Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, keep investing in child care, reject efforts to defund our CFPB, and stop banking executives from cashing out right before their banks crash. 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 Daily Kos Democracy Project helps you tell your Congressfolk to protect our freedom to vote, by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. Yeah, Republicans won’t want to do it, but let’s frame that the way civilized people should frame it: Republicans should get with the program and do what the hell we tell them to do, regardless of how they feel about it. Representatives are supposed to represent, after all, and both the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act would not only help more good Americans vote, it will give good Americans more tools to fight back when state and local governments try to suppress their vote. And good Americans deserve that! So we should get it, regardless of what Republicans “think.”
The Coalition on Human Needs helps you tell your Congressfolk to keep investing in expanded child care across America. I mean, if you’re going to tell people to get married, and you’re going to tell people to get jobs, and you’re going to tell them to have children, and then you’re going to pay them so little that both parents have to work, then you ought to help them afford child care, which is stupid expensive for no reason other than that some folks realized they could make unearned millions off child care merely because everyone needs it. The American Rescue Plan Act expanded federal funding for child care centers during the pandemic, but now that funding’s about to expire, with child care for over three million kids about to expire along with it, so how about we not be so damn cruel?
Americans for Financial Reform helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject legislation that would break our Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Barack Obama was no dummy, so he insisted that our Federal Reserve fund our CFPB, rather than Congressional appropriations, and though our Congressfolk have no problem with such a funding structure in other contexts, they seem to get their shorts in a bunch about it with our CFPB. I wonder why. I kid, of course! I do not wonder at all! Republicans in Congress want to zero out CFPB funding whenever they like so they can do the bidding of their big bankster donors – and this they want to do when banksters remain approximately the most unpopular people in America! And unpopular across the political spectrum, I might add! So let’s remind our Congressfolk who their real bosses are. It’s us. We’re their real bosses.
Finally, Take On Wall Street helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the RECOUP Act, so that we can finally prevent banksters from making craploads of money the week before their banks crash. Yes, this happened just recently! Silicon Valley Bank’s CEO sold over $3.5 million of stock right before SVB collapsed, while executives at First Republic Bank sold around $12 million of stock in the months before that bank went under; nice work if you can get it! Seriously, if they tell people their bank is doing fine, and then unload millions of bucks in stocks in their own bank, they’re saying that they lied to all those people when they said their bank was doing fine! I guess they think they’re OK because we may not have their lies on tape, but their actions gave away their lies, and anyway there’s no Constitutional right to millions of dollars in compensation when folks hurt all the people whose money they were holding for them, for “safekeeping.” This is Civilization 101 stuff.
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