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Release the Epstein Files in Full
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children — who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and to open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
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Keep Politics Out of the Archives, the Smithsonian, and the Kennedy Center
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts — the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute — fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
1,360co-signs - US
Impeach and Remove Pete Hegseth
On September 15, Rep. Thomas Massie filed eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and the House can be forced to vote on them. The Constitution gives Congress, not the executive branch, the power to take the country to war, and it gives the House the power to remove officials who ignore that limit. Keeping American forces in combat in Iran without authorization from Congress is exactly the kind of abuse impeachment exists to answer. Impeachment is not a criminal trial. It is how Congress enforces the oath every official swears to the Constitution. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot where they stand: if elected, will you vote to impeach and remove him?
1,112co-signs - US
Pass the Women's Health Protection Act
Since Dobbs, where you live decides what care you can get. A patient in one state gets a routine procedure; a patient four hours away is sent home to get sicker until she qualifies as an emergency, while her doctor calls a lawyer before calling a colleague. Hospitals have closed maternity wards rather than staff them under laws written to be prosecuted, so women in those counties now drive an hour to give birth whether they ever needed an abortion or not. This was never really a state-by-state question, because the people are the same people and the pregnancies are the same pregnancies — only the county line changed. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to pass the Women's Health Protection Act and restore a federal floor for abortion access, so that care stops depending on a map.
643co-signs - US
Keep the Border Wall Out of National Parks
Big Bend is 800,000 acres of Chihuahuan Desert that Americans set aside more than eighty years ago, and the canyon walls along the river hold rock art made thousands of years before there was a border here to argue about. Construction is working toward it now under a legal power almost nobody knows exists: one line in the REAL ID Act lets the Secretary of Homeland Security waive any law at all — the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, historic preservation, the statutes protecting tribal sacred sites — to build a wall, with no court permitted to review the decision. That isn't border policy. That's a single official with a pen and nobody to answer to. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to repeal that waiver authority and bar wall construction inside national parks, wildlife refuges, and tribal sacred sites.
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Write the Roadless Rule Into Law
In 2001, after more than 600 public hearings and 1.6 million public comments — the largest response to a federal rule in American history — the Roadless Rule protected some 58 million acres of national forest from roadbuilding and industrial logging. Those acres are the headwaters of drinking water for millions of people, the last unfragmented habitat left in a lot of states, and the elk country and trout streams hunters and anglers have defended for a generation. USDA is now moving to erase all of it administratively, which is exactly how it could be erased again by whoever runs the department next. A protection that survived two decades of litigation shouldn't rest on a memo. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to write the Roadless Rule into statute, where an appointee can't repeal it.
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Keep Federal Agents and Emergency Powers Out of the Midterms
Federal law already makes it a crime to order or keep troops or armed men at a place where an election is being held — up to five years in prison and disqualification from federal office. That line has held through every contested election in living memory, because a voter who has to walk past armed federal agents to reach a ballot box is not voting freely, whatever their status. This year the signals have been mixed about whether federal personnel will be near polling places, and a draft executive order declaring a national emergency and asserting federal power over the election has circulated among the president's allies. Elections here are run by states and counties, counted in public, and certified locally. That is the design, not a loophole. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to say plainly that they oppose any emergency federal takeover of the 2026 election and any deployment of armed federal personnel at or near polling places, and to back enforcement of the ban already on the books.
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Pass the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act
Artificial intelligence is being built faster than anyone can show it’s safe, and no law requires the companies building it to stop. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar’s Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would permanently ban building superintelligent AI, pause the most advanced AI development until a federal regulator sets safety rules, and direct the U.S. to pursue international agreements so it isn’t built anywhere else. That is the kind of serious public oversight a technology this powerful demands. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to co-sponsor and vote for the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act.
