Long story short: tell your legislators to protect voting rights, stop diverting public school money to private schools, and invest in our care economy. 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.
Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would subject any voting law change from a state or locality known for vote suppression to Justice Department approval. The Voting Rights Act used to do that – until our Supreme Court struck that part of the law down because it “singled out” Southern states and localities for extra scrutiny. You can imagine why, I trust! But since the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act says any state or locality, not just Southern ones, our Supreme Court will have to come up with some other reason to oppose it. Not that they should take that as a challenge!
Daily Kos also helps you tell your state and federal legislators to stop diverting public school funds to private schools. Want public schools to do better? Well, certainly don’t hamstring them further by using public school money on private schools that don’t necessarily do a better job! And don’t tolerate anyone saying “we have to do something,” because we don’t have to do something but we have to do the right thing, and the right thing to do is fund public schools well and teach kids all they’ll need to learn – like the kind of BS detection that would prevent our tax money from going to someone’s private school crony so our public schoolkids suffer even more.
Finally, the Coalition on Human Needs helps you tell your Congressfolk to invest more in our care economy, particularly into making sure workers like home health aides and nursing home aides get paid well for the work they do! Our care economy will only get bigger, and we’re all going to need it one day, so we’d better get ahead of that before big corporations do, because they’d pay everyone in dung pellets if we let them. And that’ll be hard to fight – not impossible, but it’ll be so much better not to have to fight it, so we can better fight other evils.
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