GOOD NEWS
THE GOOD FIGHT
We are fighting the good fight.
2025 February
2025-02-06 A federal judge blocked Trump’s unconstitutional birthright citizenship order.
2025 March
2025-03-06 Multiple attorneys general banded together to fight against the Trump administration to block it from freezing Congressionally approved funds.
2025-03-07 AOC introduced 10 Percent Credit Card Interest Rate Cap which would cap credit-card annual interest rates at 10 percent.
2025 April
2025-04-01 Democrat attorneys general sued the administration for terminating $11BN in public health funding, forcing the administration to justify grant cancellations.
2025-04-13 Senator Warren introduced SEER Act to impose stronger ethics and disclosure requirements on special government employees.
2025 May
2025-05-06 Senator Slotkin introduced End Crypto Corruption Act which would prohibit presidents, members of Congress and certain senior officials and their families from issuing or financially benefiting from cryptocurrency products such as meme coins and stablecoins while in office.
2025 June
2025-06-09 Senator Warren introduced Fit to Serve Act which would prohibit discrimination against transgender military personnel and legislatively reverse the Trump administration’s renewed ban on transgender service members.
2025-06-12 Multiple Democrat led states joined together to block unlawful provisions by Trump’s executive order to interfere in elections.
2025 July
2025-07-14 States sued the administration for freezing billions of dollars in after-school, summer, and preparation programs in education. This would force money to be released, delay cuts, and prevent programs from closing.
2025-07-16 AOC introduced Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 2025 which would reauthorize and strengthen the federal Healthy Start program, which funds maternal and infant health services in communities with high infant-mortality rates.
2025-07-30 Senator Slotkin introduced Ban Corporate PACs Act which would prohibit for-profit corporations from operating political action committees and require existing corporate PACs to wind down.
https://www.slotkin.senate.gov/2025/07/30/slotkin-introduces-ban-corporate-pacs-act/
2025 September
2025-09-09 Senator Warren introduced Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act which would restrict special government employees and other individuals with substantial financial conflicts from obtaining access to sensitive Social Security systems and personal information.
2025-09-14 New Mexico Democrats stepped up and introduced a plan to establish universal childcare statewide.
2025 November
2025-11-05 Kansas ultimately dropped their effort to redistrict because they couldn’t gather enough Republican votes.
2025-11-11 A Utah judge rejected a Republican-passed redistricting plan.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/11/utah-judge-denies-gop-passed-congressional-map-00646183
2025-11-13 Private equity firms gutted American businesses and pensions (i.e. Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital). See Elizabeth Warren’s bill “Corporate Crimes Against Healthcare Act”.
https://www.ueunion.org/political-action/2012/mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-greed-debt-and-hypocrisy-
2025-11-17 Senator Warren introduced Stop Ballroom Bribery Act which would impose restrictions and disclosure requirements surrounding private donations for presidential construction projects.
2025-11-28 AOC introduced No GOUGE Act, which would target companies that use Trump’s tariffs as a pretext to impose price increases beyond their actual added costs.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6318
2025 December
2025-12-01 Indiana rebuked Trump’s pressure campaign to redistrict.
2026 January
2026-01-14 Minnesota fought against the USDA attacks on SNAP and recertified 100,000 households for SNAP eligibility.
2026 February
2026-02-11 Senator Warren introduced ICE Accountability Act which would create an independent federal watchdog with authority to investigate and enforce reforms involving ICE and Customs and Border Protection
2026-02-20 Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs were struck down.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-rejects-trumps-global-tariffs-2026-02-20
2026 March
2026-03-05 Democrats introduced the No Getting Rich in Congress Act to ban the President, Vice President, members of Congress, candidates for federal office, and their dependents from buying and selling individual stock.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5768262-house-democrats-introduce-stock-ban/
2026-03-16 US District Judge Brian Murphy blocked RFK’s attempts to slash recommended vaccines for infants – including his attempt to eliminate childhood vaccines for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, RSV, Dengue fever, and two types of bacterial meningitis. He wrote in his ruling, “There is a method to how these decisions historically have been made – a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements. Unfortunately, the Government has disregarded those methods and thereby undermined the integrity of its actions”. The judge also found that RFK violated the law when he fired all 17 board members of the CDC.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2026/03/16/kennedy-vaccines-lawsuit/89186841007/
2026 April
2026-04-06 Mayor Mamdani made huge strides in Staten island road repairs.
