Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Government Surveillance Reform Act and the Youth Voting Rights Act, and also tell your Congressfolk to expand Social Security benefits. 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 Center for Rights and Dissent helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Government Surveillance Reform Act, which would prevent law enforcement from buying our data from third-party data brokers and would make law enforcement get a warrant whenever they want to search data they’ve already collected from us. Because anything else would be a fishing expedition, conducted to harass and oppress good Americans, and would contravene both the spirit and the letter of our Constitution. Many right-wingers today don’t seem to understand that law enforcement can be used against Americans. But our Founders did, and they were right.
RISE helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Youth Voting Rights Act, which would (among other reforms) require voting booths at colleges and universities and end the sort of residency requirement governments only pass to suppress votes. You hear from right-wingers all the time about how young people don’t know enough about anything to vote, but they always said that about Black folks, too; they were wrong then, and they’re wrong now, not just on the morals but also on the facts. I make fun of young people sometimes, but they do see things we olds don’t anymore, and that’s a good thing.
Finally, Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to expand Social Security. But wait, right-wingers say: Social Security is becoming insolvent! You can’t expand it ha ha ha stupid liberal! If I had a dollar for all the times over the years they said Social Security was becoming insolvent, I could retire right now! It’s 2024, checks are still going out, and frankly we could make Social Security better if we start taxing income above $168,600 into the system and start calculating costs more realistically. It’s not actually hard to do these things – unless your salary depends on your stupidity.
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