Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to ban Donald Trump from elective office and reject any effort to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics, and tell President Biden to keep fighting for an expanded Child Tax Credit. 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.
The Progressive Reform Network helps you tell your Congressfolk to ban Donald Trump from holding elective office again as our 14th Amendment demands. Y’all know I’ve been a stickler for the proper definition of “treason,” but “insurrection” and “rebellion” describe what Mr. Trump did pretty well, frankly. And if you’re still thinking maybe Mr. Trump was just a selfish dolt who blundered into January 6, recall that Mr. Trump knew he’d lost the election, and goaded people to storm the Capitol anyway. Also, seriously, enough with crybabies already. Yes, especially crybabies with guns!
Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any attempts to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics. They tried this crap in 2017, and we stopped it, so we can stop it again, even though clearly Republicans are counting on the chaos of the Speaker voting imbrogio to wear us out. We the people need to show our power to our elected “leaders” every minute of every day; our duty as Americans lasts forever, and we don’t get a vacation from it. But calling your Congressfolk ain’t hard and doesn’t take very long. And the work we do, the work of maintaining a civilization, is the most important work a human being can do.
The Coalition on Human Needs helps you tell President Biden to keep working to get the expanded Child Tax Credit back. This may be a cynical time, with plenty of cynical people, but what a President says still matters. You know this because George W. Bush almost single-handedly made climate change denialism mainstream back in the day. You also know it because local poison control centers fielded so many calls about bleach killing COVID in the days after Donald Trump mused clumsily about it. And if President Biden keeps talking about the Child Tax Credit expansion keeping millions of kids out of poverty, that’ll make our job easier. And, after all, that’s his job!
Finally: I’ll continue to provide action alert links, but with Republicans in charge of our House now, I really think the best thing to do is to call them with our will and clog up their phone lines so they get it. Some of them will whine about it just like they did in 2017, but let’s have them whine in public, so we know who might be easiest to turn out of office in 2022.
UPDATE. Sadly, our House didn't listen to us, and basically gutted the Office of Congressional Ethics earlier today. Naturally George Santos, arguably the most ethics-challenged individual elected to Congress in recent history, said it was "fantastic," while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has an actual ethics complaint still to be resolved, called it "disturbing." That's a Goofus and Gallant strip right there, though I guess it would pain Mr. Santos not to be Gallant here. Anyway, today we flush it, and tomorrow we get up and go again.
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