Actions for the Week of 9/14/25

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

Say NO to the SAVE Act (Again)

from Jessica Craven at Chop Wood Carry Water 9/4 and Defending American Democracy

Apparently, the SAVE Act is back. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is an extreme voter suppression bill. If passed, most Americans would be unable to register to vote using their driver's license or other state-provided identification alone. It is estimated that 21 million American citizens lack the documents that would be required to register to vote. The SAVE Act will especially burden young people, who would face hurdles that already-registered citizens do not face, and married women, who often change their names and will therefore no longer be able to use their birth certificates to register. The SAVE Act isn’t necessary—it’s already illegal to vote if you’re not a citizen. The real purpose of this legislation is to undermine the electoral process. Learn more here.

Follow this link to use Defending American Democracy’s easy tool to send a letter to your Senators (which you can personalize) asking them to vote no. https://win.newmode.net/declarationforamericandemocracycoalition/stopthesaveact?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Tell your state leaders to switch to life-saving industrial heat pumps

From Climate Action Now 

A new American Lung Association report has calculated that switching from industrial combustion boilers to industrial-scale heat pumps across the U.S. would save over $1.1 trillion in health costs and prevent 77,200 air pollution deaths by 2050 — as well as avoiding 33 million asthma attacks, 13 million lost school days, and 3.4 million lost workdays! Follow this link to learn more and to send a pre-scripted letter to your state elected officials:https://www.climateactionnow.com/featured-action

Phonebanking

• Phone bank with Swing Left - multiple opportunities to support CA Redistricting Prop 50: https://swingleft.org/event/register/mobilize:833749?s=u

• Phone Bank with Environmental Voter Project - multiple opportunities to turn out low propensity environmental voters: 

• Tues., Sept. 16 Massachusetts Phonebank, 12pm ET / 9am PT

• Thurs., Sept. 18 Durham, NC Phonebank, 6pm ET / 3pm PT

• Fri., Sept. 19 Virginia Early Voting Kickoff Phonebank, 6pm ET / 3pm PT

• Tues., Sept. 23 Arizona CD-07 Phonebank, 12pm ET / 9am PT

• Thurs., Sept. 25 Virginia Phonebank, 6pm ET / 3pm PT

• Fri., Sept. 26 Virginia Phonebank, 12pm ET / 9am PT

• Tues., Sept. 30 New Orleans Phonebank, 12pm ET / 9am PT

• Multiple campaigns and dates with Volunteer Blue: https://volunteerblue.org/phoning/

• Phone Bank for National Women's Political Caucus of Virginia candidates: https://www.mobilize.us/psea/event/804090/

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/