🗺️ Tactical Briefing: Why today matters
The Fact: According to recent reporting, the White House is pressuring RFK Jr. to link vaccines and autism to justify dismantling community-living protections.
The Impact: This is a eugenics-based attempt to return us to the era of large state institutions and “ugly laws.”
The Next Step: The Lobby Day signup deadline is today. Sign up to meet your members of Congress at their local offices on August 25.
According to reporting by the Independent on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, the Current Occupant of the White House has been pressuring RFK, Jr., to find a link between childhood vaccines and autism. Before vaccines, people became physically and mentally disabled by diseases such as polio and measles. They were frequently placed in specialized hospitals, residential facilities, and large state institutions during the 1950s and 1960s. During this era, medical professionals often advised families to institutionalize their disabled family members due to a lack of community-based support and widespread societal stigma.
Vaccines against diseases like polio keep people healthy and prevent disability from conditions that could have been prevented. However, the Current Occupant and his co-conspirators, like RFK Jr., would rather have a dead person than an autistic individual. However, if someone becomes disabled due to lack of access to vaccines, they believe that states and territories don’t have to keep people with disabilities in the least restrictive environment possible, according to the Olmstead DOJ Memo. This isn’t only ableist but also a form of eugenics. This is why the Say No to Crip Crow Campaign, which calls for codifying the Olmstead decision into federal law by updating Section 2 of the ADA, is essential.
Over the past month and a half, we have been asking you to call your members of Congress every day to demand that they codify the Olmstead decision into federal law. Now we are taking the next step by lobbying our members of Congress at their district offices while they are in recess. Today (August 11th) is the last day to sign up for the Say No to Crip Crow lobby day on Tuesday, August 25th. If you are physically able to visit your members of Congress in person, sign up today. Freedom is expensive; no one is coming to save us, and we need to save ourselves. We refuse to return to the era of isn’t ugly laws’ and iron lungs that we explored last Thursday. We choose the future of Olmstead instead.
A Look Ahead
The rhetoric we are seeing today targets the very existence of invisible disabilities. Join us on Thursday, August 13th, as our contributor, Abiodun Ojo (Bb), explores the reality of navigating the world with the disabilities that the Current Occupant of the White House refuses to see.
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