If You're Scared of Trump, Resign

Power means nothing if you’re too scared to use it.

This morning, Senator Lisa Murkowski voted yes on Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a legislative Frankenstein that manages to gut healthcare, slash food assistance, jack up energy costs, and explode the national debt—all while giving billionaires another tax break. If that doesn’t sound beautiful to you, congratulations, you still have a soul.

that moment you realize you turned voted to turn america into hungary.

Murkowski’s vote was the deciding one. It passed 51 to 50. And despite her very public hand-wringing and theatrical sighing about how “agonizing” the decision was, she still voted for it. She said it wasn’t a perfect bill. Which is cute. Because neither is open-heart surgery without anesthesia, but we still don’t recommend it.

Let’s be clear: Lisa Murkowski voted for a bill that could strip healthcare from 17 million Americans, remove food assistance from 3 million people, eliminate school meals for over 18 million children, and add over $3 trillion to the national debt. She voted for a bill that raises health care premiums for seniors and locks in Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, a windfall for the ultra-wealthy and a giant middle finger to everyone else.

And what did she get in return? A few crumbs for Alaska. Maybe a pat on the head and a promise not to defund her state into oblivion.

She claims it was about protecting the people of Alaska. But protecting your constituents while throwing the rest of the country off a fiscal cliff isn’t noble, it’s selfish. Murkowski didn’t vote her conscience. She voted her political insurance policy. And while she’s busy congratulating herself for doing the hard thing, millions of families are about to feel the fallout from her cowardice.

This isn’t bravery. This is complicity. And it’s not just Lisa. Every Republican who votes for this bill, and every one up for reelection, needs to hear from us. Call them. Email them. Send them a fax if you're feeling retro. Let them know that we’re watching, that we know exactly what they’re doing, and that they don’t get to hide behind “hard decisions” while people lose their healthcare, their meals, their dignity.

Despite the chaos in the Senate trenches, your calls and your cyberbullying are working. Senator Susan Collins of Maine did what hundreds of you demanded: she voted “no” on Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” citing deep cuts to Medicaid that would devastate rural states. A lot of horrible things were also removed from the bill like an insane provision that would have banned any regulation on AI for a decade.

THIS WAS ALL YOU!! You commented on their pages, and their donors’ social pages forcing them to remove comments or take down their pages entirely. YOU DID THIS.

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You can make a difference because the ripple effect is even stronger in the House, where a growing number of Republicans are breaking ranks. Deficit hawks like Rep. Thomas Massie (KY) and Rep. Warren Davidson (OH), joined by fiscally concerned members including Chip Roy (TX) and Ralph Norman (SC), have publicly said they’re not on board unless major changes happen. That kind of pressure, from both constituents and principled lawmakers, changes the game. The bill is not law yet. There is still time!!

FLOOD THEIR SOCIALS. USE CYBERBULLYING FOR GOOD. Post your best clapbacks in the comments so we can all go like them. Democracy runs on petty and organized rage!

This is exactly how change happens: loud, persistent public outcry backed by courageous dissent within the party. We are paying attention. And we have receipts.

Let’s make sure they know it.