How To Break The Regime: Oregon Declares War On Trump’s Affordability Crisis, Judge Blocks His Immigration Shakedown, and Delaware Slams The Door On ICE
Plus: Oklahoma City bans data centers
Four resistance wins landed this week—and I couldn’t wait to share them with you. Thanks for being here.
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OREGON DID WHAT TRUMP WON’T
Trump promised to bring housing costs down. He lied. Rents are up, home prices are at record highs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been gutted, and affordable housing grants have been frozen. The regime opened the floodgates for private equity firms and called it a free market.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed six housing bills into law on Wednesday and went straight at the people profiting from the crisis.
The bills give families a 90-day head start before private equity can touch a single-family home listing. A $20 million loan fund forces affordable housing into the pipeline. A preservation program keeps existing units alive when Trump’s frozen federal subsidies expire. Since taking office, Kotek has helped finance 17,000 housing units, with 50,000 more coming.
State Sen. Khanh Phạm, who supported the bills, was direct: “With existing federal funding for affordable housing under attack, it’s critical for Oregon to find cost-effective ways to build homes available to Oregonians at different income levels.”
Trump lied to working families about housing, and then handed their neighborhoods to Wall Street. Oregon showed America how to fight back.
COURT BLOCKS SHELTER SHAKEDOWN
On January 26, the Trump regime attached new rules to federal grants that fund domestic violence shelters nationwide—no federal money could be used to help undocumented people. No shelter, crisis services, or legal help.
The regime was turning the Violence Against Women Act into an immigration enforcement tool. Organizations that refused to check immigration status before offering services would lose their funding.
Last Friday, US District Court Judge Melissa DuBose issued a preliminary injunction stopping the regime cold. The funding for 25 domestic violence coalitions in 21 states and DC is now protected. The grants keep paying out.
Survivors won this round—a judge made sure of it.
OKLAHOMA CITY VS. THE GOVERNOR
On Tuesday, the Oklahoma City Council voted unanimously to stop new data center construction through the end of 2026. When a developer tried to postpone the vote, OKC Mayor David Holt was blunt: “You’re going to have a thousand data centers apply in the next two weeks.”
The same day, GOP Governor Kevin Stitt broke ground on a $1 billion data center in Tulsa for Meta—the company that owns Facebook and Instagram. The groundbreaking happened the same week Meta announced 8,000 layoffs. The deal includes an 85% annual property tax exemption, meaning Meta pays next to nothing in local taxes for 25 years.
The city council stood with its community. The Republican governor stood with Meta.
DELAWARE DRAWS THE LINE ON ICE
ICE arrests in Delaware are up 165% since Trump took office. Delaware Rep. Mara Gorman fought back with two bills that passed in the State House last week.
The first bill passed 25-13. It bans warrantless civil immigration arrests at courthouses and Department of Labor offices. Gorman was direct about what ICE is doing in Delaware: “That is a threat to justice itself.”
The second bill bars the state from spending any money on private detention facilities like the ones ICE uses to hold people during immigration proceedings. No contracts, payments, or subsidies—period. It passed 28-13.
Both bills now head to a Democratic supermajority in the Senate, where they will pass. Delaware is showing every state that hasn’t acted yet that compliance with the Trump regime is a choice—and Delaware chooses resistance.
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Onward!
Scott
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🚨 SIX URGENT ACTIONS TODAY
NEW: Pass Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission https://tinyurl.com/44afaxvd
NEW: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service: https://tinyurl.com/mrx8cvv7
NEW: Demand Acting AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files: https://tinyurl.com/2uc9vca9
Defend voting rights! https://tinyurl.com/3f3m728j
Stop Trump from deporting people with Temporary Protected Status https://tinyurl.com/yc8rfa7j
Vote NO on SAVE Act: https://tinyurl.com/ms977ec6
NEW: Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have announced the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation that would enact a reasonable pause to the development of AI to ensure the safety of humanity.
Learn more & support this bill in Congress here: https://bit.ly/4twnWMU