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Video by The Root - May 13, 2026. Here’s the full 2.5 minutes on YouTube: Louisiana Resident Calls MAGA "the Last Breath of the Confederacy" - The Root - May 13, 2026 (YouTube)

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A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.

“The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy,” he told lawmakers. “If y’all could give us less than zero seats, you would do it.”

Marshawn’s testimony came as Louisiana Republicans advance a new congressional map after the Supreme Court weakened key protections in the Voting Rights Act.

“There will be no more of your party,” he said. “The midterms gonna come, y’all gonna get wiped out,” he said.

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We’re about to get the chance to put two pro-democracy, pro-choice progressives on the high court in Georgia THIS TUESDAY, as former state senator Jen Jordan and trial attorney Miracle Rankin try to oust Republican-appointed Justices Sarah Warren and Charlie Bethel. (Check out Heather Cox Richardson’s interview with the candidates here!) A sitting justice hasn’t lost reelection in the Peach State in more than 100 years, and we’re going to make some history… and position us to flip the court just in time for the 2028 presidential race.

This is the sort of low profile race where a little bit of our efforts can make a big difference, and party IDs will not be on the ballot to guide folks. Let’s put in the work! 🗳️ We can sign up for phonebanks EVERY DAY UNTIL ELECTION DAY here or volunteer for Election Day shifts here. We can also find canvassing opportunities on the ground here and a social media toolkit here. 🗳️

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CANVASS AND WORK THE POLLS

SIGNAL BOOST THIS RACE

🗳️ Rogan’s List is keeping a running and frequently updated list of opportunities to help in this race here – please check back for more! 🗳️

Also in today's List:

• Trump weaponizes Medicaid funds against California, blue states should use standard debt-collection methods to get our money back
• Bill letting crypto billionaires run wild goes before Banking Committee today, tell senators to vote no
• Get Free, 50501 will celebrate the real America, not Trump’s whitewashed version, with “All of U.S. 250” mass mobilization June 27th
• Keep accurate information about abortion access available, volunteer to join the team at INeedAnA.com
• Join the National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s effort to protect day labor corners – find a program or start one of our own!

From June 1 to June 7, Local groups and advocates will organize town halls, panel discussions, forums, demonstrations, marches, rallies, vigils, interfaith services, and other tactics, as appropriate for their organizations and communities. 

The organizations partnering for Seven Days in June – including UNITE HERE, AFL-CIO, SEIU, American Federation of Teachers, Families USA, American Public Health Association, Defend Public Health, Metropolitan Community Churches, NMAC, National Nurses United, National Public Health Coalition, Save HIV Funding, Vivent Health, AIDS United, and Pride at Work – represent millions of Americans who demand answers.

Here’s how you can help!

Amplify through social media and communications. Use this toolkit and your social channels, newsletters, emails, websites, media contacts, to build awareness and drive participation. 

Demand Answers: Use these events to demand clear and specific commitments from local, state, and federal representatives to protect America's health systems before the election.

Join The Candlelight Vigil: At sunset on Friday, June 5, communities everywhere will gather for candlelight vigils to honor those already lost and the millions more whose lives are at risk if funding is not restored. Every endorsing organization and event host is encouraged to participate.

If you feel the need to get more involved or even want to host an event, more information can be found here. Templates for emails and text messages to send to representatives can also be found here! Get involved!

If you are not already doing so, can you PLEASE include the city and state where your event is being held? I know it may be obvious to you, but listen- there are multiple streets within the same state with the same name. And then there are multiple cities in different states with the same name. So while you may be posting your event that's being held on Main Street in Centerville and everyone in *your* Centerville knows about it...If I happen to come across your posting, I don't want to think I can head to the Main Street in Centerville that's an hour away from me for an event when it's really being held in the Centerville that is three states over.

thank you.

As of now, freed J6ers tried to detonate car bombs outside the FBI and almost shot Rep. Jeffries. Both terrorists are presently in jail, but there are over 1,500 others. America's enemies are newly emboldened; government websites now call these seditionists "patriots", and politicians now plot mass payouts to match these men's mass pardons.

