Long story short: tell PA state legislators to keep no-cost preventive health care, tell Ohio state legislators to reject an anti-education bill, and tell your Congressfolk to stop with the cutting of food stamps already. 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.
Pennsylvania residents, take note: the Pennsylvania Health Access Network helps you tell your PA state House Rep to pass the Health Insurance Preventive Coverage Act, which would ensure that good Pennsylvanians continue to get no-cost preventive health care. But doesn’t the Affordable Care Act already require that of everyone in America? Well, it did, but then that Texas judge, the one who’s had it in for Obamacare since forever, struck it down, in a ruling so terrible our Supreme Court should have an easy time gutting it, although you know how they are. All that's to say we must protect what we’ve won at the state level. And preventive health care helps everyone and saves money, so let’s get to it.
Ohio residents, take note: Civic Shout helps you tell your Ohio state legislators to reject the so-called Ohio Higher Education Enhancement Act, which would prevent colleges from teaching anything that might give right-wingers a sad – like climate change, which the bill somehow declares a “controversial” subject. It’s “controversial” only because corporate executives want to keep polluting rather than embrace new technologies! Oh, and also because of the politicians who suck up to them. Frankly, I don’t find racism “controversial,” either – like climate change, it’s real, it’s happening, and it’s wrong, and folks who can’t handle these truths should move to a police state. In the meantime, let’s not let stupid people win.
Finally, the Coalition on Human Needs helps you tell your Congressfolk not to cut food stamps. But wait, you may well ask, didn’t the debt limit “deal” take care of that? We sure thought so, didn’t we? But Republicans upset about the “deal” continue to throw tantrums, such that the House couldn’t pass any legislation last week, and Congress also has to pass actual appropriations bills in a few months, so they’ve seized on “more food stamp cuts” as the way to, I don’t know, feel better about themselves? Someone who’d cut food stamps to feel better about themselves will have a tough meeting with St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. We could help them avoid that fate by communicating our will that they not cut food stamps.