RE: 45+ lawmakers are backing this wealth tax

                                                  

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In the halls of Congress and from across the country, we’re letting Senators and Representatives know that the American people demand millionaires and billionaires start paying their fair share. Now, thanks to our work together, we’ve helped generate more congressional co-sponsors of a wealth tax than ever before. That’s right! 45+ members of Congress have signed onto Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act which would apply a small annual tax on extreme wealth, affecting only the wealthiest 0.15% of households. It would address massive wealth accumulation at the very top and generate $6.2 trillion in new revenue over the next decade. That’s money that can be used to expand access to childcare, housing, healthcare, and education while easing financial pressure on working people. Whether it’s Elizabeth Warren’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act, Bernie Sanders’s Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, or Ron Wyden’s Billionaires Income Tax, we’re demanding Congress act to ensure ultra-millionaires and billionaires are paying their fair share in taxes every year, not just when they feel like it. Power our campaign to demand the ultra-wealthy finally start paying their fair share. Donate today! If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your secure donation will go through immediately: Thank you for all that you do to power our movement for change, John Foti Legislative Director Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund -- David's email -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s wealth tax now has more congressional co-sponsors than any wealth tax proposal in U.S. history.[1] Momentum like this does not happen by accident. That kind of support is the result of sustained pressure, organizing, and thousands of people refusing to accept a system where billionaires keep getting richer while working families struggle. We helped make that happen. Americans for Tax Fairness worked directly with congressional offices to build support for this bill, and we backed it up with more than 14,000 grassroots signatures demanding action. Lawmakers are responding because they know the public is paying attention and demanding that the ultra-wealthy finally pay their fair share. And the need could not be clearer. Billionaire wealth has now topped $8 trillion, exploding by $1.5 trillion in Trump’s first year back in office.[2] That wealth grew due to a tax code full of loopholes that allow the richest people in this country to contribute far less than their fair share and in some cases less than working families. A wealth tax targets extreme concentrations of wealth, and ensures wealthy households are paying taxes every year, not just when they feel like it. Power our campaign to pass the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act and make ultra-millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share. Rush a donation today. This is a turning point moment. For years, opponents claimed a wealth tax could never gain traction in Congress. Now, with more than 45 lawmakers backing this legislation, that excuse is gone. What happens next depends on whether we keep building pressure or let this momentum stall. We know what works because we’ve done it before. When we organize, when we show up with real numbers and real people behind us, lawmakers move. That’s how we helped build support for this bill. That’s how we got 14,000 people to demand action. And that’s how we will continue to push until we get this over the finish line. But the opposition is already mobilizing. Billionaire-funded lobbyists and corporate interests are working behind the scenes to kill this legislation before it can move forward. The wealthy elite understand exactly what this bill represents: a direct challenge to a rigged system that has allowed them to avoid paying their fair share for decades. We cannot let them win this fight. Donate now to power our campaign, keep the pressure on Congress, and pass a wealth tax that finally makes the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your secure donation will go through immediately: Thank you for powering our movement, demanding a tax system that puts everyday people first. David Kass Executive Director Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund [1] Jayapal, Warren, Boyle, 45+ Lawmakers Renew Push for Wealth Tax on Ultra-Millionaires and Billionaires [2] New Report: U.S. Billionaires Got $1.5 Trillion Richer in Trump's First Year - Americans For Tax Fairness

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Time sensitive: Swing state Supreme Court election in only six days

                                                 

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Even though Wisconsin has been one of the premier swing states in the nation for over two decades now, Team Blue is on the verge of securing a stranglehold over the Wisconsin Supreme Court that will last into the next decade. On Tuesday, April 7, only six days from today--liberal candidate Chris Taylor is up against conservative Maria Lazar in the 2026 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. If Taylor prevails, she would increase the liberal majority on the court from the current 4-3 margin to a much safer 5-2 advantage, thus securing a liberal majority on the highest court in a crucial swing state that will last through at least 2030. However, that might actually be understating the degree to which not only a win, but a big win for Taylor could lock up Wisconsin's highest court for Team Blue (I write "Team Blue" instead of "Democrats," because the Wisconsin Supreme Court is technically nonpartisan). In the 2026 election, national conservatives have not really done much to help Lazar. The reason for this is because, after Elon Musk spent tens of millions on the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election last year and lost by 10 points anyway, most of them just see Wisconsin as a hopeless cause right now. In fact, the only reason Lazar is even running is because conservative incumbent Rebecca Bradley retired instead of facing the voters in the midst of a strongly pro-Democratic electoral environment. With another conservative-held seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court up for election next year, a big win by Taylor in 2026 could cause the same pattern to unfold, thus allowing Democrats to practically waltz to a 6-1 majority that would last through at least 2033. The Wisconsin Supreme Court will rule on any challenges to the 2028 or 2032 presidential elections in this perennially crucial swing state. It will also rule on the ongoing legal case against the 6-2 Republican gerrymander of the Wisconsin's congressional districts, a case that will be heard next year. Thus, this election is a key battle in the fight against Republican attempts to preordain the outcomes of our elections nationwide. I have put together an ActBlue page that allows you to split a donation between liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Chris Taylor and Bowers Kerbel Media, the two-person organization that runs both the Bowers News Media news and activism email list, and the Wolves and Sheep political analysis and practical life advice Substack. On this page, the amount that you donate to each entity can be adjusted by clicking "customize amounts." No donation to Bowers Kerbel Media is required in order to donate to Chris Talyor. You can also donate to Chris Taylor directly here. Please, split a $10 donation between Chris Taylor for Wisconsin Supreme Court and Bowers Kerbel Media. Help secure a liberal majority for both the 2028 and 2023 elections on the highest court in a crucial swing state. DONATE $10 DONATE $20 DONATE $40 DONATE OTHER AMOUNT Thank you for your time, Chris Bowers Founder, Bowers News Media **** About Bowers News Media is a one-person grassroots activism email list, run by me, Chris Bowers, a 20-year veteran of online progressive politics at Daily Kos, Open Left and MyDD. I write all of the emails myself, in an honest, measured, personal voice, citing all of my sources and avoiding exaggeration. I aim to bring you the most efficient activism operation around, almost entirely free of overhead, and to always remain accessible to you by reading every single email you send me (and replying to most of them). Wolves and Sheep is a Substack run by Matthew Kerbel, a political science professor of over 30 years at Villanova University. Matt brings you timely, outside the beltway analysis of our national politics, informed by history and social science, to help you make sense of what often feels like an out-of-control world. Together, we run the Bowers Kerbel Media collaboration, a joint effort between Bowers News Media and Wolves and Sheep. Matt and I are old friends, and even wrote a book together about a decade ago.

