Actions for the Week of 7/12/26

Written By Darbie Maccubbin

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:

Action 1: Fix the Immigration Courts

From Rogan's List 7/6/26

With Congress out on recess and only a few scheduled legislative days left before September, it seems like a good time to consider the positive changes we’ll need to fight for in the years to come. One area to focus on is our immigration courts, whose massive backlog and flawed structure have been brought into in the limelight by Trump’s efforts to turn them into another cog in the deportation machine.

Activists are calling on Congress to reform the immigration court system to ensure due process and independence from political interference, along with securing speedier resolutions to cases. The American Immigration Lawyers Association has long endorsed the Real Courts, Rule of Law Act, currently before the House as H.R. 7836. This legislation, also backed by the Federal and American Bar Associations, would remove these courts from the Justice Department’s control, increase the number of judges and resources allocated to them, install key transparency measures, secure the right to counsel and quality interpreter services for folks going through it, and more. It currently only has six co-sponsors. Follow this link to send a pre-scripted message urging your members of Congress to get on board: https://www.aila.org/library/take-action-urge-your-representative-to-co-sponsor-the-real-courts-rule-of-law-act/?utm_source=roganslist

Action 2: Protect the Roadless Area Conservation Rule

From Rogan's List 7/7/26 and 5 Calls

In 2001, the U.S. Forest Service adopted the Roadless Area Conservation Rule to protect national forests from roadbuilding and logging. Since then, there have been various debates and arguments and modifications and specific exclusions, but approximately 30% of national forest land (59 million acres) is roadless, safeguarding the habitats and species within it. But roads are needed for logging, so Trump and the GOP are trying to ditch the rule as another gift to corporate America.

America’s leading voice against our public lands, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), has proposed an amendment to the Wildfire Prevention Act (S. 140) that would roll back this rule and prevent future administrations from restoring it. Last month, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted on party lines to add it to the bill. It’s now headed to the full Senate. 

Call or email your senators and urge them to strip this amendment out before final passage. Write your own script or use this one from 5Calls: 

I'm calling to urge Senator [NAME] to oppose the amendment to S. 140, the Wildfire Prevention Act, that repeals the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The Roadless Rule has been critically important in preventing wildfires and providing communities with clean drinking water, and those safeguards should remain in place. Thank you

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

Phonebanking Opportunities

Pennsylvania Democrats are shooting for a trifecta in November by expanding
their majority in the state house and taking back the majority in the state senate.
This would allow Democrats to redraw congressional maps, raise the state's
minimum wage to $15/hr, and legalize marijuana. Shifts are available most days.

  • Make calls with the Environmental Voter Project: https://www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved

    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.





Darbie Maccubbin
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