Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to close the floodgates of corporate campaign spending, make corporations pay harder when they break child labor law, and reject any national abortion ban. 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.
Common Cause helps you tell your Congressfolk to overturn our Supreme Court’s nefarious Citizens United v. FEC decision and pass the DISCLOSE Act. In Citizens United, our Supreme Court justified flooding political campaigns with even more corporate money by saying, essentially, hey, Congress can still pass a law forcing corporations to disclose their campaign spending. 12 long years later, Congress has not done that, but the DISCLOSE Act would force a lot of corporate spending into the light. So would amending our Constitution to let us limit campaign spending again. So let’s get to stepping.
Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stop Child Labor Act, so that the many, many corporations currently trying to replace higher-paid workers with actual children can face stiffer penalties. Yes, child labor is already illegal across America! But corporations can decide to go ahead and break the law anyway because they won’t have to pay too much for it. The Stop Child Labor Act would effectively take that choice away from them, and it should! As I’ve said before, either our children are our future or they’re just another source of cheap labor, but they’re not both.
Finally, Civic Shout helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any and all national abortion bans. That’s no ban, period – no 15-week ban like Mr. Trump reportedly supports, which is also the proposal that helped Democrats reclaim Virginia’s lower state house. And no, “no abortion ban” is not “extreme”! How can the majority position in America be “extreme”? Funny how often right-wingers say that. And what happened to keeping health care decisions between a woman and her doctor? Don’t right-wingers support that? Oh, right – they only support that when they’re trying to keep our government from regulating health insurance corporations at all.
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