Long story short: tell Missouri state House leadership to kill an anti-trans bill, tell Florida’s Governor to veto legislation that would hurt worker safety, and tell your Congressfolk to tax millionaire and billionaire income into Social Security. 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.
In Missouri, HB 2885 would make teachers register as sex offenders if they support a trans kid’s transition in any way – which would end their career as school teachers, of course. However you feel about transgender folks, supporting a trans kid is not in the same class as soliciting a minor for sex or using child porn. Gosh, what if terms like “sex offender” actually meant something again? Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher’s phone number is 573.751.1544; Missouri Republican House Floor Leader Jonathan Patterson’s number is 573.751.0907. You know what you gotta do: tell them to end this manufactured drama before they embarrass themselves.
Meanwhile, the Florida state legislature actually wants to prevent localities from protecting workers from extreme heat. How conservative of them! The smallest unit of government knows best, they say – until those smallest units of government defy the will of big corporations that don’t care about workers dying from heatstroke, because worshiping mammon is more important than taking care of other people. Hence Public Citizen helps you tell Gov. DeSantis to veto this legislation when it gets to his desk. Yeah, it’s a long shot, but with his Presidential run lying in the deep grave, perhaps we can get him to do the right thing. For once!
Finally, Social Security Works helps you tell your Congressfolk to make millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes into our Social Security system. You know that income over $168,600 doesn’t get taxed into the system, but you may not know that several already-introduced bills would address this issue – the Social Security Expansion Act and the Social Security 2100 Act would tax income over $250,000 and $400,000, respectively. Better to point our Congressfolk to good bills that already exist than let them come up with some BS bill that doesn’t do what they say it does!
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