Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stop Corporate Capture Act, reject the REINS Act, and pass the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, and tell legislators in 20 states to ban child marriage once and for all. 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.
Public Citizen helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stop Corporate Capture Act and reject the REINS Act. This is your basic Goofus and Gallant strip: the Stop Corporate Capture Act (a.k.a. Gallant) would require our government to disclose conflicts of interest inherent in rule-making comments, like when a corporation comments on a rule that would affect it, while the REINS Act (Goofus) would give our Congress endless attempts to nullify the regulations it has already authorized through legislation – which is just a way for right-wingers in Congress to destroy our clean air and clean water regulations. So our task is clear, and we should get to it.
Defending Rights and Dissent helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, which would, as its title suggests, prevent our government from using this awful technology that can’t tell Black people apart better than your right-wing uncle can, but which law enforcement uses to put the wrong people in jail and harass protestors. They’ll say imposing a moratorium will prevent us from doing the research we need to get it right, but they’ve had plenty of opportunity to get it right, and they’ve screwed it up. So we need to stop them from hurting us any further. I can’t put it plainer than that.
Finally, Care2 helps you tell state legislators in 20 states to outlaw child marriage. You mean that’s still a thing? Yes, that’s still a thing, at least in 20 states, even though children cannot by definition consent to a sexual relationship, and I’ll tell you a secret: it ain’t we libertine liberals who tolerate child marriage and child molestation and grooming, it’s right-wingers. When Roy Moore went on his infamous quest to find a just-barely-teen girl to groom into a wife, he was hardly the only one! A litany of evangelicals and other right-wingers do that, too! Remember: whenever right-wingers call us a particular kind of evil, they are that evil. If you haven’t been looking at the world that way, start now. Everything will make a lot more sense.
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