1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

The Trump administration is working to destroy the Department of Education and our public system. His regressive allies are complicit. Every Democratic leader MUST fight hard against this.
 I would like you to commit to these six concrete actions please: 1 Block Trump’s EO through legal challenges. Democrats should have lawsuits filed in every Federal district and state court to block this defunding of public education. Bring out the students and teachers this defunding harms, and tell their story to the public. Be relentless in using the legal safeguards still available to us to our advantage. 
 2 Encourage local and state governments to uphold education standards. Every Democratic Governor should join these lawsuits, and allocate additional state funding to ensure children in the children in their states have their needs met. State Attorneys general should also be filing lawsuits against the Federal government to slow down this degradation and demand accountability. 
 3 Safeguard the DOE’s role in protecting civil rights and funding equity. Block all attempts to defund education. 
 4 Members of the House and Senate should deny quorum on future votes. Deny unanimous consent. Deny cloture. Conduct sit ins. Bring government to a crawl and make Republicans own their failure. Even now, Republicans are asking Elon Musk for permission to vote (yes, really). So much for Trump’s claim that we will “no longer be accountable to unelected bureaucrats.” Democrats should raise their voice, but they might turn on each other and censure each other as they did to Rep Al Green (TX) for daring to speak out against Trump’s attempts to gut Medicaid. Bottom line, give Republicans no leeway. 
 5 Tell the story effectively with our best story tellers. Unleash Rep Crockett, Rep AOC, Rep Raskin, Rep Pressley, Senator Sanders, Senator Warnock, and Senator Hayes. Go on a national media tour and bombard the airwaves with accurate information on how gutting the Department of Education will harm our children, our teachers, and our public schools. Why can Trump so effectively use a 13-year-old child to push his propaganda narrative but we cannot elevate actual stories of children suffering under Trump’s policies? 
 6 Win the messaging game by investing in content creators to tell this story and let the American public know. Pew reports that at least 54% of Americans get their news at least sometimes from social media. Republicans invested heavily in social media content creators during the 2024 election, and it paid off big for them. Democrats need to invest tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars in content creators to win the public narrative on this crisis. It is an unforced error to not invest massive resources in the content creators putting out accurate content to stop the advancement of fascism in the United States. Additionally, please get off X.