Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to oppose anti-Medicare drug price negotiation bills, extend the Affordable Connectivity Program, and repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. 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.
First things first. Courtesy Helen Santoro at The Lever, we learn that several big pharma-aligned House Democrats have proposed limiting Medicare drug price negotiation. It’s like they’re saying if 90% of us support something, then we should all just go fuck ourselves! So let’s call our Congressfolk and tell them to oppose the ORPHAN Cures Act, the MINI Act, and the EPIC Act, and let’s also tell them to stop pretending we must either have price-gouging or no cures at all! That is, of course, a rhetorical hostage situation. And any politician who believes we should pay more for life-saving drugs deserves defeat. That certainly includes Donald Trump!
Color of Change helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act, which would extend the Affordable Connectivity Program Congress created during the pandemic, so that more working families can afford internet. You remember how all our kids had to go to school online for a year or so? Well, we would be cruel to make it harder for some people to afford the internet connectivity they might one day need just to go to school again. I mean, we’ve already got cable corporations to be cruel to working families by charging whatever they like! Certainly our government doesn’t need to heap more cruelty on top of cruelty.
Finally, Moms Rising helps you tell your Congressfolk to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which prevents gun corporations from being sued not just for their role in enabling daily mass murders, but also for the gun safety issues they cause. Why do big gun corporations need this kind of protection from the marketplace? If we extended that to, say, cars or cribs, people would recognize that as an offense to civilization right away. But guns? Too many people want to hold guns more sacred than people, and that’s also an offense to civilization. And, look, truly frivolous lawsuits lose, but gun corporations don’t deserve the privilege of not having to deal with lawsuits.
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