Sign the petition: Less than a week to defeat Trump's AI mass surveillance of Americans
THE NOT MY pres drumpf / trump and NOT MY vp vance administration's lack of respect for the US Constitution and the rule of law is proof enough congress must pass the bipartisan privacy protections and critical reforms of FISA to stop warrantless surveillance of Americans. Please sign this petition from Demand Progress and please take the time to e mail your representative and senators telling them to reject FISA section 702 and the government domestic spying loopholes republicans are insisting on including in the FISA reauthorization. It will be better for our democratic Republic to let FISA lapse rather than pass FISA reauthorization with the drumpf / trump-vance Orwellian enhancements. My e mails will be at the end of this post.....
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Trump and Speaker Johnson are still scrambling to hold onto their powers to surveil Americans without a warrant.
Stephen Miller wanted to extend and expand government mass surveillance by "quietly" reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). It didn't work. Johnson tried to ram a vote through. It didn't work.1,2 Now, Republicans are trying to water down any reform efforts to make them toothless.
A lot will be decided in the next few days before the April 30 FISA reauthorization deadline, and we must keep fighting for these critical privacy reforms.
Sign the petition: Tell Congress to close Trump's spying loopholes NOW!
Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies exploit the “data broker loophole” to bypass privacy rights by purchasing our sensitive private information from data collection companies. They also use the “backdoor search loophole” to circumvent court orders and search through billions of communications. This is what's at stake over the next week.
Adding to the dangers of the government's domestic spying capabilities, the White House recently said it wants to use AI to collect and analyze "commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data."3 It would be a terrifying expansion of the Trump administration's spying powers.
With the April 30 deadline looming, it's critical that we ramp up the pressure on members of Congress to follow through with reforms as Trump and Johnson get more desperate.
Thanks for taking action,
Joey and the team at Demand Progress
Sources:
- Axios, "Trump suffers rare defeat with House Republicans," April 17, 2026.
- Common Dreams, "Trump Openly Calls for 'Clean' Extension of Spying Power Opposed by Privacy Advocates," March 25, 2026.
- The New York Times, "How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart," March 1, 2026.
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MY E MAILS TO REP SUBRAMANYAM D-VA 10TH, SEN WARNER D-VA AND SEN KAINE D-VA
I expect you to oppose as well as work on the entire Virginia congressional delegation to make sure FISA is not reauthorized if it includes the authoritarian drumpf / trump-vance-miller data broker and backdoor search loopholes and section 702. This administration has no respect for our constitution and the rule of law, they can not be trusted to defend our democratic Republic if their "enhancements" to FISA are included. Our democracy will be better served if FISA is not reauthorized including any of this administration's Orwellian demands.
Thank you
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