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Get Out The Vote weekend for new congressional maps in Virginia is upon us, and it’s still up in the air whether we’ll be able to successfully push back against Trump’s effort to rig the House. A new poll by States Navigate has us up by five points among likely voters, and updated early voting data suggests turnout is climbing in Democratic strongholds in the northern part of the state. But the Republican pushback now has $27 million behind it, and Governor Spanberger’s approval numbers have dropped substantially since her sweeping victory in November. We’re going to need to put the work in.

Here’s the schedule of chances to help get out the vote in the closing stretch:

• TODAY
  • Phonebank with Activate America 3-4:30PM ET or with Center for Common Ground 4-8PM ET
  • Textbank with the National Redistricting Action Fund 11AM-12PM or 4-5PM ET
• TOMORROW
  • Phonebank with Activate America 3-4:30PM ET, with Rural Groundgame 4:00-6:30PM ET or with Virginians for Fair Elections 6-8PM ET
  • Spanish language phonebanks with the Arlington Democrats 6-8 PM ET
  • Textbank with the National Redistricting Action Fund 10-11AM and 4-5PM ET or with Virginians for Fair Elections 6-7 PM ET
• SATURDAY
  • Phonebank with Virginians for Fair Elections 9AM-12PM ET, Grassroots Dems HQ from 12-2PM ET or Rural Groundgame 1:30-4PM ET
• SUNDAY
  • Phonebank with Grassroots Dems HQ 12PM-3PM ET or Rural Groundgame 4:30-7PM ET
• MONDAY
  • Phonebank with Activate America 3-4:30 PM ET and with Rural Groundgame 5:30-8PM ET
  • Spanish language phonebanks with the Arlington Democrats 6-8 PM ET
• ELECTION DAY
  • Phonebank with Virginians for Fair Elections 9AM-6PM ET

The digital week of action urging Citizens Bank to drop their financing of concentration camps is rolling on. For Day Two, we’re turning up the pressure by hijacking their hashtags, ensuring that anyone who sees a Citizens marketing post knows exactly who else they’re in business with. #️⃣ Let’s check out the toolkit for sample images and language we can post along with the hashtags #MadeReady, #CitizensHelpingCitizens, #CitizensOfNY and #CitizensColleague, or find some of the heartbreaking photos from GEO Group and CoreCivic facilities and make posts of our own. (Here's ours on Instagram.) #️⃣

✊🏽 Want to deepen our involvement in challenging this ICE enabler? Join a national mobilization call TONIGHT at 7PM ET here to learn more about next steps and the coalition’s plans for next week’s shareholder meeting. ✊🏿

If we’re going to make the national shutdown on May 1st matter, we’re going to have to do the slow, hard work of asking folks to make a sacrifice with us, one person at a time. 🪧 Here’s some tools we can use and opportunities to help us grow the movement in the coming days: 🪧

• The May Day Strong coalition has put out a starter toolkit with guidance on how to have one-on-one conversations with folks about this strike. Let’s check it out here.
• Let’s each make a personal commitment to asking one person in our lives to join us in striking on May 1st. We can urge them to sign the pledge with us here.
• Many local coalition groups are canvassing businesses in their neighborhood, asking them to show solidarity by closing on May 1st. We can find guidance on how to run one of these canvasses here.
• Freedom Trainers will be conducting a virtual seminar on how we can build local capacity for strike readiness TONIGHT at 6PM ET. We can sign up to join here.
• United We Dream is holding a textbank to reach progressives nationwide about the May Day shutdown on Tuesday at 7PM ET. We can volunteer to take part here.

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• -  GOTV weekend arrives for Virginia redistricting
• -  New addition to our midterms action page: phonebanking to help Lutheran minister and state senator Sarah Trone Garriott flip a competitive seat in Iowa
• -  Trump Fed nominee gets confirmation hearing date like the White House isn’t trying to prosecute his predecessor, tell the Senate to block this puppet
• -  Interrupting Criminalization’s toolkits for blocking detention centers in our communities
• -  Taking over Citizens Bank’s hashtags, national mobilization call for Day Two of the week of action against concentration camp financiers

The private prison and detention industry are making massive profits off ICE terrorizing our neighbors, and Citizens Bank is making it possible. They’ve provided more than half a billion dollars in financing each to CoreCivic and The GEO Group. And they don’t just do the loans: Citizens also arranges and coordinates complex credit and bond deals, giving them access to more than $2.5 billion, including $100 million in January 2026 alone.

This complicity is a choice. Eight of this country’s largest financial institutions ended their relationships with the private prison industry in 2019, under activist and shareholder pressure. It’s time to make Citizens follow suit.

