We have a win to celebrate—and a bigger fight ahead. The WIN! Thanks to thousands of rapid emails and calls, the House budget draft dropped the “nonprofit killer” that would have let the executive branch strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status with the stroke of a pen. That’s democracy in action! (Read about it here.) The Fight Ahead! This is still a very, very bad bill with disastrous consequences for the climate and for people who are hoping to upgrade their homes, cars

This week, the Congressional Ways and Means Committee quietly introduced alarming language (Section 112209) into a funding bill, posing a severe threat to democracy by targeting nonprofit organizations nationwide. This provision undermines the very foundations of our democratic freedoms by intimidating and silencing organizations that dare to speak truth to power and advocate for justice.