Image: Rep. Delia Ramirez announced the Renewed Mandate for Human Rights in Washington, D.C. on May 13, 2026. The office of congresswoman Ramirez

Mike Ludwig of Truthout reports: “For antiwar progressives in Congress, public disgust with Donald Trump’s violent, fumbling presidency has presented them with a specific challenge: confronting Trump’s brutality at home and abroad, while pressing a global reset button on human rights. With voters angry about tax dollars funding genocidal carnage overseas, and her Chicagoland district among the many communities reeling from Trump’s brutal deportation raids, Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois is pushing fellow Democrats to pick a side ahead of the midterm elections.

Flanked by allied lawmakers and groups from an array of social movements, Ramirez introduced a sweeping House resolution on May 13 that builds on her prior call to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the parent organization of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The resolution calls to redirect massive military spending toward pro-peace initiatives and create an unprecedented independent federal commission to monitor human rights violations by the United States at home and abroad…”

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