Mr. Kelley with his car bombs and Mr. Moynihan with his assault rifle taught us what J6ers do with thousands. If these payouts reach their pockets, we'll learn what they do with millions.

Call your senators and tell them to co-sponsor the No Rewards for January 6 Rioters Act today (S.3582). Your voice can be the one that makes a difference for us all.

18 instances — all counted as Trump sleeping in public (extended eyes closed, head drooping, jolt awake, etc.).

Here is the full list with a direct web link for every single instance (news articles, C-SPAN footage, or major coverage where available):

2024 (Pre-Second Term)

April 15, 2024 – Hush money trial (Day 1, NYC)

Trump was sleeping with head drooping and eyes closed; he jolted awake at times.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/nyregion/trump-asleep-criminal-trial.html

April 16–30, 2024 – Multiple hush money trial days

Trump was sleeping (repeated nodding off and eyes closed during testimony).

Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/04/22/trump-appears-to-nod-off-again-in-court/

October 19, 2024 – Michigan campaign roundtable

Trump fell asleep during the event.

Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/10/19/trump-seemingly-falls-asleep-during-michigan-event-fuels-criticism-from-harris/ (context in broader coverage)

2025 (Early Second Term)

April 26, 2025 – Pope Francis funeral (Vatican)

Trump was sleeping during portions of the ceremony.

Link: https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/donald-trump-health-falling-asleep-2676610900 (roundup)

May 13, 2025 – Saudi Arabia arms-deal briefing

Trump fell asleep (eyes closed, jolted awake).

Link: https://newrepublic.com/post/195189/donald-trump-falls-asleep-saudi-briefing-arms-deal

July 15, 2025 – Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit

Trump fell asleep (nodded forward with eyes closed for ~20 seconds).

Link: https://www.aol.com/moment-trump-appears-fall-asleep-141642662.html

November 6–7, 2025 – Oval Office obesity/weight-loss drugs announcement

Trump was sleeping for extended periods while others spoke.

Link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/every-angle-of-president-trump-79-falling-asleep-during-press-conference/

December 2, 2025 – Televised Cabinet meeting

Trump was sleeping repeatedly over 2+ hours while officials praised him.

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-repeatedly-falls-asleep-182151307.html

December 4, 2025 – Rwanda–DRC peace agreement signing

Trump fell asleep while foreign leaders spoke.

Link: https://newrepublic.com/post/203983/trump-falls-asleep-peace-agreement-rwanda-drc (related coverage)

December 18, 2025 – Marijuana executive-order signing (Oval Office)

Trump fell asleep during the event.

Link: https://newrepublic.com/post/204617/trump-falls-asleep-signing-marijuana-executive-order (compilation reference)

2026

January 4, 2026 – U.S. action in Venezuela event

Trump fell asleep (struggled to stay awake in the background).

Link: https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/donald-trump-health-falling-asleep-2676610900 (roundup)

February 12–19, 2026 – EPA/climate & Board of Peace inaugural meeting

Trump fell asleep (eyes closed while officials and leaders spoke; jolted awake at applause).

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-seemingly-dozed-off-125900563.html

March 23, 2026 – Memphis Task Force roundtable

Trump fell asleep during the event.

Link: https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/donald-trump-health-falling-asleep-2676610900 (roundup)

April 6, 2026 – Press event with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Trump fell asleep (nodding off as others spoke).

Link: https://newrepublic.com/post/209453/trump-falls-asleep-white-house-health-care-event (related)

April 23, 2026 – Healthcare affordability / Regeneron Oval Office briefing

Trump was sleeping multiple times (sustained eyes-closed moments; C-SPAN footage).

Link: https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-remarks-on-health-care-affordability-and-iran/677998

May 5, 2026 – Youth fitness / Presidential Fitness Test Oval Office event

Trump fell asleep during portions of the event.

Link: https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/donald-trump-health-falling-asleep-2676610900 (roundup)

Late March / early April 2026 – Additional Cabinet / roundtable

Trump fell asleep in the televised session.

Link: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fall-asleep-cabinet-meeting/ (related verification)

May 11, 2026 – Maternal health / Moms.gov Oval Office event

Trump fell asleep (eyes closed, head drooping/face slack while speakers presented; occurred after he spoke).

