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Your activist scoop: Stop the Deadly Merger

Hi Kathryn,   In the midterm elections this week, we saw a hard-fought, groundbreaking shift in the political landscape. From Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan to Aber Kawas’s election as the first Palestinian American in the New York state legislature, these pro-Palestine victories demonstrate the growing power of our movement.   Politicians are being forced to reckon with what we’ve long known: Ending Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people is both an urgent moral issue and a winning political position. You made that happen, through your massive protests, organizing, and calls.    Now we need to channel all that momentum directly into our demands: Not another bomb, bullet, or dime for Israel’s genocidal violence.   Congress needs to pass the Block the Bombs Act ASAP. And before new representatives take office in January, the Senate must block the deadly U.S.-Israel military merger in the 2027 annual military spending bill (the National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA). This Deadly Merger would integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries in order to research and build weapons and surveillance technology. It would make Israel a permanent arm of the U.S. empire, with our tax dollars paying for the weapons Israel uses to kill Palestinian families.    You already put thousands of letters and calls in front of the senators who wrote this bill, and today they’re all returning to Capitol Hill. Take action to stop the Deadly Merger for good. Read on to learn more. Chip in to fuel our movement and more wins for Palestine here to keep building toward bigger change in 2027 and beyond. Your Activist Scoop OUR GOVERNMENT'S GUILT

Israel is still starving Palestinian families. In mid-October, Israel halted all commercial shipments into Gaza for days, and the UN World Food Programme cut about a third of its funding to Gaza. "People are being killed and slaughtered every day, and now you’re cutting off their food too,” Al-Abd Abu Beid told Drop Site News. “This is catastrophic.”3 Israel locked down the occupied West Bank, closing nearly 1,000 checkpoints and gates, and violently forced over 2,000 Palestinian people from their homes in Al Khalil (Hebron). Trump is threatening to bomb Iran again after Netanyahu reportedly pressed him to attack.4 Foreign agents of the Israeli government worked on a U.S. Senate campaign. Drop Site News found that two staffers on Republican Mike Rogers’ campaign are registered foreign agents. Mike Rogers lost on Tuesday to our endorsed candidate Abdul El-Sayed. The commander who likely killed 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, along with her relatives and paramedics, is in the U.S. The Hind Rajab Foundation has asked the U.S. Justice Department to arrest and prosecute Sean Glass.6 READ MORE YOUR IMPACT

You’ve helped elect the most pro-Palestine representatives in Congress ever, with victories in Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and more. USCPR Action is proud to have had 11 of our endorsed candidates win their election. Your organizing and support made these victories happen. With your support, USCPR Action launched the Stop Arming Israel Coalition. More than 60 organizations have joined this new Palestinian-led coalition to organize on everything from BDS to the Block the Bombs Act. Cambridge, Massachusetts made history and voted to divest. Organizers with Cambridge for Palestine packed City Hall for more than six hours of public comment. The city will pull funds out of Palantir, Elbit Systems, Lockheed Martin, GE Aerospace, and Boeing.7 Dr. Mazen Rantisi is free after you demanded his release along with other Palestinian healthcare workers. Israel jailed the 71-year old “doctor of the poor” in the occupied West Bank for nearly four months.  You collectively mailed 2,000 printed letters to the Senate Armed Services Committee, demanding that they stop the U.S.-Israel military integration in the NDAA. These letters are a unique way to break through the noise of phone calls and emails Senate offices are used to receiving. DONATE TO FUEL OUR COALITION WORK  WHAT YOU CAN DO NEXT

Fight the Deadly Merger before it’s too late. Join a phonebank shift with USCPR Action, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and Adalah Justice Project  to block the U.S.-Israel military integration in the NDAA. You can also use our click-to-call or mail-a-letter tools to tell your senators to vote no. Tell Congress: Let aid into Gaza! Palestinian families are heading into a fourth winter in tents and Israel blocks the vast majority of aid from entering Gaza. Use this email tool to tell your members of Congress to act now. Bring your group into the Stop Arming Israel Coalition. Know a local grassroots group or national organization that belongs in this fight? Send them the interest form to join the Stop Arming Israel Coalition. LET AID INTO GAZA NOW

Thank you for taking action with us. Onward to liberation,

NASH Digital Strategist  USCPR Action

Footnotes   1-  https://www.newsweek.com/us-israel-military-integration-what-ndaa-vote-does-and-does-not-do-12232987 2-  https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-wfp-food-cuts-hunger-tents-winter  3-  https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-wfp-food-cuts-hunger-tents-winter  4-  https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-us-trump-negotiations-midterms/  5-  https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mike-rogers-campaign-spokesperson 6- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/20/rashida-tlaib-demands-arrest-of-israeli-soldier-linked-to-hind-rajab-death  7-  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfGKAdxoLqf/ 8-  https://www.wfp.org/news/funding-cuts-force-wfp-drastically-reduce-lifesaving-assistance-gaza

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