Amid the coronavirus pandemic, vulnerable Americans are going to have to choose between casting a ballot and protecting their health. Vote-by-mail is a time-tested, reliable way for Americans to exercise their constitutional rights, and the right answer to respond to this crisis. Tell your senators to support the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act (NDEBA) …
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Write your reps! Support the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
Bold action is needed to protect Americans from pandemic. Support H.R. 6201, the “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” to bolster the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and address the severe impacts of the coronavirus on Americans’ personal safety and financial security. This response includes paid leave, establishes free testing, and protects health workers.
Write Your Reps! No War with Iran
Without consulting Congress—other than golfing buddy Lindsey Graham—Trump directed the US airstrike that killed Qasem Soleimani, one of the most powerful officials in Iran and the architect of Tehran’s terrorist campaigns around the region. Soleimani was a bad actor, and not a friend of the United States. But with that in mind, here’s why this …
Write Your Reps! Demand your Senators support a fair and open impeachment trial
Remind your Senators of the oath that they took to support and defend the Constitution and demand they support a fair and open trial in the Senate to fully hear the evidence and hold Trump accountable for his actions. If they don’t, they’ll become accomplices in Donald Trump’s coverup.
Write Your Reps! Impeach Trump Now and ask #OneSimpleQuestion
This letter will go to both of your Senators and your House representative. The messaging is simple. Ask them: Do you think it’s OK to ask a foreign power to interfere in our elections?
Write Your Reps! Tell Greg Abbott: Call a special session to #DoSomething about gun violence in Texas
The day before a gunman—specifically targeting Mexican immigrants—killed 22 people in an El Paso Walmart, Gov. Greg Abbott sent a fundraising letter that warned: “Unless you and I want liberals to succeed in their plan to transform Texas—and our entire country—through illegal immigration.” Since then, Gov. Abbott has acknowledged that “mistakes were made,” a dodge …
Write Your Reps! Dear John Cornyn: Your failure to act on the climate crisis is a dereliction of duty
“One theory of government is that it only reacts to a crisis; trouble comes when we cannot even agree on what a crisis is.” —Molly Ivins, on the danger of climate change denialism, in 1995. It’s taken a generation for leaders in Congress to begin taking seriously the threat of climate catastrophe, and now it may …
Write Your Reps! Tell Your Senators We Need Stronger Gun Laws Now
Write your reps! John Cornyn thinks Texans don’t care about Trump’s racism
“I know we are consumed by this here, but it doesn’t consume my constituents when I go back home,” Sen. John Cornyn said. —Politico, July 16, 2019 Really, John Cornyn?
Write your reps! Demand an impeachment inquiry now.
Trump’s election in 2016 was the Molotov cocktail that ignited the Indivisible movement, including Indivisible Austin. Broadly speaking, our primary means of resisting Trump is congressional advocacy. For a lot of us, this strategy provides a coping mechanism: We can actually do something—that is proven to work. We call our representatives! We track bills! We …
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