On Wednesday, June 7,  more than 100 people called for the impeachment of President Trump at a rally outside  the Newton City Hall, before a hearing by City Councilors on whether to pass a proposed resolution calling upon Congress to introduce an impeachment investigation of Trump.

Newton resident and Free Speech For People Chair of the Board Ben Clements urged councilors to support the resolution saying, “The president has aggressively used the power of the presidency to enrich himself, his family members, his associates at the expense of the public.”

The resolution passed a committee vote and it will go to a full, official City Council vote on June 19. Read more coverage via Boston Globe.

Joining 10 other communities across the country, residents of Newton, Massachusetts are rallying together to urge their local city council to call on Congress to pass a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

“The president has aggressively used the power of the presidency to enrich himself, his family members, his associates at the expense of the public,” said Newton resident Ben Clements, who urged councilors to support the nonbinding resolution as part of the national Impeach Trump Now campaign.

Read more about Newton’s efforts in the Boston Globe.

On Saturday, June 3, John Bonifaz spoke at the Northampton March For Truth.  Across the country, peaceful demonstrations took place in over 150 communities, with these simple demands:

• Independent commission must be established and Congressional investigations should be properly resourced and pursued free of partisan interests;
• As much information should be made available to the public as possible, and as soon as possible;
• Congress should require Donald Trump to release his tax returns to clarify his business interests and obligations to any foreign entity;
• If crimes were committed or if collusion is discovered, it must be prosecuted.

For more information on the march, visit www.marchfortruth.info.

Journalist John Nichols explains how “the president blatantly tried to block a federal investigation. That’s obstruction of justice.” His latest piece in The Nation indicates that there’s already a good case for obstruction of justice — and our campaign is a leading the way in holding President Trump accountable. As Nichols reports,

“After the president fired FBI director James Comey—in what Trump essentially admitted in a nationally televised interview was a blatant attempt to thwart the bureau’s investigation into the charges of Russian involvement with his campaign—Pocan said the “impeachment clock” had moved “an hour closer to midnight.” When it was revealed that Trump had confided to Russian officials after the Comey firing that “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off,” the impeachment clock’s alarm sounded.”

Now the grounds for impeachment are growing and the stakes are rising. It’s up for ‘we the people’ to put the constitution before party lines and political strategy — it’s time to make the case for impeaching Trump!

 “Impeachment is not a “constitutional crisis”; it is rather the cure for one. A failure to apply that cure, for reasons of caution or partisan calculation, is a form of political malpractice that ill serves the republic that not just presidents but members of Congress swear to defend.”

We’re ready to save our democracy! Read the article on The Nation.

Today, a new poll released by POLITICO/Morning Consult shows “an increasing percentage of voters want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump — even if they don’t think Trump has committed the “high crimes and misdemeanors” the Constitution requires.”

According to the poll, forty-three percent of voters want Congress to begin impeachment proceedings,  up from 38 percent last week.

To read on POLITICO, click here.