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You probably have more money in your wallet right now than what Amazon will pay in corporate income taxes this year. That’s because it is paying $0, despite reporting earnings of $11 billion last year.1

What’s worse, all of this is perfectly legal. Our tax code is just so damn friendly to big corporations. Between the Trump tax cuts and ill-conceived tax write-offs from the Clinton years, Amazon legitimately owes $0 in corporate income taxes.

It’s time for that to change. Tell Congress: Amazon must pay its fair share of taxes.

I don’t have a problem paying taxes. I am more than happy to pay my fair share for the things we all need, like infrastructure, education, and healthcare. And I’ve seen hard times. So I am also willing to give a little extra help to people who need it. We’re all in this together.

But it makes me really angry that, like most of you, I am paying more income taxes this year than Amazon, one of the most highly-valued companies in the world.

It’s just not right that Amazon pays less than truckers, teachers, nurses, and firefighters. It’s time for Congress to fix these huge gaping holes in our tax code and make corporations like Amazon pay their fair share.

Tell Congress: Amazon shouldn’t be paying fewer taxes than millions of middle class Americans. Fix the tax code!

Thanks for taking a stand, Carli and the Demand Progress Team 

“The movement is growing and we are fighting to win. Join us for Operation: #OneMoreVote on February 27 and lets flood the Senate to save net neutrality!”

The Resistance is REAL! Take Action! No Corporatocracy

But Congress can still block the repeal of these protections using the Congressional Review Act (CRA), and we’re just one vote away from winning in the Senate. And one vote away from giving Ajit Pai the worst day of his corrupt political career.

So on February 27 major websites, online communities, and Internet users are planning Operation: #OneMoreVote, an Internet-wide day of action laser-focused on finding the final vote we need to pass the CRA resolution in the Senate and take the fight to the House.

Planning for the day of action just started, but already popular companies like Tumblr, Etsy, Vimeo, Medium, Namecheap, Imgur, Sonos, and DuckDuckGo have announced their participation. 

The day of action is being called for by the groups behind BattleForTheNet.com: Fight for the Future, Demand Progress, and Free Press Action Fund, who have been responsible for many of the largest online protests in history, from SOPA to the Internet Slowdown.

Internet users will be encouraged to sound the alarm on social media and sign up to receive alerts with their lawmaker’s position on net neutrality and prompts to take action on the big day, while websites, subreddits, and online communities will display prominent alerts driving phone calls, emails, and tweets to Senators and Representatives calling on them to pass the CRA.

50 Senators have already come out in support of the CRA, which would completely overturn the FCC’s December 14 decision and restore net neutrality protections. 

Here’s the text of an email I got from Demand Progress:

Senate Republicans are trying to ram through Jeff Sessions' nomination for Attorney General by cutting his hearings short and only allowing Democrats to call four witnesses.

And Sessions hasn’t even submitted a completed questionnaire to the committee that will question his fitness to be Attorney General – a move he once said was a felony.2

We need to stop this Republican power play and kill Sessions’ nomination for good.

Click here to use our easy tool to call the Senate and demand they block Sessions’ nomination for Attorney General!

Jeff Sessions is a man who’s spent his whole career undermining civil rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, immigration, criminal justice reform and hate crime laws — all of which would be under his purview as Attorney General.

He’s a man who the Republican Senate rejected for a federal judgeship in 1986 because of his anti-voting rights activism and racist comments, including jokingly approving of the Ku Klux Klan.

And he's a man who defended Donald Trump’s recorded bragging about grabbing women by their genitals by saying, “I don't characterize that as sexual assault."

His views didn’t represent American values then and they sure as hell don’t now. But only a grassroots outcry has a chance of stopping the Senate from ramming through this dangerous man to become America’s top law enforcement officer.

Click here to use our easy tool to call the Senate and demand they block Sessions’ nomination for Attorney General!