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Dear Senator / Representative:
I oppose undoing the 2001 Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction, logging, and mining on roughly 60 million acres of public land. This rule must stay in place to protect the homes and businesses adjacent to national forests, to protect the water those communities depend on that flows through the National Forests, and to protect the human-centered logging jobs that have grown since the rule was imposed.
I want you to make a strong stand against this rule change with us.
A look at the past 20 years of wildfires shows that most wildfires start near roads. Roads let in people. People play with fire. The fires burn out of control. After more than 20 years of monitoring, the science is clear -- forest health is improved by fewer roads, not more, and water quality is improved by more forest, not more roads.
While the 2001 #RoadlessRule prohibits large-scale logging, it has an exception for smaller-diameter timber to be cut and sold in areas that are at risk of severe fires. The logging goals of this administration could be achieved by small-diameter timber logging, the kind that actually creates more jobs because it is a human-intensive operation, not mechanized.
Follow the science and retain the 2001 Roadless Rule to preserve our #NationalForests and clean water.
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Dear Senator / Representative:
I oppose undoing the 2001 Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction, logging, and mining on roughly 60 million acres of public land. This rule must stay in place to protect the homes and businesses adjacent to national forests, to protect the water those communities depend on that flows through the National Forests, and to protect the human-centered logging jobs that have grown since the rule was imposed.
I want you to make a strong stand against this rule change with us.
A look at the past 20 years of wildfires shows that most wildfires start near roads. Roads let in people. People play with fire. The fires burn out of control. After more than 20 years of monitoring, the science is clear -- forest health is improved by fewer roads, not more, and water quality is improved by more forest, not more roads.
While the 2001 #RoadlessRule prohibits large-scale logging, it has an exception for smaller-diameter timber to be cut and sold in areas that are at risk of severe fires. The logging goals of this administration could be achieved by small-diameter timber logging, the kind that actually creates more jobs because it is a human-intensive operation, not mechanized.
Follow the science and retain the 2001 Roadless Rule to preserve our #NationalForests and clean water.
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Dear Senator / Representative -
I am appalled that Congress is giving this Republican Administration yet another pass with their war of choice in Iran. Only Congress can declare war, and Congress rightly voted to end the war. There is no "reset" of the time limit because of a ceasefire.This war of choice started by Republicans remains illegal. 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.
This war has cost untold billions of dollars and hundreds of lives. And for what?
I legitimately want an answer to that question.
In an email sent to Time magazine on Wednesday, July 15, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said that the United States military achieved all of its objectives during Operation Epic Fury.
Why then are my tax dollars still being used to bomb Iran? I want you discussing this in every media outlet. I want you to hold Congress accountable. I want the money cut off to fund this war.
#resist #ResistOfTheDay #Iran #WarPowersAct -
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Dear Senator / Representative:
In a six-day period, ICE agents killed two men who were NOT the target of any federal investigation in two states, proving that the lethal problems in ICE and DHS are systemic and have not been fixed.
I want you to fix them.
ICE has been involved in 29 shootings and 11 killings.
Being undocumented is a civil offense, and DHS has consistently demonstrated its desire to treat lack of documentation as a capital offense worthy of killing.
In Maine, ICE's victim had a social security card and was authorized to work in the U.S. In Texas, ICE's victim was in the process of finalizing his documentation.
The ICE shooters in Texas and Maine were not wearing body cameras.
Force ICE to wear body cameras at all time. Force DHS to provide data on how many body cams they have already distributed. Require 100% compliance within 30 days.
Since the White House shows no interest in protecting the lives of immigrants, Congress needs to shut ICE down while these deaths are investigated by an independent entity, not someone at DHS.
Hold your own hearings as well. Speak out against these horrendous killings loudly in all media: traditional, digital, and social. Do your job of oversight.
Silence is a policy choice. We will remember silence when we vote.
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Dear Senator / Representative:
In a six-day period, ICE agents killed two men who were NOT the target of any federal investigation in two states, proving that the lethal problems in ICE and DHS are systemic and have not been fixed.
I want you to fix them.
ICE has been involved in 29 shootings and 11 killings.
Being undocumented is a civil offense, and DHS has consistently demonstrated its desire to treat lack of documentation as a capital offense worthy of killing.
In Maine, ICE's victim had a social security card and was authorized to work in the U.S. In Texas, ICE's victim was in the process of finalizing his documentation.
The ICE shooters in Texas and Maine were not wearing body cameras.
