BIG: @usprogressives.bsky.social voted to endorse @ramirez.house.gov Block the Bombs Act. The 97-member Progressive Caucus is the first caucus in Congress to endorse a bill to stop sending Israel weapons being used to destroy Gaza. Encourage your representative to cosponsor at blockthebombs.org

🚨 Following a vote, Progressive Caucus has ENDORSED Block the Bombs Act, led by @ramirez.house.gov

On the anniversary of Hurricane Maria, we grieve with all Puerto Ricans who experienced great tragedy and loss 8 years ago. After watching in terror as neglect and mismanagement claimed lives and worsened the disaster, #IL03 became home to many displaced families.

The Trump Administration's dangerous, unlawful, inhumane policies are undermining due process and putting immigrants, including DACA recipients, at grave risk. Across the nation, we have seen reports of DACA recipients being disappeared by DHS, despite their protected status.

Every death at the hands of ICE, every family separated by ICE, every orphan created by ICE is Kristi Noem’s responsibility. She must come to the committee and account for ICE's unlawfulness.

All forms of violence, including political violence, must be condemned. And words matter: they can be used to divide, harm or build community. 1/3

As we recognize Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, we must stand firm in our commitment to the universal rights ensured for ALL in our Constitution, independent of citizenship status, race, background.

The courts are being weaponized to persecute Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the U.S., for exercising his 1st Amendment rights. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Demartravion "Trey" Reed was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. For so many Americans, Trey's death is a reminder of our country's legacy of racial terror and racialized violence. We grieve with his family and loved ones and affirm their calls for an investigation.

The GOP forgot to include @repilhan.bsky.social's “disgraceful remarks” in their resolution smearing her. Not one single quote. Because their whole resolution is based on lies. 1/2

Another day, another Trump abuse of military power. Whether it is ICE agents murdering fathers on the street or the summary execution of Venezuelans in boats with bombs, the tactics Trump is using today against immigrants and "foreigners" are the same tactics he will use on everyone else tomorrow.

The evidence just keeps mounting that Israel's government is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. As Israel expands its ground invasion into Gaza City, our government cannot continue to deny what so many clearly see. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

I’ll be holding a press conference with @jayapal.house.gov, Rep. Tlaib, @repsummerlee.bsky.social, @ramirez.house.gov, and family members of Americans killed by Israeli settlers and forces at 10:30am ET today. Watch live on TikTok.

The Trump administration is tearing down protections for immigrants, dismantling Temporary Protected Status and parole programs that keep families safe I joined @ramirez.house.gov to demand Congress pass the American Dream & Promise Act and give Dreamers and long-time residents a path to citizenship

As a proud Chapina Americana, today I honor Guatemala's Independence Day and the Independence Day of our Central American neighbors. ¡Felicidades en las fiestas a Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua y Costa Rica! May we honor the courage and perseverance of those who came before us!

Hearing from the families that ICE has terrorized in Chicago has been painful. But it has also been a reminder of why we must fight like hell and heaven and be light in dark times. We must be beacons for justice.

BREAKING in Chicago: "ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers" by @sarahlazare.bsky.social & @bloomekatz.bsky.social “The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” @ramirez.house.gov said Saturday.

The Admin is abusing confidential data willingly provided to federal agencies to racially profile and terrorize immigrants.    We should all be alarmed.  I am proud to join the Home Together Act and the LINE Act to fight against the weaponization of our neighbors’ confidential information.

While employment rates go down, grocery prices are up! During back to school season, working families are struggling to keep up with the prices of the products they need- food, notebooks, backpacks.   The Trump Golden Age is for billionaires, not working families.   www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Today, our communities in Franklin Park witnessed the inevitable violence resulting from the Trump Administration’s unconstitutional, unlawful, unaccountable actions.

There is power in community. We take care of us. We know our rights. And we protect our neighbors and our communities. Once again, we showed the Trump Administration that we won't bend the knee to their authoritarianism. chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

Safety is found in care — not in conquest. I joined @ramirez.house.gov, @justice4mahmoud.bsky.social, @cynthianixon.bsky.social, Morgan Spector, and my colleagues to call for the passage of the Block the Bombs Act and say that the genocide in Gaza MUST end.

Billionaires shouldn’t pay lower tax rates than working people. That's why we're proud to endorse @ramirez.house.gov's #EqualTaxAct which ends this rigged system by taxing wealthy investors’ income the same as workers’ wages. equaltaxact.com

My colleagues say they don’t want taxpayer money going to immigrants—then vote to jail them in US private prisons, handing taxpayers' money to their donors. I voted HELL NO on the Stop Illegal Entry Act.

