Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to reject the so-called “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” block the proposed PGA/LIV merger, and pass the Failed Bank Executives Clawback 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.
Demand Progress helps you tell your Senators to reject H.R. 5, the so-called “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” which would enable parents to ban books, protest the mere existence of trans children, and block vaccinations of their children far more easily than they can now. I’ve long asserted that parents have the right to make decisions on behalf of their children, but parents don’t have the right to make decisions on behalf of everyone else’s children. Too many educators let one activist parent have veto power over every book in their library, so these folks hardly need any more help creating drama and chaos in our public schools. Don’t we teach our kids not to be so dramatic? Or did that go out the window now once we elected Donald Trump?
More Perfect Union helps you tell your Congressfolk not to grant an antitrust exemption for the proposed PGA/LIV merger, or “alliance,” or “joint framework,” or whatever they’re calling it to make us think it’s something other than what it obviously is. This is the big golfing merger where the PGA Commissioner said out loud that the proposed merger would help “take the competitor off the board,” which is not the kind of thing you can explain away by saying oh, I was high when I said that. Probably Congress doesn’t have an appetite to let this deal go through, since Saudi Arabia is involved. But they shouldn’t let it go through because it’s bad for our economy, and we should remind them of that.
Finally, Public Citizen helps you pass the Failed Bank Executives Clawback Act, which would, as its title says, claw back executive income (including bonuses, options, and stocks) when their bank fails. Hard to believe our laws actually have to come out and say that banksters shouldn’t make money off of failure, but that’s where we are as a civilization. This is an obvious enough statement that the Senate version of the bill has two Republican co-sponsors out of four, while the House version has two out of five; one hates to wait for Republican approval of even the mildest reforms, but their approval does make it a bit more difficult for right-wingers to convince everyone this is all nanny-state.
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