Monday, July 20, 2026

Canada is burning. Polluters should pay.

Climate change is making wildfires more frequent and more extreme. But who pays for the consequences?

Dear  Pamela,

More than 800 wildfires are burning in Canada, destroying forests, homes, and air quality. As First Nation communities evacuate their homes, winds are spreading toxic smoke to New York, Boston, and across the Midwest. 

Several large wildfires in Minnesota are amplifying the smog. It doesn’t help that it’s been extremely hot in the Northeast, and heat spreads wildfire smoke which turns skies orange.

Climate change is making wildfires more frequent and more extreme. Oil companies knew this would happen, and lied about it.

But who pays for the consequences? 

The sad truth is while Canada warms up, it’s still approving pipelines,Brandi Morin writes. “It’s largely taxpayers — us — bankrolling a pipeline built to pump more of the exact emissions that are cooking the ground out from under communities like Collins. We are quite literally being asked to fund our own demise.”  

Polluters should pay for climate damages. Not us. 

Take care, 
Deepti 

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A lawless president wages a lawless war – but not if the funds run out.

No one is above the law.

Win Without War

Pamela, at least three U.S. servicemembers have been killed since the U.S. and Iranian governments returned to all-out war this month — adding to a death toll thousands high in an unnecessary, unjustified, illegal war.[1]

As the Trump administration targets bridges, rail lines, and power plants across Iran, it remains clear that people will bear the brunt of this violence.

Trump must be stopped. The violence must end. But how?

Trump can’t keep waging a war that he can’t pay for. That’s why — with a series of votes approaching in Congress that could unleash more than a trillion additional dollars for the Pentagon — we’re pushing lawmakers to REJECT authorizing so much as one single dime that Trump could spend on lawless violence.

Our voices got us a first-of-its-kind war powers resolution (WPR). Our voices are throwing “must-pass” Pentagon budgets into question. Now, let’s keep using them and stop our taxpayer dollars from fueling weapons and war.

Regardless of whether your members of Congress are anti-war champions, on the fence, or hellbent on greenlighting more bombs and bloodshed, we need to get loud and ensure our demands echo unmistakably through the halls of Congress. Click here to tell your lawmakers to REJECT funding for Trump’s warmongering.

ACT NOW

Pamela, we don’t need to tell you that this war is flatly illegal, but if you need a reminder, here’s the state of play:

  • A resounding majority of Americans oppose Trump’s war on Iran.
  • Congress passed a historic war powers resolution ordering Trump to end it.
  • Now, Trump is abandoning diplomacy and escalating instead, putting millions of people in Iran and across the Middle East in harm’s way and reigniting a global economic crisis that impacts us all.

But our voices are powerful enough to stop a war.

How do we know? We’ve done it before. Just last June, our movement pulled Trump back from the brink of war. Our non-stop advocacy, petitions, and calls pushed Congress to pass an unprecedented WPR last month. Our voices created the political space for Senate Democrats to BLOCK advancing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an “unprecedented” setback to a bill that usually passes with broad bipartisan support. Today, as Trump ignores the law and renews the violence, we can’t let up.

Every vote counts: A $1.15 trillion weapons and war budget set under the NDAA. Up to $73 billion in supplemental funding for Trump’s Iran War. Appropriations bills that plow taxpayer dollars to the Pentagon. As Trump tries to carry out a violent foreign policy against the will of the people, we need to make sure lawmakers resoundingly vote ‘No’ each and every time taxpayers are asked to foot the bill.

Whether this is your first time taking action or you’ve spoken out with us many times before, it’ll take all of us working together to put — and keep — continued pressure on lawmakers to ensure they act urgently. Tell Congress: Not one more dime for Trump’s Wars!

With each letter to Congress, petition signature, and call to a lawmaker’s office, our anti-war majority is achieving what was once thought impossible: Building the kind of political power strong enough to stop a war.

Momentum is growing, and we can’t let up now.

Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team


  1. The Washington Post, "U.S. teeters on all-out war with Iran after more troops are killed"
 
 
 

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