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For the week of April 27, 2026

 

🎙️Apr 27, 2026 Weekly Actions Audio – available for when you’re on the go

🔷 On May 1st, join Sally E, Louise, Allison, Hanna and others for an exciting new type of action – 520 Bridge – May Day 2026: Workers Over Billionaires. Volunteers will be holding 8 large banners and 20 provided signs messaging rush hour and Mariners game traffic. We will meet at 3:00 pm at South Kirkland Park and Ride, receive instructions, then carpool to limited parking to access the walkway on the 520 bridge. We’ll be on the bridge from 4-5:30 pm. This is a targeted May Day event, not a general sign-waving, so please 1) sign up, 2) show up 3) leave your own signs at home, and 4) have fun!  To prepare for this event, consider joining us for banner making workshops on April 28 in Bellevue and April 29 in Kirkland.  

🔷 Make this a full weekend of protest by joining the Sat May 2, 11 am -12 pm Downtown Bellevue Protest or help expand numbers for any of the weekly Eastside protests being held on Saturdays.

🔷 If you were encouraged by the topics we covered at the Eastside Indivisible meeting last week, particularly rebuilding post-Trump, take a listen to this excellent podcast featuring Sherrilyn Ifill, former head of the NAACP Legal Defence Fund.

🔷 Letter Writing is Back! Vote Forward is implementing a pilot program with the Pennsylvania primary election. A personal, handwritten message is paired with practical voting information to encourage newly registered voters to get out and vote. Training for this program is on April 28, 5-6 pm, on Zoom. Register to attend. 

Weekly Actions

 

✊ Action 1 – No New Data Centers in Seattle

from Seattle Indivisible

Three companies, Prologis, Equinix, and Sabey have approached Seattle City Light about developing four hyperscale data centers in the Seattle area. These proposals are shrouded in secrecy. Seattle City Light has stated that they cannot share a complete list of companies involved or locations being considered due to nondisclosure agreements.

Data centers raise electricity rates and emissions and are a threat to water supplies and grid stability. Seattle already has about 30 relatively small data centers, but the proposed facilities would be the first at this scale in the city. A 117 megawatt data center typically consumes between 500,000 and 1 million square feet of space. The combined energy need for the proposed data centers is approximately 369 megawatts of electricity which equals approximately a third of Seattle’s average daily power consumption.

The Mayor and City Council must stand with Seattleites already living in one of the most expensive cities in the country and say NO to these proposed data centers.

Action: Seattle City LIght indicates that these hyperscale data center projects are still in a preliminary engineering phase and the companies have not yet formally applied for service. Now is the time to speak out and demand transparency, accountability, and a comprehensive plan for how the city will manage large load customers.

Send an email to Mayor Katie Wilson urging the Seattle City Council to pass a moratorium on new data center construction in Seattle.

☎ Sample Script:

Mayor Wilson:

I am writing to urge you to pass a moratorium on new data center construction in Seattle and to voice my opposition to the construction of the large scale data centers currently under proposal.

Washington State is in a climate emergency. The last year has seen both catastrophic flooding and drought and we know more is on the way. Seattle City Light has raised prices more than 14% in just the last four years. Instead of courting data center proposals, Seattle City Light needs to find solutions that will allow electrification and resilience without saddling ratepayers with impossible bills.

Seattle City Light was the first major utility in the country to be carbon neutral. We cannot abandon that proud legacy by letting Big Tech pursue its AI juggernaut at our expense. We need affordable power and clean air. We do not need data centers that gobble resources, pollute communities, and enrich the world’s greediest people at our expense.

People across the country from all walks of life are linking arms to fight against the extractive companies building data centers without regard for the well-being of communities or our planet. Seattle City Council has the power to protect our city and I ask you to use it.

Our future is electric, renewable, affordable, and resilient. Tell Seattle City Light to deny support for these projects and pass a moratorium on new data centers immediately.

Sincerely, 

[name]

Bonus Action: Ryan Monson, General Manager of Sabey Data Centers, is on the board of Seattle City Light. This position is a conflict of interest given that Sabey Corp currently owns a 1.2 million-square-foot data center and is one of the companies looking to build more data centers in the Seattle area.

If you are concerned about the lack of transparency regarding data centers and the conflict of interest presented by a board member with financial ties to the industry, attend a Seattle City Light review panel meeting on Mon May 4 from 1:30-3:30 pm (online via Microsoft Teams)  or Wed May 20 from 9-11 am (in person at Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 5th Ave, Seattle, conference room SMT3204, or online via Microsoft Teams).

