This Tuesday, the organizers of the Women’s March (along with other organizations) are calling for a nationwide Free America Walkout at 2 p.m. local time. Their goal: “The walkout is a collective escalation—and a test. It tests whether we can move together, organize across workplaces and communities, and build the muscle for non-compliance and action-based resistance.”

There are many ways to move together and to organize together. Because the organizers left the vision of Tuesday up to us (and because the forecast for Tuesday is for very cold weather), we have the following proposal:

On Tuesday, January 20, wear red, white, and blue. Let’s have so much red, white, and blue that people who aren’t aware of the walkout can’t help but ask what’s going on.

And let’s make our elected representatives aware that we do not want to lose Democracy in the US. Let’s flood the phone lines and the emails of our representatives (Congressional, State and Local), ideally between 2 and 4 p.m. Let’s communicate a unified message: the Epstein Files Transparency Act of November 19, 2025 requires the United States attorney general to make all of the files publically available by December 19, 2025. 

This administration has dragged its feet and worked to distract from the issue; it will be over one month delinquent on Tuesday. According to the American Bar Association “A critical component of our system is that the government is bound by and must act in conformity with the law.”

In the unexpected case that the files are released in full prior to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, contact your representatives about the appalling use of force by ICE agents. 

If you need to call a few times because of a busy signal, be happy with the knowledge that we made that happen together.

RSVP to our Mobilize event here.

Background on Epstein Files Transparency Act

If you need some more information on the Epstein Files Transparency Act for your calls and emails:

The Epstein Files Transparency Act of November 19, 2025 requires “the United States attorney general to “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format” all files pertaining to the prosecution of the deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (if needed, declassifying them to the extent possible) within 30 days of passage, and then to give the Judiciary Committees in both the House of Representatives and the Senate an unredacted “list of all government officials and politically exposed persons” named in the files.”

The Act passed the House and the Senate on November 18, 2025 with all but one Representative voting “Aye” (and that one Representative is from Louisiana, so it’s not any of our Michigan Representatives).

Trump stated at least two times during his campaign that he would release the Epstein files. He signed the Act into law on November 19, 2025.

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