Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to fight corruption, fund education, and keep pollution off our public lands. 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.
Public Citizen helps youtell your Congressfolk to restore the anti-corruption protections our Supreme Court just struck down in Snyder v. United States. Our Court said, in Public Citizen’s words, that “federal law does not prohibit paying state and local officials for favors if the money isn’t promised in advance.” You remember former Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA) telling us that other Congressfolk told him that if he voted a certain way on legislation, a group would give him money? So that’s why our Supreme Court is wrong this time! The fact that no formal offer gets made is irrelevant if you know what’s coming after you perform a favor! Hence we must fix a Supreme Court mess, again.
The Coalition on Human Needs helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject education funding cuts. Some of our Congressfolk sure have crap-ass priorities – more spending on weapons that don’t work, less investing in our children – but if they want a fight over this, we’ll give ‘em one, and we’ll win it. Because the only reason they’ve got to cut education funding, itself an unpopular idea, is the racism of the book-banning crowd, also an unpopular idea. Republicans only won the 2021 gubernatorial election in Virginia because a) Terry McAuliffe is a horrible candidate and b) the “star” of that ad about books in school was a professional book-banner pretending to be a random “concerned mom.”
Finally, Win Without War helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act, which would, as its title suggests, reverse a transfer of public (and, to the Apache, sacred) land to a big mining corporation and permanently protect that land from future development. So we have two reasons to act: one, we shouldn’t allow polluters to despoil our public lands, since they serve as a sort of repository for clean air and clean water, and two, the Apache find the land sacred and religious freedom still matters in America. At least, if it’s about people actually practicing their religion, and not forcing everyone else to practice their religion. The latter ain’t happening here, no matter what Rio Tinto says.
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