Move to Amend - Nevada County

07/18/2026

STAND UP AGAINST WAR TODAY!

Join the Bridge Brigade this Saturday, July 18th on the Brunswick overpass! 9 - 11 AM
Learn more and RSVP here: https://www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-actions/event/988222/

07/08/2026

We must stop aiding Israel and AIPAC in the genocide against Palestinians and the slaughter in Lebanon!

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has forced one of the most divisive foreign-policy fights of the year onto Capitol Hill with an amendment that would eliminate the entire $3.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Israel from the federal budget.

The measure targets the security assistance guaranteed under the 10-year, roughly $38 billion memorandum of understanding that the Obama administration signed with Israel in 2016. Massie's text would simply bar any of the funds in the bill from going to Israel while cutting the overall spending in the measure by $3.3 billion. It was attached to H.R. 8595, the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act for 2027. Notably, the amendment does not touch a separate roughly $500 million a year that Israel receives for missile-defense systems such as Iron Dome.

The move has scrambled the usual party lines. Progressive Democrats including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) came out in support of stripping the aid, while House Appropriations Democrats warned of broader consequences and the caucus split sharply over whether to back a Republican-led effort to cut off Israel.

The House Rules Committee had initially marked the amendment "Made in Order," clearing it for floor consideration and a vote — then abruptly canceled the planned vote after intense debate among Democrats over how to handle it. Pro-Israel groups across the spectrum, from AIPAC to Democratic Majority for Israel, mobilized against the measure, which is widely expected to fail given the limited Republican appetite for cutting the aid.

Massie, a libertarian-leaning Republican and one of Congress's most persistent critics of foreign aid and deficit spending, has signaled he will keep pressing the issue regardless of the outcome of any single vote.

The fight lays bare a widening fracture in Washington over the scale of American support for Israel — a question long treated as politically untouchable — and it has put lawmakers in both parties on record, or scrambling to avoid being on record, at a moment when public opinion on the aid is shifting.

06/22/2026

Nevada County's "New Peace Choir" performs this Friday, June 26 at 6:00 at the Sierra Center for Spiritual Living, 116 Florence in Grass Valley (park in rear of GV Vets Hall and walk through to Florence.) We are a community choir singing songs of Peace, Hope and Inspiration with 4 -part harmonies! Treat yourself to an evening of happiness and song. This is a fundraiser for the Sierra Center. Suggested donation $10-$20, but no one turned away.

05/04/2026

Ms. Cox has created a very intelligent and succinct video explaining the importance of the mid-term elections. Your vote counts!

04/26/2026

10/24/2025

Vote Forward is organizing a powerful campaign to reach likely Democratic voters about California’s Proposition 50, the Election Rigging Response Act—and we need your help. Here’s how you can get involved. **From anywhere in the U.S.:** Write and send letters to likely Democratic voters, encou...

04/03/2025

Ralph Nader calls out former leaders of both parties as they remain silent in the face of the most dangerous take over this nation has ever seen.

By Ralph Nader March 14, 2025 There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the day. Most of these reasons are simple cover for cowardice. Start with the once-powerful Bus...