Actions for the Week of 7/19/26

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: Help New Voters Make Sure Their Vote Counts

From Rogan's List 7/15/26

Every cycle, millions of newly registered young voters intend to cast their first ballot. However, many never do because the process is more confusing than it should be. Vote Forward's New Voter Guides aim to help them cut through the suppression and confusion, combining a handwritten message from a volunteer with the practical tools and answers first-time voters actually need. Their "New Voter Guides combine a handwritten message from a volunteer with the practical tools first-time voters actually need: how to vote, when to vote, what to bring."

You can sign up to be part of the program here: Get involved | Vote Forward

Action 2: GOP Bill Will Reduce Disability Compensation for Veterans

From Rogan’s List 7/13/26

The Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (H.R. 9237/S.4744) is a package of 60 bills introduced earlier this month and centered around the Major Richard Star Act to end the wounded veteran tax and allow combat-injured veterans to collect their full retirement pay and VA disability compensation. Republicans are hoping to get credit for supporting this fix after repeatedly blocking votes on it this Congress. They’ve climbed on board now because they’ve found a way to pay for it: cutting disability compensation for the first- and fifth-most common service-related conditions, tinnitus and obstructive sleep apnea. More than 1.5 million veterans, mostly from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, will take the hit, and this legislation has been denounced by groups like the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled America Veterans.

The bill also triples a VA home loan fee, undermines job protections for VA employees, and lays the groundwork for privatization of the system. It’s following many of the prescriptions of Project 2025.

Follow this link to send a pre-scripted message to your members of Congress and ask them to vote no when this bill and its poison pay-fors come to the floor, and push for a clean vote on the Major Richard Star Act (H.R. 2102) instead: Congress Must Protect Disabled Veterans—Not Use Them as Leverage - Common Defense. 

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.




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