Join us this Week (1/25-1/31)

Chris Smith Toms River Protest (1/27) 12:00-1:00 pm

(cancelled)

Meet in front of Chris Smith's Middletown (now closed) office to protest the cuts made to programs that provide vital services for NJ residents.

This is a high visibility location so rallies will continue to be held here for the present.

For more info or to register click

(registration is suggested but not required)

Join your neighbors in Toms River to tell Chris Smith that CD-4 residents are DISGUSTED with his performance in Congress.

Participants can spend 30 minutes outside protesting and warm up in the Ocean County Library and do 30 minutes of work for the resistance.

No registration required-just show up.

Chris Smith Protest the Cuts in Middletown (1/28) 3:30-4:30

Rally to Defend Democracy

Eatontown (2/14) 11:00-noon

Under Trump and GOP leadership-

*millions have lost healthcare

*taxes are rising

*everyday costs are soaring

*our streets are being militarized

*people are being disappeared

*pedophiles are shielded from accountability.

Now, ICE is shooting people in the streets.

Trump’s administration is in full-blown power grab mode—shredding laws, defying court orders, and handing control of the country’s financial system to billionaire cronies.

We must apply relentless, all-out pressure to stop this coup in its tracks!

Bring your signs and raise your voice!

Location-269 NJ-35, Eatontown, NJ 07724 (in front of Tesla Dealership)

For more information or to register a link will be available by 1/31

(Registration is suggested so you can be contacted if the event is changed or cancelled)

Signs of Fascism

Ocean Grove (1/31) 11:00-noon

Join the Jersey Shore Blue Visibility Brigade to create a visual presentation highlighting the signs of fascism to engage our neighbors. We believe that impactful visuals remind us of our values and the need for vigilance against ideologies threatening our freedoms. Through artwork, we hope to foster meaningful discussions and awareness about the perils of fascism, inspiring active community participation in protecting our democratic principles.

Interested? Email jerseyshoreblue@gmail.com for more info

Upcoming.....

Pick Some Actions

Stop ICE’s Aggressive Attacks on Immigrants and Citizens

Script (5calls.org)

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from (TOWN).

I’m calling to urge the Senator/Congressman to oppose ICE's ongoing attacks on both immigrants and citizens and hold this administration accountable for their authoritarian and unlawful tactics. I ask that Rep. Pallone…

[CHOOSE 1-3 options]:

• demand full investigations into ICE's use of deadly force against protesters and their murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, (and)

• refuse to pass any DHS appropriations bill that maintains funding for ICE, (and)

• conduct public investigations into the DOJ's coordinated protection of ICE agents from criminal liability, (and)

• call for the impeachment of Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security.

  (Use the above bulleted information for additional talking points as needed.)

Thank you for your time and consideration.

IF LEAVING VOICEMAIL: Please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied.

Senators

Cory Booker 202-224-3224

Andy Kim 202-224-4744

Congressmen

Frank Pallone (CD 11) 732-571-1140

Chris Smith (CD 4) 732-780-3035

Jeff Van Drew (CD 2) 609-625-5008

Background (5call.org)

(UPDATED 1/24)

The Trump administration has continually attacked immigrant communities across the country with aggressive ICE raids, abusive and inhumane detention facilities, and targeted attacks on cities and minority groups to create fear and silence opposition.

• ICE agents have used indiscriminate violence against legal observers and peaceful protesters. In Minnesota, they have murdered U.S. citizens Renee Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti in broad daylight. ICE leadership has dismissed these attacks as “self-defense” despite clear video evidence to the contrary, and the FBI has targeted the victims for investigation instead of the agents.

• Trump has launched targeted attacks on Democratic-led cities — Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, and New Orleans — and on specific immigrant populations, like the Somali community in Minnesota.

• The Trump administration has paused green cards and citizenship applications for people from 19 countries and has canceled citizenship ceremonies for immigrants around the country.

• Hundreds of U.S. citizens have been wrongfully detained and mistreated by federal agents, often as a result of racial profiling.

• Detainees at ICE facilities have been subjected to inhumane conditions, abuse, and even CIA-style torture. 510 identifiable human rights violations have been reported, including sexual assault, medical negligence, and mistreatment of children and pregnant people.

• Thousands of immigrants arrested by border patrol have gone missing in Chicago following “Operation Midway Blitz” and in Miami from “Alligator Alcatraz.”

• ICE is using a number of privacy-violating surveillance tools and facial recognition spyware to hack phones, monitor a person’s social media, and use databases to profile and track individuals. Federal and local law enforcement has also used Flock Safety’s license plate tracking data to surveil protestors and immigrants.

