Video explainer: Preventing a war with Iran

CREDO members and our allies have signed over 223,000 petitions (which we recently delivered to Congress) and made over 43,000 calls to Congress asking Democrats to support diplomacy with Iran. Amazing. Our work opposing the deal was recently called out in a …

400,000 signatures against war with Iran

On Wednesday, we issued a powerful challenge to Democrats in Congress: Support the Iran nuclear peace deal, or prepare to answer to your constituents for sabotaging diplomacy and pushing for war. On Capitol Hill, Congressional Progressive Caucus members …

90,000 activists demand investigation of child imprisonment

Over 90,000 activists have urged Attorney General Loretta Lynch to investigate the practice of putting children in adult prisons! This miscarriage of justice has to end. We’re delivering our petition to the attorney general next week, and we …

Petition: The Monsanto Protection Act is back — and worse than before

The biggest threat to GMO labeling that we’ve ever seen could soon become law if we don’t act now. Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo, Monsanto’s hand-picked representative in Washington, has combined his anti-GMO labeling bill, the “DARK Act,” with …

Petition: Fix the Voting Rights Act now

Fifty years ago this summer, at the height of the civil rights movement, Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act to prohibit racial discrimination in voting. The law wasn’t perfect, but it frequently …

Petition: Stop the sneak attack on Net Neutrality

On June 12, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Order mandating the strongest Net Neutrality protections in history finally went into effect. It was a tremendous victory for the millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of …

The latest Republican attack on women

Here they go again. Republicans in Congress have introduced another bill to cut off women’s access to health care. This time they are trying to eliminate Title X, the only federal program devoted to providing low-income women with …

CREDO celebrates Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage

Today, the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality across the U.S. Congratulations. We now pronounce this country a better place. Here at CREDO, we’ve been working for marriage equality and LGBT rights for 30 years, since the day we …

Tom Tomorrow comic explains the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

If you’re a progressive, this Tom Tomorrow comic will scare you. Worked out in secret by government negotiators and corporate lobbyists, the TPP would supersede U.S. laws. It would offshore jobs and undermine wages. It would expose public health …

Victory: NFL gives up tax-exempt status

The NFL earns billions in revenue every year, but hasn’t paid a dime in taxes since the 1960s because it’s considered a “nonprofit organization.” More than 434,000 CREDO activists have taken action over the last two years to …