Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to restore voting rights, prevent Medicare privatization, and fund our IRS. 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 restore voting rights in America, by passing both the Freedom to Vote Act (which would expand early voting and automatic voter registration, among other good works) and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (which would allow our Justice Department to pre-clear voting law changes from any state or locality which establishes a record of vote suppression, not just Southern ones). If Congress passes these bills, more good Americans will be able to vote – which politicians often don’t like, but they don’t get all the say around here.
Demand Progress helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any and all efforts to privatize Medicare. Privatized Medicare Advantage has become more and more a yoke around Medicare’s neck over the last few years – or maybe we’re just more aware of it – but we could take all the corporate welfare we’re handing out to private health insurance corporations so they can do a worse job serving seniors than Medicare does, and we could, you know, improve Medicare. I know, I know, insisting that government do things right is so uncool. Call me old-fashioned, then. I’ve been called much worse.
Finally, Demand Progress also helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any and all attempts to cut IRS funding. Right-wingers love asking aren’t you afraid if our IRS has more money, they’ll come after you? But what a stupid question! When our IRS was underfunded, they were only going after working families, because working families can’t hire lawyers as easily as rich folks and corporations can. Now, with our IRS funded much better thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, rich folks and corporations are starting to feel the heat – and Republicans have made cutting IRS funding their line in the sand! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Republicans only care about tax cuts for the rich.
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