Actions for the Week of 2/1/26
How to contact your elected officials
Use this link to find contact information for ALL of your elected officials – Federal, State, City, and County – just by entering your address: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
Other useful links:
Find contact info for your senator: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Find contact info for your House representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Find contact info for your state attorney general: https://www.usa.gov/state-attorney-general
Find contact info for your governor: https://www.usa.gov/state-governor
Find your state legislature website: https://www.congress.gov/state-legislature-websites
Action 1: Niagara County Residents: End Niagara County's Collaboration With Federal Immigration Authorities
From Stand Up Lockport
The Niagara County Jail is making money by jailing innocent people for federal immigration authorities. In addition, Niagara County Deputies are training to serve as ICE agents, participating in the same type of immigrant abductions that are happening across the country.
If you live in Niagara County and do not want your elected officials and Sheriff collaborating with ICE, CBP or the US Marshalls Service regarding immigration arrests and detention, please sign this petition.
Action 2: No funding for DHS without meaningful changes to ICE
adapted from Chop Wood Carry Water 1/29/26
On Friday, Democrats in the Senate forced an agreement to approve 5 of the remaining 6 appropriations bills (excluding DHS) along with a 2-week Continuing Resolution to keep DHS funded at current levels while they negotiate their demands to rein in ICE’s lawless assaults on innocent people around the country. This agreement avoided a partial shutdown of other important DHS entities such as FEMA, TSA, and the Coast Guard. Republicans went along with it because Trump told them to. We'll see whether it passes in the House this week.
In the meantime, let’s make sure our Democratic senators use what leverage they have to secure meaningful and enforceable changes to the way ICE operates before agreeing to any funding for DHS. If your senators are Republican, pressure them to support the Democrats' demands.
Write your own script or use some variation of this one.
I’m glad to hear that the DHS bill has been carved out from the other 5 budget bills and that the Senate is now in discussions about how to rein in ICE. In addition to NO new ICE funding, the following changes should be non-negotiable:
An enforceable code of conduct and use-of-force standards for ICE agents consistent with most other law enforcement agencies including visible ID and no face masks, no more quotas or racial profiling, and no stops or searches without a judicial warrant,
Independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti,
No more family detention and real oversight at detention centers so people are held in a safe and humane way.
Thanks
Action 3: Oppose A Federal Concealed Carry Mandate
Adapted from Rogan’s list 5/28/25
The MAGA Republican-sponsored Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act (H.R.38 and S.65) is gaining momentum in the House with 189 Republican cosponsors. It passed the House Judiciary Committee in March 2025 and was added to the House calendar in October so it could receive a vote anytime. Two dozen Republican state attorneys general urged the full House to act on it. This legislation would, if signed into law, require states to “allow anyone who can carry a concealed handgun in their state of residence to carry a concealed handgun in any state - even if the non-state of residency’s laws prohibit the person from possessing a firearm at all.”
Everytown for Gun Safety warns that states would be forced to “allow violent offenders and people with no firearm safety training to carry hidden, loaded handguns within its borders.” Jewish Women International points out the bill would empower domestic abusers. The bill is also opposed by both the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Follow the link below to the Everytown for Gun Safety website and send a pre-scripted message to your members of Congress telling them to block the passage of this terrible bill. Takes 5 minutes.
Phonebanking
Make calls with the Environmental Voter Project
The Environmental Voter Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit focused on identifying an estimated 11.2 million environmentalists who did not vote in the 2024 presidential election, and efficiently converting them into a critical mass of consistent voters that will soon be too big for politicians to ignore.
Phonebank with the Environmental Voter Project: https://www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved
Make calls to support Judge Chris Taylor in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race
Choose your own outrage with 5 Calls
5 Calls has been around since the first Trump term and offers a quick and easy way to make calls to your elected representatives. Enter your zip code or address and pick a topic. Then choose the representative you want to call, make the call, and read the script provided. Calling your congressperson is the most effective way to influence policy. Please check it out here: https://5calls.org/