Long story short: tell your Senators to reject the so-called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, pass the PRESS Act, confirm as many federal judges as possible, and re-confirm Lauren McFerran to our NLRB. 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.
Win Without War helps you tell your Senators to kill the so-called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or, as Win Without War calls it, the Non-Profit Killer Act If we give Presidents absolute power to declare non-profit organizations "terrorist-aligned" and revoke their tax-exempt status, then our government could come for any of us, at any time. You think they'll stop at revoking their tax-exempt status? Next they'll designate any of their contributors "terrorist-aligned"! Hey, if I thought of it, then you know they thought of it. And not to belabor the obvious, but the next President will be an asshole, and assholes shouldn't get all the say about everything. Or anything.
Demand Progress helps you tell your Senators to pass the Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying (or PRESS) Act, a bill so obviously-needed that our Republican-held House passed it earlier this year – and a bill so obviously-needed that our President-elect has demanded that our Senate kill it. The PRESS Act would make it a lot harder for our government to force journalists to give up their sources – an act which itself often means death for those sources. Could it be that our President-elect doesn't like the PRESS Act because it would keep him from oppressing journalists? After all, he is on a revenge bender against anyone who’s ever opposed him. Soon that could be everyone!
Finally, the Labor Force helps you tell your Senators to re-confirm National Labor Relations Board Chair Lauren McFerran, while MoveOn helps you tell your Senators to confirm as many federal judges as possible before TFG takes office. If our Senate re-confirms Ms. McFerran, TFG won't be able to appoint anyone new to our NLRB until late 2026, and if our Senate fills the 15 or so remaining federal judicial openings, then TFG won't be able to put at least that many knuckle-draggers on our federal courts. These will both be victories for the rule of law in America, and also for basic human decency and empathy. Yes, I said that last thing to trigger right-wingers.
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