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Hold AI Companies Liable for the Harm They Cause
When an AI system a company sold gives dangerous advice, invents a defamatory "fact" about a real person, or hands an attacker the keys to the system it was trusted with, the company's answer is a terms-of-service page you clicked past and a claim that nobody could have seen it coming. Every other industry that ships a product into people's lives — cars, drugs, ladders, baby formula — answers for foreseeable harm in a courtroom. That isn't hostility to the technology; it's the ordinary price of selling something, and it's the only mechanism that has ever reliably gotten a company to fix a defect before the lawsuit instead of after. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to pass a federal AI liability standard: no blanket immunity, no forced arbitration, and a clear path to court when a company's system causes real harm.
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Restore Food Safety Inspections
The reason you can eat a bagged salad without thinking about it is that somebody inspected the plant. That inspection is a person with a job, and those jobs have been cut, frozen, and left unfilled, while the outbreak investigators who trace a contaminated lot back to its source were pushed out alongside them. The result isn't a debate — it's recalls that arrive after people are already in the hospital, and families who learn from a news alert that what's in their refrigerator killed someone. Food safety is the least ideological thing government does; it works so quietly that nobody notices it until it stops. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to fully staff and fund FDA and USDA inspection, protect the independence of outbreak investigators, and make every inspection lapse public instead of quietly absorbing the risk on your behalf.
524co-signs - US
Restore Independent Vaccine Science at CDC and FDA
Childhood vaccine schedules used to be set the boring way: an outside committee of specialists, meeting in public, screened for conflicts, leaving a paper trail anyone could read. That committee was fired and replaced by appointment, and the schedule is now being rewritten by executive order — not because new evidence arrived, but because one official decided. Pediatricians are fielding questions they can't answer about whether a shot will still be covered next month, and measles is back in places that hadn't seen a case in a generation. This is what it looks like when a decision that belongs to evidence gets handed to a person. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to restore an independent, public, conflict-screened vaccine advisory process, keep the schedule with the science rather than the appointee, and guarantee every recommended vaccine stays free at the point of care.
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Make Data Centers Pay Their Own Grid and Water Costs
Tech companies are racing to build data centers that draw as much power as a small city, and they want you to pay for the wiring. When one comes to town, the utility has to build new power plants, transmission lines, and substations — and unless your state says otherwise, that bill gets spread across every household’s rates while the company that caused it negotiates a special deal. Some of these facilities also pull millions of gallons of water a day from the same reservoirs and aquifers that families and farms depend on. The richest companies in the world don’t need a subsidy from your electric bill. Resistbot is asking your state lawmakers, and everyone running for those seats, to make data centers pay the full cost of the grid and water they use — through the public utility commission and in law — so the companies building them cover the bill, not families.
451co-signs - US
Guarantee Press Access to the White House
On September 18 the President announced he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, effective immediately. The next day their reporters’ passes were deactivated or confiscated at the gate. His stated reason was their reporting, and when asked who might be next, he went after The New York Times and The Washington Post. The press corps exists so the public can see what its government is doing, not so the government can pick who gets to watch. No statute protects that access; right now it rests on lawsuits that take years while the reporters stay locked out. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to pass a law guaranteeing credentialed journalists access to the White House on neutral, published standards — never revoked over what they report.
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Scrap the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap
Social Security payroll taxes stop applying once a worker's wages pass an annual cap. Below that line every dollar is taxed; above it, nothing is. A nurse, a welder, and a line cook pay in on all of their earnings. Someone paid several times that stops paying partway through the year and takes the rest home untaxed, and still collects a benefit at the end of it. Meanwhile the trust fund is projected to fall short as the ratio of workers to retirees keeps dropping, and the fixes being floated are raising the retirement age or trimming benefits — both of which land hardest on the people whose bodies are worn out from forty years of physical work and who will collect for the fewest years. There is a simpler answer that asks nothing of them. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to eliminate the Social Security payroll tax cap so that all wage income pays in at the same rate, and to rule out benefit cuts and a higher retirement age as the alternative.
