Nonpartisan Pro-democracy Activism

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The SAVE Act is an authoritarian solution to prevent losing the upcoming midterm election due to Trump's unfavorable policies. 

The Trump regime wants you to think that non-citizens are voting in large numbers. That's not true.  "A number of states have undertaken investigations into noncitizen voting, cross-checking voter rolls with citizenship status, and found it virtually nonexistent." CATO Institute 

 Analysis

"New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting" Brennan Center of Justice updated on 2/27/26 (See the link below to the complete analysis.)

 CALL SENATOR MERKLEY and SENATOR WYDEN:

We need to call both of our senators and demand that they refuse to give ICE any more taxpayer money. 

"Specifically we are asking that Senators withhold their votes from any legislation funding DHS unless it:

• Stops ICE and Border Patrol from receiving more funding
• Restricts ICE and Border Patrol's ability to target people based on their race, language or accent, place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension

Stops ICE or Border Patrol enforcement at designated ‘sensitive locations’ such as houses of worship, day cares, and hospitals

• Stops ICE or Border Patrol from family detention or increasing private detentions
• Ends Border Patrol deployment to our cities and rejects its ever-expanding mandate in immigration enforcement
• Stops ICE or Border Patrol enforcement at designated "sensitive locations" such as houses of worship, day cares, and hospitals." copied from Indivisible.org

You don't need to be on call to document what's ICE is up to in your neighborhood but it would be great if everyone of us knew how to document their terrorism in a way that's acceptable in court.

"We will cover the latest updates on ICE and CBP's out-of-control and dangerous operations. We will talk through rights when documenting and recording law enforcement encounters, and how you can continue to take action."

If Representative Bynum receives three calls from democrats demanding she vote a certain way on a bill but get's 2,000 calls from republicans on the same bill demanding she vote a different way, she's probably going to vote with the 2,000 constituents. 

BOTTOM LINE: We've got to call her office and leave messages (if we don't reach a person) including your address, on any bills we are concerned about and not assume she'll vote the way we want her to vote if we don't call her.

Her office numbers:

DC: 202-225-5711

Oregon City: 503-387-8651

Oregon's 2026 Legislative Session begins on 02/02/2026 and ends 35 days later (03/06/2026).

We don't have a lot of time to get our voices heard.

Even though Representative Dexter is in a fairly "blue" district, we need to call her on the issues near and dear to us too.

Her office numbers:

DC:  (202) 225-4811 

Portland: (503) 231-2300