Happy Thanksgiving from Brattleboro, Vermont! 🍁

Heading to Washington State this week with Action Corps (actioncorps.org). If you’re there and interested in our organizing for global justice, let me know!

[Sigh of relief] www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...

Vote forecast from Senate Cloakroom: At 5:00pm, on Thursday, November 6th, the Senate is expected to proceed to a roll call vote on the motion to discharge from Foreign Relations Committee S.J.Res.90, Kaine War Powers Resolution (Venezuela). Source: x.com/SenateCloakr...

This report cites the work of the coalition Action Corps (@actioncorps.org) led starting in 2020 that secured the release of massive IMF resources called #SDRs for the developing world. This is a critical option in light of decimation of #USAID. cepr.net/publications...

So good to talk with a policy expert in DC who really values organizing around the country. @timhirschelburns.bsky.social understands the critical importance of people power when it comes to changing U.S. military and global economic policy. Check out his work!

Brattleboro Folks: I'd love to connect with you at one of these sessions at 69A Elliot St., Brattleboro, Vermont. I also welcome your ideas and invitations for other times and spaces to connect! #VTpoli

Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, has begun with sunset. Jews are taught to reflect on the ways that they have missed the mark this past year. This an opportunity for us all — Jews and non-Jews alike — to do that. Let us commit now to transform those wrongs in the months ahead.

How do we stop Gaza genocide? In this article I call on @senpeterwelch.govpeeps.us @sanders.senate.gov & @balint.house.gov to introduce res per Foreign Assistance Act & U.S. Constitution to compel Congress to debate &vote again on U.S. role in the genocide. #VTpoli www.reformer.com/opinion/colu...

Pleased to see our neighbors in Massachusetts are working to reclaim their National Guard and protect it from unconstitutional deployment to combat zones. We could do the same in Vermont. #VTpoli masspeaceaction.org/event/defend-the-guard/

🚨 TONIGHT, Wednesday: Nationwide Activist Call 🚨 Action Corps activists & friends are coming together across the U.S. to connect, strategize, and take action to stop the U.S.' fueling genocide in Gaza. 🗓 Wed, Sept 3, 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT 📩 DM me for the join link. #CeasefireNOW #StopArmingIsrael

The Brattleboro Reformer has reported that the lockout of the bus drivers and monitors has been dropped, and that they are now allowed back to work. Good news for students, families, and the people who drive our young people to and from school! #VTpoli

Happy #LaborDay! As billionaires try to take over our country, this is a key moment to stand with working people. Will you join us tomorrow, Tuesday, September 2, outside Brattleboro Union High School at 7:30am to stand with our school bus drivers and monitors? 1/ www.facebook.com/Vermontlocal...

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

This month the President vowed to forcibly remove unhoused people from DC. In Vermont, our state govt has removed families w/ young children and seniors w/ oxygen tanks from motels w/ no safe place to go. Vermont must do better. Here’s my guidance. #VTpoli www.commonsnews.org/issue/828/82...

Introducing Cristian from our Action Corps community. (actioncorps.org)

📣ACTION ALERT TO STOP U.S./ISRAEL FROM STARVING GAZANS📣: TODAY, Wednesday please call Congress at 202-224-3121. Ask for your U.S. senator. Instructions below.

Good connecting with folks here in my hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont in the July 4th parade. Let’s hold out a vision for town and country that works for everyday people, not just the wealthy elite. #VTpoli

Got to chat with folks at one of the motels where people are being kicked out today in Brattleboro. #VTpoli

Today 73 vulnerable adults and 34 children in Brattleboro, Vermont, will lose their shelter. This is the result of a policy decision by Vermont Gov. Phil Scott that may cause some of our neighbors to die. The good news is that we can show up for our neighbors. Below are 3 things you can do. ⬇️

‼️ Help STOP WAR WITH IRAN ‼️ 1. Call 1-833-STOP-WAR. Follow the easy directions: Tell your senators to support the Iran War Powers Resolution. 2. Repost this. 3. Sign up for alerts at actioncorps.org Senate likely to vote Thursday (6/26/25) late in day. Call today.

Congratulations! 🎉

Want a safer world for Vermonters and everyone else? Then repost this note to thank @balint.house.gov for co-sponsoring the bipartisan Iran #WarPowers Resolution to remove U.S. forces from illegal war in Iran. Congress needs to stand up for their power & duty on matters of war & peace. #NoKings

Here at White House protesting illegal and unconscionable bombing of Iran.

Israel is bombing Iran. I made this video at 6pm today about how war has affected my family. Now I’m walking to the White House for an emergency nonviolent protest. STOP BOMBING IRAN. 🪧 We need peace and diplomacy, not war and domination.

Non-violent action must not be met with violence. Greta Thunberg & the Madleen crew are exemplifying humanitarian solidarity in response to the catastrophic suffering wrought by the Israeli's gov's blockade and starvation of Gaza. We call on lawmakers to demand that their safety is ensured.

