Long story short: tell Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) to step down as ranking member of our House Ways and Means Committee, tell your House Reps to pass the DEFIANCE Act and the TAKE IT DOWN Act, and tell your Congressfolk to reject any further IRS funding cuts. 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.
Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) to step down from his post as ranking member of our House's Ways and Means Committee. Because his son has made six figures as a lobbyist for corporations that have business before Ways and Means, and because Mr. Neal has fairly cozy relationships with big corporations to the point where hedge fund bankster Blackstone has become one of his biggest donors. Folks hate corruption, and they hate money being the sole basis for all decisions in America. Mr. Neal's time, if he ever had one, has long passed, and he should step aside.
Accountable Tech helps you tell your House Reps to pass the DEFIANCE and TAKE IT DOWN Acts, which would, respectively, give folks the right to sue over non-consensual, sexually-explicit, "deepfaked" images and mandate that internet platforms remove all such images whether they're faked or not. These are such obviously good bills that they've already passed the Senate with significant Republican support – Ted Cruz sponsored the latter bill, no lie! – and if you've seen explicit, faked images of Taylor Swift or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez floating around our internet, you know that could be you or your daughter or granddaughter or niece getting hurt like that, so how about we put an end to it?
Finally, Americans for Tax Fairness helps you tell your Congressfolk to prevent any further cuts to IRS funding in the year-end government appropriations bill. Apparently one of the conditions of the last stopgap spending bill was a further $20 billion cut in IRS funding, and you remember how well trashing expanded IRS funding worked for Republicans at the ballot box in 2022? It did not; no one feels as much rage about expanded IRS funding to go after rich tax cheats as a Republican politician. It is certainly a curious stance for law-and-order polticians to take! But their tantrums tantrums don't demand our acquiescence.
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