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Tell Congress: Whales over oil and gas sales

                                                

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Stop the Extinction Committee From Dooming Wildlife The Trump administration just convened the Endangered Species Committee — aka Extinction Committee — for the first time in more than 30 years.  Its mission? To grant all Gulf of Mexico oil and gas activities a sweeping exemption under the Endangered Species Act — that is, a free pass to dodge the law. By fast-tracking oil drilling in the Gulf, this move would doom some of the United States’ most iconic and imperiled species. They include Rice’s whales, down to a population of only 51; Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, who nest on the Gulf’s beaches; and manatees, many of whom are still struggling to recover from a recent mass starvation event.  Given the committee’s extraordinary power to decide the fate of an endangered species, Congress intended it to only be used as a last resort. The Trump administration is weaponizing this power to pad the oil and gas industry’s profits.  If you live in the United States, tell Congress to speak out against the Extinction Committee to save whales, sea turtles, and other critically imperiled Gulf species.

New Analyses: Cancer Warnings and Pesticides Two new analyses show that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to require cancer warnings on pesticide products — even when its own assessments found a high cancer risk for those products.   The Center for Biological Diversity looked at labels for all currently approved pesticides, finding that the EPA put cancer warnings on only 69 of 4,919 products the agency itself designated a “likely” human carcinogen.   Our timing is key: Later this month the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case hinging on whether the EPA has sole authority to implement pesticide-label warnings. Pesticide manufacturers are trying to get off the hook from future lawsuits brought by people who contracted glyphosate-linked cancers after using glyphosate-based products (like Roundup). The same pesticides the EPA fails to label for cancer risks are also driving species declines. Glyphosate kills milkweed, monarch butterflies’ only host plant.   Help us defend public health and pollinators from pesticides by giving to our Health for the Wild Fund. (Do it now and your donation will be doubled.)

Victory: Court Supports Ice Seals’ Habitat Protection Fourteen years after we gained Endangered Species Act protection for bearded and ringed seals, the Center is still notching wins for them. Thanks to our legal intervention, a federal appeals court just upheld the designation of nearly 160 million acres off Alaska’s Arctic coast as their critical habitat.   Alaska had sued over the designation, arguing that it hindered oil and gas development, and in 2024 a lower court struck it down — but that decision didn’t last long. The new ruling reinstates full safeguards for these seals’ icy home, hit hard by climate change.   Bearded seals, known for their adorable mustaches and elaborate courtship songs, give birth and nurse pups on sea ice. Ringed seals, named for the gray rings covering their blubbery bodies, have pups in snow caves they build on top of sea ice — which can collapse as temperatures warm, with fatal consequences for the pups.

Court Axes Trump Rules Gutting Endangered Species Act Ruling on a lawsuit by the Center and allies, on Tuesday a federal court overturned four key provisions of regulations weakening the Endangered Species Act, issued under the first Trump administration.   The nixed provisions include one that would’ve allowed “smaller” habitat-destroying projects, like clearcutting spotted owl habitat, and one that would’ve forced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to accept promises — even empty promises — of species-protecting mitigation measures when projects move forward.   “I’m thrilled the court tossed these efforts to gut endangered species protections and eviscerate a law Americans love,” said Center attorney Ryan Shannon.

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Horseshoe Crabs Horseshoe crabs are more than twice as old as the dinosaurs. Now they face extinction from modern threats — that is, people. Their populations have plummeted by more than 70% in recent decades because of habitat loss and killing for the biomedical and bait industries.   The Center petitioned to protect them under the Endangered Species Act, but earlier this year the Trump administration refused — so we just gave notice that we intend to sue.   Never seen a horseshoe crab? Head to Facebook or Instagram to watch one of these ancient animals slide through the sand using all 10 legs.

The Revelator: Saving Hawksbills Hawksbill sea turtles face just about every kind of threat, from climate change and coastal development to poaching and plastic pollution. But as author Alice Henderson writes, there are also plenty of things people can do to help save this species.   Read more in The Revelator.   And if you haven’t yet, make sure you’re subscribed to The Revelator’s free weekly newsletter.

That’s Wild: Sperm Whales’ Pod Power In July 2023 scientists on a boat in the Caribbean — employing two aerial drones — watched in amazement as a pod of female sperm whales gathered near the ocean’s surface, apparently to help a whale named Rounder give birth. Underwater microphones recorded the whales’ communication as the calf emerged (tail first, like all whales are born) and helpers then lifted the newborn to breathe air for the first time.   Two new studies now describe that day’s events, giving the most comprehensive report of a sperm whale birth in history — and showing a remarkably coordinated and cooperative effort, even by whales not related to the new mother. It’s the first evidence of birth assistance in non-primates.   Learn more fascinating details and watch a video of the birth. Have a friend who'd like this email? Forward it.