Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to stop warrantless spying on Americans, end arms sales to Israel, and pass the Postal Banking 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.
Both Demand Progress and Free Press help you tell your Congressfolk not to renew Section 702 of the USA PATRIOT Act. Section 702 authorizes our government to collect data on Americans without a warrant, and as we’ve recently learned, Elon Musk’s corporation – X, the Corporation Formerly Known as Twitter – has actually been selling user data to our government; do we really want our tax dollars going to big corporations so our government can spy on us more? No, we do not. But Congress will discuss this very matter this week, so we must communicate our will in numbers they can’t deny.
Demand Progress also helps you tell your Congressfolk to stop selling weapons to Israel. As I said yesterday, a lot of Americans are thinking Israel might be wrong for the first time; their indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians has provoked President Biden – one of the most pro-Israel politicians who ever served – into telling Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that he may condition future weapons sales on Israel’s human rights conduct, which is good, but Congress ought to force his hand by stopping weapons sales entirely. Ignore folks who say selling weapons incentivizes better behavior, because such statements defy logic.
Finally, Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Postal Banking Act, which would enable our Postal Service to offer basic banking services (checking, savings accounts, small loans) like they used to as late as the late ‘60s. That’ll enable our Postal Service – which receives no taxpayer funding despite our Constitution explicitly making the mail a federal job – to get more revenues, but even more importantly, it’ll help good Americans who live in rural and urban areas where banksters won’t dare go to get basic banking services again. And that’s worth doing.
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