The De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition is building pressure on corporate leaders to get out of the concentration camp business. Today, they’re launching a digital week of action to turn up the heat ahead of the bank’s upcoming shareholder meeting, where they’ll be protesting on April 23rd. ✊🏻 Let’s do our part! We can find the full toolkit for the week here, and start by sharing Lucia’s story and signing and sharing a petition to Citizens leadership here.✊🏿

🪧 Tomorrow night, the coalition will be holding a national mobilization call at 7PM ET to talk about how we can get more deeply involved in these efforts. We can sign up to join them here. 🪧

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• House vote on warrantless wiretapping expected today, Iran votes in both houses anticipated by tomorrow – tell our reps to fight the surveillance state, end the war
• Help with upcoming textbanks to turn out Virginians in favor of new congressional maps, get Michiganders on board with a money-out-of-politics ballot initiative, rally Arizonans against a congressman who voted to cut their Medicaid and food assistance and get folks out for May Day
• Six days to go in Virginia… let’s join phonebanks TONIGHT with Center for Common Ground 4-6PM ET or with Grassroots Dems HQ 6-8PM
• Florida legislature to consider new GOP gerrymander next week, join activists in driving calls to stop them
• This Tax Day, we pay a higher average tax rate than Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos – highlight this rigged system on social media and demand the wealthy pay their fair share with the Equal Tax Act

Trump and MAGA launched an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting effort to try to steal the House in these midterms. A week from tomorrow, we get a chance to level the playing field. The vote on whether to redraw the maps in Virginia to respond to GOP gerrymandering is looking close, in spite of our massive spending advantage, the light blue tilt of the commonwealth and Trump’s unpopularity. Among the most worrisome indicators: turnout is running higher in GOP-held districts. We need to make sure it doesn’t stay that way.

Here’s a full list of ways we can help turn out folks in Virginia every day until Election Day:

• ANY TIME
  • Rally support online with DemCast USA’s social media toolkit
• TODAY
  • Phonebank with Activate America 3-4:30PM ET, Center for Common Ground 4-8PM ET or NAACP Virginia 7:30-8:30PM ET
  • Textbank with Virginians for Fair Elections 6-7 PM ET
• TOMORROW
  • Phonebank with Center for Common Ground 4-6PM ET or with Grassroots Dems HQ 6-8PM (with special guest Jess Craven!)
  • Textbank with Virginians for Fair Elections 6-7 PM ET
• THURSDAY
  • Phonebank with Activate America 3-4:30PM ET or with Center for Common Ground 4-8PM ET
• FRIDAY
  • Phonebank with Activate America 3-4:30PM ET, with Rural Groundgame 4:00-6:30PM ET or with Virginians for Fair Elections 6-8PM ET
  • Textbank with Virginians for Fair Elections 6-7 PM ET
• SATURDAY
  • Phonebank with Virginians for Fair Elections 9AM-12PM ET, Grassroots Dems HQ from 12-2PM ET or Rural Groundgame 1:30-4PM ET
• SUNDAY
  • Phonebank with Grassroots Dems HQ 12PM-3PM ET or Rural Groundgame 4:30-7PM ET
• MONDAY
  • Phonebank with Activate America 3-4:30 PM ET and with Rural Groundgame 5:30-8PM ET
• ELECTION DAY
  • Phonebank with Virginians for Fair Elections 9AM-6PM ET

And for those of us or near Virginia, we can find shifts to go door-to-door here.

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• Ahead of the May Day shutdowns, let’s join Freedom Trainers to learn what it takes to be strike ready
• Someone inside the Trump regime may be making a fortune on the prediction markets based on insider info completely legally, support legislation to stop this corruption
• Election workers are increasingly worried about November, let’s make sure they have the resources they need to keep our elections running smoothly
• A special election to pick a new member of the House is coming Thursday, phonebank for Analilia Mejia tonight or tomorrow
• MomsRising wants to know how much we’re paying for child care, health care and housing
• TONIGHT at 8 PM ET join a movement call ahead of the Communities Not Cages Day of Action against human warehouses here OR get trained on tactics for rapid response activism with the ACLU here

What we’re attempting to do this May Day is not easy. Mass noncompliance requires a lot of individuals to decide they’re going to be part of it to succeed, and there are plenty of ways for any one of us to justify not doing our share of a collective action. We are going to have to put the work in to recruit folks to say no work, no school, no shopping in protest of this administration’s pro-billionaire agenda.

