Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to outlaw Presidential immunity, abolish the Electoral College, and raise the minimum wage. 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.
Civic Shout helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass a Constitutional amendment obliterating the whole concept of “Presidential immunity for official acts.” Because fighting despots is our heritage as Americans – remember, we fought a despot to gain our independence, and, since this is somehow topical in these times, we fought and defeated Hitler before he could subjugate Europe – and we sure don’t need our Supreme Court creating more despots. And since I know some tiny-minded fool will ask: it doesn’t matter that we asked for a bill last week and a Constitutional amendment this week! What matters is we communicate our will, as often as possible and in numbers they can’t deny.
LeftClick helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass a Constitutional amendment abolishing the Electoral College and ensuring only national popular vote winners become President. They put together an Electoral College in order to keep the people from electing despots, but then Republicans who lost the popular vote in 2000 and 2016 somehow won the Electoral vote, and both proved to be despots! So the Electoral College does exactly the opposite of what our Founders supposedly wanted it to do – though of course they were more afraid of the people’s will than we are! Don’t brook any “but the Electoral College makes states more important” nonsense. We’ve already got Senators for that.
Finally, Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Raise the Wage Act, which would lift the federal minimum wage from $7.25/hour to $17/hour over six years and phase out the lower minimum wage for tipped workers. Over 17 million American workers make less than $15/hour, and more than one in three tipped workers report wage theft, but this isn’t just a good idea, it’s also a popular one – Democrats rode the minimum wage issue to midterm victory in 2006, and minimum wage hikes tend to pass everywhere they’re on the ballot. Also, how’s that infamous 2021 minimum wage hike thumbs-down vote working out for Kyrsten Sinema? She’s retiring, that’s how.
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