Every year, the federal government poisons, traps, and guns down as many as two million animals including otters, foxes, and coyotes who are much needed predators, at the request of a minority of ranching and agricultural interests.

Nevada is among the Western states with the greatest loss in groundwater, putting pressure on public and ecosystem health.

Native Americans are fighting against a lithium mine targeted for a sacred site in northern Nevada where a brutal massacre by US soldiers took place in 1865.

Nevada is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

Approximately 2% of Nebraska’s prairie remains and the remnants of this crucial ecosystem need to be protected, connected, and restored.

In Nebraska, children are working in slaughterhouses and a bill for sub-minimum wages was introduced.

With the overturn of Roe. V Wade, abortion is banned after 12 weeks in Nebraska and patients are forced to receive counseling.

Nebraska is among the top American states without protective polices for LGBTQ+ people.

Nebraska is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

The Montana Supreme Court had to rule against two state laws that meant to purposely hinder Native Americans from voting.

Montana is among the top 15 American states with polices that actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.

The federal government is not doing enough to protect timber wolves and in Montana hunters and poachers are obliterating them in unprecedented ways including those considered torture.

Montana is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

Montana has among the worst gun laws in the country; an especially high rate of household firearm ownership, gun deaths, and suicides; and colleges and universities are forced to allow guns on their campuses.

Less than 65,000 acres of prairie remain from the once 13 million in Missouri, grasslands that support an amazing array of wildlife including federally endangered prairie chickens.

With the overturn of Roe V. Wade, abortion is completely banned in Missouri with very limited exceptions, and providers are required to prove in court an abortion is legal.

Missouri is among the top 15 American states with polices that actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.

Missouri is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country

Missouri has one of the highest rates of gun deaths, gun homicide rates, and household firearm ownership, and St. Louis is among the top US cities with the highest gun murder rates in the country.

Unlike most US states, Mississippi does not consider animal cruelty as a felony.