Election officials throughout the country are seeing tremendous pressure across the system amid continued efforts to undermine confidence in elections. As Christians, we must be vocal in our support for these volunteers and public servants, ensuring we have a functioning civic society that protects and honors everyone. Our work through our congregations and communities gives us an opportunity to create a mighty chorus of voices demanding free and fair elections.
These past few weeks have seen the people of Cuba plunged into a humanitarian crisis as the island experienced an earthquake amid an energy crisis caused by the ongoing pressure campaign from the United States under the Trump Administration. The nation has had a power grid failure as this natural disaster exacerbates the needs of the Cuban people. Healthcare and food were already becoming increasingly precarious, and the need for support in these areas will now be even more acute.
Once again, President Trump has launched air strikes on Iran in an act of war. Just last year, on June 21st 2025, the United States launched strikes against Iran, where Trump claimed “destroyed or severely degraded” their nuclear capabilities. Now we’re once again launching strikes under the same stated reasoning. These repeated military actions demonstrate the need for Congress to step in and do its constitutional duty to assert its war powers and rein in or stop these deadly operations.
Faith leaders are called to be society’s moral compass, to call out the evils that harm our neighbors. We are in a moment of truth, as Congress decides whether to increase funding to ICE at a time when unnamed federal officials are grabbing innocent people off the streets in our cities. Our voices are powerful, and now is the time to speak out together to let Congress know that this violence is immoral and unjust.
At the beginning of the year, President Donald Trump announced that he launched strikes against the country of Venezuela and captured their sitting President, Nicolás Maduro. The strikes themselves killed at least forty people, according to the Venezuelan authorities. This took place after a series of escalating attacks against people off the coast of Venezuela in which over one hundred people were killed.
We need Congress to reverse the planned rate hikes on insurance for people throughout the United States. The subsidies attached to the Affordable Care Act are set to expire, and cuts to Medicaid make this a moment of crisis as healthcare coverage throughout the country is under attack.
Washington, D.C., has regained control of its Metropolitan Police Department but remains subject to the presence of national guard troops and federal policing agencies throughout the district. Additionally, we’re seeing Congress targeting the ability of Washington, D.C., to exercise home rule with bills to overturn the democratically enacted policies of the district.
Chevron claims to value human rights and sustainability. Despite this, they continue to be one of the key economic partners for the state of Israel, despite the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people of Gaza. As the leading partner in Israel’s oil extraction industry, Chevron’s partnership with Israel is critical to its economic ability to continue its ongoing assault.
For the past four months, we’ve seen the state of Israel sustain a devastating blockade of aid, which has accelerated the death and devastation we’ve seen in Gaza. In response to sustained activism and outrage, there has been implemented a program that is woefully inadequate and has led to further preventable starvation and suffering. This new strategy forces people to cross miles of military lines to access aid at sites that are then controlled using live ammunition, where many have been killed by soldiers and contractors stationed at the sites.
This week, Donald Trump and the federal government launched a dangerous and anti-democratic occupation in the District of Columbia. On Monday, the President delivered a racist and inaccurate rant claiming the city was overrun with “crime” and needed to be “liberated.” This constitutes a direct assault on human dignity and the right to self-rule for the people of Washington, DC. The militarization of law enforcement is an attack on the democratic rights of the citizens of the District of Columbia, and it must end.