TONIGHT at 7PM ET, organizers are holding a national call to talk about our demands, the protests that will be taking place on May 1st, and our long-term strategy for power-building. It’s a great way to get folks up to speed on what the plan is and answer any questions they have about the May Day shutdown. 🏫 Let’s sign up to join here and make sure we’re inviting interested folks to attend with us. 🏫

The May Day Strong coalition has also put together resources we can use to recruit, including a starter toolkit with everything from sticker and sign designs to guidance on how to have one-on-one conversations with folks about the shutdown, a map of events that folks can attend on May Day, a pledge folks can sign to commit to participating, and guidance on how to canvass local businesses to ask them to join us by closing for the day. ⛏️ Let’s check it all out here. ⛏️

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• Urge public pension fund managers, state legislators to divest from Palantir
• Trainings start Monday on salting workplaces – taking jobs at strategic locations with the explicit intent of union organizing

They’re abducting our neighbors, imprisoning children and murdering innocent people. But the deportation machine isn’t bad for everyone – private prison companies are getting rich off running MAGA’s concentration camps. GEO Group and CoreCivic poured more than a million dollars into getting Donald Trump elected, and their investment is paying off. They received $2.1 billion and $653.5 million, respectively, in ICE contracts last year, and GEO Group’s profits grew by nearly 700%.

These are key institutional supporters of this regime and its atrocities, and we’re coming after them. Here’s how:

Tomorrow at 3PM, Worth Rises is holding an information session for their new #DropVanguard campaign. Vanguard is one of the largest shareholders in private prisons, and also manages retirement funds for many non-profits, foundations and other values-based institutions. ✊🏾 They’re urging these groups to push them to divest from the carceral industry – or stop relying on them altogether. We can learn more about this effort here and register for the call here. (We can also use this tool from Stop The Money Pipeline to contact the leadership of Vanguard and other financial institutions directly**.**✊🏼

Citizens Bank provides financing to CoreCivic and GEO Group, with reach receiving more than half a billion dollars. The De-Ice Citizens Bank Coalition is spotlighting their complicity and urging them to end this relationship – or face depositors withdrawing their funds. ✊🏼 We can find actions we can take to turn up the heat here and join their national organizing call on April 16th at 7PM ET here. ✊🏾

The Appeal has built a database documenting which of our members of Congress have accepted money from private prison companies. 🗣️📢 Let’s see if our reps are on the list here, and then demand they donate it to pro-immigrant groups or lose our support. We can also publicize their corruption among our networks. 🗣️📢

Finally, legislators in California and New Jersey have proposed getting our money back from the private prison industry, taxing their profits at 50% and redirecting the funds to immigrant services. 🗣️ Let’s urge our lawmakers to follow their lead. We can find scripts and email language here or send this email by texting SIGN PBYCBG to 50409. 🗣️

Trump is threatening to murder a whole civilization. In our name. We need to speak up and make it clear to our elected officials and the world that we’re saying hell no to Trump’s living hell.

The Answer Coalition, along with the DSA, the Palestinian Youth Movement and the People’s Forum, are calling for national protests TOMORROW to demand an end to Trump’s war on Iran. We can find a still-being-updated list of protests already organized here or get one we are putting together added to the list here.

We can also find call scripts and email tools demanding an end to Trump’s war, opposing boots on the ground and supplemental appropriations and pushing for a windfall profits tax on his fossil fuel donors here and here.

On Saturday, No Kings reached into 3,300+ communities in every single congressional district, including more than 600 for the first time. More than 1 of every 50 Americans showed up. The energy to defeat Trump and the billionaires is there. Now, we need to convert it into power.

May Day Strong organizers are calling for a higher level of commitment for the next day of protest, collective action for May 1st. We're holding a full national shutdown: no work, no school, no commerce. And we’re going beyond rejecting Trump’s oligarchic project to propose one of our own: a real affordability agenda with detailed policy proposals to build multiracial democracy, change the economic rules in our country and put the good life within everyone’s reach.

The build is well under way. Let's make sure we do our part.

We can take the pledge to strike here, and start asking folks around us to do the same.

We can find out what's involved in hosting an action here - 3300 won't come easy.

We can read the full people's agenda here.

And we can join a mass call to learn more on Thursday, April 9th here.

Also in today’s Rogan’s List:

• Turn No Kings energy into power - learn about upcoming national community meetings in a mass call tomorrow, help win races this spring and in November
• Demand our members of Congress hold town halls during this two-week recess
• Thank the Choctaw Nation for keeping a warehouse out of ICE’s concentration camp network
• Learn from a Missouri tenants union that organized a four-month rent strike and won Wednesday
• This week’s judges to thank
• Learn more about getting local institutions to drop Flock contracts or phonebank Virginians about the redistricting vote tonight at 6PM ET, get engaged with stopping data center projects or reach out to Arizonans to elect climate champions at 8PM ET