Thank you Representative Dave Yacovone for your beautiful words! Each time our team hears them it brings tears to our eyes. Thank you for humanizing people experiencing poverty and homelessness in our state. #vtpoli #crisisinvt #massunsheltering #massunhousing #endhomelessness #housed802

I unequivocally condemn the shooting of the two Israeli embassy employees this week in Washington DC. We need to pursue nonviolence in our work for a just peace. ☮️

The U.S. should apply the Leahy Law consistently and stop making an exception for Israel. Actioncorps.org and @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social are two of many groups working for the U.S. to follow its own laws. #VTpoli vtdigger.org/2025/05/23/i...

It’s so satisfying to watch this simple exercise in #democratic #activism calmly unfolding in these mad times. Thank you #Brattleboro #Vermont! 😍 #HandsOff

Grateful for the actioncorps.org volunteers who are mailing letters around the country to our supporters, building people power for democracy and global justice. #AgitateAndAdvocate

Happy Mother's Day! The original U.S. mother's day proclamation, in 1870 by abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, includes the line: "From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, “Disarm, disarm! The sword is not the balance of justice.” www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

Join actioncorps.org online panel Tues. 5/13 at 8pm ET: The president does not have constitutional power to start wars. Panelists: - Dr. Annelle Sheline, Quincy Institute - Bruce Fein, Esq, author - Diego Rivera, Bring Our Troops Home RSVP: actioncorps.org/wpr-panel.html. #WarPowers

Thankful for spring, and thankful for our community that comes together to keep Brattleboro, VT, beautiful. Shout out to @groundwork.bsky.social for bringing us together to clean up the cemetery on South Main Street this month. 1/

Last month the voters of Brattleboro, Vermont elected me to the selectboard, the 5-person municipal governing body. The first challenge we've been tackling is the last selectboard's budget that our Representative Town Meeting rejected. More on the election: www.commonsnews.org/issue/805/80...

Since my organization actioncorps.org released this statement earlier this week, the U.S. has bombed several cities in Yemen. Congress never authorized these, so the White House is violating the first article of the U.S. Constitution. Some of these airstrikes also look an awful lot like war crimes.

“This is a critical test of Congress’ role under the Constitution,” said Evans-Frantz. “We urge lawmakers to step up now—not after more civilians are killed or more classified information is mishandled.” www.actioncorps.org/statements/n...

Join me for this event: Phyllis Bennis is speaking here in Brattleboro, VT this Wed., 4/9 at 6:30 on U.S. role in Israel/Palestine and present her new book. Q&A to follow. Admission is free and all are welcome. Participants are asked to RSVP in advance at actionnetwork.org/events/phyll...

We were ~2,000 people in the streets of Brattleboro on Saturday for #HandsOff demonstration, per Brattleboro Reformer. Rep. Becca @balint.house.gov urged us to each focus on one thing, whether it’s fighting for veterans, Social Security, due process…. That’s how we stay strong. #VTpoli

This is what the White House looks like when the president fears the people. #HandsOff

Volunteered this week with End Homeless Vermont. Vermont dropped number of people eligible for shelter. You can read some of my thoughts in this article. #VTpoli www.reformer.com/local-news/e...

This was amazing to hear during the senator’s speech yesterday in support of Bernie’s resolution to block certain weapons to the Israeli government.

ICYMI: U.S. airstrikes across Yemen since 3/15 are unconstitutional acts of war that lack congressional authorization, said the orgs @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social, Action Corps (org I direct), and Just Foreign Policy. Congress should stop strikes on Yemen. Full statement: t.co/sGiJQ3pt5t

In the NY Times today: “The share of wealth held by families in the top 10 percent has reached 69 percent, while the share held by families in the bottom 50 percent is only 3 percent, according to the latest reading from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

I have appreciated Vermont’s congressional delegation for speaking up when past administrations were illegally and immorally bombing Yemen. Time for us all to speak up again. Read my and my colleagues’ thoughts in this joint press release. @sanders.senate.gov @balint.house.gov

"President Trump has not only launched us into a new military escapade in the Middle East, he's done so in breach of our Constitution, which requires congressional authorization to start a war," said Isaac Evans-Frantz, director of Action Corps.

This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties. The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process. This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.

Hundreds of our Vermont residents and neighbors will lose their shelter on April 1 if the governor does not allow the legislature's new budget adjustment act to become law. I’m going to call the governor now at 802-828-3333. Join me in doing so, and reply in the comments? #VTpoli

Last night I was sworn into a one-year term on the Brattleboro Selectboard, the 5-person governing body for our town, which is Vermont’s 7th largest municipality w/ 12K+ residents. Challenges lie ahead, but I’m excited to serve. Photo by Chris Mays of the Brattleboro Reformer #VTpoli

Why is The Atlantic finding out illegal U.S. war plans before Congress? Why isn’t Congress asking this? Why isn’t Congress introducing a Yemen war powers resolution like they did under Trump and Biden? Why do we give up our power so easily? Stand up. Fight back. Congress: Reclaim your #WarPowers