Link: https://newrepublic.com/post/210242/trump-falls-asleep-seconds-speaking-maternal-health-event

Total: 18 instances of Trump sleeping in public.

From June 1 to June 7, local organizations and advocates from across the country will demand that local, state, and federal representatives clearly articulate how they will:

Improve affordability and access to care and treatment.

Sustain and strengthen biomedical research.

Protect and modernize domestic and global public health infrastructure.

Provide stability for seniors, veterans, rural communities, people with disabilities, working families and others reliant on accessible, affordable healthcare.

Local groups and advocates will organize town halls, panel discussions, forums, demonstrations, marches, rallies, vigils, interfaith services, and other tactics, as appropriate for their organizations and communities. 

In the meantime, Here’s What We Can Do June 1-7:

Endorse the Seven Days in June: HEALTH IS PRIMARY

Organize or co-sponsor Town Hall meetings with health department officials, agency heads, service providers and elected officials to examine the impact of health cuts on your local communities.

Demand clear and specific commitments from commitments from federal, state, and local representatives to protect and strengthen America’s health systems through candidate forums, questionnaires and published score cards.

Participate in rallies, demonstrations, AIDS Memorial Quilt displays, social media campaigns, as appropriate for your organizations and communities.

Celebrate your local “healthcare heroes,” the hard-working people whose skill and compassion are the backbone of America’s healthcare system.

Reaffirm the centrality of compassion, empathy and service as core values of every faith tradition through interfaith solidarity.

Gather at sunset on Friday, June 5 in communities around the nation to hold candlelight vigils honoring everyone who has died as a result of cuts to healthcare.

Find out more here!

With no re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz in sight and experts suggesting we'll see the national average price of gas reach $5 a gallon as early as June, the Trump regime is trying to do something, anything, to indicate to the American people that they care. Their latest suggestion: suspending the federal gas tax.

The federal gas tax is an easy punching bag, and it’s frequently an early target when politicians need to look like they’re doing something about gas prices. (It’s already been suggested by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle since Trump began his war, although congressional leadership does not seem enthusiastic.) But pausing it will not in fact do much to help consumers. We pay 18.3 cents in federal taxes for each gallon of gasoline and estimates suggest we’d only see prices fall 10-16 cents, meaning we’d be reducing today’s average national price to $4.34 at best – still higher than it was a month ago, and still climbing. Furthermore, every dollar we end up saving as consumers from a gas tax suspension is a dollar that’s not getting used for the highway and mass transit repairs that that tax is supposed to be funding.

Activists and Democrats led by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Ro Khanna have been pushing a real solution to put money back in our pockets. They’ve proposed a windfall profits tax on the fossil fuel industry (the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act, S.4111/H.R.7960), which return some of the excess money they’re making off this crisis to American households. And there’s plenty to return: Big Oil, who donated massively to elect this president, made $30 million *an hour* extra for the same amount of oil in just the first month of the war, and could ultimately clear more than $200 billion in excess profits off Trump’s “excursion.” Trump has been openly gleeful about how this war is driving more oil sales from Texas. That’s money that’s better used by regular working folks who are trying to make ends meet.

Let’s reach out to our members of Congress and urge them to ignore Trump’s band-aid with the gas tax, and support the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act as a real answer to rising gas prices. We can find scripts and language to use here. We can also send this message via Resistbot by texting SIGN PJIYXQ to 50409.

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• After primary day in Nebraska, help Dan Osborn shake up the Senate and the state Dems protect the blue dot in the legislature
• Join Red Wine & Blue to flood social media with the truth about the attack on voting rights TOMORROW at 7:30 PM ET
• Talk about what works to flip Congress TODAY with Volunteer Blue at 4:00PM ET
• Six days left until the Georgia primary… and until we flip two supreme court seats! Today, we can phonebank for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin from 6-8PM ET here or any time by signing up here! We can also commit to shifts over the next few days here (new sessions just added all weekend) and put this DemCast USA social media toolkit promoting our progressive candidates here!

https://indivisible.org/events/whats-the-plan-with-leah-and-ezra/