Apollo Project

09/01/2026

This week in Washington, we are writing for reproductive rights. A generation has passed since the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade. Over the past year, according to Daily Kos, the present administration has "restricted access to health care for millions of people, defunded Planned Parenthood, attacked medication abortion and ended requirements that hospitals provide life-saving abortion care." The administration has "cut funding for reproductive health care providers that offer a range of essential services, including cancer screenings and preventive care, making it harder for workers to access contraception and safe abortion services. They have backed state level laws that restrict abortion access, undermining our freedoms and jeopardizing our safety." We stand with Reproductive Freedom For All, to protect our sisters, daughters, mothers, aunts and nieces. Every women seeking reproductive care is a member of our community and we must protect them by providing essential health care coverage. Sign the petition here.

It's time to act. We are fighting back against extremists who want to control our bodies, our lives, and our futures.

08/28/2026

This week in Washington, we are writing to save the planet. According to Stop the Money Pipeline, Citibank is "one of the greatest funders of fossil fuels in the world." The bank has contributed more money to fossil fuel expansion since 2016 than any other bank in the entire world." We stand with Stop the Money Pipeline in urging Costco to stop taking money from Citibank. In addition to fighting for civil rights, Costco has preserved it's diversity and inclusion intitiatives, bucking the trend initiated by the federal government. It is the 3rd largest retailer in the world and leads the charge when it comes to civil rights & diversity and we hope to find them working to protect our environment. Banks care about keeping their clients and "if Costco urges Citibank to clean up its act or threatens to leave all together, then Citibank will be forced to pursue better policies. Thousands of Costco members and concerned shoppers have filled out feedback forms, petitioned at warehouses and sent emails and postcards to the retailers leadership. Dozens of members and shareholders have taken the brave step of showing up to protest at Costco headquarters. The coporation has agreed to meet with a representative group of shareholders to hear our concerns." Tell Costco to offer a credit card that is not destroying the planet here.https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-costco-to-clean-up-its-credit-card?source=direct_link&link_id=3&can_id=11e493c4313e10bb4c42b807a0331885&email_referrer=email_2747139&email_subject=tell-costco-to-clean-up-its-credit-card-with-dirty-citibank&

08/19/2026

This week in Washington, we are writing for Planned Parenthood. We will not go back to an era of back alley abortions and coat hangers taking the place of medical care. Under the present Administration, Congress passed a law "defunding Planned Parenthood, putting more than 1.1 million patients at risk of losing access to care,” according to Daily Kos. Conservatives have "targeted access to medication abortion by weaponizing junk science about Mifepristone, a safe and effective medicine for abortions and miscarriages." According to Planned Parenthood Action Fund this government has "eroded the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), which has protected hospital emergency care, including abortion, for nearly 40 years.” The conduct of the current Administration is unlawful and dangerous. “Reproductive rights are critical health care." Many of us know Planned Parenthood in our community, providing birth control, medical care and family planning. The GOP doesn't understand that decisions about reproductive health belong between a patient and their doctor not between Congress and the Courts. Sign the petition to keep Congress off our bodies here.

08/13/2026

This week in Washington, we are writing for affordable loans. For generations, usury laws have been on the books throughout the states and use to be present for the federal government. On January 9th, 2026 acccording to The New York Times, the Administration put a one year cap on credit card interest rates at 10 %. This is a welcome decision but we are troubled by the present closure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in the fight against predatory lending by credit card companies. We favor bank exams and remember the Great Recession when the big banks while leading through the sub-prime mortgage lending crises, led our nation's economy off a fiscal cliff. Litigation has prevented the closure of CPFB. Before the announcement from the administration, credit card companies charged 20-30% interest in credit, resembling pay day loans, a predatory practice that punishes those seeking assistance in our nation's economy. Credit card companies "make $ 130 billion a year off interest and fees, according to a 2024 consumer bureau estimate," as quoted in The New York Times. It is time to protect the American consumer from predatory lending practices. Sign the petition here.

The CFPB was created in the wake of the economic collapse with a clear mission: To protect American families from the predatory and unfair lending practices that contributed to the financial crisis. From the very beginning, though, Wall Street made clear they didn't want anybody holding them account...