• The administration has revived its inhumane family separation policy; hundreds of children have been caught up in aggressive ICE raids and torn away from parents.

These increasingly grotesque, coercive, and illegal policies are glaring indicators of rising authoritarianism in America. Demand your representatives push back against these escalating attacks on human rights.

Background (5calls.org)

Update

January 22, 2026: By a 220-207 vote, the House has passed H.R. 7147, the standalone DHS appropriations bill. Republican Rep. Massie (KY) voted No, while Democratic Reps Cuellar (TX), Golden (ME), Gillen (NY), Gluesenkamp Perez (WA), Davis (NC), Suozzi (NY), and Gonzalez (TX) voted Yes. The bill now goes to the Senate where a floor vote is expected the week of January 26th.

Following the federal funding deal passed in mid-November 2025, Congress faces another January 30th deadline to pass the remaining appropriations bills to fully fund the government for fiscal year (FY) 2026; this includes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill.

Recent atrocities committed against both immigrants and citizens under the Trump administration have shone a light on abuses of power by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, Customs and Border Protection (CBP). However, these abuses are hardly new. Since ICE and CBP were established in 2003, the agencies have terrorized immigrant communities, conducted unconstitutional border checkpoints, torn apart families, denied immigrants their due process rights, and subjected detained immigrants to physical, sexual, and mental abuse. The killing of Renee Good in Minnesota was the 9th ICE shooting since September 2025.

ICE also received an influx of billions in additional funding from the so-called “One Big Beautiful” bill. The bill placed no guardrails or conditional oversight on the use of this money, essentially creating a $75 billion slush fund for ICE to continue their violent attacks on communities across the country.

Call on your representatives to block any DHS appropriations bill or Continuing Resolution (CR) that maintains funding for ICE. This lawless and violent agency must be defunded and dissolved for good.

Script

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from (TOWN).

I’m calling to urge the Senator to oppose any appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security that maintains any funding for ICE. This lawless agency has been violently attacking and killing immigrants and citizens around the country and must be defunded and dissolved for good.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

IF LEAVING VOICEMAIL: Please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied.

Senator

Cory Booker 202-224-3224

Andy Kim 202-224-4744

Tell your Senator to Defund ICE

Script

Hi, I’m a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is ______.

I'm calling to urge Rep. Pallone to support Representatives Massie and Khanna in drafting inherent contempt charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi. She must be forced to release the rest of the Epstein files as required by law or face consequences, including imprisonment.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Senators

Cory Booker 202-224-3224

Andy Kim 202-224-4744

Congressmen

Frank Pallone (CD 11) 732-571-1140

Chris Smith (CD 4) 732-780-3035

Jeff Van Drew (CD 2) 609-625-5008

Background (5call.org)

Updates

December 21, 2025: After failing to meet the December 19th deadline for releasing the entirety of the Epstein files as required by the recently passed Epstein Files Transparency Act, House members Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) have threatened to draft inherent contempt charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi. If passed, inherent contempt charges would allow the House to bypass the courts and force Bondi to either release the files or face personal consequences such as imprisonment.

November 18, 2025: The House and Senate have both passed H.R. 4405 the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The House voted 427-1, and the Senate voted unanimously.

September 2, 2025: Representatives Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) have filed a discharge petition to force a vote on H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act and release the entirety of the Epstein files. Discharge petitions are a special procedure that forces a floor vote on a bill if a simple majority of House members join the petition. In late July, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) sent the House home early for summer recess to avoid releasing the Epstein files via discharge petition.

In 2019, after years of evading the law, Jeffrey Epstein was convicted on federal child sex trafficking charges. Epstein was a wealthy financier with close ties to powerful people, including Donald Trump. Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell systematically groomed young girls to be raped and trafficked to their wealthy friends. Epstein died in his jail cell while awaiting sentencing. While the medical examiner concluded his death was a suicide, conspiracies around his death quickly arose, as did substantial public interest in the supposed “client list” identifying customers of Epstein’s trafficking operation. Donald Trump promised the release of the client list throughout his 2024 presidential campaign. Pam Bondi, his Attorney General, publicly claimed the list was sitting on her desk. However, on July 6th, Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo concluding that Epstein did not have a client list and declining to publicly release evidence.

The DOJ has since made weak promises to release grand jury testimonies and talk to Ghislaine Maxwell. However, the DOJ’s reversal of repeated promises of transparency, along with Trump’s aggressive campaign to suppress the story, have violated public trust. Trump’s DOJ already operates as a protection racket for Trump. Trump himself is an adjudicated rapist with a long history of offenses, including some alongside Epstein. The public deserves to know who was involved in this heinous crime ring. Urge your representatives to demand the full public release of the Epstein files

Release the Epstein Files

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