News Alert | Petition Rejecting Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker Hits 1 Million Signatures

                           

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Saturday, November 7, 2026 Petition Calling for House Speaker Other Than Hakeem Jeffries Hits 1 Million Signatures An online petition that demanding that Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) not be the next Democratic Speaker of the House surpassed one million signatories on Saturday as the clamor for a leadership change within the party explodes after historic midterm wins driven by populist demands.   As of this writing, the Change.org petition—titled “House Democrats: CHOOSE A NEW SPEAKER”—has 1,004,752 verified signatories, with the number rapidly rising. READ THE FULL STORY Read all the latest news from Common Dreams

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We won.

Our endorsed candidates — Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Darializa Avila Chevalier — are headed to Washington to fight for us in the next Congress.

In June, they overcame steep odds to win their primaries. This week, they finished the job. And these wins matter because they prove what we’ve said from the start: our movement was never about one person or one office, and it was never a fluke.

I hear often that the politics we’re fighting for here in New York can’t survive outside our city limits. Tuesday night answered that. Working people are the majority, whether we’re talking about Allentown or Austin, Ann Arbor or Astoria, and it is time to put those same people first in our politics.

Claire, Brad, and Darializa represent different corners of our city, but they share the question at the heart of my work as mayor: how do we make life better for New Yorkers than it was the day before? Now they’ll be asking it in the halls of the Capitol.

That means we can stop playing defense and start playing offense. Instead of fighting just to keep New Yorkers from losing their SNAP benefits or their health insurance, we can fight to make life more affordable, with real partners in Washington.

Power is not something you just fight to have. It’s something that you use to deliver for working people.

So my message to everyone who built this movement is simple: foot on the gas.

These wins could not have happened without you. Thank you.

This is only the beginning.

In solidarity,

Zohran Mamdani
Mayor of New York City

Before you go… This week’s wins belong to everyone who built this movement, and that includes our campaign. We didn’t just fight for Zohran’s agenda in City Hall this year. We helped turn out voters in races across New York, sending new allies to Albany and Washington. And we’re not slowing down now. Winning was the first step. Delivering is the next one. A strong, active campaign is how we keep our foot on the gas, so the agenda we won on actually gets delivered. Every dollar you give helps keep this momentum going, in New York and beyond. Celebrate this week’s wins. Chip in to keep our movement growing: Donate $10 ››

 

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Friend, WE CAN'T LET THIS SLIP THROUGH THE CRACKS: Donald Trump is planning to hand over a chunk of Yosemite National Park to a private developer!   We need a SURGE of support to pressure Congress to PROTECT YOSEMITE. ADD YOUR NAME RIGHT NOW ↙↙ 25,000 SIGNATURES NEEDED: SIGN OUR PETITION TO DEMAND CONGRESS PROTECT YOSEMITE >>

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Friend, Yosemite is our oldest national park and often considered the crown jewel of the parks system.

But now, Donald Trump is considering handing over a large swath of the public land that makes up one corner of the park to a private developer intent on creating a resort accessible only by the super-wealthy!

This is the exact OPPOSITE of what our national parks are meant to be used for. This land should be protected with non-partisan authority for generations to come and for future generations to cherish — NOT fall victim to Donald Trump's anti-conservation, profit-hungry agenda!

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Trump demands huge increase in NSPM-7 funding before Democrats take over

                        

