Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to co-sponsor Medicare-for-All legislation and pass the Secure Viable Banking Act, the Honest Ads Act, and the DISCLOSE Act. 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 co-sponsor Medicare-for-All legislation when it’s reintroduced. Don’t brook any wobbliness on this matter from your Congressfolk, because when they say “I’m afraid of the attack ads I’ll get if I co-sponsor this bill,” they’re lying. How do I know they’re lying? Because every Democratic House Rep who represented a district won by Donald Trump and supported Medicare-for-All in 2020 won! And if I know that, I’m sure they know it, too. They may even have seen Bernie Sanders get an ovation from the crowd in a Fox News town hall for his support for Medicare-for-All! So, no BS from your Congressfolk.
Penn PIRG helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Secure Viable Banking Act, which would restore a lot of Dodd-Frank restrictions on banks that Congress repealed in 2018, the same restrictions that would have prevented the Silicon Valley Bank (and now you know why it’s called the Secure Viable Banking Act!) from going under earlier this year. It’s a shame we’re fighting just to get back the weak Dodd-Frank reforms, but we’re not just fighting for that, but for bank regulations in general – the more we demand better banking regulation, the less our Congressfolk (and Our Glorious Elites) can simply ignore it. And that message is always worth sending.
Finally, Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Honest Ads Act and the DISCLOSE Act, which would expand federal truth-in-political advertising laws to social media and mandate disclosure of folks who contribute more than $10,000 to political campaigns, respectively. Again, we might want more from our efforts – a Constitutional amendment ending corporate “personhood,” for example – but by communicating our will on these bills, we are also communicating our will that we can’t stand the billions of dollars that go into campaign ads for candidates who shouldn’t be elected to a damn thing. And that, also, is a message worth sending.
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