Legislative Tracker
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Wisconsin Assembly Bill 446 (AB446) and its companion Senate Bill 445 (SB445), introduced in September 2025, seek to codify the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism into state law. These bills would require state agencies, local governments, schools, and universities—including the University of Wisconsin system—to consider the IHRA definition when enforcing laws, policies, or criminal penalty enhancers related to discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin.
A public hearing on AB446 was held by the Assembly Committee on State Affairs on October 22, 2025, highlighting debates over its implications for campuses and communities. While aimed at addressing antisemitism, the bills risk expanding the definition's scope to include critiques of Israeli policies, potentially chilling protected speech and activism for Palestinian rights under the First Amendment.
Petition Against Adopting the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism in Wisconsin
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H.R. 3565 is an historic bill introduced to block bombs to Israel. It seeks to prohibit the President from selling, transferring, or authorizing export licenses for seven types of weapons to the Israeli government. If this bill is passed, it would block the shipment of BLU-109 bunker-busting bombs, MK80 series bomb variants, GBU-39 small diameter bomb variants, Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) assemblies, SPICE gliding bomb assemblies, 120mm tank ammunition, and 155mm artillery ammunition, including white phosphorus munitions.
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The Trump administration has abused a provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to abduct, detain, and threaten to deport Mahmoud Khalil and others exercising their First Amendment rights to call for an end to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.
The Land of the Free Act, introduced by Reps. Deborah Ross and Becca Balint, would repeal this provision and protect pro-Palestinian activists.
An immigration judge in Louisiana in a ruling on September 12, ordered the deportation of Palestinian activist and student leader Mahmoud Khalil — the latest in the Trump administration’s political persecution of Mahmoud. The Trump administration arrested Mahmoud Khalil, held him in a Louisiana detention center for months, thousands of miles away from his wife and newborn baby, and is still trying to deport him.
The Land of the Free Act will take away a dangerous power the White House is weaponizing to punish pro-Palestinian speech and protest. Our U.S. Representatives must cosponsor and call for the swift passage of this legislation.
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https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-us-representative-pass-the-land-of-the-free-act