Right now, teachers pay a higher tax rate than billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. That’s why we worked with @ramirez.house.gov to introduce the #EqualTaxAct to tax wealth like work and close the loopholes the ultra-rich exploit.

Today, we remember the lives lost and forever changed by the attack on our country 24 years ago. From New York to Illinois and across our nation, we express our gratitude to those who put their lives on the line to save others.

🚨BREAKING: With our members by her side, @ramirez.house.gov has *officially* introduced the #EqualTaxAct. Here's what it does: ✅Taxes millionaire investments like wages ✅Closes billionaire loopholes ✅Boosts the economy & cuts inequality ✅Raises revenue only from the rich

Block the Bombs Act is the first step toward oversight and accountability for the murder of children with US-made, taxpayer-funded weapons. Enough! In the face of authoritarian leaders perpetrating a genocidal campaign, Block the Bombs is the minimum action Congress must take.

Block the Bombs! Enough is enough.

Without checks and balances, an unaccountable executive branch is nothing less than an authoritarian government. www.axios.com/2025/09/03/r...

We are living through a Constitutional crisis. The highest court in our nation has ruled that racial profiling is legal. In order to appease their supreme leader Trump, the politicized Supreme Court failed to protect Americans, the rule of law, & the Constitution. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Illinois' law is clear: No ICE detention centers in our state. And if it's used to detain people, it's a detention center. That's why Broadview must be shut down. www.nbcchicago.com/news/politic...

Judge Chen could not have been clearer! A change in our Presidency and Administration did not change the conditions that made Venezuelans, Haitians, and other refugees seek asylum here. apnews.com/article/immi...

So we've entered the military tribunal part of the authoritarian regime, huh? Untrained lawyers are no substitute for experienced immigration judges. Trump continues to abuse military authority because military personnel will follow orders. www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...

Trump and the Pentagon executed 11 people in the Caribbean, 1,500 miles away from the United States, without a legal rationale. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

I signed the discharge petition. It is time for accountability, justice and transparency. Release the Epstein files.

Today, I hosted a press conference with my colleagues and the ACLU to make it clear: No, Mr. President. No kings, no dictators. No need for the National Guard in Chicago, Baltimore, or New York City. We will not be silenced. And we will not bend the knee.

Yup. An appeals court affirmed what we already knew: invoking the Alien Enemies Act during peacetime is unlawful, unprecedented, and unacceptable.

Thank you to the Infant Welfare Society for letting me stop by your clinic for a tour and to discuss how we continue to ensure #IL03 families have access to essential health care in the face of the Big Ugly Law, funding cuts, and attacks on our communities' well-being.

"They are afraid of us because we are not afraid of them." In the next 28 days, Republicans and the Administration will use every diversion tactic they can to distract from their attacks on working people, complicity in authoritarianism, and total unwillingness to do their jobs.

Let us be clear: there is no emergency in Chicago that warrants the President of the United States deploying the military. I joined Senators Duckworth and Durbin and 10 Members of Congress from IL to demand that Trump & the Pentagon suspend plans for the deployment of military personnel to Chicago.

It was illegal when Donald Trump abused military power in LA. It would be in Chicago, too, if he unlawfully moves forward with his threats. The deployment of military personnel in Democratic cities is not about safety and security. It is about control.

¡En la unión está la fuerza!

May Labor Day be a reminder that solidarity, workers' solidarity, is our greatest strength. It’s what protects us from those looking to rob us of our services, our lands, our health care, our jobs, our thriving futures.

Another unjust action of the administration stopped by our courts. Due process is not optional, and deporting hundreds of Guatemalan children without it is unacceptable.

There is no "voluntary" relocation when you've been bombed, starved, terrorized, and detained. It's all coercion. It's forced relocation.

FEMA is under-resourced and underfunded because of the Trump Administration. As floods impact our communities here in Chicago, Trump and Noem continue to prioritize the punishment of the federal workers exercising their first amendment rights over helping people recover from disasters.

No, Mr. President, no kings, no dictators, no need for the National Guard in Chicago. We don’t need Trump’s troops on our streets. Read my Op-Ed responding to Trump's threats to deploy the National Guard in Chicago. 👉 msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Rather than addressing rent prices or increasing rates of homelessness, Trump is threatening public housing. Make no mistake, demanding that housing authorities comply with his persecution of immigrants is just another way to advance his fascist agenda. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...

No, Mr. President, no kings, no dictators, no need for the National Guard in Chicago. We don’t need Trump’s troops on our streets. Read my Op-Ed responding to Trump's threats to deploy the National Guard in Chicago. 👉 msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Yesterday, I observed immigrant court proceedings. While Trump and his cronies in Congress are gutting legal representation for immigrants and weaponizing the immigration courts, I joined advocates from ICIRR, NIJC, and AILA to conduct oversight.