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Dear Senator / Representative -
I am very upset about the speed with which the Supreme Court ruled on the Alabama case, and I want you to draft legislation to reform the shadow docket process. The shadow docket should not exist.
At 5:38 p.m. on Monday of last week, the Supreme Court issued a shadow docket ruling allowing Alabama to redraw its congressional maps in a way that dilutes Black voting power. That was 38 minutes after the opposing parties filed their response briefs.
So the nine Supreme Court Justices sat with 107 pages of briefs, read every sentence attentively, weighed the arguments of each against Alabama's motion, reached a consensus among six of the nine justices, issued an order and a dissent all in 38 minutes?
The ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct instructs judges to "accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, the right to be heard according to law." Note that this is not merely the right to speak at a hearing — it is the right to be heard.The judicial system functions only when litigants and the public believe they are receiving a fair hearing.
The shadow docket is not a fair hearing. Please legislate the end of the ability of the Supreme Court to use the shadow docket.
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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Senator / Representative -
I am very upset about the speed with which the Supreme Court ruled on the Alabama case, and I want you to draft legislation to reform the shadow docket process. The shadow docket should not exist.
At 5:38 p.m. on Monday of last week, the Supreme Court issued a shadow docket ruling allowing Alabama to redraw its congressional maps in a way that dilutes Black voting power. That was 38 minutes after the opposing parties filed their response briefs.
So the nine Supreme Court Justices sat with 107 pages of briefs, read every sentence attentively, weighed the arguments of each against Alabama's motion, reached a consensus among six of the nine justices, issued an order and a dissent all in 38 minutes?
The ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct instructs judges to "accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, the right to be heard according to law." Note that this is not merely the right to speak at a hearing — it is the right to be heard.The judicial system functions only when litigants and the public believe they are receiving a fair hearing.
The shadow docket is not a fair hearing. Please legislate the end of the ability of the Supreme Court to use the shadow docket.
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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Senator / Representative -
I am very upset about the speed with which the Supreme Court ruled on the Alabama case, and I want you to draft legislation to reform the shadow docket process. The shadow docket should not exist.
At 5:38 p.m. on Monday of last week, the Supreme Court issued a shadow docket ruling allowing Alabama to redraw its congressional maps in a way that dilutes Black voting power. That was 38 minutes after the opposing parties filed their response briefs.
So the nine Supreme Court Justices sat with 107 pages of briefs, read every sentence attentively, weighed the arguments of each against Alabama's motion, reached a consensus among six of the nine justices, issued an order and a dissent all in 38 minutes?
The ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct instructs judges to "accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, the right to be heard according to law." Note that this is not merely the right to speak at a hearing — it is the right to be heard.The judicial system functions only when litigants and the public believe they are receiving a fair hearing.
The shadow docket is not a fair hearing. Please legislate the end of the ability of the Supreme Court to use the shadow docket.
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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Senator / Representative -
I am very upset about the speed with which the Supreme Court ruled on the Alabama case, and I want you to draft legislation to reform the shadow docket process. The shadow docket should not exist.
At 5:38 p.m. on Monday of last week, the Supreme Court issued a shadow docket ruling allowing Alabama to redraw its congressional maps in a way that dilutes Black voting power. That was 38 minutes after the opposing parties filed their response briefs.
So the nine Supreme Court Justices sat with 107 pages of briefs, read every sentence attentively, weighed the arguments of each against Alabama's motion, reached a consensus among six of the nine justices, issued an order and a dissent all in 38 minutes?
The ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct instructs judges to "accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, the right to be heard according to law." Note that this is not merely the right to speak at a hearing — it is the right to be heard.The judicial system functions only when litigants and the public believe they are receiving a fair hearing.
The shadow docket is not a fair hearing. Please legislate the end of the ability of the Supreme Court to use the shadow docket.
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Dear Sen /Rep -
I am absolutely against DHS's use of smart glasses by immigration agents and I want this $7.5 million line item struck from their budget.
I want a detailed audit of the false positive rate of their existing Mobile Fortify biometric data and the results made public. Tell us the true details of this app and how many people were falsely detained based on the app.
In Minnesota, DHS leaned heavily on biometric surveillance apps on their phones. People with brown and black skin were boxed in by vehicles and officers, and DHS then scanned the faces of the individuals they detained.In interactions observed by reporters and videos posted online, DHS employees are rarely seen asking for consent before holding their cellphones to people's faces, and in some clips they continue scanning even after someone objects, which is unconstitutional.
DHS might claim that their biometric recognition systems work, but I do not believe them.
Giving DHS smart glasses would further erode privacy protections for all Americans.
Do not let DHS use smart glasses. Audit the existing programs and make public the results.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #DHS #ICE #biometrics #BanBiometrics
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Dear Sen /Rep -
I am absolutely against DHS's use of smart glasses by immigration agents and I want this $7.5 million line item struck from their budget.
I want a detailed audit of the false positive rate of their existing Mobile Fortify biometric data and the results made public. Tell us the true details of this app and how many people were falsely detained based on the app.
In Minnesota, DHS leaned heavily on biometric surveillance apps on their phones. People with brown and black skin were boxed in by vehicles and officers, and DHS then scanned the faces of the individuals they detained.In interactions observed by reporters and videos posted online, DHS employees are rarely seen asking for consent before holding their cellphones to people's faces, and in some clips they continue scanning even after someone objects, which is unconstitutional.
DHS might claim that their biometric recognition systems work, but I do not believe them.
Giving DHS smart glasses would further erode privacy protections for all Americans.
Do not let DHS use smart glasses. Audit the existing programs and make public the results.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #DHS #ICE #biometrics #BanBiometrics
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Dear Sen /Rep -
I am absolutely against DHS's use of smart glasses by immigration agents and I want this $7.5 million line item struck from their budget.