2026-04-10 Mayor Mamdani cleaned up illegal dumping in Soundview.
2026-04-12 Mayor Mamdani and Governor Hochul announced a historic $1.2BN investment in universal childcare.
2026-04-12 Democrats in New York secured more than $9M in restitution for workers and small businesses, delivering $34M in repairs, settlements and judgments.
2026-04-20 The Onion finalized acquisition of InfoWars studios (which started back in November 2024) and announced they would use proceeds to pay the parents of Sandy Hook victims, something Alex Jones tried to avoid.
2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4nrL2C3qIQ&t=3s
2026 May
2026-05-26 South Carolina rejected Trump’s pressure campaign to redistrict.
2026 June
2026-06-12 A judge ordered Trump’s name to be removed from the Kennedy Center.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-kennedy-center-name-removed-cover-up
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/double-rainbow-kennedy-center-trump/
2026-06-18 Senator Alyssa Slotkin introduced the Protect our Polls Act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdTAlcArXiQ&list=WL&index=4&t=1s
2026-06-22 Congress passed a major bipartisan housing law.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-house-overwhelmingly-backs-affordable-housing-bill-2026-06-23
2026-06-22 Los Angeles preserved its immigration policy.
2026-06-25 States blocked Trump’s nationwide mail-ballot restrictions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-blocks-trumps-mail-in-voting-executive-order-2026-06-25
2025-06-25 Some Republicans resisted Trump’s voting legislation.
2026-06-29 SCOTUS protected Federal Reserve independence.
2026-06-30 SCOTUS preserved birthright citizenship.
2026-06-30 Democrat-let states successfully challenged a Trump administration rule that would have allowed the Education Department to exclude workers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-blocks-trumps-limits-student-loan-forgiveness-2026-06-30
2026 July
2026-07-02 Democrats delivered a rent freeze through the Rent Guidelines Board on regulated apartments.
https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/what-has-mamdani-done-so-far/
2026-07-02 Crime in New York dropped within the first 6 months of Mamdani’s term.
https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/what-has-mamdani-done-so-far/
2026-07-13 Democrats recovered billions of dollars in childcare and social services the Trump administration froze up.
2026-07-14 Researchers studying misinformation won First Amendment protection.
2026-07-14 Senate Democrats temporarily blocked an enormous defense bill.
2026-07-17 A federal judge rules that Trump could not revoke already-awarded federal grants simply because the programs conflicted with Trump priorities.
2026-07-18 Connecticut defeated Trump’s demand for unredacted voter data.
2026-07-23 Charlie Kirk signs were removed from Vietnam Veterans Boulevard after pushback from veterans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWEHxiA4AMo
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/us/charlie-kirk-memorial-highway-signs.html
PAY WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/us/charlie-kirk-memorial-highway-signs.html
2026-07-23 The man who killed Melissa and Mark Hortman was sentenced to two consecutive life terms. The suspect left behind 3 assault rifles, a handgun, and a hit list containing the names of dozens of people including prominent Democrats and abortion providers and advocates.
2026-07-24 The Trump administration withdrew subpoenas for New York Times journalists’ phone records. This came after a stern reprimand from a judge.
https://apnews.com/article/usmediatimesair-force-one-42429e4d4da8accc42b6c3ddf3f4fed5
SUB WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/media/new-york-times-subpoenas-withdraw.html
2026-07-25 An appeals court ruled that Trump cannot enforce mail-in voting restrictions on 23 states.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ZjNAukwtU&list=WL&index=2
2026-07-28 Mayor Mamdani proposed plans to create city-owned grocery stores to help lower grocery costs on staple items like meat, pasta, produce, seafood, bread, yogurt, rice and beans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7W0kHqCgTk&list=WL&index=2
https://apnews.com/article/mamdani-nyc-grocery-stores-prices-bronx-4634d4030209fea663e68f5d6d09a325
2026 August
2026-08-05 Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Senate primary campaigning on Medicare for all, ending aid to Israel, and getting money out of politics. Trump said on Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI), “He’s a man of hate. He doesn’t love Israel, he doesn’t love Jewish people, he hates ‘em. He hates ‘em with a passion that burns in his heart and there’s not a freaking thing he can do about it”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/michigan-senate-primary-results-abdul-el-sayed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67SarATXnE&list=WL&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9mHl8f7OH4&list=WL&index=4
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6012517-trump-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-primary/
2026-08-06 House Representative Andy Ogles lost his House primary.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79grd2prnro
https://rollcall.com/2026/08/06/embattled-rep-andy-ogles-loses-republican-primary-in-tennessee/
2026-08-11 Massachusetts expanded late term abortion access when its necessary to save the pregnant person’s life.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/11/headlines/massachusetts_expands_late_term_abortion_access
https://19thnews.org/2026/08/massachusetts-abortion-law-no-limit-pregnancy/
2026-08-11 Former US Marine Robert Gilman was released from Russian custody after nearly 4 years.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-gilman-russia-released/
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-frees-ailing-ex-us-marine-robert-gilman-detention-2026-08-11/
2026-08-12 Karoline Leavitt announced she would be stepping down end of August.