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Stop Arming Immigration Agents With Shock Weapons
ICE is buying wearable electric-shock devices for its agents — gloves that deliver a current through the hands of the person wearing them, on people who are being detained, not convicted. There is no version of this that is about safety. A shock delivered by a hand is a weapon designed to hurt someone quietly, leave little to photograph, and end an argument about compliance before anyone can ask a question. Agencies that answer to almost no one should be the last ones handed a tool like that, and the deaths already recorded in immigration custody are the reason why. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to block the purchase and deployment of electric-shock devices by immigration enforcement, and to put a binding use-of-force standard for DHS into law — public reporting on every incident, and independent investigation of every death in custody.
390co-signs - US
Take Back Congress's Power Over Tariffs
A tariff is a tax. It's collected at the border from an American importer, and it lands in the price of whatever you were going to buy anyway — groceries, car parts, lumber, the components inside every appliance in your house. The Constitution put that power in Article I, with Congress, precisely because taxing the whole country isn't supposed to be one person's mood on a Tuesday. Instead it's been done by emergency declaration, switched on and off, aimed at neighbors and allies like Canada, leaving businesses unable to plan a quarter ahead and households absorbing the difference at the register. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to take that power back: require a recorded vote of Congress to impose or extend tariffs, sunset emergency trade authority, and make anyone who wants to raise your prices say so on the record.
348co-signs - US
Overturn Citizens United
Since Citizens United, corporations and the billionaires behind them can spend without limit to elect the candidates they want, and much of that money flows through groups that never have to say where it came from. The ruling rests on two ideas most Americans reject: that a corporation has the same constitutional rights as a person, and that spending money is the same thing as speech. The result is a system where a handful of donors can drown out millions of voters, and where the people who write the checks get the first call after the election. A court ruling this deep can only be undone by the Constitution itself. The We the People Amendment (H.J.Res. 54) would do it: constitutional rights belong to people, not corporations, and money is not speech. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to co-sponsor and vote for the We the People Amendment to overturn Citizens United.
345co-signs - US
Stop Medicare Cuts to Skin Cancer Care
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in America, and it is also one of the most curable when it’s caught early. That depends on seeing a dermatologist, often one who can find a suspicious spot and remove it in the same visit. Medicare’s proposed 2027 payment rules would pay half price for a procedure or exam done on the same day as an office visit, and would phase out a payment adjustment that covers practice costs — cuts that fall heavily on dermatology. Seniors carry most of the skin cancer burden, and many rural counties already have no dermatologist at all. Squeeze those practices and the result is fewer appointments, longer waits, and more patients sent home to come back another day — if they come back. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to reverse Medicare payment cuts that ration skin cancer detection and treatment, and to protect seniors’ access to same-day care.
309co-signs - US
Make AI Data Centers Follow the Clean Air Act
When an AI data center needs more power than the grid can hand it, it burns fuel on site — banks of turbines and diesel generators, sited next to whichever neighborhood was cheapest, running hardest on exactly the days the air is already worst. Every other industrial source that does this has to obtain a permit, install controls, and monitor what comes out of the stack. EPA is now moving to let data centers skip all of it, which means the people downwind — usually the same communities that got the last power plant — subsidize the buildout with their lungs. There's no version of this where the asthma is hypothetical. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to block that exemption and hold data-center generation to the same Clean Air Act permitting, pollution controls, and public monitoring as any other industrial polluter.
309co-signs - US
Stop Warrantless License Plate Tracking
A license plate camera does not wait for a reason. Networks like Flock log every car that drives past, and one search can reach tens of thousands of cameras across the country. A Texas sheriff's office searched more than 83,000 of them — including cameras in states where abortion is legal — for a woman its own search log said “had an abortion.” Local police have run searches on behalf of ICE, which has no contract of its own and uses them as a side door. Officers have been arrested for turning the same system on their exes, one allegedly more than 2,000 times. No federal rule required a warrant for any of it. A record of everywhere you drive is a record of where you worship, who you see, and which clinic you went to. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to require a warrant to search license plate data, cap how long it can be kept, bar federal agencies from getting around those rules by having local police run the search for them, and keep federal dollars away from camera networks that don't follow them.
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