08/10/2026

Aug. 9th - Int’l Indigenous People’s Day

08/06/2026

This week in Washington, we are writing for community policing. First responders must be diversified because police are being asked to shoulder a burden that should fall to social workers, paramedics and animal control. 911 calls too often end in an arrest, incarceration or worse. We can't ask law enforcement to solve every problem and assigning officers to a given community and neighborhood so that patrolmen are on a first name basis with the citizens they protect is one of many solutions available. Paramedics can respond to phone calls for officers instead of uniformed law enforcement. De-escalation training for first responders can use communication to respond to conflicts in our communities. Alternative first responders in 130 communities, according to Friedman, Markham & Neath @ the Policing Project at NYU Law, are responding to calls across the country and relieving the burden on overworked police departments. Homelessness, substance abuse and domestic disputes can be answered in ways that don't lead to incarceration, arrests or conflict. Call Congress @ 202 224 3121 and ask for them to fund alternative response in communities across the country.

08/03/2026

Aug. 3rd - Yazidi Genocide Commemoration

07/28/2026

This week in Washington, we are writing for the endangered gray wolf. Since 2021, "more than 1,400 gray wolves have been killed in Idaho and are pursued year round as pups[,] killed in their dens and are shot from helicopters. Once-protected animals are left in steel-jawed traps." Which is why we are asking Governor Brade Little to stop "this slaughter," according to Daily Kos. "In Idaho[,] wolves have been found with crushed limbs and shattered teeth from traps. Others have been "run down by snow machines or (all-terrain vehicles},.. new mothers have been [shot] without care. These hunts would never be allowed for deer, elk, mountain lions or any other game species [and] that's simply because they have protections that Idaho simply doesn't give to its wolves," according to Daily Kos. World for Animals reports, conservation groups are petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore Endangered Species Act protections for Idaho's gray wolves, aiming to stop state approved hunting and trapping that could kill 90% of the population." This petition urges federal action against policies allowing year-round, unlimited killing, including trapping and aerial gunning. Sign the petition here.

As a person who values wildlife on our public lands, I beseech you to put a stop to the vicious massacre of wolves in Idaho by signing an emergency listing restoring federal protection. Wolves today in Idaho are being exterminated from the state in the most brutal ways imaginable. Public records rec...

07/27/2026

This week in Washington, we are writing for aviation safety. On February 24th of this year, the House of Representatives "struck down aviation safety legislation that would have required planes to carry a type of tracking technology that federal investigators determined could have helped avoid a mid-air collission over the Potomac River last year that killed 67 people," according to Karoun Demirjian writing for The New York Times. The legislation is bipartisan and is known as the ROTOR Act, the law passed the United States Senate unanimously in December. Support was expected in the House but the Pentagon withdrew it's support "citing national security and cost concerns" according to Demirjian. "Even the G.O.P. leaders who supported the legislation were led to kill it on the floor and the vote was 264-133 in the House. The Republican Party was unanimous in voting down the legislation in the Senate, with all but one opposing the law." Call the Capitol Switchboard @ 202 224 3121 and ask for your legislator to support the ROTOR act for the safety of our passengers and the integrity of our Democracy.

07/21/2026

This week in Washington, we are writing for TSA. A top employer of Veterans, TSA asks only that we honor the social contract between an employer and it's people. Deemed an essential component of government, workers were compelled to show up to work even though they were not getting paid. Incidentally, Congress kept receiving income while TSA was ordered to airports around the nation form California to Connecticut, Florida to Texas, the harbors on the Atlantic to Alaska. 10 % of TSA employers called-in sick and thousands quit rather than work without pay. How are we going to maintain the integrity of our airports and airline safety without TSA. The recent shutdown, approximately 45 days, was the longest partial shutdown of the government on record. Homeland Security funding has become a political football and Congress has decided to punt. ICE and CBP were ordered to airports to man the lines, some stretching for 3, 4 hours or more. Airports in New York, at La Guardia and Atlanta, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport saw some of the longest waits on record. We ask the present administration to continue to pay TSA out of the One Big Beautiful Bill funds for the families of our Veterans, for our airport security and to keep passengers moving to their gates. TSA is unionized and the working man deserves a fair shake from government. Call Homeland Security and ask for continued funding for the thin blue line between order and chaos @ 202 282 8000.