Force ICE to wear body cameras at all time. Force DHS to provide data on how many body cams they have already distributed. Require 100% compliance within 30 days.
Since the White House shows no interest in protecting the lives of immigrants, Congress needs to shut ICE down while these deaths are investigated by an independent entity, not someone at DHS.
Hold your own hearings as well. Speak out against these horrendous killings loudly in all media: traditional, digital, and social. Do your job of oversight.
Silence is a policy choice. We will remember silence when we vote.
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Dear Senator / Representative:
Many Americans must provide a doctor's note if they are going to miss five days of work in a row and use any paid leave to cover this time. Because ordinary Americans must justify their medical absences to HR, I want you to draft and push forward legislation that requires the same of Congress, all federally-elected individuals, and all Cabinet appointments, be they confirmed or acting.
If any person in any of these roles is to miss five days of work for a medical reason, I want I doctor's note provided to Congressional Majority Leaders, Congressional Minority Leaders, and the head of OMB. These notes do not need to be made public, but they should be subject to Freedom of Information Acts.
Failure to provide a note that would meet normal HR standards would be a loss of pay, starting after day 5 of their absence.
I want all federal officials - elected, appointed, and acting - subjected to the same medical leave standards required of the rest of us.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #PTO #SickLeave #MedicalLeave #Healthcare
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Dear Senator / Representative:
Many Americans must provide a doctor's note if they are going to miss five days of work in a row and use any paid leave to cover this time. Because ordinary Americans must justify their medical absences to HR, I want you to draft and push forward legislation that requires the same of Congress, all federally-elected individuals, and all Cabinet appointments, be they confirmed or acting.
If any person in any of these roles is to miss five days of work for a medical reason, I want I doctor's note provided to Congressional Majority Leaders, Congressional Minority Leaders, and the head of OMB. These notes do not need to be made public, but they should be subject to Freedom of Information Acts.
Failure to provide a note that would meet normal HR standards would be a loss of pay, starting after day 5 of their absence.
I want all federal officials - elected, appointed, and acting - subjected to the same medical leave standards required of the rest of us.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #PTO #SickLeave #MedicalLeave #Healthcare
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Dear Senator / Representative:
I want you to vocally and vociferously oppose any legislation that undermines birthright citizenship. Not only is it immoral and unconstitutional, it would be costly to American taxpayers to be forced to defend the indefensible in court.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last month that the President cannot overturn the 14th Amendment with an executive order. But Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that Congress could pass a law narrowing the scope of the 14th Amendment.
House Speaker Mike Johnson then said that he will look for a “legislative fix” for citizenship that he claimed is being “devalued.” He said that the House will move forward “immediately.”
I do not support creating a class of stateless children in America, which is what would happen if birthright citizenship were ended.
I want you to fight any law related to birthright citizenship.
We need a serious overhaul of our immigration system, but sadly, this cannot be done while unserious people are in charge of this country.
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Dear Senator / Representative:
I want you to vocally and vociferously oppose any legislation that undermines birthright citizenship. Not only is it immoral and unconstitutional, it would be costly to American taxpayers to be forced to defend the indefensible in court.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last month that the President cannot overturn the 14th Amendment with an executive order. But Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that Congress could pass a law narrowing the scope of the 14th Amendment.
House Speaker Mike Johnson then said that he will look for a “legislative fix” for citizenship that he claimed is being “devalued.” He said that the House will move forward “immediately.”
I do not support creating a class of stateless children in America, which is what would happen if birthright citizenship were ended.
I want you to fight any law related to birthright citizenship.
We need a serious overhaul of our immigration system, but sadly, this cannot be done while unserious people are in charge of this country.
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Dear Sen/Rep -
I want you to take a firm stand against the groundwork this Republican Administration is laying to return disability to a medical model of treatment in institutions.
I worry, that this Republican Administration wants to return to the days when government entities felt no obligation to support people with disabilities, and I want you standing proudly and frequently with disability advocates. I want to see you in the news and on social media taking a stand in support of funding for mainstream support structures for those who are differentially abled.
Our society should support those with disabilities with how we design our buildings, our transportation networks, our educational programs, and our workplace habits.I want you to be a public push-back on any efforts to make disabled Americans some sort of problem that needs to be hidden in an institution. I want you to stand firm in your support of the Olmstead ruling and in your support of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The United States has more than enough wealth to make sure every American can thrive. I want my tax dollars supporting more social services, and I want you to lead on this effort.
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Dear Sen/Rep -
I want you to take a firm stand against the groundwork this Republican Administration is laying to return disability to a medical model of treatment in institutions.
I worry, that this Republican Administration wants to return to the days when government entities felt no obligation to support people with disabilities, and I want you standing proudly and frequently with disability advocates. I want to see you in the news and on social media taking a stand in support of funding for mainstream support structures for those who are differentially abled.
Our society should support those with disabilities with how we design our buildings, our transportation networks, our educational programs, and our workplace habits.I want you to be a public push-back on any efforts to make disabled Americans some sort of problem that needs to be hidden in an institution. I want you to stand firm in your support of the Olmstead ruling and in your support of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The United States has more than enough wealth to make sure every American can thrive. I want my tax dollars supporting more social services, and I want you to lead on this effort.
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Dear Senator / Representative:
The District of Columbia has a greater population (694,000) than either Vermont (645,000) or Wyoming (589,000) and yet has no voting representation in Congress.
This is an injustice that should be remedied.
What we are doing to the citizens of Washington, D.C. is no less unfair or egregious than what colonists cited to justify their own independence.
I want you to support DC statehood.
These citizens should have the opportunity to advocate for or against federal policies and laws that affect their lives, not merely be subject to them. They deserve a true voice in Congress.
These citizens should have full control over their local laws and government rather than be treated as a ward of Congress. As recently as 2025 and 2026, Congress has used its power to disapprove local DC laws.
These citizens should be treated as living in an autonomous state with carve-outs for federal buildings such as the Capitol and the White House. The fact that they do not is a civil rights and racial justice failure.
Senate Bill 51 has 43 co-sponsors; House Bill 51 has 207. It’s long past time to bring this to a vote, and I want to see you push for one.
#DCStatehood #DC #ResistOfTheDay #Resist #LWV #StatehoodForDC
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Dear Senator / Representative:
The District of Columbia has a greater population (694,000) than either Vermont (645,000) or Wyoming (589,000) and yet has no voting representation in Congress.
This is an injustice that should be remedied.
What we are doing to the citizens of Washington, D.C. is no less unfair or egregious than what colonists cited to justify their own independence.
I want you to support DC statehood.
These citizens should have the opportunity to advocate for or against federal policies and laws that affect their lives, not merely be subject to them. They deserve a true voice in Congress.
These citizens should have full control over their local laws and government rather than be treated as a ward of Congress. As recently as 2025 and 2026, Congress has used its power to disapprove local DC laws.
These citizens should be treated as living in an autonomous state with carve-outs for federal buildings such as the Capitol and the White House. The fact that they do not is a civil rights and racial justice failure.
Senate Bill 51 has 43 co-sponsors; House Bill 51 has 207. It’s long past time to bring this to a vote, and I want to see you push for one.
#DCStatehood #DC #ResistOfTheDay #Resist #LWV #StatehoodForDC
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Dear Senator/Representative -
I want you to support changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act to make sure that every American has the same ability that Rep. Tom Kean Jr had -- the ability to deal with an unexpected illness or emergency without going broke.
As written, the FMLA provides 12 weeks of unpaid leave in a medical emergency, but how is the family to survive when the sick person is responsible for supporting the family? The FMLA also does not provide any support to those who are self-employed or work for small companies.
The bipartisan bill introduced in June that would give 12 weeks of paid medical leave to all federal employees is a good start, and while I want you to support this, I also want you to work to expand paid long-term medical leave to everyone.
The Congressional staffers working in Rep Kean's office would not get four months of paid leave. And what about the new accountant starting her own firm with only two employees? What federal assistance helps to support this job creator and her employees if an emergency surfaces?
I want you to work tirelessly for a stronger healthcare safety net for all Americans. We all work hard, and we all deserve the same benefits in a time of crisis.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #PaidLeave #FMLA -
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Dear Senator/Representative -
I want you to support changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act to make sure that every American has the same ability that Rep. Tom Kean Jr had -- the ability to deal with an unexpected illness or emergency without going broke.
As written, the FMLA provides 12 weeks of unpaid leave in a medical emergency, but how is the family to survive when the sick person is responsible for supporting the family? The FMLA also does not provide any support to those who are self-employed or work for small companies.
The bipartisan bill introduced in June that would give 12 weeks of paid medical leave to all federal employees is a good start, and while I want you to support this, I also want you to work to expand paid long-term medical leave to everyone.
The Congressional staffers working in Rep Kean's office would not get four months of paid leave. And what about the new accountant starting her own firm with only two employees? What federal assistance helps to support this job creator and her employees if an emergency surfaces?
I want you to work tirelessly for a stronger healthcare safety net for all Americans. We all work hard, and we all deserve the same benefits in a time of crisis.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #PaidLeave #FMLA -
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Dear Sen / Rep -
I want you to do the following three things:
1) Cosponsor and actively support the Living Wage for All Act, which would raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour.
2) Lift the Social Security Income Cap completely. Every cent that a person earns should be subjected to Social Security withholding. The 7% of Americans who make more than $176,100 a year can afford to pay their fair share to keep Social Security solvent for decades to come.
3) Sponsor and pass legislation to reverse Rule 10b-18 of the Security and Exchange Commission, which allows companies to buy their own stock, thus driving up the value for shareholders while leaving workers with nothing. Stock buybacks were illegal throughout most of the 20th century because they were considered stock market manipulation. But in 1982 under President Reagan, the Securities and Exchange Commission passed rule 10b-18, which created a legal process for buybacks and opened the floodgates for companies to start repurchasing their stock en masse. This money, which used to be passed on to the employees as higher salaries and investment in new products or research, now drives up stock value for CEOs and stockholders.
These three steps would help lessen income inequality, and I want you out front and active in support of all three.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #TaxTheRich -
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Dear Senator / Representative -
Moms, parents, and caregivers in our district are deeply concerned about the Medicaid funding cuts this Republican Administration is inflicting on hospitals, maternity wards, and nursing homes.
I want you do use every procedure you have to reverse the coming $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid included in the budget of these Ballroom Republicans to ensure our hospitals can remain open and our families can access the care they need.
Communities nationwide are already feeling the devastating impacts of these changes. Medicaid provides essential revenue that allows hospitals to keep their doors open. Currently, an estimated 330 rural hospitals, 100 urban hospitals, 570 nursing homes, and nearly 200 health centers face potential closure. When these facilities close, the consequences for our community are severe: patients will be forced to travel much farther to access care, families across the country are going to face longer wait times in overwhelmed emergency rooms, and entire communities left without access to care.
The health of our families depends on a strong, fully funded health care system. I stand with parents and caregivers in urging you to support the restoration of Medicaid funding and protect the essential services our hospitals provide.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Healthcare #Medicaid -
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Dear Sen / Rep -
Because Congress has fully funded the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), I want you to fight every effort to end the OOI program.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) told AP, “This program is authorized, it’s funded, and for the administration to shut it down without direction from Congress violates that vision in which the people’s representatives decide what’s done and funded, and the executive branch executes that vision.”
A bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans, Senators and Representatives, has written the NSF protesting the action, which has not undergone scientific review.
Although NSF is supposed to brief the House of Representatives before a plan to decommission facilities or assets, no such advisory was made, according to House members in a letter of protest to NSF.
I urge you to join your colleagues in opposing the NSF action and supporting any legislation that would prohibit decommissioning without scientific review and Congressional notice. I also urge you to speak out, even if you’re not one of the directly affected states, because all of us suffer when weather data goes dark.
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Dear Sen / Rep -
Because Congress has fully funded the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), I want you to fight every effort to end the OOI program.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) told AP, “This program is authorized, it’s funded, and for the administration to shut it down without direction from Congress violates that vision in which the people’s representatives decide what’s done and funded, and the executive branch executes that vision.”
A bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans, Senators and Representatives, has written the NSF protesting the action, which has not undergone scientific review.
Although NSF is supposed to brief the House of Representatives before a plan to decommission facilities or assets, no such advisory was made, according to House members in a letter of protest to NSF.
I urge you to join your colleagues in opposing the NSF action and supporting any legislation that would prohibit decommissioning without scientific review and Congressional notice. I also urge you to speak out, even if you’re not one of the directly affected states, because all of us suffer when weather data goes dark.
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Dear Senator / Representative -
I want you to get loudly on board with S134 and HR492, the Saving the Civil Service Act.
We have watched with this Republican Administration has done over the past 17 months, firing long-time technical experts across the civil service. From disease prevention experts, diplomats, and trade negotiators to forestry, farming, and IT experts, this Republican Administration operates with the illusion that expertise and mastery matter less than substantive, experience-based knowledge.
I want you to save the Civil Service. I want policies driven by technical experts who have studied these topics for years. Be they the intricacies of government decision-making in China and Iran or the changes in soil moisture content observed by Midwest wheat farmers, I want experts driving policy, not ideology.
Undo the Executive Order reclassifying 8,000 jobs into a new excepted service category called Schedule Policy/Career. Support the Civil Service and the expertise these civil servants possess.
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Dear Senator / Representative -
I want you to get loudly on board with S134 and HR492, the Saving the Civil Service Act.
We have watched with this Republican Administration has done over the past 17 months, firing long-time technical experts across the civil service. From disease prevention experts, diplomats, and trade negotiators to forestry, farming, and IT experts, this Republican Administration operates with the illusion that expertise and mastery matter less than substantive, experience-based knowledge.
I want you to save the Civil Service. I want policies driven by technical experts who have studied these topics for years. Be they the intricacies of government decision-making in China and Iran or the changes in soil moisture content observed by Midwest wheat farmers, I want experts driving policy, not ideology.
Undo the Executive Order reclassifying 8,000 jobs into a new excepted service category called Schedule Policy/Career. Support the Civil Service and the expertise these civil servants possess.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #CivilService -
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Dear Senator / Representative --
This Republican Administration is cutting funding for the CDC's National Wastewater Surveillance System, and I want you to make sure this program is fully funded. These Ballroom Republicans propose cutting $100 million dollars a year, from a program that costs only $125 million each year to run, a fraction of the cost of the war this Republican Administration started with Iran.
Wastewater surveillance is how states currently are tracking measles outbreaks. In many states right now, no individual or family has reported a measles case to their local public health department, but the community nonetheless is able to know that measles is present in their community because of wastewater sampling.
And with no one wanting to admit they are sick, or no one wanting to test what illness they have, wastewater sampling is often the only way the community can respond effectively to infectious disease outbreak.
I want this program to remain fully funded. The piddling $25 million these Ballroom Republicans want for the program will not allow the elderly, families with small children, and those with compromised immune systems to keep themselves safe.
Please use all the procedural tools at your disposal to ensure full funding for public health wastewater sampling programs.
#resist #ResistOfTheDay #CDC #BallroomRepublicans -
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Dear Senator / Representative --
I want an end to DHS concentration camps, and I want you to make a stand on this issue.
People being held at Camp East Montana in the Texas desert have filed a class action lawsuit regarding the squalid, unsafe, torturous conditions. People are housed in overcrowded tents, with no windows or skylights; fed spoiled, rotten food; deprived of medical care; arbitrarily subjected to solitary confinement; de facto prevented from obtaining or conferring with legal counsel; de facto prevented from contact with family members; and deprived of personal hygiene supplies.
Yet this is supposedly civil detention, not criminal imprisonment.
The conditions are deliberately created by DHS to constitute punishment; the 5th Amendment specifically prohibits state punishment without protections provided to criminal defendants.
I want you to use every procedural tool possible to halt funding for corporate-run DHS concentration camps. I want every person detained by DHS to have full due process, to be held in a federal facility, and to have access to clean water, edible food, lawyers, and phone calls to family.
Cruelty is the point of DHS's policies, and I do not want my tax dollars supporting it.
Every concentration camp DHS runs is a scar on this nation.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #ICE #DHS -
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Dear Senator / Representative --
I want an end to DHS concentration camps, and I want you to make a stand on this issue.
People being held at Camp East Montana in the Texas desert have filed a class action lawsuit regarding the squalid, unsafe, torturous conditions. People are housed in overcrowded tents, with no windows or skylights; fed spoiled, rotten food; deprived of medical care; arbitrarily subjected to solitary confinement; de facto prevented from obtaining or conferring with legal counsel; de facto prevented from contact with family members; and deprived of personal hygiene supplies.
Yet this is supposedly civil detention, not criminal imprisonment.
The conditions are deliberately created by DHS to constitute punishment; the 5th Amendment specifically prohibits state punishment without protections provided to criminal defendants.
I want you to use every procedural tool possible to halt funding for corporate-run DHS concentration camps. I want every person detained by DHS to have full due process, to be held in a federal facility, and to have access to clean water, edible food, lawyers, and phone calls to family.
Cruelty is the point of DHS's policies, and I do not want my tax dollars supporting it.
Every concentration camp DHS runs is a scar on this nation.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #ICE #DHS -
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Dear Senator / Representative --
I want you to take immediate action to get the fiscal future of this nation in orderThe interest expense on our gigantic and ballooning national debt of $39 trillion is running at nearly $1 trillion a year, more than Medicare spending and equaling two-thirds of Social Security outlays.
Fortune Magazine is reporting that the US national debt has been increasing by $5 billion a day since October of 2025.
A recent report from the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget states that by 2036, interest on the US national debt will consume 30% of all US revenue, rather than just the 14% it currently requires.
This Republican Administration is spending my tax dollar on frivolous projects, on tax breaks for their wealthy donors, and on no-bid, ever-expanding projects that do not benefit ordinary Americans.
I want you to use every media appearance to highlight the fiscal crisis this Republican Administration has put this country in.
I want a bi-partisan committee of technical experts to submit a list of policy recommendations to put this country back on sound fiscal footing.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #TaxTheRich -
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Dear Senator / Representative --
I want you to take immediate action to get the fiscal future of this nation in orderThe interest expense on our gigantic and ballooning national debt of $39 trillion is running at nearly $1 trillion a year, more than Medicare spending and equaling two-thirds of Social Security outlays.
Fortune Magazine is reporting that the US national debt has been increasing by $5 billion a day since October of 2025.
A recent report from the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget states that by 2036, interest on the US national debt will consume 30% of all US revenue, rather than just the 14% it currently requires.
This Republican Administration is spending my tax dollar on frivolous projects, on tax breaks for their wealthy donors, and on no-bid, ever-expanding projects that do not benefit ordinary Americans.
I want you to use every media appearance to highlight the fiscal crisis this Republican Administration has put this country in.
I want a bi-partisan committee of technical experts to submit a list of policy recommendations to put this country back on sound fiscal footing.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #TaxTheRich -
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Dear Senators / Representative:
The Trump Administration and the Department of the Treasury have proposed printing a $250 bill containing the president’s likeness as part of the nation’s 250th birthday events. They have gone so far as to create a mockup design.
There are two problems with this proposal. First, the largest banknote authorized is the $100 bill. There is no Congressional approval for a $250 bill. Second, federal law prohibits putting the image of a living person on a banknote.
The timeline for new currencies of already authorized denominations is measured in years, not weeks. That means that even should Congress approve these two exceptions, it would be physically impossible to complete design and printing before July 4th.
These are not exceptions any Congress should be asked to make. I want you to go on the record opposing these changes to current law.
Thank you.
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Dear Senators / Representative:
The Trump Administration and the Department of the Treasury have proposed printing a $250 bill containing the president’s likeness as part of the nation’s 250th birthday events. They have gone so far as to create a mockup design.
There are two problems with this proposal. First, the largest banknote authorized is the $100 bill. There is no Congressional approval for a $250 bill. Second, federal law prohibits putting the image of a living person on a banknote.
The timeline for new currencies of already authorized denominations is measured in years, not weeks. That means that even should Congress approve these two exceptions, it would be physically impossible to complete design and printing before July 4th.
These are not exceptions any Congress should be asked to make. I want you to go on the record opposing these changes to current law.
Thank you.
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Today's Resist is about an OMB rulemaking to subject science research to politics. This proposed rule would allow political appointees to override peer review in federal grant decisions and penalize applicants based on organizational affiliations.
Please review the comment below and copy/paste at https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/OMB-2026-0034-0001 by July 13.
If you have time, you can also copy and paste your comment into the forms on the websites of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Comment on rulemaking:
I am opposed to OMB’s proposed federal financial assistance rule for three reasons. First, political appointees should not replace scientists in reviewing potential grant awards; awards should not “...demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities.” Our laws and court cases reflect that we are long past the age of the “spoils system,” that late 19th and early 20th century practice of rewarding political loyalists with government posts and contracts.
Second, independent peer review has been part of scientific grant review since the end of WWII. This rule discounts peer review as a primary measure of merit.
Third, grant applications could be negatively judged based on scientist affiliation with civil rights, environmental or public health organizations. Such memberships have nothing to do with the merit of an application.
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Today's Resist is about an OMB rulemaking to subject science research to politics. This proposed rule would allow political appointees to override peer review in federal grant decisions and penalize applicants based on organizational affiliations.
Please review the comment below and copy/paste at https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/OMB-2026-0034-0001 by July 13.
If you have time, you can also copy and paste your comment into the forms on the websites of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Comment on rulemaking:
I am opposed to OMB’s proposed federal financial assistance rule for three reasons. First, political appointees should not replace scientists in reviewing potential grant awards; awards should not “...demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities.” Our laws and court cases reflect that we are long past the age of the “spoils system,” that late 19th and early 20th century practice of rewarding political loyalists with government posts and contracts.
Second, independent peer review has been part of scientific grant review since the end of WWII. This rule discounts peer review as a primary measure of merit.
Third, grant applications could be negatively judged based on scientist affiliation with civil rights, environmental or public health organizations. Such memberships have nothing to do with the merit of an application.
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Dear Senator / Representative:
The bipartisan and independent Election Assistance Commission, created in 2002, owns the website vote.gov.
I recently learned that the National Design Studio (NDS), a three-year temporary agency created by an August 2025 executive order and housed in the White House, has a staging server with a working preview of a new vote.gov.
I also learned that the NDS-designed website would replace the current vote.gov should the White House succeed in setting up a national voter database.
The states are responsible for elections. The federal government’s attempt to insert itself in the process of validating voters is unconstitutional.
Their effort to create a national database of voters and involve the Post Office in deciding who can get a mail-in ballot is likewise unconstitutional.
I want you to ask hard questions of Joe Gebbia. The DOGE alumnus and cofounder of Airbnb has a temporary appointment to run NDS. As you know, DOGE is the subject of numerous federal lawsuits related to their controversial access to Social Security data. Given DOGE’s documented record on data access, his appointment warrants close scrutiny.
These backdoor shenanigans need the disinfectant of sunshine. Provide some, please, by holding hearings on these issues.
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Dear Senator / Representative:
The bipartisan and independent Election Assistance Commission, created in 2002, owns the website vote.gov.
I recently learned that the National Design Studio (NDS), a three-year temporary agency created by an August 2025 executive order and housed in the White House, has a staging server with a working preview of a new vote.gov.
I also learned that the NDS-designed website would replace the current vote.gov should the White House succeed in setting up a national voter database.
The states are responsible for elections. The federal government’s attempt to insert itself in the process of validating voters is unconstitutional.
Their effort to create a national database of voters and involve the Post Office in deciding who can get a mail-in ballot is likewise unconstitutional.
I want you to ask hard questions of Joe Gebbia. The DOGE alumnus and cofounder of Airbnb has a temporary appointment to run NDS. As you know, DOGE is the subject of numerous federal lawsuits related to their controversial access to Social Security data. Given DOGE’s documented record on data access, his appointment warrants close scrutiny.
These backdoor shenanigans need the disinfectant of sunshine. Provide some, please, by holding hearings on these issues.
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Dear Senator / Representative -
A year ago, this Republican Administration issued an Executive Order promising to house 6,000 homeless veterans, yet these Ballroom Republicans allocated zero dollars to pay for this housing they promised.
A hearing this month in the House Veterans Affairs Committee provided some answers, but also more questions.
I am concerned that this Republican Administration has required Veterans Administration officials and local advocates to sign nondisclosure agreements regarding construction and housing.
What exactly are they hiding and why is Congress not being briefed properly?
I want adequate, safe, clean housing for veterans across America. I want this to be a budget priority for you going forward. Veterans served America and we have a responsibility to care for them.
Cancel the Ballroom. Cancel the Arch. Fund the VA and housing for veterans.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #VA #Veterans -
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Dear Senator / Representative -
A year ago, this Republican Administration issued an Executive Order promising to house 6,000 homeless veterans, yet these Ballroom Republicans allocated zero dollars to pay for this housing they promised.
A hearing this month in the House Veterans Affairs Committee provided some answers, but also more questions.
I am concerned that this Republican Administration has required Veterans Administration officials and local advocates to sign nondisclosure agreements regarding construction and housing.
What exactly are they hiding and why is Congress not being briefed properly?
I want adequate, safe, clean housing for veterans across America. I want this to be a budget priority for you going forward. Veterans served America and we have a responsibility to care for them.
Cancel the Ballroom. Cancel the Arch. Fund the VA and housing for veterans.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #VA #Veterans -
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Dear Senator / Representative -
I want you to support the bipartisan Rural Housing Service Reform Act and take immediate steps to create programs to build affordable housing in rural areas.
For year, the USDA's Section 515 loans allowed for affordable housing in rural areas. The USDA stopped issuing new Section 515 loans in 2011, and as these existing loans mature, owners of rental properties are no longer legally bound to keep rents low. By 2050, researchers estimate there will be no Section 515 housing left unless the program is replaced.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition notes that the average Section 515 resident pays roughly $325 per month—far below the national average market rate of $800-$1,100 for modest rural homes.
Please join Senator Tina Smith (MN) to get this legislation through committee and out for a vote.
The working poor need a place to live, and with the greed that has taken over this country, they won’t have it unless you take action.
