Peace Action

05/27/2026

🚨ENDORSEMENT ALERT! 🚨 High school teacher Jeromie Whalen “wants to put “community over chaos, people over profit, and hope over fear. He has worked at the border of Lebanon and Syria with activist Mahmoud Khalil and he’s “seen the impact of war and displacement firsthand. I know the human cost, and I demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and a full stop to U.S. military aid that enables the bombing of civilians.”
Jeromie is also a huge proponent of safeguarding our democracy, protecting equal rights, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Get out and support this Pro-Peace champion today!!!

05/22/2026

All them facists bound to lose!
Pro-War members of Congress are afraid. Your pressure to end the war with Iran is working - KEEP IT UP!!! ✊ ✊ ✊

After Senate Republicans helped advance a Democratic war powers resolution on Iran, the House GOP canceled a related vote, seemingly due to key absences.

05/21/2026

🚨NEW ENDORSEMENT!!!🚨Educator and non-profit leader Audrey Denney grew up on a farm in the Central Coast. She has called Chico home since moving there for college. She believes in a foreign policy that prioritizes peace. “True national security is not built by bombs. It is built through diplomacy, respect for human rights, strategic global partnerships, and an unwavering commitment to international law. America must reclaim its role as a global leader in peace-building and humanitarian leadership, not just military dominance.” Let’s help make sure Audrey gets to be another pro-peace leader in Congress!!!

05/20/2026

Congratulations to on your primary win for KY’s senate seat!!! 🎉
We’ve got your back straight through November’s critical general election, and can’t wait to help you take your pro-peace campaign all the way to the Senate! LET’S GO!!!!!!!! 👊

05/20/2026

Congratulations to on your hard won victory in !!! 🎉
Proving that a pro-peace campaign can take on the status quo, and WIN, we can’t wait to roll up our sleeves and get to work when you’re in Congress. LET’S GO!!!!!!!!!! 👊

05/18/2026

🚨ENDORSEMENT ALERT‼️ Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has spent decades fighting for working families. Now, he wants to take that dedication to DC and to put human needs before militarism. “The billions that Trump is spending every day on his reckless, illegal war in Iran, part of an ever-expanding Pentagon budget that has kept growing whether Republicans or Democrats are in the White House, could pay for health care, child care, college tuition, fighting cancer, and much more here in the United States. Simply put, we could be saving lives, instead of ending them. Fighting for ‘bridges, not bombs’ is a key component of my campaign because I support reallocating funding away from the military-industrial complex towards improving the lives of working families in my district and across the country.”

05/15/2026

Peace Action President Kevin Martin delivered the closing remarks at an international conference in New York City on April 26, the day before the beginning of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations, on prospects for peace and disarmament in such trying times. Thank you to Peace Action Maine for the video. Also, in comments, video presentations by Martin and Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies for Peace Action Maine's spring renewal meeting last Saturday.

Tectonic Geopolitical Changes Conference and Peace Action's President Kevin Martin at closing

05/15/2026

The House of (un) Representatives yesterday voted 212 - 212 on the Iran War Powers Resolution (WPR), a tie, so it did not pass. Jared Golden was once again the only D to vote wrong, against the measure. Three Rs voted right, two for the first time, Brian Fitzpatrick of PA and Tom Barrett of MI, both vulnerable in the November midterms. Thomas Massie of KY continued to vote in favor, as he has each time an Iran WPR has come up.

The Senate also barely failed to pass its WPR the other day, 49-50, with three Republicans voting in favor, two for the first time, Lisa Murkowski (AK) and Susan Collins (ME) joining Rand Paul (KY) who has consistently voted in favor. Even if both had passed the wannabe dictator Trump would veto, and there would not be the votes to override said veto, and it would not end the war immediately. But it would be Congress representing the will of the American people who solidly oppose this stupid senseless illegal war of aggression, and it would be Congress admitting that it is an unauthorized war.

There will be more War Powers votes coming as soon as early next week, on Iran and also Lebanon, so watch this space. The big problem will be when the bill comes due, and the administration is of course lying about the cost of the war saying it's only about $25 billion, whereas an independent estimate has it already at almost thrice that. See the link in comments.

05/14/2026

Peace Action President Kevin Martin was on Voice of Islam radio from London on Tuesday, addressing the US/Israeli wars on Iran and Lebanon. The segment begins about 15 minutes into the show, see the link in the comments. The hosts said some very kind things about peace advocates after Kevin left the air.

05/13/2026

The US/Israeli war on Iran is now triply illegal. See our action alert in the comments, and call your US Representative today and demand they vote to end the madness. A vote is expected tomorrow.

Update: we just barely lost on the Iran War Powers Resolution in the Senate by one vote, and the last vote in the House also was defeated by just one vote. So please take action as described in the alert and call your member of the House of Representatives today!