Trump Administration

Join us APRIL 7th – 11th in Washington, DC and online Congress is hearing from the pro-peace, pro-ceasefire majority and is STILL dragging its feet – even as the fragile ceasefire in [...]

Peace Action’s Trump Watch campaign is focusing on some of the most immediate threats posed by the Trump administration. This includes Trump and Musk’s freezes on humanitarian funding, the Trump [...]

Peace Action Statement on Trump Executive Order Sanctioning the International Criminal Court Recently, the US Senate was right in declining to advance HR 23, the provocatively named Illegitimate [...]

Trump’s Conviction, and Our Convictions of Democracy By Kevin Martin I don’t know about you, by my Trump-induced Attention Deficit Disorder is dissipating, and wow does it feel good! As our [...]

The recent presidential pardons of  Dustin L. Heard, Evan S. Liberty, Nicholas A. Slatten and Paul A. Slough once again demonstrate Trump’s flagrant disregard for human rights. The Blackwater [...]

Next week has the very real possibility of becoming a national emergency. Donald Trump routinely ignores democratic norms, lies about mail-in voting, or falsely calls the election “rigged.” We [...]

Once Again Trump Scoffs Congressional War Powers with Republican Help Washington, D.C. — May 7, 2020 — In response to the veto by President Trump yesterday of a bill (S.J.Res.68) to reclaim [...]

On May 6, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) headed a congressional oversight letter with 107 other members of Congress to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper expressing [...]

Washington, D.C. — March 12, 2020 — In response to reports that the U.S. has carried out five airstrikes on Iranian-backed militia sites in Iraq, Jon Rainwater, Executive Director of Peace [...]

As we feared, President Trump’s reckless assassination of Iran’s Gen. Soleimani resulted in escalation — direct Iranian missile attacks on two military bases in Iraq. It’s painful to watch more [...]