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How We Push Back Against Trump’s Wildfire Power Grab

7 Steps you can take to hold the line this weekend — in just 30 minutes.

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Lori Corbet Mann
Jul 05, 2025
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Dear friends

I know it’s a holiday weekend, but with everything that’s happened in the months since Trump’s inauguration, I am beyond angry. Not least because Trump is preparing to use climate crisis emergencies as a political weapon. This is not a distant possibility, not a warning for the future — it’s already in motion. And judging by the way many of you have responded to my last few posts, I know you feel the same.

What unsettles me just as much is that the elected officials in the states most at risk don’t seem to see it. They don’t appear to understand what the Trump administration is setting in motion, or how quickly this can be used against their own people.

So our outrage is not enough. Outrage must become action — deliberate, strategic, organised action. And that action has to start right here, with each of us.

For too long, too many of us have been lulled into believing someone else will fix things when times get tough — the “Leadership”, some other “Professional”, “The Young”.…

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