News From Nancy 7/17/2025
Help Democrats Take Back The House!
Making Good Trouble, as John Lewis Taught Us
Dear Friends,
Thank you Volunteers in Politics, our VIPs who have been with us week in and week out over several months, making hundreds of thousands of calls from our San Francisco hub and across America to stop the Republican raid on Medicaid. San Francisco and San Franciscans have stepped up and led during health crises before and we will do it again as the impacts of the Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill unfold. Our work to save lives continues so I am grateful to you and am proud to fight alongside you to Save Our Health Care.
Today is the John Lewis Day of Action. We celebrate our hero who left us five years ago today and recall his indomitable spirit and example of centering love as we fight for what is right, even in the face of cruelty and danger, by answering his call for Good Trouble. John Lewis never stopped fighting for America’s promise — liberty and justice for all, including in health care.
It was my honor as Speaker to walk arm in arm with John Lewis to the Capitol on the way to passing the Affordable Care Act because we believed that health care is a right for all — not a privilege for the few. It was a true blessing to serve in the People’s House alongside this saintly man. John also taught us that Democracy is not a state of being — but an act. Your calls to constituents of Republicans who voted for that cruel budget that strips health care and food from millions of Americans while padding the pockets of the ultra-rich are acts of Democracy.
In line with the lessons we learned from John Lewis and our San Francisco values of environmental stewardship and fostering community, know that I am also committed to saving our beautiful park system, including the Presidio and Alcatraz, from yet another thoughtless incursion by Trump. Make no mistake, Trump’s insane talk about using Alcatraz as a prison, once again, is a diversionary tactic to distract the American people from the Big Ugly Bill he signed into law, which rips health care and food away from 20 million Americans – to give tax breaks to billionaires. If reason does not prevail among Republicans in Congress and bring Trump’s fevered dream before the Congress, Democrats will use every parliamentary arrow in our quiver to stop this lunacy in its tracks.
House Democrats, led by Leader Jeffries, will be doing our part to embody John Lewis’s spirit of Good Trouble as we fight Trump’s lawlessness and the impacts of his monstrous budget in the Congress, in the courts and in the community by letting people know that Republicans in Congress voted with eyes wide open to harm their own constituents. This summer, House Democrats will travel across the country, keeping up the heat on vulnerable Republicans and supporting our Frontline Members in battleground districts against any Republicans thinking of challenging them by supporting Trump’s cruel, extremist agenda and his abomination of a budget.
It has been a long six months of dedicated work, but it has also been a powerful six months of growing our grassroots people power. Despite the chaos, cruelty and corruption that underly the craven actions of this Administration, we have modeled care, kindness and community. Let us keep up the work of supporting one another, of telling the truth about what is going on and of sharing our stories to keep bending the arc of the moral universe toward America’s promise of liberty and justice for all.
So keep showing up. Keep speaking out. And keep finding ways to get in the way of cruelty and injustice — like our beloved John Lewis continues to teach us. In John’s name, let’s keep up our momentum to Save Our Health Care – Join Our Phone Bank Tonight at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET
Thank you, Volunteers in Politics, for your compassion, courage and commitment to making Good Trouble!
NANCY
