Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Inclusive Democracy Act, pass anti-SLAPP legislation, and repeal the Comstock 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.
Common Cause helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Inclusive Democracy Act and thus end felony disenfranchisement in America. Some 4.6 million Americans can’t vote because of a felony conviction, and voting shouldn’t be conditional in America, because, you know, rights shouldn’t be conditional. And yes, that means even child molesters should have the right to vote! They just shouldn’t have the “right” to molest children. A certain “law-and-order” mindset says we should just heap punishments on people if we’re frustrated, but that’s not just uncivilized, it’s un-American.
Greenpeace helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass anti-SLAPP legislation. SLAPP stands for “strategic lawsuit against public participation,” a.k.a. when rich, thin-skinned pricks sue their critics just to shut them up. But why should good Americans get sued into poverty merely for criticizing some Donald Trump-wannabe? And why haven’t tort “reform” adherents embraced anti-SLAPP laws? Possibly because they think class action lawsuits against polluters are “frivolous” lawsuits, while the lawsuits rich folks file to silence their critics are good lawsuits. Or, maybe, they’re just evil. No matter: our duty is our duty.
Finally, Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to repeal the Comstock Act, a 150-plus-year-old law that forbids our Postal Service from mailing anything abortion-related, a law right-wingers want to will back into enforcement so nobody can get mifepristone and misoprostol through the mail. Now, as you may remember, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held back in 1936 that the Comstock Act couldn’t prevent our Postal Service from shipping such medicines if a doctor ordered it. Our Supreme Court will almost certainly ignore that precedent, so we’ve got to speak out to our Congressfolk.
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