Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass Medicare-for-All health insurance legislation, pass the CLEAN Act, and pass legislation that would keep police away from traffic stops. 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.
Progressive Hub helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass Medicare-for-All health insurance for all Americans. I bet we all know at least one conservative who says our government couldn’t possibly do a worse job at health insurance than the private corporations do, and when you contemplate how much more money we spend on our patchwork public/private system than virtually every other rich nation on Earth, you can see why. And Medicare-for-All would spend a lot less money on health insurance than our current system. But don’t take my word for it – take the word of the Koch brothers-funded Mercatus Institute.
Common Cause helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the CLEAN Act, which would make the Office of Congressional Ethics permanent and give it more power to actually investigate the ethics imbroglios our Congressfolk somehow constantly find themselves in. Making the Office permanent would shield it from the kind of political games we just saw Republicans play, where they used the will-they-or-won’t-they drama of Speaker McCarthy’s ascension to weaken the office, a move so politically fraught just six years ago that even then-President-elect Trump opposed it. One of the reasons we have laws? To protect ourselves from the lawmakers! And it works more often than the cynical would admit.
Black Lives Matter helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass legislation that would keep police out of the traffic incidents. About one out of every 10 police killings start out as traffic stops, and we all saw the video of five Memphis cops beating Tyre Nichols to death, so we’ve got to do something. And, as I’ve often said, we need to stop using our police officers as the Swiss Army Knives of our culture, and that means getting them out of a lot of situations we take for granted are “police matters” and letting them concentrate on serving warrants and making arrests. I say that’d be more pro-cop than any of the I SUPPORTZ TEH POLICEZ!!!! nonsense you hear from right-wingers every time cops kill Black folks.
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