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A group of anti-ICE activists in Texas is facing a combined 556 years in prison on phony domestic terrorism charges following a protest outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Several of the defendants did little more than wear all black to a protest. One person who didn't even go to the protest got 30 years just for moving a box of leftist literature.1 These were the very first prison sentences handed out under NSPM-7, Donald Trump's presidential order directing the Justice Department to prosecute left-wing activists as domestic terrorists. Now Trump is demanding that Congress ram through a major increase in funding for NSPM-7 enforcement during the post-election lame duck session of Congress, before Democrats take over in January.2 We're fighting back to stop him. Will you make a donation to support our campaign to stop NSPM-7 and push for other key reforms? If you've stored your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation to Demand Progress will process immediately. Under NSPM-7, anyone who espouses a sweeping range of vaguely defined political views — including "anti-capitalism," "anti-Christianity," and "anti-Americanism" — is considered a likely domestic terrorist and a priority for investigation.3 Prairieland was the NSPM-7 test case that showed that the Trump Justice Department, with the help of Trump-appointed judges, can target left-wing activists with bogus terrorism charges and secure lengthy prison sentences.  With one successful prosecution in the books, the Trump regime is expanding their NSPM-7 dragnet. In Minnesota, 15 anti-ICE protesters could also face lengthy prison terms after being indicted for their organizing during Operation Metro Surge last winter.4 Similar charges have been brought against demonstrators in Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, and elsewhere.5 We're mobilizing grassroots pressure to demand that Congress end NSPM-7. With Trump pushing for a huge increase in NSPM-7 funding, we need your help to fight back. Will you make a donation to support our campaign to stop NSPM-7 and push for other key reforms? Thanks for taking action, Joey and the team at Demand Progress Action

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1. This American Life, "The Test Case," July 10, 2026.
2. U.S. Department of Justice, "FY 2027 FBI Budget Request to Congress," March 2026.
3. ACLU, "How NSPM-7 Seeks to Use "Domestic Terrorism" to Target Nonprofits and Activists," October 15, 2025.
4. The New York Times, "U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown," August 13, 2026. 
5. The Guardian, "AntiTrump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with 'antifa' charges. Activists started a union to fight back," October 6, 2026.

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My Bill Holds Data Centers Accountable and Makes Energy Cheaper

                       

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November 7, 2026 Dear Friend,

On Tuesday night the American people gave Congress a clear mandate: Lower our bills. We have a chance to get started right now, with my Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA). BAAJA would hold data centers accountable, lower your electricity costs, and get more clean electrons onto the grid – responsibly.   We don’t have to wait until the next Congress to start lowering your bills. We can do it right now, if we pass BAAJA.

Sincerely,     MARTIN HEINRICH United States Senator

New analyses contend New Mexico US Sen. Heinrich’s permitting bill would cut emissions, costs  Bill critics say sponsors should wait until next year when Democrats control Congress.   By: Patrick Lohmann, November 5, 2026   New analyses of a permitting reform bill U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) has championed say that its provisions would reduce emissions and costs to ratepayers, as well as recover billions of dollars from data center developers. The analyses, released separately in recent days by four independent nonprofit and industry groups, including the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions , modeled what would happen to energy transmission and green energy production with and without Heinrich’s Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act in effect through 2040.   They found that the bill would lower household electricity bills by $50 to $78 annually by 2040. Moreover, it would reduce power sector emissions by about 20%, which would subsequently help prevent approximately 6,700 deaths and save $54 billion in cumulative public health costs.  Heinrich, the ranking member of the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced the proposal along with Chair U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and other bipartisan senators in recent weeks. He has touted the bill as a way to reform the federal permit review process to reduce delays and give renewable energy developers more certainty and quicker reviews, as well as a way to ensure data center developers don’t pass energy costs onto nearby households.   The bill has received backlash from tribal and environmentalist groups concerned it will fast-track fossil fuel production and reduce tribal input on sensitive developments. Last week, protesters from the YUCCA Alliance railed against the bill outside Heinrich’s downtown Albuquerque office .  But Heinrich has maintained the bill will prevent vital carbon-free energy and transmission projects from facing years of regulatory delays. His office has pointed to the analyses as proof the bill is necessary to achieve climate goals.  “Americans are tired of paying more in utility bills while projects that could lower costs sit stuck in the planning phase for years,” Heinrich said in a statement touting the outside reviews. “These independent analyses show exactly what we stand to gain by fixing our broken permitting system: lower electricity bills, cleaner air, healthier communities, and more reliable energy infrastructure.”  One of those reviews, released Thursday by the nonpartisan Center for Climate and Energy Solutions thinktank, found that passing the bill would reduce annual electricity bills by $2.5 billion by 2035, partially by reducing the queue that power plants, energy storage facilities and energy storage projects idle in before getting approval to connect to the grid.   “It takes years for projects to connect to the grid and be able to deliver that energy,” the center’s president,  Nat Keohane, said during a virtual news conference. “When demand is growing and supply can’t keep up, costs go up.”  A separate analysis from Grid Strategies , a power sector consulting firm, evaluated provisions in the 417-page bill related to data centers. The bill would require electrical utilities to impose additional costs on data centers, funding that utilities would then use to reduce transmission costs to ratepayers.   In total, Grid Strategies estimates that data centers would pay $55 billion to utilities over the next decade if the bill goes into effect, a figure that represents an additional $35 billion more than they would pay under existing policy.  Heinrich and his cosponsors have announced they intend to try to shepherd the bill through both chambers of Congress before the next session begins next year. U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) announced last week that she does not support the bill as written.   The bill sponsors’ push to pass the bill in 2026 has drawn additional criticism from the bill’s skeptics, who argue Democrats’ new majorities in  the U.S. Senate and U.S. House in Tuesday’s election means a better bill can be achieved.  Moreover, in January, Heinrich may take over as chair of the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee, giving him even more power over the bill’s provisions.   However, in an emailed statement Thursday provided to Source NM, Heinrich said he still thinks the climate and country can’t wait any longer to pass the permitting reform bill. He said if he becomes committee chair that his priorities will be reducing energy costs for New Mexicans and protecting public lands, including in Chaco Canyon and the Pecos River.   “But our priority right now is passing the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, which would make it illegal for data centers to shift the costs of their grid upgrades and infrastructure onto consumers,” he said. “We’ve been working toward permitting reform for the better part of a decade, and this is the closest we’ve come to getting something signed into law. I’m not going to wait, and I’ll negotiate in good faith, whether I’m the Chair or the Ranking Member.”

