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Contact your House Oversight and Armed Services representatives. Ask: 'Will you demand an IG investigation into the compressed Qatari 747 conversion timeline, cost overruns, and omitted security systems?' Support CREW and POGO.

A New York Times investigation published July 27 found that Trump's push to rapidly convert the $400 million Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8 into Air Force One added hundreds of millions in costs and forced omission or delay of core presidential-aircraft security features, including a lower-level exit for high-risk situations, additional backup power, and advanced anti-missile systems. Experts said a proper conversion requires years, not the eight-month timeline used. The rushed job compounds constitutional Emoluments Clause concerns and follows DOJ subpoenas of NYT reporters who broke the earlier security story.

Contact your Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee. Ask: 'Will you require State Department testimony on U.S. voting patterns at the UN Human Rights Council and their alignment with authoritarian states?' Support Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International USA.

The U.S. delegation walked out of a UN Human Rights vote on July 27 after a French delegate compared American opposition to reappointing the UN Human Rights Commissioner to voting patterns of authoritarian regimes. The walkout follows a pattern of the Trump administration voting against or abstaining on human rights measures alongside Russia, China, and other autocracies, further isolating the U.S. from allied democracies on international rights enforcement.

Contact your Congressional representatives. Ask: 'Will you demand DOJ enforce the court order against ICE and initiate contempt proceedings for violations of Judge Kaplan's order?' Support organizations documenting detention conditions violations.

ICE continues to systematically overcrowd 26 Federal Plaza detention facility in New York despite a federal court order capping total capacity at 22 people. An ICE official internally wrote 'We are in violation of the TRO [Temporary Restraining Order]' in court documents. To evade judicial oversight, ICE moved detainees to a previously undisclosed floor where officials claimed the ruling did not apply. Washington Post investigation (July 22) reveals detainees held in small rooms without beds, showers, or medical staff for days beyond the 12-hour limit, with people sleeping sitting up due to overcrowding. July data shows ICE arrests averaging 1,400+ daily, creating conditions where a quarter of detainees are held over 72 hours and one person was detained 30+ days.

Contact your Senators. Ask: 'Will you publicly reject the SAVE Act's documentary proof-of-citizenship regime and demand restoration of the Election Assistance Commission quorum?' Support the Brennan Center for Justice and state secretaries of state defending mail-in voting.

President Trump announced a 9 p.m. Thursday primetime address focused on elections, teasing 'really big news' and reiterating debunked claims about the 2020 election and a Los Angeles mayoral primary. The speech follows his firing of all remaining Election Assistance Commission members and escalating demands that Congress enact the SAVE Act's proof-of-citizenship regime before the November 2026 midterms. Using the presidential bully pulpit to relitigate 2020 while restructuring the federal election apparatus compounds concerns about executive interference in the midterms.

Contact your Representative on the House Administration Committee (which oversees the Smithsonian). Ask: 'Will you defend the Smithsonian's statutory scholarly independence against White House content pressure?' Support the Organization of American Historians and Smithsonian Friends.

On July 9, 2026, the White House Domestic Policy Council publicly amplified its 162-page report 'Saving America's Story,' branding Smithsonian National Museum of American History leadership as radical activists 'ideologically captured' and pressuring the congressionally chartered institution to change its curatorial content. The report follows Trump's March 2025 executive order targeting 'improper ideology' in the Smithsonian and accuses staff of 'anti-white,' 'illegal alien,' and transgender activism. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch defended the museum's scholarship; the Organization of American Historians called the report a partisan attack disguised as historical critique.

Contact your Senators on Foreign Relations and Armed Services. Ask: 'Will you demand CAATSA certification before any Turkey sanctions relief and block F-35 transfer absent S-400 divestment?' Support the Arms Control Association.

During a state dinner hosted by Turkish President Erdogan on July 8, 2026, Trump announced he will lift U.S. sanctions imposed on Turkey in 2020 under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) over Ankara's purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system. CAATSA sanctions were mandated by Congress and cannot be waived absent statutory certification that Turkey has divested from the S-400. Trump praised Erdogan as a 'great leader' while offering to extend the reversal to include the F-35 program, compounding the June threat captured in threat #890.

Contact your Senators on Foreign Relations. Ask: 'Will you pass a resolution reaffirming NATO Article 5 and rejecting territorial coercion of allies as a condition of U.S. force posture?' Support the Atlantic Council NATO program.

At the NATO summit on July 8, 2026, Trump publicly conditioned the future of U.S. troop deployments in Europe on whether Denmark strikes a 'very good deal' handing over Greenland, stating any decision to pull more troops out of Europe will 'depend on Greenland.' The statement leverages Article II troop deployment authority as coercion against a NATO ally to extract sovereign territory, undermining Article 5 commitments and destabilizing the alliance without congressional consultation.