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  Tell Trump’s Interior Department: Yosemite Is Not for Sale New reporting just exposed that Trump’s Interior Department is considering carving up Yosemite National Park to help a private developer. But we can still stop it. Kingsbarn Realty Capital owns roughly 83 acres next to Yosemite and wants better road access to the property. For years, the National Park Service resisted efforts involving access through the park. Now federal officials are considering a land exchange that could make the developer’s plans easier. But Yosemite belongs to us, not politicians. And we need to stop them from handing it off like a political favor. Tell Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the National Park Service: Stop this deal before it goes any further. Do not transfer Yosemite land or grant special access that benefits private development Current and former officials have reportedly described unusual political pressure on the National Park Service to accommodate the property owner, although the I...

  Tell Congress to overturn Citizens United! SUBSCRIBE TO CIVIC SHOUT AND JOIN WITH OTHER TO PARTICIPATE IN IMPORTANT  ACTIONS! The scale of billionaire money in U.S. politics just reached a new extreme. A new investigation by  The New York Times  found that just 300 billionaires and their family members poured about $3 billion into the 2024 federal elections — more than double what billionaire donors spent in 2020. Much of that money flowed through super PACs and outside groups made possible by the Supreme Court’s  Citizens United  decision. Before  Citizens United , billionaire spending made up less than 1% of political donations. Today, it accounts for about 19% of all federal election spending. According to reporting highlighted by  The Guardian  and analysis from Americans for Tax Fairness, much of that money backed far-right candidates aligned with Donald Trump — politicians now pushing policies like tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit...