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There are four bills languishing in Congress! They’ve been there for almost a year! Each one would protect some aspect of our election, but they seem stuck in committees of both houses. Read up on the issues and call your MoC in both houses and demand their support and their co-sponsorship! Bonus points if they are on the committee!
Reading Time: 5 minutes
We are in the fight of our lives for our democracy. It is worth five minutes to learn about the bills before Congress right now that need your support. I outline each of the bills, tell you who to call for supporting each, and give you a basic script.
Now call call call!
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There are bills languishing in Congress RIGHT NOW! Call #MassacreMitch and remind him that we were supposed to have a conversation about gun safety legislation LAST SEPTEMBER!
I list three senate and four house bills that need support in order to move on to becoming laws. I give you the means of contacting your MoC, descriptions of the bills, links for more information, and a script to use.
Call today. Call often.
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Be part of the Christmas miracle of 2019! Congress is on hiatus, so they’ll be home in their districts. Call their offices, go to protests, go to town halls, write to the editor, social media. And, tell them you expect them to support a fair trial in the Senate!
Reading Time: 6 minutes
Holy mother this is your Sunday deep dive news read. The Mother of All Explainers! How does the Ol’ Pussy Grabber turn so many otherwise sober rational people to his twisted conspiracy-driven paranoid interpretation of the world? In other words, how does gaslighting work? Why are human beings so vulnerable to it? And, most importantly, how do we resist it? I explain it all right here in six minutes.
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This one is simple: We don’t deport people to certain death. If we have to legislate empathy, kindness, and mercy because some of our elected and appointed officials lack those qualities, then we will.
Let’s get her done. Let’s call our MoC’s and tell them to protect the children and their families on the medical deferment program from the capricious whims of a narcissistic desperate depraved administration.
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The congressional recess is over this week. Call #MassacreMitch and your senators and tell them to pass the House gun legislation and write legislation for further gun reform laws.
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It is imperative that Trump be impeached. His worsening mental health imperils us all. It will keep getting worse. And time is running out to begin impeachment before the primary voting begins.
Call your representative and Nancy Pelosi and express your support for impeachment proceedings.
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Here are the bills before the Senate and one before the House concerning protecting our elections. Don’t let #MoscowMitch gaslight you on the issue. Know the bills, know who to call, and call call call
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If you are as outraged as I am and I hope the rest of the nation is, then you gotsta call your MoC about restoring he deferrals of deportation status for people with serious medical conditions and others who used to receive them. If our Christian charity hasn’t been codified in the hearts and minds of our elected officials, their appointees and hirees, and our electorate, then it orta be codified into law, don’t ya think?
Call your MoC and urge them to be a hero and write the legislation.
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Do your part to stop the US from being a pawn of Putin’s Russia. Urge Congress to stand up to Trump and Russia and pressure the administration into releasing the $250 million in military aide to Ukraine before the budget and money expire on 30 September!
Call your MoC and tell them to put as much pressure as they can on the administration and speak out publicly in favor of releasing the funds.
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Hey look how Trump is screwing around people who are trying to help the US by doing the crappy work of keeping us safe and keeping the gov’t running!
Help the US live up to its potential. Call your MoC and tell them to part of the solution and fix this immigration debacle.
Reading time: 4 minutes
The Trump admin wants to destroy the world and end humanity as we know it. There is no other explanation for why they are being so destructive to the environment. We must enlist the aide of Congress to stop them. Call your MoC about the assault on the Tongass National Forest today. Make your voice heard. Be part of the solution. Make the call!
Reading Time: 5 minutes (but heavily divided by headings so you can find the information you want fast!)
If it’s Sunday, it’s time to dust off and update your list of issues to call your MoC about. If you find it as confusing as I do to keep up with the multitude of issues that pour through my social media and across my screen, then maybe this list of five super important issues will be helpful
Reading Time: 14 minutes
Quick Dip: 2 minutes
Shallow Dive: 4 minutes
Deep Dive: 12 minutes
With the shooting in El Paso, I’ve devoted the call your MoC post today to gun violence. In the quick dip, I give you information about contacting your MoC to demand that they support gun reform action. In the shallow dive, there is information about gun reform advocacy groups, events, and stuff. And in the deep dive, I’ve included resources on the arcane statistics and legal information about gun violence.
Your weekly MoC call list is a doozy! It is chock-a-block full of follow-up to the Mueller Congressional testimony, impeachment inquiry demands, and protecting our elections. There are also updates on past issues, a bonus issue that you won’t believe, and contacts for Indivisible.
Do your part to improve conditions in the US. Keep a list of issues to contact your MoC about and call them every week! It is the single most effective way of impacting our government. Here’s my list for this week. Feel free to add to it in the comments. And, let us know how your call went!
Calling your very own member of Congress is easy! It’s fun! And, it is the most effective way to influence our government! But, keeping up with all those issues and bills and hearings and stuff is not. So, here’s a handy-dandy do-it-yourself guide to help out, and my top five issues that I’m contacting my member of Congress about this week! It’s now a weekly post on Ye Olde Blogge! Look for it every Sunday!
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