Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to protect Medicare from privatization, pass the American Stability Act, and ban guns from polling places. 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.
Social Security Works helps you tell your Congressfolk to protect Medicare from Project 2025's privatization efforts. The notorious Project 2025 leaves a trail of slime wherever it goes, and when it goes to health care policy, it's no different! Project 2025 advocates making private Medicare Advantage plans the default option for new Medicare enrollees, although Medicare Advantage plans have rather notoriously denied or delayed coverage and pushed seniors' doctors out of their networks, all so corporate executives can redistribute even more income upward to themselves. Health insurance is supposed to be there for the people who need it, not just corporate executives.
Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the American Stability Act, which would raise the minimum wage to a "cost-of-living" wage of $20/hour and raise the personal exemption for federal income taxes to the same amount, plus it would hike taxes three percentage points on millionaire income (and five points on income over $15 million). I’ve said many times that I'd go at this problem a whole lot harder than that! I want the 91% tax bracket back on all income over a million bucks! But the American Stability Act would still do working families a lot of good, so we ought to do it.
Finally, Common Cause helps you tell your Congressfolk to ban guns from all polling places. Hard to believe we have to do that, but we do, and who needs to bring a gun to the polls? Probably the same people who bring guns to the supermarket! (Who also rather incongruously call themselves "tough guys.") Brook no nonsense from the folks who say their right to bring a gun anywhere they want is absolute. Bringing a gun to the polls is a threat! Anyone who brings a gun to the polls intends it as a threat! And it ain't that far a walk from bringing a gun to the polls to waving it around at people you think won't vote the way you want them to.
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