Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to reject any Social Security death panels, curb unlawful government spying on Americans, and help states start their own Medicare-for-All-style health insurance systems. 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.
Social Security Works helps you tell your Congressfolk that you will tolerate no “behind closed doors” death panels for Social Security. Because if the American people wanted you to do it, you wouldn’t have to do it “behind closed doors”! Yet House Speaker Johnson, who clearly doesn’t understand the whole concept of representing your constituents even though his job title is “Representative,” still thinks he can get a closed door Social Security commission to cut your earned benefits without any debate or anyone watching. Too late! We’re already watching! These Republican clowns have no idea how close they are to losing everywhere, no matter how they’ve managed to gerrymander their districts. I’m not kidding; people are tired of their BS. So we’ve got to keep speaking out.
Defending Rights and Dissent helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act, and also reject the so-called FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act. Too often these matters are like Goofus and Gallant strips, with Gallant striving to prevent our FBI from searching our communications without a damn warrant and keep private data collectors from selling our data to law enforcement, while Goofus thinks we’ll tolerate our government getting our data even more easily without a warrant. Our House could be voting on these bills today, so the time to act, even more so than usual, is now. After all, nobody wants to give up their Constitutional rights merely because politicians are always complaining about crime or terrorism.
Finally, Public Citizen helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the State-Based Universal Health Care Act, which (as its title implies) would help individual states create their own Medicare-for-All-style health insurance programs, through getting waivers more easily and securing federal funding to cover 95 percent of its residents within five years. Admittedly getting Medicare-for-All done at the federal level remains an uphill climb, but recall that Canada’s Medicare-for-All-style health insurance system – the one that delivers better care for less money than ours does – started in Saskatchewan. Remember also that Vermont aimed to create such a system until its Democratic Governor got cold feet, citing the “cost.” There was a cost, all right – Vermont’s had a Republican Governor since then. There’s a lesson there, somewhere.
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