Pass a real ban. Demand the end of congressional stock trading NOW: represent.us/realstockban
26.02.2026 16:26
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Pass a real ban. Demand the end of congressional stock trading NOW: represent.us/realstockban
Fortunately, there’s a real solution pending in Congress: the bipartisan Restore Trust in Congress Act. It bans members, spouses, and dependent children from trading individual stocks, requires divestment, and imposes real penalties. If Congress wants trust, prove it.
Trump rightly said that we need to , “ensure that members of congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information.” But some proposals floating around Capitol Hill, including the bill he endorsed, the Stop Insider Trading Act, won’t actually do that.
In his State of the Union speech, Trump endorsed a ban on members of Congress trading stocks, drawing bipartisan applause in the chamber. If Congress is serious about ending insider trading, it needs to pass a bill that actually bans it – not one that leaves loopholes.
Holdings like this raise concerns about conflicts of interest. If you want to serve in Congress, you should not be able to trade individual stocks tied to federal policy. Tell Congress: ban congressional stock trading. No more conflicts of interest!
Last month, Suozzi voted to fund DHS and federal immigration enforcement – while Palantir has earned tens of millions from DHS contracts and secured more than $80 million in ICE obligations since Trump returned to office.
Suozzi bought between $1,001–$15,000 in Palantir in 2023. By the end of 2024, he valued those holdings at $15,001–$50,000. The stock has skyrocketed more than 2,000% over three years.
Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi quietly held Palantir stock while the company became central to federal immigration enforcement, according to a NOTUS review of federal records. Lawmakers shouldn’t profit from companies tied to the agencies they fund.
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This is exactly what accountability look like!
Congress has a responsibility to provide oversight and accountability. That’s how our system is supposed to work.
The report paints a picture of unethical, self-serving, out-of-control leadership at DHS. Meanwhile, the department has overseen brutal operations that have led to multiple killings, including of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
The pair have lately been using a luxury jet, which DHS is in the process of acquiring for ~$70 million. Lewandowski, a “special government employee,” reportedly sought a law-enforcement badge and federally issued gun. ICE officials declined. After media inquiries, efforts to issue the gun stalled.
The article also details reports of a romantic relationship between Noem and Lewandowski. Both are married and have denied an affair, though officials say their closeness has raised concerns inside the administration.
Inside DHS, Noem and adviser Corey Lewandowski have fired or demoted roughly 80% of ICE’s career field leadership, WSJ reports. Lawmakers from both parties have raised concerns as tensions mount inside the department.
A Coast Guard pilot was fired after Kristi Noem’s blanket wasn’t moved to a second plane during a trip, according to the WSJ. The pilot was told to take a commercial flight home – then reinstated because no one else was available to fly them back.
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Giving the executive branch this much control over elections creates serious risks to free and fair elections. Congress is voting soon on this and we have to protect our right to vote. Tell your member of Congress NOW to reject these bills: represent.us/fairelections26
These bills also take election authority away from the states and raise concerns about federal interference with free and fair elections. They would require states to share citizenship data with DHS (which oversees ICE) and with the DOJ – or risk losing election funding.
The bills would impose new national photo ID requirements, including for people who vote by mail, and restrict widely used mail voting practices that millions rely on. They would ban innovative voting systems like RCV, and increase the risk eligible voters are wrongly removed from voter rolls.
Commonly used IDs would be insufficient on their own – including REAL IDs, driver’s licenses, military IDs, and most Tribal IDs. The bills would create new barriers for people who’ve changed their name–including millions of married women whose birth certificates don’t match their current legal name.
If either bill becomes law, millions of eligible Americans could lose their ability to vote. These bills would require Americans to show proof of U.S. citizenship – like a passport or original birth certificate – just to register to vote. More than 150 million Americans don’t have a passport.
Last year, lawmakers tried and failed to pass the dangerous SAVE Act, a bill that would have disenfranchised millions of American voters. Now they’re back trying to interfere with our elections with two new bills: the SAVE America Act and the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act.
"The administration has been quick to investigate those who were shot"--yet those claims have repeatedly unraveled in court. Meanwhile, "there are only two cases in which civil rights or criminal investigations into the officers’ conduct have been announced." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
But Congress is going to come under pressure from the administration to settle for symbolic actions like moving Greg Bovino out of Minneapolis. That’s not enough. As lawlessness and brutality rise, we all need to defend the rule of law – before this becomes the new norm in our country.
A growing number of GOP Congress members, including Sen. Bill Cassidy, have joined most Democrats in calling for full investigations or expressing concerns. Sen. Rand Paul has summoned immigration officials for oversight hearings.
State law enforcement needs to fully deploy all tools at its disposal both to preserve evidence and investigate and prosecute abuse by federal officers. State investigations are essential in the absence of independent federal investigations.
It must investigate what happened, including the role of DHS leadership and other senior officials. And it should immediately cut off funding to agencies that engage in brutality without accountability.
If we want to stop this brutality, federal officers at all levels need to know they’ll be held accountable for abuses. That means we need real accountability. Congress must insist on independent, full criminal investigations of these fatal shootings.
Meanwhile, DHS Sec. Kristi Noem and White House advisor Stephen Miller have praised actions that show clear abuses of power. It is not enough to just shuffle around staff in the DHS, as the Trump admin is doing, or to push for better training.
Despite strong evidence of executions, Pam Bondi’s DOJ has refused to criminally investigate either case, and left the Pretti case in DHS’s hands for an internal, administrative review.