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Dear Senator / Representative -
I want you to support the bipartisan Rural Housing Service Reform Act and take immediate steps to create programs to build affordable housing in rural areas.
For year, the USDA's Section 515 loans allowed for affordable housing in rural areas. The USDA stopped issuing new Section 515 loans in 2011, and as these existing loans mature, owners of rental properties are no longer legally bound to keep rents low. By 2050, researchers estimate there will be no Section 515 housing left unless the program is replaced.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition notes that the average Section 515 resident pays roughly $325 per month—far below the national average market rate of $800-$1,100 for modest rural homes.
Please join Senator Tina Smith (MN) to get this legislation through committee and out for a vote.
The working poor need a place to live, and with the greed that has taken over this country, they won’t have it unless you take action.
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Dear Senator / Representative -
The tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5 million to a super PAC backed by President Trump last month, about one week before his administration rolled out a new policy that could prove lucrative to the tobacco industry. The donation, which came through a Reynolds subsidiary and brings to $8 million the total donated by the subsidiary to MAGA Inc., the Trump-backed super PAC, was revealed in a campaign finance report last week.
While you add this bit of corruption to your list of impeachable offenses committed by President Trump, I also want you to support the two bills in Congress now that can help take the voluminous dark money out of politics and help make sure that our government is really a representative democracy.
They are H.R. 2352 and S.4602. Both would limit contributions to PACs to $5000.
I want you to cosponsor and enact these bills and restore our democracy to the American people.
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Dear Senator / Representative -
The tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5 million to a super PAC backed by President Trump last month, about one week before his administration rolled out a new policy that could prove lucrative to the tobacco industry. The donation, which came through a Reynolds subsidiary and brings to $8 million the total donated by the subsidiary to MAGA Inc., the Trump-backed super PAC, was revealed in a campaign finance report last week.
While you add this bit of corruption to your list of impeachable offenses committed by President Trump, I also want you to support the two bills in Congress now that can help take the voluminous dark money out of politics and help make sure that our government is really a representative democracy.
They are H.R. 2352 and S.4602. Both would limit contributions to PACs to $5000.
I want you to cosponsor and enact these bills and restore our democracy to the American people.
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Dear Sen/ Rep -
I object to the new rules USCIS has applied to green card applicants and I want you to fix this.
For 60 years, people could apply for green cards at a US consulate abroad, or while already in the US.
With the new USCIS policy, green card applicants already in the US will be required to leave while their cases are processed, even if they are in the country legally and regardless of whether they have spouses or children with citizenship.
This will affect families nationwide by forcing green card applicants to leave jobs, homes, and relationships for an unknown amount of time. USCIS is struggling with a backlog of visa and green card cases, and admits it does not know how currently pending green card cases will be affected.
This new policy will force survivors of trafficking, and abused and neglected children, to return to the dangerous countries they fled in order to process their applications for green cards.
Please draft legislation that at a minimum allows people already in process for their green card to stay in the US while their green card is processed. Then use every appearance in committee, on the floor, and with news and social media to highlight the ways in which the policies of the Ballroom Republicans running this current Federal Administration are harming families.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #USCIS #GreenCard -
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Dear Sen/ Rep -
I object to the new rules USCIS has applied to green card applicants and I want you to fix this.
For 60 years, people could apply for green cards at a US consulate abroad, or while already in the US.
With the new USCIS policy, green card applicants already in the US will be required to leave while their cases are processed, even if they are in the country legally and regardless of whether they have spouses or children with citizenship.
This will affect families nationwide by forcing green card applicants to leave jobs, homes, and relationships for an unknown amount of time. USCIS is struggling with a backlog of visa and green card cases, and admits it does not know how currently pending green card cases will be affected.
This new policy will force survivors of trafficking, and abused and neglected children, to return to the dangerous countries they fled in order to process their applications for green cards.
Please draft legislation that at a minimum allows people already in process for their green card to stay in the US while their green card is processed. Then use every appearance in committee, on the floor, and with news and social media to highlight the ways in which the policies of the Ballroom Republicans running this current Federal Administration are harming families.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #USCIS #GreenCard -
@Edelruth All of them. The entire GOP is complicit. They could exercise their constitutional power at any moment they wanted to. They could end this. They are choosing this. #ResistOfTheDay
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@Edelruth All of them. The entire GOP is complicit. They could exercise their constitutional power at any moment they wanted to. They could end this. They are choosing this. #ResistOfTheDay
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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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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 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:
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 -
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