Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to reject the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, pass the PRESS Act, and help our seniors better avoid hunger. 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.
MPower helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject the so-called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, which would let our President designate non-profits as "terrorist" organizations and revoke their tax-exempt status more easily. The President-elect, you may recall, has vowed vengeance against anyone who's ever wronged him, and this bill would help wreak that vengeance when he should be working for us. The bill would also postpone tax deadlines for American hostages held abroad (i.e, by Hamas), but obviously Congress can pass such a tax deadline postponement without the poison pill attached.
Civic Shout helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying (or PRESS) Act, which would make it harder for our government to force journalists to give up their sources. Again, the man-child about to take office in January would stop at nothing to intimidate journalists, so this bill, if it becomes law, would at least put another law between him and his desires. The fact that we haven't made him pay for his law-breaking doesn't mean "laws are worthless" – it means we don’t have enough laws between an evil man and his evil deeds.
Finally, Care2 helps you tell your Congressfolk to strengthen the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (or CSFP), which helps over half a million senior Americans avoid hunger. If Congress expands this program now, they would also pre-empt Elon Musk's rein as Secretary of Cruelty or whatever, since he'll no doubt tell us in 2025 (after much "study") that we can't give food to hungry people if we want to stay afloat as a nation. Of course, that'd be evil – we can be both fiscally-responsible and humane. Particularly if we tax the talentless rich a lot harder than we're doing now.
UPDATE. The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act has failed — our House tried to pass it more quickly with a suspension of debate rules, but under those conditions a bill needs two-thirds of the vote, not a simple majority, and this bill didn’t get that. The circumstances, of course, allow some folks to brag about voting for the bill they knew wouldn’t pass anyway, which is cynical, but we can always use their cynicism to our advantage. Let this be the first of many victories.
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