I want a detailed audit of the false positive rate of their existing Mobile Fortify biometric data and the results made public. Tell us the true details of this app and how many people were falsely detained based on the app.
In Minnesota, DHS leaned heavily on biometric surveillance apps on their phones. People with brown and black skin were boxed in by vehicles and officers, and DHS then scanned the faces of the individuals they detained.In interactions observed by reporters and videos posted online, DHS employees are rarely seen asking for consent before holding their cellphones to people's faces, and in some clips they continue scanning even after someone objects, which is unconstitutional.
DHS might claim that their biometric recognition systems work, but I do not believe them.
Giving DHS smart glasses would further erode privacy protections for all Americans.
Do not let DHS use smart glasses. Audit the existing programs and make public the results.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #DHS #ICE #biometrics #BanBiometrics
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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your members of Congress and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Sen /Rep -
I am absolutely against DHS's use of smart glasses by immigration agents and I want this $7.5 million line item struck from their budget.
I want a detailed audit of the false positive rate of their existing Mobile Fortify biometric data and the results made public. Tell us the true details of this app and how many people were falsely detained based on the app.
In Minnesota, DHS leaned heavily on biometric surveillance apps on their phones. People with brown and black skin were boxed in by vehicles and officers, and DHS then scanned the faces of the individuals they detained.In interactions observed by reporters and videos posted online, DHS employees are rarely seen asking for consent before holding their cellphones to people's faces, and in some clips they continue scanning even after someone objects, which is unconstitutional.
DHS might claim that their biometric recognition systems work, but I do not believe them.
Giving DHS smart glasses would further erode privacy protections for all Americans.
Do not let DHS use smart glasses. Audit the existing programs and make public the results.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #DHS #ICE #biometrics #BanBiometrics
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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your members of Congress and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Sen /Rep -
I am absolutely against DHS's use of smart glasses by immigration agents and I want this $7.5 million line item struck from their budget.
I want a detailed audit of the false positive rate of their existing Mobile Fortify biometric data and the results made public. Tell us the true details of this app and how many people were falsely detained based on the app.
In Minnesota, DHS leaned heavily on biometric surveillance apps on their phones. People with brown and black skin were boxed in by vehicles and officers, and DHS then scanned the faces of the individuals they detained.In interactions observed by reporters and videos posted online, DHS employees are rarely seen asking for consent before holding their cellphones to people's faces, and in some clips they continue scanning even after someone objects, which is unconstitutional.
DHS might claim that their biometric recognition systems work, but I do not believe them.
Giving DHS smart glasses would further erode privacy protections for all Americans.
Do not let DHS use smart glasses. Audit the existing programs and make public the results.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #DHS #ICE #biometrics #BanBiometrics
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Dear Senator / Representative:
I want you to make sure all persons in DHS custody get medical care.
DHS contracts with third-party providers like doctors, hospitals and pharmacies to provide “medically necessary” care that includes “dialysis, prenatal care, oncology, [and] chemotherapy.”
DHS haled payments to providers in October 2025, triggering a severe health crisis. Why? Sen. Tommy Tuberville falsely claiming that the VA was funding ICE health care services rather than acting like a pass-through. Then an obscure nonprofit sued ICE to see the VA payment records.
This payment suspension coincides with a fivefold increase in detainee deaths and systemic denials of life-saving care.
Although payments to third parties were supposed to resume on April 30, 2026, they did not. Now they are supposed to begin sometime in May or June.
DHS has more than enough budget to make these payments and provide adequate medical care to person detained.
I want you to raise this issue within Congress. Demand hearings. Demand that the White House re-integrate the VA payment system and immediately pay those seven months of invoices. Do your job of oversight.
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Dear Senator / Representative:
I want you to make sure all persons in DHS custody get medical care.
DHS contracts with third-party providers like doctors, hospitals and pharmacies to provide “medically necessary” care that includes “dialysis, prenatal care, oncology, [and] chemotherapy.”
DHS haled payments to providers in October 2025, triggering a severe health crisis. Why? Sen. Tommy Tuberville falsely claiming that the VA was funding ICE health care services rather than acting like a pass-through. Then an obscure nonprofit sued ICE to see the VA payment records.
This payment suspension coincides with a fivefold increase in detainee deaths and systemic denials of life-saving care.
Although payments to third parties were supposed to resume on April 30, 2026, they did not. Now they are supposed to begin sometime in May or June.
DHS has more than enough budget to make these payments and provide adequate medical care to person detained.
I want you to raise this issue within Congress. Demand hearings. Demand that the White House re-integrate the VA payment system and immediately pay those seven months of invoices. Do your job of oversight.
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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Senator / Representative:
I want you to make sure all persons in DHS custody get medical care.
DHS contracts with third-party providers like doctors, hospitals and pharmacies to provide “medically necessary” care that includes “dialysis, prenatal care, oncology, [and] chemotherapy.”
DHS haled payments to providers in October 2025, triggering a severe health crisis. Why? Sen. Tommy Tuberville falsely claiming that the VA was funding ICE health care services rather than acting like a pass-through. Then an obscure nonprofit sued ICE to see the VA payment records.
This payment suspension coincides with a fivefold increase in detainee deaths and systemic denials of life-saving care.
Although payments to third parties were supposed to resume on April 30, 2026, they did not. Now they are supposed to begin sometime in May or June.
DHS has more than enough budget to make these payments and provide adequate medical care to person detained.
I want you to raise this issue within Congress. Demand hearings. Demand that the White House re-integrate the VA payment system and immediately pay those seven months of invoices. Do your job of oversight.
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Dear Senator / Representative:
Please elevate the problem faced by our most critically challenged metropolitan area, New Orleans.
Southern Louisiana is facing 7 to 23 feet of sea level rise and the loss of three-quarters of its remaining coastal wetlands, which will cause the shoreline to migrate as much as 60 miles inland.
