan Nebraska Legislature this year after Democrats and independents outpolled Republicans in three Omaha-area races. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-a…

The fight over voting rights is about fair representation. When we don't have Black representation in government, there are issues that won't get called to the table. Like the Black maternal morbidity crisis, the racial wealth gap, the CROWN Act, and more.

Police contact of any kind is not innocuous: most police killings start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.

Turning Point USA cancels university event after trans student’s death ➡️ bit.ly/3RC8xMV 📷 Envato

This Sunday, the Trump administration will kick off its grift-laden commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary with a nine-hour prayer jubilee on the National Mall, meant to signal “a moment of renewal” for the Christian nationalist project at the heart of the MAGA spiritual agenda. bit.ly/3Pi16df

More than a dozen inmates at the Lancaster County jail are waiting for an open bed at the Lincoln Regional Center. Their cases are also at a standstill while they wait, holding up the legal process. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-a…

Judge blocks Trump DOJ from obtaining trans youth patient records in Rhode Island ➡️ bit.ly/4uhfXnw

Almost a third of the membership of the Congressional Black Caucus are at risk of losing their seats through the 2028 election cycle as Republicans in southern states where they control the legislature move swiftly to redraw congressional maps. abcnews.link/R3RKUUO