The public has a right to know what is being proposed when it comes to our land and public resources. They also have a duty to request that any board member with a financial interest in building hyperscale data centers recuse themselves from voting on whether or not to approve these applications.  

✊ Action 2 – Demand AG Brown and Governor Ferguson Investigate Abuse of SSA Data by DOGE

from Christopher Armitage

Evidence that Trump and DOGE have unlawfully accessed, shared, and misused Social Security data has come out multiple times since DOGE was first created. Uncovering and fighting this misuse of our data has been a long process, and unfortunately the fight must continue.

As far back as February 2025, associations of retirees and unions sued to halt DOGE in its unprecedented, unlawful seizure of personal, confidential, private and sensitive data from the Social Security Administration. In January of 2026, the Department of Justice acknowledged this misconduct in a court filing (“corrections to the record”) related to the suit, with disturbing specifics including the signing of an agreement with a political group seeking to match SSA records against state voter rolls to overturn election results. The SSA also admits that it cannot determine what data was removed from its control or where that data went.

More recently, in March, a whistleblower alleged that a former DOGE software engineer at SSA claimed to have retained copies of sensitive databases filled with personal information about almost every living American. The  whistleblower complaint filed by Charles Borges, former SSA Chief Data Officer, alleges that DOGE personnel improperly accessed and shared SSA’s highly sensitive NUMIDENT database, which contains personal information for over 300 million Americans.

Washington state has laws against this type of conduct.  While SSA maintains its systems are secure, the whistleblower allegations and DOJ admissions have fueled calls for stricter access controls, an independent audit, and clearer protocols for contractor data handling to ensure privacy when normal security protocols are bypassed.

The DOJ and FBI are operating under a political leadership that has every incentive to bury this egregious violation of privacy. Multiple states are working to fight the cover-up and bring about accountability, and it’s time for our state to add to the pressure.

Action: Reach out to AG Nick Brown and Governor Ferguson urging them to open an independent investigation into the DOGE breach of SSA data security and possible criminal implications.  It is time for the lawless and feckless DOGE to face legal accountability for their corrupt and dangerous actions. (Scroll down for Governor Ferguson’s email link and sample script.)

Attorney General Brown | EMAIL

☎ Sample Script:

Nick Brown:

I am a Washington voter, and I’m writing to request that your office investigate and prosecute possible criminal violations of state law arising from unauthorized access to Social Security Administration (SSA) records containing the personal information of Washington state residents by DOGE.

On January 16, 2026, the federal government’s own attorneys filed a correction in AFSCME v. Social Security Administration, Case No. 1:25-cv-00596, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, acknowledging that DOGE employees severely mishandled Social Security data, in specific ways laid out in the correction.

If this conduct violates Washington state law and there is no exemption in the criminal code for defendants who work for the federal government, these violations should  be investigated as criminal charges against the parties responsible for sharing the personal data of every Washingtonian in the SSA system.

I am asking your office to use any  independent authority they might have to investigate these violations of privacy. If your office requires a referral from a county prosecutor I am asking you to confirm that in writing so I can make that request directly.

Respectfully,

[Name]

 

Govern Ferguson | EMAIL

☎ Sample Script:

Governor Ferguson:

I am a Washington voter, and I’m writing to request that you refer a matter to your state attorney general for criminal investigation, using your executive authority to direct the AG to act.

On January 16, 2026, the federal government’s own attorneys filed a correction in AFSCME v. Social Security Administration, Case No. 1:25-cv-00596, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, acknowledging that DOGE employees severely mishandled Social Security data, in specific ways laid out in the correction.

If this conduct violates Washington state law and there is no exemption in the criminal code for defendants who work for the federal government, these violations should  be investigated as criminal charges against the parties responsible for sharing the personal data of every Washingtonian in the SSA system.

Many state attorneys general have confirmed they need either a county prosecutor referral or a gubernatorial referral before they can open a criminal investigation. You have the authority to make that referral and I am asking you to use it.

Respectfully,

[Name]

⛅ Bright Spots

  • Virginia voters approved a map that could give Democrats four more House seats. This victory helps level the playing field for Democrats in the nation’s gerrymandering war.
  • A federal district Court issued an opinion and judgment in the protecting youth gender-affirming care case.  AG Brown, along with the Attorneys General of Oregon and New York, led a coalition of 22 states that secured a federal court order Saturday permanently blocking an unlawful attempt by the Trump administration to threaten healthcare providers for treating youth with gender dysphoria. 
  • The Trump administration is now taking steps to refund $166 billion in tariffs. The Supreme Court struck down the tariffs in February. It remains to be seen how smooth or fair the refund process will be, but it is a moment when the administration is facing the consequences of its actions.

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