The White House’s MAHA Gatekeeper

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. The world’s most popular podcaster, Joe Rogan, reached out privately in April to the world’s most powerful man, Donald Trump, to discuss the healing power of ibogaine, a psychedelic made from the root bark of a Central African shrub that researchers are studying as a treatment for addiction and trauma. Trump responded by text, “‘Sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let’s do it,’” Rogan announced weeks later, when he stood behind the president…

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Who is Nicole Schulman, Winner of Artists Against ICE?

MoveOn members voted for Artists Against ICE earlier this year with the goal of amplifying powerful artwork as a vehicle to inspire and reach our members to take action to protect their communities and neighbors. Members voted on their favorite artwork.  We are so excited to finally share the winning design, “Liberty Against ICE,” by Nicole Schulman. Schulman was born and raised in New York City in the 1970s by a couple of Jews from the Bronx. She is mostly known for her political cartoons published with the World War…

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The Wingman

Photographs by Philip Cheung “My wife, Gabby, was shot in the head.” Obviously, I knew this. Senator Mark Kelly’s wife, the former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, was shot in the head and grievously wounded in a mass shooting outside a Tucson Safeway in 2011. It was one of the most notorious acts of political violence in America.  In several recent conversations with Kelly, however, I was struck by how often and how bluntly he repeated these exact words. Kelly, a retired Navy pilot and former NASA astronaut, seems to appreciate the…

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MoveOn: Where Activism Grows With You

Congratulations! You’ve just finished our Organizing 101 series. You’ve taken your outrage at the state of the world and started to turn it into action. You should be proud of yourself. That’s how positive change in the world happens. You learned the importance of relationships, vulnerability, and openness when it comes to organizing. You’ve learned that the backbone of all organizing comes from relationships; from talking to people one on one and one to many. Relationships are how we create and sustain collective power, and you’ll never go wrong listening…

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