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I’ve already written about some of Democrats’ historic wins on November 3.

Now, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the disappointments, starting with Florida, where Democrats managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of two perfectly winnable races. Ashley Moody held off Angie Nixon 51 percent to 48 percent, and Byron Donalds beat David Jolly 50 percent to 48.7 percent. In Alabama, an idiot like Tommy Tuberville beat Doug Jones again. Those losses hurt, especially Florida, because the national Democratic Party treated the state like an abandoned shopping mall.

Heading into Election Day, Kalshi and Polymarket had Moody at roughly 91 percent, practically measuring the drapes for her next six years in Washington. Nixon came within three points of beating her. Donalds won by less than two points in a state where Republicans enjoy a 1.5 million voter registration advantage. That’s a near-death experience with a balloon drop.

And where the hell was the national Democratic Party? In October, CNN reported that national Democratic organizations had largely stayed on the sidelines in Florida’s statewide races. Donalds and his allies had raised more than $134 million, compared with approximately $16.6 million for Jolly. Democrats spent months telling us Florida was unwinnable, and then their candidates came within striking distance without anything resembling adequate national support. Imagine what might have happened if somebody in Washington had bothered to open a checkbook.

And let’s give Bakari Sellers his flowers, preferably the kind you send to somebody after they’ve said something so stupid you need to check whether they’re conscious. Back in August, he went on CNN and declared, “We won’t be wasting money in Florida now.” He explained that Democrats should put their resources into states they could actually win. Well, Bakari, Nixon came within three points, and Jolly came even closer. That’s quite a definition of unwinnable.

I can only imagine Chuck Schumer hearing that brilliant political analysis and thinking, “Excellent! Let’s give Florida approximately the same level of attention we give the office refrigerator.” I don’t know whether Schumer took Sellers’s advice, but the national party certainly behaved like it. Nixon was fighting for a Senate seat, and Democratic leadership treated Florida like a cousin asking to borrow money for the fourth time this month.

And here’s what makes me furious: these weren’t ceremonial campaigns. They were competitive! Nixon had Moody sweating so badly that the senator acknowledged the narrow margin in her victory speech. Jolly nearly beat Trump’s handpicked candidate for governor. Democrats didn’t need to perform a miracle in Florida. They needed to invest in their own goddamn candidates...

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