Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to stop further arms sales to Israel, reject food stamp cuts, and fully fund our IRS. 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.
Jewish Voice for Peace helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject further arms sales to Israel. Now Iran has gotten involved, a move pretty much predetermined the moment Mr. Netanyahu decided to kill as many Palestinians as possible without hurting Hamas, though of course, this being Iran, they waited a very, very long time. But that doesn't mean we’re all suddenly pro-genocide! And it sure doesn't mean "Donald Trump should be President"! He'll rattle his saber at Iran, but ultimately do nothing, because that’s what Mr. Putin wants. We'd do much better to force an end to the Netanyahu stratagem, and that'll only happen when we stop giving him weapons. Certainly let’s not count on Donald Trump to do that!
The Coalition on Human Needs helps you tell your Congressfolk to put families first and reject cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (or SNAP), better known as food stamps. I'll keep saying "food stamps," I don't care! There's no shame in getting help from your government, since you fund your government. Why, food stamps are rather like insurance! But, of course, right-wingers want you to think we should be ashamed, because you don’t want to be Those People, do you? But we should not be ashamed! And we should not be cruel to those who've lost their job, or (more likely these days!) those whose job doesn't pay enough. Maybe we should go after corporate farm subsidies instead of hurting working families?
Finally, Americans for Tax Fairness helps you tell your Congressfolk to fully fund our IRS's efforts to find and punish wealthy tax cheats. Somehow, Congressional Republicans have made this the hill they'll die on! But did all that whining about our IRS help them win the 2022 midterms? No, it did not: to review, Republicans lost a net of one Senate seat and we only knew they'd narrowly won the House after another week of vote-counting. But if we want to find and punish rich tax cheats, the kind who hire rich lawyers to get them off, then we need to fully fund our IRS. Why, it's almost like Republicans are objectively pro-rich tax cheat! They certainly don’t love the poor tax cheat.
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