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Actions & Petitions
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Action Items
Indivisible - Stop the funding unless changes are made to ICE - Deadline Feb 13th
URGENT ACTION - Updated 2/7/26 - Voting ON or BEFORE 2/13/26
Stop the funding unless they change how ICE operates!! - Indivisible (National)
Lawmakers in both chambers, who remain far apart on immigration enforcement reform, have until Feb. 13 to negotiate a deal to keep DHS funded. If a deal is not reached and passed in both chambers by then, DHS would then shut down.
The TSA, Coast Guard, Customs and Border Patrol, U.S. Secret Service, CISA and FEMA would be impacted even though lawmakers' focus is on Immigration and Customs Enforcement reform. ICE operations would not be impacted after it received $75 billion in separate funding from the already-passed "Big Beautiful Bill."
This bill cannot pass without Dem votes in the Senate, so we have real leverage here. But we need to act fast, and we need to be loud.
We're demanding every Member of Congress, especially every Democrat, vote no on the funding bill unless it includes these demands, which revolve around changes to immigration enforcement, include:
Bar DHS officers from entering private property without a judicial warrant
Ban ICE and immigration officers from wearing masks
Require officers to display their name, ID number and agency they work for
Restrict operations near schools, churches, polling places and medical and child care facilities
Prohibit execution of stops based on individuals’ jobs, ethnicity, race, language or accent
Pass a “reasonable use of force policy”
Allow state and local governments to investigate and prosecute potential crimes and cases of excessive force
Allow states to sue the Department of Homeland Security
Mandate body cameras on officers
Regulate and standardize the uniforms and equipment that DHS officers can use
URGENT ACTIONS…
Use this link to call your REPRESENTATIVE
Use this link to call both of your U.S. SENATORS
Use this link to Email your Members of Congress
Thank you, Indivisible www.indivisible.org
PETITION - Updated 2/7/26
Ban Missouri Politicians from Attacking the Will of the People - Respect Missouri Voters
2026 Citizen Initiative Overview
Missouri politicians are attacking the will of the people in a blatant power grab. But it doesn't have to be this way. The Respect Missouri Voters Amendment will protect our century-old constitutional freedom of the initiative, require ballot language to be clear and unbiased, and prevent partisan attacks on measures that the people have voted into law.
Together, our cross-partisan coalition’s ballot initiative will:
Require ballot summaries to be clear, unbiased, fair, accurate, and easy to understand.
Citizens may challenge misleading ballot summaries by asking courts to revise them to be clear, unbiased, fair, accurate, and easy to understand. If the ballot summary changes, citizens’ prior signatures remain valid.
Protect our constitutional freedom of the citizen initiative and referendum process.
Prohibits any legislative changes making it more difficult to gather signatures or pass initiatives at the ballot box.
Prohibit the legislature from overturning or changing initiatives passed by voters unless an 80% bipartisan supermajority sends changes to voters to approve.
Any change must be approved by voters before it can take effect.
Protects initiatives passed after January 1, 2010 that are still in law or the Constitution when this amendment goes into effect, as well as initiatives in the future. Protects citizen referendum petition vetoes after January 1, 2010 and in the future.
Does not protect measures placed on the ballot by the legislature, which often have deceptive language.
URGENT ACTION…
Sign a PETITION Click here to find a signature event near you
NUMBERS UPDATE…
HELP IS NEEDED, CAN YOU HELP? TRAINING IS FREE AND EASY!!! Contact Respect Missouri Voters for more info!
As of 1/28/26 roughly 135,000 petitions have been collected. The goal is 300,000 by March 31st!! HELP IS NEEDED!!
PETITION - Updated 1/29/26
This Ballot Initiative Guarantees that kids, Teachers, and Schools get the resources they deserve. - Missouri Right 2 Education
2026 Education Initiative Overview
This Ballot Initiative Guarantees that kids, Teachers, and Schools get the resources they deserve.
The Ballot Language
Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended:
Art. IX, Sec. 1(a) of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:
A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people,; education shall be a fundamental right. It shall be the duty of the state and general assembly shall to establish and maintain adequate, thorough, and uniform high quality free public schools to provide for the gratuitous instruction of all persons in this state within ages not in excess of twenty-one years as prescribed by law.
Missouri Right 2 Education Website
URGENT ACTION…
SIGN A PETITION TODAY! SIGN UP TO HELP COLLECT SIGNATURES! DONATE TO HELP COVER COSTS!
RESOURCE
2026 Missouri Initiative Overview Process
Process in Missouri
See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri
In Missouri, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast for governor in the previous gubernatorial election in six of the eight state congressional districts. Signatures must be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election.
The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2026 ballot:
Signatures: The smallest possible requirement is 170,215 valid signatures. The actual requirement depends on the congressional districts in which signatures are collected.
Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures is May 3, 2026.
Once the signatures have been filed with the secretary of state, the secretary copies the petition sheets and transmits them to county election authorities for verification. The secretary of state may choose whether the signatures are to be verified by a 5 percent random sample or full verification. If the random sampling projects between 90 percent and 110 percent of required signatures, a full check of all signatures is required. If more than 110 percent, the initiative is certified, and, if less than 90 percent, the initiative fails.
RESOURCE
How to Submit Testimony in Missouri
Learn: Legislative Session 101
Last Saturday, Dr. Brian Kaylor helped Mid-Missourians learn how to influence this year’s session effectively. Whether you missed it or need a refresher, these tools are essential.
RESOURCE - VIRTUAL TRAINING
DEMOCRACY CRASH COURSE
Hosts: Greene County Democrats
Purpose: EDUCATION, TOOLS, AND REAL TALK TO HELP YOU SHOW UP INFORMED. No matter where you’re starting, this page gives you options: learn the basics through clear education, find quick answers with helpful resources, or take the next step with action-ready guides. Wherever you are on the journey, you’ll find tools to engage confidently with Missouri’s government.
Source: www.gcmodems.org/crash-course