Compounding the sea level threat, New Orleans is sinking at the rate of one to two inches per year.
Even if factors contributing to rising sea levels were to magically stop today, New Orleans would still become an island within generations.
Rather than investing in more levees that will merely postpone (maybe) the inevitable, political leaders of all stripes should be supporting and encouraging a complete revamping of the New Orleans area.
It is impossible to keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.
We must begin tackling climate change impacts.
Throughout history, cities have relocated. Save New Orleans and all of its cultural history by moving the parts that can be saved and encouraging people to relocate.
I love New Orleans, but in my lifetime, I will see it disappear. Save what can be saved.
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Dear Senator/Representative -
ICE is starting a new surge. I want you and your staffers visit every facility rented or use by ICE, including the temporary spaces that they occupy during this surge. I need you gearing up for oversight and ready to get loud and public.
At the May 5 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Tom Homan said, "You will see more ICE agents than you've ever seen before, so congratulations."
I have seen what happens during those surges - massive human rights abuses. We have seen people denied access to phones, lawyers, food, and water. I have seen ICE using office bathrooms as temporary detention facilities, forcing a dozen people to sleep in close quarters on tile floors. During the Minnesota surge, they released people from detention miles from their homes, in the middle of the night in the freezing cold with no phone, no ability to call anyone, no jacket, and no shoes.
What are we going to see this time? Will we have people being released in 100 degree heat, miles from home, with no shoes? Will we see refugees and documented asylum seekers again held incommunicado for weeks despite being legally in this country?
DHS is gearing up for more abuses. They have not been held accountable for their past abuses. What will you do to hold DHS accountable?
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Dear Senator/Representative -
ICE is starting a new surge. I want you and your staffers visit every facility rented or use by ICE, including the temporary spaces that they occupy during this surge. I need you gearing up for oversight and ready to get loud and public.
At the May 5 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Tom Homan said, "You will see more ICE agents than you've ever seen before, so congratulations."
I have seen what happens during those surges - massive human rights abuses. We have seen people denied access to phones, lawyers, food, and water. I have seen ICE using office bathrooms as temporary detention facilities, forcing a dozen people to sleep in close quarters on tile floors. During the Minnesota surge, they released people from detention miles from their homes, in the middle of the night in the freezing cold with no phone, no ability to call anyone, no jacket, and no shoes.
What are we going to see this time? Will we have people being released in 100 degree heat, miles from home, with no shoes? Will we see refugees and documented asylum seekers again held incommunicado for weeks despite being legally in this country?
DHS is gearing up for more abuses. They have not been held accountable for their past abuses. What will you do to hold DHS accountable?
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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Senator/Representative -
ICE is starting a new surge. I want you and your staffers visit every facility rented or use by ICE, including the temporary spaces that they occupy during this surge. I need you gearing up for oversight and ready to get loud and public.
At the May 5 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Tom Homan said, "You will see more ICE agents than you've ever seen before, so congratulations."
I have seen what happens during those surges - massive human rights abuses. We have seen people denied access to phones, lawyers, food, and water. I have seen ICE using office bathrooms as temporary detention facilities, forcing a dozen people to sleep in close quarters on tile floors. During the Minnesota surge, they released people from detention miles from their homes, in the middle of the night in the freezing cold with no phone, no ability to call anyone, no jacket, and no shoes.
What are we going to see this time? Will we have people being released in 100 degree heat, miles from home, with no shoes? Will we see refugees and documented asylum seekers again held incommunicado for weeks despite being legally in this country?
DHS is gearing up for more abuses. They have not been held accountable for their past abuses. What will you do to hold DHS accountable?
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Dear Senator/Representative -
I am against the plans of this Republican Administration to make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment for Medicare, I am against the use of AI claims denial in Medicare, and I want you to fight these efforts.
Medicate Advantage costs US taxpayers 14% more than if those same people were enrolled in traditional Medicare, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee.
This extra $76 billion of my tax dollars gets paid to for-profit health insurance companies. Study after study has shown that Medicare Advantage, while costing more, does not lead to better outcomes for patients.
Medicare Advantage deserves to be completely dismantled, not expanded, as does the new program to use AI for prior authorization in Traditional Medicare
Washington state hospitals say their Medicare patients are waiting two to four times longer for procedures that are now subject to prior authorization under a new Medicare program.
But this administration of Ballroom Republicans doesn't care about healthcare access or costs for ordinary Americans. Their policies show they only care about their ballroom friends and corporate profits.
I want to see you develop better policies that serve every American, not just the rich.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Medicare #Healthcare #BallroomRepublicans -
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Dear Senator / Representative -
For the first time since 1946, US national debt now exceeds 100 percent of GDP, according to new Treasury Department data. As of March 31, the total debt was $31.265 trillion, while GDP from 2025 was $31.216 trillion, putting the ratio at 100.2 percent compared with 99.5 percent at the end of the last fiscal year. The US now spends $1.33 for every dollar it collects, and the budget deficit for this year is projected to be $1.9 trillion. The 100 percent milestone is a symbolic marker of a financial question looming over the US.
This Republican Administration pays attention to trifles—a ballroom, a royal visit, an Instagram post of sea shells—and not enough to the long term stability of the US economy and the consequences of their chosen war on Iran.
Republicans say they want to run the government like a business. When a business runs into debt, they work to generate more revenue.
Here is what I want -- enforcement of the existing tax code against the ultra-wealthy and corporations, a tightening of tax loopholes exploited by the ultra-wealthy and corporations, a removal of the Social Security Maximum Income Cap, and a raising of the capital gains tax.
Look at the top tax rate in the US from the years 1947 - 1957. This is where we should set the tax rate again.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #TaxTheRich -
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Dear Senator / Representative -
I want you and your staffers to be regular fixtures at ICE detention facilities and ICE offices because local authorities and health inspection teams are still being denied access. GEO group, the corporate entity running many ICE detention facilities, continues to claim that they do not have to allow health inspections until the Supreme Court says they must.
