Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass legislation protecting birth control, tell President Biden to abandon means-testing for student loan debt forgiveness, and tell your Congressfolk to repeal the 2002 Iraq war AUMF. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
Civic Shout helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass a law protecting birth control from our Supreme Court. You know, like they failed to do with abortion. Nonetheless, Civic Shout’s petition shows cunning! A lot of politicians will happily voice their opposition to abortion – but how many will happily voice their opposition to birth control? I mean, sure, the far-right ones will and there are far too many of them in Congress, but they’re not a majority, at least not yet. And birth control is considerably more popular, after all. Why, a lot of men favor it! At least for their women, they do. And recall, Justice Thomas has already put it down in writing that he’d overturn Griswold!
The Daily Kos Liberation League helps you tell President Biden not to erect stupid barriers to student debt relief. Like means testing! Look, our IRS already knows how much money you made last year, so making folks jump through bureaucratic hoops so they can get the relief they deserve is just a way of ensuring that folks don’t get that relief. Also, don’t get evicted or get in an abusive relationship, or else the application likely won’t find you! And don’t count on our Department of Education getting funded well enough to handle all the paperwork it’ll have to process. Recall that Republican Presidential candidates typically promise to disband the department entirely.
Finally, Win Without War helps you tell your Congressfolk to repeal the 2002 Authorization to Use Military Force (or AUMF) in Iraq. That mistake is now almost old enough to order a beer legally! And Presidents still use it for reasons wholly unrelated to the Iraq War – former President Trump, for example, used it to justify our assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, which almost brought us to war with Iran. So it was a bad idea in the first place, and we misuse it and bring ourselves to the brink of war – anything else? Oh yeah: our Constitution invests the power to declare war solely in our Congress, so letting Presidents go to war whenever they want contravenes our laws in addition to our morals.
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