Actions for the Week of 6/1/25
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
Local Media Can Help Us Stop Medicaid, Snap Cuts
(adapted from Joe Katz at Rogan’s List 5/27)
The battle to stop the GOP budget bill now moves to the Senate. Their goal is to put something on Trump’s desk by July 4th, but multiple senators want significant changes, including even deeper cuts to our health care and other programs working families count on. These would need to be negotiated, passed, and then approved by the House. In the meantime, we now have specifics about the extent of damage this bill will do, and the GOP will no longer be able to hide it. Our mission is to make sure more people understand just how bad it’s going to be for their lives.
The National Campaign for Justice has set up a tool to help us contact the newsrooms of our state’s largest papers and NPR affiliates to push them to cover the real-life impact of the big billionaire bailout on people in our communities. Follow the link below and fill out a form to send a pre-scripted message (that you can revise) to multiple outlets at the same time. Takes 5 minutes.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/expose-the-cuts-and-the-impact-on-communities
Extra credit: send the same letter to your regional and local papers, local TV news affiliates, and other media outlets folks in your area rely on. Here’s the full text of the letter.
Subject: Cover the local impact of the Republican budget cuts now
I urge your newsroom to cover the real and immediate impact the newly passed Republican budget will have on our state. The U.S. House voted to slash over $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP.
These cuts will mean fewer seniors able to afford prescriptions. More families going without food. Fewer veterans accessing needed care. And more people falling through the cracks when they need help most. These stories need to be told.
Your outlet has the reach and credibility to show readers what this budget will mean for them and their neighbors. Whether it’s a rural clinic at risk of closing, kids who will go hungry because of cuts to nutrition assistance, or a community health center stretched to the breaking point, this is what matters most right now.
Please make this a priority. Help the public understand how these national decisions will affect people in their daily lives.
Sincerely,
Oppose A Federal Concealed Carry Mandate
(adapted from Joe Katz at Rogan’s list 5/28)
The MAGA Republican-sponsored Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act (H.R.38 and S.65) is gaining momentum. It passed the House Judiciary Committee in March and last week 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.
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.
Urge Senators Murkowski and Collins to Stand up for Democracy
(adapted from Jessica Craven at Chop Wood Carry Water – May 19)
With Senator Murkowski voicing her fear of going against the administration, let’s send her (and Susan Collins) handwritten cards or letters telling them they are not alone in their fear and that if they make a stand as other fearful Americans are doing, they will be overwhelmingly supported and cheered on for their courage. Maine and Alaska residents can call or email but everyone else should send a card or letter.
Addresses for both Senators:
Senator Collins, 68 Sewall St., Room 507, Augusta, ME, 04330
Senator Murkowski, 510 L Street, Suite 600, Anchorage, AK 99501
Example scripts for inspiration. Try to use your own words and keep the message positive.
1) You are not alone in your fear of speaking out against this administration. Millions of Americans who are afraid of losing their country would support you if you took a stand for the rule of law, the constitution, and for what is morally right. We so need a heroine right now! Please be our heroine, put country before party!
2) It would only take you and a couple of your Republican colleagues to stop this madness. Millions of Americans would cheer you on, we are with you! Have courage, change the course of history, and put country before party!
3) Please make a stand, put country before party, and end this madness. Millions of Americans will support you. Have faith & courage!
4) We the people are doing everything we can to save our democracy, but we need help from principled Republicans in Congress. Please speak out against the senseless cruelty coming from this administration.
Sign your first name, city, state.