I want health inspectors testing the water at ICE detention facilities. I want health inspectors present in the kitchens at ICE detention facilities. I want health inspectors looking at their medical clinics and interviewing people.
I want you to make sure that either you or a staffer visit ICE detention facilities with a local health inspector at your side at least once a month.
You have the power to investigate ICE. You have the power to push for regular health inspections. Bring health inspectors with you to force the issue in public.
Use the power of your office to shed light on the conditions in ICE detention facilities. You cannot let the abuse taking place disappear from the news cycle. Please inspect the facilities and report all your findings publicly. On behalf of your constituents, use the power of your office to defend those who have no voice and record an accurate record of what is taking place.
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Dear Senator / Representative -
I am appalled that Congress left the Capitol for a week on the eve on the 1973 War Powers Act deadline for the Iran War.
I am tired of Congress abdicating its responsibility to the American people. I am tired of Congress acting like a lap-dog to this Executive Branch.
This war is illegal in three ways: it violates the US Constitution (only Congress can declare war); it violates the UN Charter (which prohibits the threat or use of force except in self-defense against an armed attack); and now it violates the 1973 War Powers Act. There is no "reset" of the limit because of a ceasefire. Congress either approves the war or it doesn't.
This war has cost untold billions of dollars. I do not trust the $25 billion estimate from an Administration that regularly lies under oath to the American people. We, the United States, have killed thousands of people. The Department of Defense of this Republican Administration has expended an overwhelming number of our munitions stockpile.
I want Congress to do its job: force President Trump to end this deeply unpopular war of choice.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #IranWar -
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Dear Sen / Rep -
I want you to reverse the decision made by this Republican Government to stop funding drug test strips. These test strips - a simple strip of treated paper that can swiftly signal whether a street drug contains deadly fentanyl or other contaminants - not only save lives, they also help get people into drug treatment.
I have seen this play out in my community. A public health worker giving test strips to a person addicted to drugs is the gateway to that person receiving more help. One act of care - the giving of a test strip, telling that person that this test strip could save your life - is often the first step into treatment.
There is no data to support the claims of this Republican Administration that harm-reduction measures like test strips encourage drug use. The data shows that the distribution of test strips can stave off overdoses and encourages people who use drugs to exercise more caution. Exercising that caution, that pause before using drugs, is what allows harm reduction specialists to make positive ground with those people struggling with substance abuse.
I want my tax dollars supporting those who struggling to make ends meet, those who are struggling to keep roofs over their heads, those who are struggling with mental health and substance abuse. A rising tide lifts all boats.
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Dear Senator / Representative
I angry about the Supreme Court ruling and the standard it sets.
This decision effectively erases a key provision of the Voting Rights Act and opens the door for unchecked racism through redistricting across the country. The Supreme Court has determined that voters of color no longer have the right to a fairly drawn map—from school districts to congressional districts—and is willing to allow undemocratic, racist maps to determine our future representation.
Partisan gerrymandering IS racial gerrymandering. Packing, cracking, and otherwise undermining minority voting strength are the central tools used to achieve Republican political goals. It is how Texas Republicans reconfigured a state where less than 40 percent of its population is Anglo to achieve a congressional map where 70 – 80 percent of its districts will elect the Anglo candidate of choice over the choice of minority voters.
There can be no more business as usual.
I want every American to have a fair and equal vote.
I want you to fix this. I will do what I can in my community, but I need you lead loudly from the front. This racist effort to deny people equal representation must be reversed.
There are bills in Congress to do this. Grind Congress to a halt until every Americans has the right to fair representation.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Vote #VRA -
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Dear Senator / Representative -
I want you to crack down on the way this Republican Administration is creating AI fake humans to spout their talking points. I saw within an hour of the shooting this weekend, social media erupted with posts in support of a new ballroom.
AI deepfakes cause harm, and I want you to start drafting legislation to stop it the use of AI deepfakes and fake human supporters. Boys and men are creating deepfake nudes of female classmates and coworkers. Politically motivated bad actors are making both deepfakes of opposition politicians with malicious intent and creating legions of fake supporters to make people feel outnumbered.
I would like you to follow Denmark's example and change US copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features, and voice.
Everyone has the right to their own body, their own voice, and their own facial features. Changing copyright law is a simple, straightforward way to combat deepfakes and would provide fixed financial penalties that would discourage the generation of deepfakes, force social media to take down the deepfakes, and force payment to the person whose image was used.
Let's start getting serious about the harm AI is causing.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #AI -
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Dear Senator / Representative:.
I oppose any tax or private dollars being used to build the Trump ballroom, a monstrosity that would overshadow the White House.
I strongly object to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s suggestion that Congress provide $400 million for the ballroom and fund it with “customs fees,” which is another way to say “American consumers and taxpayers.”
Graham’s comment -- “I’m convinced if there had been a presidential ballroom adjacent to the White House, the guy would have never gotten in.” – is a logical fallacy. The White House Correspondents Dinner is a private affair, not a White House one.
It would be a travesty to allow the proposed ballroom project that dwarfs the White House to proceed. At 90,000 square feet, it would overwhelm the White House, at 55,000 square feet.
I urge Congress to mandate restoration of the East Wing to its original design, consistent with the historic character of the White House complex.
I want you to hold accountable those who proceeded with demolition or construction work without proper legal authority.
To allow this project to proceed continues the trend of allowing this entire Republican administration to ignore legal processes and safeguards.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Ballroom -
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Dear Sen/ Rep -
I want you to make it clear that the constitutional duty of the Department of Justice is investigating crimes, not enacting political vengeance. I want you to fight the nomination of Todd Blanche for Attorney General using every procedural tool that exists.