2026-08-14 A federal judge dismissed Trump’s lawsuit against Harvard of anti-Semitism accusations.
2026-08-16 Trump merchandise stores go out of business as their customer base dwindles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2SH4LQc0RQ&list=WL&index=1
2026-08-17 A judge ruled that Idaho must allow abortions when the pregnant person’s life is at risk. The judge wrote, “It is about self-preservation and the limit of the State’s power to make a woman suffer for the sake of an unborn child…A pregnant woman’s health is not a State resource to be allocated at the legislature’s whim”.
2026-08-19 A Democratic socialist pulled off a stunning upset in Florida’s Senate primary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dv3iHLbgeo&list=WL&index=9
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/democrats-florida-senate-angie-nixon-misterms
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6036787-nixon-vindman-peltola-primaries/
2026-08-20 Despite AIPAC spending $6M on a slander campaign, Aisha Wahab won a California special election.
2026-08-22 A judge struck down Trump’s visa ban on 75 countries.
2026-08-24 A private arbitrator ordered the Washington Post to rehire columnist Karen Attiah with backpay after she was fired for making comments about Charlie Kirk.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/washington-post-ordered-rehire-columnist-122816116.html
2026-08-22 White nationalist Jake Lang got his ass kicked by Spiderman.
https://www.fox9.com/news/man-dressed-spider-man-costume-jake-lang-protest-charged-assault
2026-08-22 White nationalist Eoin Richard tried to hold an Islamophobic protest in LA in front of an Islamic center. When he was confronted by numerous counter-protestors he tried to take refuge in a Catholic church, where the church staff had to physically throw him out kicking and screaming. Then he tried to hide in a Starbucks where he was met with other counter-protestors who threw blue paint on him.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=910577801666511
2026-08-30 Thousands of New Yorkers rallied at Madison Square Garden to protest the visit of chief far-right RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat.
2026-08-31 US District Judge Noel Wise wrote, “In the United States, free speech, including the freedom to criticize the government and its leaders, is not a sign of our democracy’s fragility. It is evidence of its strength”. The judge ruled that Trump has violated Constitutional rights and that immigration law cannot be used to retaliate against people for being pro-Palestinian.
2026 September
2026-09-01 A judge extended a temporary order to pause expansion of the border wall over Big Bend National Park.
2026-09-02 A federal judge blocked Trump’s attempt to block DACA recipient Ya’akub Vijandre from seeking release from ICE custody. He was targeted for his photojournalism on Gaza and arrested by gunpoint in October.
2026-09-03 Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the GOP-drawn map to gerrymander votes will not be used in November’s mid-term elections.
SUB WALL https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/03/missouri-gerrymander-paused-2026-election-01064420
2026-09-03 The ICE agent who shot a Venezuelan immigrant in Minnesota was taken into federal custody on charges of making false statements to investigators.
https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-blocks-charges-ice-agent-minneapolis-julio-cesar-sosa-celis
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-officer-charged-doj-christian-castro-minnesota/
2026-09-03 MapQuest rejected Trumps executive order to change the name of one of the Great Lakes to Lake America. Afterwards they received the number 1 spot in app store downloads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5GwPE9WmI&list=WL&index=8
2026-09-04 ICE released 76-year-old green card holder Loreto Javar who has stage-4 cancer. He was detained for over 2 months.
2026-09-08 Talarico raised $68M to Paxton’s $9M. Meanwhile, Texas plans to close polling places.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/republicans-paxton-talarico-race/4072587/
2026-09-08 Mamdani released 170,000 newly uncovered documents of the September 11th attacks showed air quality contamination reports were hidden and only recently found last year. Juliani attacked Mamdani on Newsmax, claiming Mamdani was part of an alleged Muslim plot aimed at taking over America.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/09/us/9-11-documents-misled-air-what-we-know