Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Inflation Reduction Act and prevent ICE officers from pretending they’re police officers, and tell President Biden to require that federal contractors disclose their campaign spending. 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.
Moms Rising helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Inflation Reduction Act. Our Senate passed it yesterday – the final tally was, of course, 51-50, with all Republicans voting against – so now our House has to pass it. The bill has no $35/month insulin cap for non-Medicare patients (thanks, Republicans!) and no narrowing of the hedge fund loophole (thanks again, Kyrsten Sinema!), but it still taxes corporations harder, lets Medicare negotiate some drug prices, extends expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies, and helps us kick some climate change ass, plus it now contains a 1% tax on stock buybacks! That tax should be higher, but the Inflation Reduction Act would make our lives better, and so deserves our support.
Demand Progress helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass legislation prohibiting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (or ICE) enforcers from identifying themselves as “police.” It’s a shame we have to do this! But when a branch of law enforcement abuses their power, we as civilized people must step in and make our government work on our behalf. And when right-wingers whine that doing so would “tie the hands” of ICE enforcers, they’re basically admitting they’re against civilization. Also, ICE enforcers who misrepresent themselves prevent our actual police from questioning immigrants about other crimes. But then, right-wingers only care about stoking rage.
Finally, the Daily Kos Democracy Project helps you tell President Biden to make all corporations that get federal contracts disclose their campaign spending. We have an interest, I would think, in knowing which corporations receive taxpayer money and then spend money goading our representatives in Congress into voting against our interests. Right-wingers will call that “stifling free speech," which not only pretends spending money equals “speech,” but also pretends not to know that if you take taxpayer money you have to follow taxpayer rules. Right-wingers like that notion, until it doesn’t suit them, but civilized people know better.
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