Blanche's recent statements - a sitting President has the right to fire attorneys for political reasons and a sitting President should use the DOJ to investigate people with whom he disagrees politically - demonstrate that he is unfit for the office.
Jimmy Carter was investigated twice by the Department of Justice while serving as president, once over his relationship with a bank and a second time related to his brother. In both instances, Carter cooperated and was cleared.
Ronald Reagan's involvement in the Iran-Contra affair was also fully investigated. Bill Clinton was investigated by federal prosecutors for nearly the entire duration of his two-term presidency.
None of these presidents ever fired the prosecutors who conducted these investigations. No one ever suggested that it would be unethical for the prosecutors to continue working at the DOJ. And no attorney general would have had the audacity to suggest that firing them was the right step to take.Todd Blanche, Trump's personal attorney, is unfit to be the Attorney General.
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Dear Sen/Rep -
Our tax dollars are flowing to already profitable companies, and it must stop.
Corporations are lining up for $166 billion in tariff refunds for costs that they passed on to the consumer.
S&P 500 companies posted record profits in 2025. Walmart posted the highest 12-month sales of any company in the world last year.
In the four states that disclose corporate SNAP data (CO, MA, IL, MI) 10,920 Walmart workers and 9,633 Amazon workers were enrolled in SNAP in 2024. Both companies generate sufficient profits to pay workers a living wage and provide full health coverage.
The Institute for Policy Studies examined 20 S&P 500 corporations with primarily U.S.-based workforces and the lowest median wages in the index. These companies employ 6.7 million Americans. At 75% of these companies, median pay falls below the Medicaid eligibility threshold for a family of three. At 13 of the 20, median pay also falls below the SNAP income threshold for a family of three.
These same 20 companies spent $32.5 billion on stock buybacks in 2024 alone. The wages of these workers could have risen from $29,087 to $59,600. Instead, median pay among the Low-Wage 20 declined in real terms from $30,474 to $29,087.
End to corporate stock buybacks. Demand living wages for all workers.
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For decades, HUD has allowed people living in mixed status households to access federal housing subsidies. This new rule would ban entire families from subsidized housing programs if even one person in the household cannot provide proof of their immigration status.
This rule change would remove eligibility for housing from those with DACA status who came into the country as infants and children, those in the US on Temporary Protected Status, and those here on work visas, student visas, and visas for survivors of violence.
Millions of people in the US lack access to the types of documents needed to prove citizenship. Millions of US citizen children in the United States have one parent who is not a US citizen.
This Republican Administration constantly talks about the benefits of a two-parent household, yet this rule change would force families to choose between staying together and becoming homeless or splitting up the family to stay in subsidized housing.
I do not support changing the rule. Let families of mixed immigration status retain their access to subsidized housing.
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Dear Senator/Representative:
I am 100% against President Trumps proposed arch. How many Washington, DC, institutions has he defaced? The White House East Wing. The Kennedy Center. The Institute of Peace. Battleships. A 250th anniversary coin.
His name on paper currency. Trump Rx. Trump Accounts. Trump Gold Cards. Banners with his name and face on government buildings. National Park passes.
Yet that’s not enough to assuage his ego.
I do not want a 250’ high, gold-accented arch that would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial and upstage Arlington National Cemetery. It also disrupts the symbolism of Arlington Memorial Bridge, which honored post-Civil War reconciliation.
It would be taller than “monuments to authoritarian triumphalism, including the victory arch in Pyongyang, North Korea,” according to the Washington Post.
When asked whom the arch would honor, Trump said: “Me.”
Unlike the controversial East Wing, this vanity project would use money from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Speak up and speak out. Oppose the NEH funding. Explore ways Congress can block this project.
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Dear Senator/Representative -
I want you to support the Equal Tax Act because this country is not just for those 800 billionaires, it is for all 340 million of us.
The Equal Tax Act ensures wealthy investors pay the same tax rate on their income that working people pay on their income, by taxing investment income at the same rate as earned income for those earning over $1 million annually. It also eliminates one of the ways the wealthy avoid taxes by ending the stepped-up basis loophole with unprecedented protections for family farms and businesses.
Polls indicate 66% of voters support raising capital gains rates on the wealthy, consistent with years of polling indicating support for closing tax loopholes that benefit the wealthy (74%) and making millionaires and billionaires pay more in taxes (70%). This proposal delivers by raising significant revenue exclusively from households that have more than $1 million in annual income.
This needs to be a cornerstone policy moving ahead. Those living off the interest on their investments should not pay a lower tax rate than teachers, farmers, nurses, and firefighters.
It's the right thing to do.
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Dear Senator/Representative:
I need you to regulate Polymarket and ban insider trading.
On April 8, AP reported that new accounts “made highly specific, well-timed bets totaling $170 million on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7. The bets resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for these new customers.” Three accounts made almost a half million dollars. This mirrors bets placed on the start of the Iran War.
Traders spent $529 million on contracts tied to the timing of the initial attack on February 28. Six newly created wallets made a profit of $1.2 million by correctly betting that the U.S. would strike Iran by that date. One account turned $61,000 into almost a half million.
Earlier this year, a Polymarket account earned almost $500,000 from a $38,500 investment in contracts tied to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Its largest trades were placed merely hours before the secret military action became public.
Current insider trading law only covers securities. Federal wire fraud statutes do not apply. And the primary Commodity Futures Trading Commission anti-fraud device for commodity derivatives also does not apply.
Work with your colleagues to sponsor effective legislation.
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New rules for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) mean we now need legislation that specifically requires the performance of disparate impact analysis to seek out examples of lending discrimination.
I want you to require the CFPB to conduct regular examinations of the algorithms, zip code filters, and loan approval rates of banks and other lending institutions to see how these approvals break out along racial and gender lines.
This used to be the actual job of the #CFPB, but this Republican Administration just stripped disparate impact analysis from the Equal Opportunity Credit Act. Under the new rules, lending discrimination would only be considered to exist done deliberately and documented, like saying "no, because she's a woman" or "no, because he lives in a poor neighborhood" on the application.
Banks and lenders were held accountable if their policies disproportionately harmed women, people of color, or low-income borrowers. That's how the CFPB caught banks redlining and locking entire communities out of homeownership and credit.
The CFPB is abandoning its legislatively mandated mission to ensure credit markets are fair and free of discrimination and I need you to fix this. I need you to codify the examination of potential lending discrimination into law in ways that protect all Americans.
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Today's email is about war crimes. Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Senator / Representative -
For the record, and I can't believe I have to say this, but I am against US military striking universities. I am against the US military striking civilian infrastructure like roads, bridges, schools, and electrical plants.
I am 100% against the commission of war crimes.
I am 100% against the use of nuclear weapons.
I need you to get really loud and really active and shut down this war.
As the Pope recently said, this is an unjust war, which is continuing to escalate and which is not resolving anything.
It is time for Congress to step up and permanently shut down this unnecessary, unjust, and ridiculous war.
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If you are old enough to remember what airport security was before 9/11, please feel free to add some comments.
Dear Senator / Representative -
First off, I want you to end this war with Iran. I want you to denounce every war crime this Republican Administration is planning and committing.
I want you to be very vocal about your support of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), an entity created by a previous Republican Administration in response to the importance of safety to the flying public.
I saw that this Republican Administration want airport security to be returned to a private sector job where the contract would go to the lowest bidder.
I am absolutely against privatizing something as important as airport security.
I want my airport security staff to be professional, well-trained, paid a fair wage and benefits, with opportunities to advance their careers.
Raising taxes on the top US earners would more than pay for the security and professionalism we all deserve and ensure that TSA officers are at all US airports.
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Dear Senator/Representative:
I am writing to urge immediate Congressional intervention in this unconstitutional Iran War. I need you to end this war.
On the Wednesday before Easter, President Trump insisted to a private audience that Medicare, Medicaid, and child care must be off-loaded to the states (funding and managing) because “[w]e’re fighting wars… We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”
This war is not “guarding” the country. We started it. We are the ones making the world unsafe. We are causing the rift between the US and our post-WWII allies.
This weekend, the president threatened attacks on civilian targets that if carried out, would constitute further war crimes.
Congress must put a stop to this illegal war. Every member of Congress who does not stop this war is complicit in this Republican Administration’s war crimes.
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Dear Senator / Representative -
I want you to take legislative action to undo the recently announced change to the Forest Service.
I am appalled by gutting of the US Forest Service. This Republican Administration has announced that it is shuttering all 10 regional offices, and with them,the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back on ideas that would harm long-term forest health.
They are closing the rural science research facilities in 31 states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable science on the forests that help generate the rain that falls on the US. And they’re replacing all of it with 15 political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more and protect less.
The technical experts they are losing are the people who know exactly what logging will ruin what watershed.
I am asking you to stand with every member of Congress and uphold the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt with legislation that keeps science and the public at the forefront of decision-making about public lands. Protect National Forest land.
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Dear Sen / Rep -
We are backing our way into World War III, and over the holiday recess, I want you see you making a firm Constitutional stand regarding the war this Republican Administration chose to start. I want you to be clear that this is yet another overstep of the Constitution, one that poses a risk to the entire world.
- Israel and the US are bombing Iran, hitting civilian targets that constitute war crimes.
- Iran is bombing Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, and Bahrain.
- Yemeni-based Houthi rebels are bombing Israel.
Russia is giving Iran targeting information on the US military.
- Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar are signing defense cooperation agreements with Ukraine for their own suites of weaponry.How many more countries will get pulled into this war before Congress will exercise its delegated Constitutional power and end it?
The Constitution clearly assigns the power to declare war to Congress, an authority that the President intentionally ignored. When a president goes around Congress to initiate military action, it is not a sign of strength. It is executive overreach and dangerous to Americans, both domestically and abroad.
Congress must immediately assert its constitutional role, demand transparency, and reaffirm that decisions of war and peace cannot rest with one individual.
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Dear Senator/Representative -
President Trump’s Medicare director said last week that his team is considering a policy that would automatically enroll Medicare beneficiaries into Medicare Advantage plans, an idea first rolled out in the Project 2025 roadmap of this Republican Administration.
I want you to push back hard on this idea and fight it with every bureaucratic tool at your disposal.
Medicate Advantage costs us taxpayers 14% more than if those same people were enrolled in traditional Medicare, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee.
Yes, you're reading that correctly -- Medicare itself is telling you that Medicare Advantage costs more. This extra $76 billion of my tax dollars gets paid to for-profit health insurance companies. Study after study has shown that Medicare Advantage, while costing more, does not lead to better outcomes for patients. All Medicare Advantage does is put the money I am paying in taxes into the pockets of health insurance shareholders and CEOs.
Right now, Americans have a choice between Traditional Medicare and corporate, profit-driven Medicare Advantage.
Medicare Advantage costs more and it doesn't result in better patient outcomes. It should be cancelled completely, not made the default enrollment.
Fight this.
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Dear Senator/Representative -
President Trump’s Medicare director said last week that his team is considering a policy that would automatically enroll Medicare beneficiaries into Medicare Advantage plans, an idea first rolled out in the Project 2025 roadmap of this Republican Administration.
I want you to push back hard on this idea and fight it with every bureaucratic tool at your disposal.
Medicate Advantage costs us taxpayers 14% more than if those same people were enrolled in traditional Medicare, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee.
Yes, you're reading that correctly -- Medicare itself is telling you that Medicare Advantage costs more. This extra $76 billion of my tax dollars gets paid to for-profit health insurance companies. Study after study has shown that Medicare Advantage, while costing more, does not lead to better outcomes for patients. All Medicare Advantage does is put the money I am paying in taxes into the pockets of health insurance shareholders and CEOs.
Right now, Americans have a choice between Traditional Medicare and corporate, profit-driven Medicare Advantage.
Medicare Advantage costs more and it doesn't result in better patient outcomes. It should be cancelled completely, not made the default enrollment.
Fight this.
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Dear Senator/Representative -
President Trump’s Medicare director said last week that his team is considering a policy that would automatically enroll Medicare beneficiaries into Medicare Advantage plans, an idea first rolled out in the Project 2025 roadmap of this Republican Administration.
I want you to push back hard on this idea and fight it with every bureaucratic tool at your disposal.
Medicate Advantage costs us taxpayers 14% more than if those same people were enrolled in traditional Medicare, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee.
Yes, you're reading that correctly -- Medicare itself is telling you that Medicare Advantage costs more. This extra $76 billion of my tax dollars gets paid to for-profit health insurance companies. Study after study has shown that Medicare Advantage, while costing more, does not lead to better outcomes for patients. All Medicare Advantage does is put the money I am paying in taxes into the pockets of health insurance shareholders and CEOs.
Right now, Americans have a choice between Traditional Medicare and corporate, profit-driven Medicare Advantage.
Medicare Advantage costs more and it doesn't result in better patient outcomes. It should be cancelled completely, not made the default enrollment.
Fight this.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Medicare #MedicareAdvantage #Healthcare -
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Dear Senator/Representative -
President Trump’s Medicare director said last week that his team is considering a policy that would automatically enroll Medicare beneficiaries into Medicare Advantage plans, an idea first rolled out in the Project 2025 roadmap of this Republican Administration.
I want you to push back hard on this idea and fight it with every bureaucratic tool at your disposal.
Medicate Advantage costs us taxpayers 14% more than if those same people were enrolled in traditional Medicare, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee.
Yes, you're reading that correctly -- Medicare itself is telling you that Medicare Advantage costs more. This extra $76 billion of my tax dollars gets paid to for-profit health insurance companies. Study after study has shown that Medicare Advantage, while costing more, does not lead to better outcomes for patients. All Medicare Advantage does is put the money I am paying in taxes into the pockets of health insurance shareholders and CEOs.
Right now, Americans have a choice between Traditional Medicare and corporate, profit-driven Medicare Advantage.
Medicare Advantage costs more and it doesn't result in better patient outcomes. It should be cancelled completely, not made the default enrollment.
Fight this.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Medicare #MedicareAdvantage #Healthcare -
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Dear Senator / Representative -
I saw the Treasury Department’s consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025. That $47.78 trillion in liabilities does not include the unfunded obligations of Social Security and Medicare. Those are disclosed separately in the off-balance-sheet Statement of Social Insurance.
Our total liabilities are now nearly eight times the value of our assets. The largest drivers were a $2 trillion increase in federal debt and interest payable (now $30.33 trillion) and a $438.8 billion increase in federal employee and veteran benefits payable (now $15.47 trillion).
I want you to convene a panel led by Elizabeth Warren and Mitt Romney to hash out a reasonable economic plan that serves all Americans.
Congress could also pass the bipartisan Fiscal Commission Act, sponsored by Rep. Bill Huizenga, Rep. Scott Peters, and 41 co-sponsors. Such a commission would force a public reckoning with the facts, the trade-offs, and the hard choices that restoring fiscal health requires.
We cannot cut our way to solvency. We must increase revenue by taxing the wealthy fairly and lifting the Social Security income cap. These are not radical ideas. They are the responsible ones.
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Dear Sen/Rep-
I urge your immediate intervention regarding the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Board’s recent approval of the President’s request to shut down the center for renovation.
The Kennedy Center requires no structural overhaul. Congress provides its capital and maintenance budget annually ($32–$43 million) and would be aware of any such needs. Moreover, neither the President nor the Board has provided a public, independent analysis of the building. Demand Congressional oversight and input.
I urge you to insist that Congressionally designated board members like Representative Joyce Beatty and Senator Mark Warner be included in all board meetings and provided all board information as well as be allowed to vote. The board should be bipartisan; it is no longer. Congress created this memorial, and it should have active and meaningful Congressional oversight. I urge you to co-sponsor or introduce legislation reaffirming Congressional authority over the Center's governance, design and maintenance without delay.
The Kennedy Center deserves to remain what Congress intended: a dignified, solemn memorial and cultural institution for all Americans -- not another project designed primarily for personal glorification.
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I object to the rules changes this Republican Administration is making to the Board of Immigration Appeals, rules meant to make it nearly impossible for people to appeal immigration rulings..
I want you citing this rule change as yet another reason DHS should not get their full budget until they reform (fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard, but no funds for ICE/CBP until the system is overhauled.)
This rule change would have appeals dismissed unless a majority of Board members affirmatively vote to consider the appeal on the merits.
An appellate system that defaults to dismissal will screen out precisely those cases where scrutiny is most necessary, appeals filed under emergency intake conditions, often without immediate access to transcripts or records.
When appellate review narrows, errors are less likely to be detected and corrected before a person is forever removed from the US.
This rule change reduces the appeal period from 30 days to 10 days. It takes time to review the immigration judge’s decision and the record to identify errors. It assumes unrepresented asylum seekers can get access to the databases and forms necessary to file their appeals in a timely manner.
I want you to cite this rule change as yet another reason to hold up certain DHS funds.
I do not want my tax dollars funding this cruelty. #Resist #ResistOfTheDay #ICE
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Please make a public comment on a rule change related to the Board of Immigration Appeals by April 8.
Here is the link: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/06/2026-02326/appellate-procedures-for-the-board-of-immigration-appeals
Here is draft language:
I object to changes to the rules governing Board of Immigration Appeals.This rule change establishes a new appellate structure under which appeals are presumptively dismissed unless a majority of Board members vote to consider the appeal on the merits.
Presuming dismissal does nothing to validate the merits of individual immigration cases. A system that defaults to dismissal will screen out cases where meaningful scrutiny is most necessary such as when the appeal is filed under emergency intake conditions, often without immediate access to transcripts or records.
When appellate review is narrowed, legal and factual errors made are less likely to be detected and corrected before a person is forever removed from the Unites States. Changing this rule weakens one of the system’s central safeguards and raises the likelihood of uncorrected error and erroneous removal.
This rule change also reduces the appeal period from 30 days to 10 days. This is not enough time to prepare a meaningful appeal. It takes time to review the immigration judge’s decision and the record to identify legal or factual errors. It also assumes everyone involved in the process, including unrepresented asylum seekers, can get access to the databases and/or forms necessary to file their appeals in a timely manner.
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Dear Senator / Representative:
I strongly oppose the statement by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that “[w]e will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies" because I do not want our nation to commit war crimes.
Legally, "no quarter" means that enemy combatants cannot be taken prisoner: they are to be killed rather than permitted to surrender. We have already crossed this line by sinking the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena after it had participated in India's MILAN 2026 naval exercises. Only 32 survived and that was because the ship was within Sri Lanka's designated search-and-rescue zone.
Such a declaration is expressly prohibited under international law, including the Geneva and Hague Conventions. If undertaken, it would be a war crime punishable under the War Crimes Act of 1996 (18 U.S.C. 2441). The Department of Defense Law (DOD) of War Manual adopts international law, including Article 23 of Hague IV Regulation, expressly stating it is "forbidden to declare that no quarter will be given.”
Neither a formal declaration nor a proper authorization has occurred. So this statement is not only contrary to law and the DOD Law of War Manual
I urge you in the strongest terms: call out the Secretary of Defense on his rhetoric and actions. Subpoena him. Do it sooner rather than later.
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Dear Senator -
There is no widespread voter fraud that would necessitate either a federal emergency or the SAVE Act.
This Republican Administration is acting like voting is a privilege, but it is a foundational right specified in the Constitution.
I want to see you flood the media with appearances explaining exactly why this Republican Administration is wrong about the risk to the security and integrity of voting in this county.
The SAVE Act supported by this Republican Administration would disproportionately harm:
-Women who changed their names after marriage who would have to secure updated documentation to register to vote.
-Military families who would have to re-register every time they move sometimes very close to an election day.
-Disaster survivors who lost documents in disasters and face burdensome hurdles to replace them while rebuilding their lives.
-Communities of color: Black Americans are three times more likely than white citizens to lack easy access to birth certificates, passports, or naturalization papers.
Some Republicans have already admitted that they did not know all the details of this bill and how it would impact so many people. Corner your colleagues in Congress and make them look you in the eye when you ask them why they support a law that would disenfranchise millions.
Vote No on the SAVE Act.
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Dear Senator / Representative -
What exactly is the end-state goal for the US bombing of Iran?
I have heard multiple ideas from different members of this Republican Administration.
What exactly is the end goal? How will we know when it is reached?
They said they've destroyed Iran's military and nuclear complex, but we're still bombing. They killed Iran's previous leaders, but we're still bombing.
All that is left is bombing and hoping that the Iranians rise up. But hope is not a viable military strategy. Neither is spontaneous "rising up."
I have read my Theda Skocpol and I understand what goes into a social and political revolution. I know that "rising up" is a complex undertaking that requires a cohesive opposition organization to mobilize and unite a plurality of the 92 million people of Iran.
I understand that there are things that sometimes can only be said in a classified briefing. I want you to press for a clear and coherent explanation of the end state for Iran.
We elected you to be our proxy. Learn the truth and tell us that there is a plan in place.
Because it looks like this Republican Administration is bombing Iran until the entire world is engulfed in war.
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Dear Sen / Rep
I oppose any suspension of the federal gas tax, including legislation such as the Gas Prices Relief Act, as a means of offsetting the economic burden of this Republican Administration's war in Iran. I likewise oppose lifting any sanctions on Russian oil.
If Congress believes (as I do) that this war imposes an excessive burden on Americans, Congress should end the war. Only Congress may declare war, and only Congress may fund it. Neither a formal declaration nor a proper authorization has occurred. Suspending the gasoline tax does not address that constitutional failure; it subsidizes indecision.
Focusing on gas prices minimizes the stakes. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz affects the entire global supply chain of critical materials including industrial sulfur as well as, copper, and cobalt, two materials essential to electric vehicle batteries and semiconductors. One-third of the world’s nitrogen fertilizer passes through the Strait.
Suspending the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal gasoline tax is theater. It does not address the scale of disruption and papers over Congress’s responsibility to make a clear decision about the war itself.
Do not sign or vote for a suspension of the federal gasoline tax. Do not lift sanctions on Russia. Address the war directly. Your constituents are watching.
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Vote no on the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act 2.0 would make it harder for eligible voters to register and cast a ballot. The additions that President Trump is pushing would make it even harder and would separately target gender-affirming care and trans persons, topics that have nothing to do with voting.
Americans who have changed their name would be required to secure updated documentation to register to vote. 8 in 10 married women have changed their surname, meaning they do not possess a birth certificate that matches their current legal name and, could not present it as valid proof of citizenship. 69 million American women who lack the paperwork that reflects their current name.
Under this law, people would have to "re-prove" their right to vote every time they moved or every time redistricting moved their precinct boundaries, adding significant work to local elections officials who already are grossly underfunded and overworked.
People who lose their documents in a flood, fire, or other disaster likewise would be denied the right to vote under this law until they can procure new documents, a timely and often expensive process.
I want elections to be free, fair, and accessible for all eligible Americans. Noncitizen voting is a non-problem. Even the Heritage Foundation admits that. Don't vote for the SAVE Act in any form.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Vote