Actions for the Week of 9/13/26
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: Do Voter Protection
From Chop Wood Carry Water 9/10/26
Are you interested in quick voter protection opportunities that have an impact, such as phone banking to recruit poll observers or to reach voters needing help and providing them with necessary information to vote without difficulty? Join the Rapid Response Network by VoPro Pros to receive the network’s regular Action Alert emails featuring curated, one-shot, impactful voter protection activities supporting critical races and needs nationwide. For every action, all needed tools and training are provided during a single Zoom or other online session, so you can participate and make a difference on the spot.
No application or ongoing commitment is required; just participate when you can! Signup here: tinyurl.com/rapidrn
Action 2: No Detention Expansion in Louisiana
From Chop Wood Carry Water 8/28/26
The Trump administration has been aggressively expanding the immigration detention system in new and horrific ways for nearly two years. Now they intend to open a brand-new facility located on a toxic waste site in Louisiana, where ICE plans to detain children and families. Right now, communities in Louisiana are fighting back to stop the La Salle Alexandria Airport Family and Child Detention facility from opening, and they need your help!
Please use this easy tool to send a letter to your members of Congress demanding that they stop this center. We need to eliminate family detention—not expand it: Tell Congress: No Detention Expansion in Alexandria, Louisiana - Action Network.
Action 3: Help Shut Down Moshannon Valley Detention Center in Pennsylvania
From Chop Wood Carry Water 9/8/26
Since reopening in 2021 as an ICE facility operated by private prison giant GEO Group, Moshannon has become the largest immigrant detention center in the Northeast—holding over 1,300 people on any given day. It’s also become a national symbol of abuse and neglect.
Detainees and attorneys have reported horrifying conditions. According to ICE’s own data, Moshannon uses solitary confinement more than any other immigration facility in the U.S. In spring 2025 alone, 147 people were placed in solitary each month—nearly double the national average.
Clearfield County’s contracts with ICE and the Geo Group expire on September 28, and the County Commissioners have yet to vote on whether to renew the contract. Let’s make sure they don’t!
Follow this link to sign a petition: bit.ly/shutdownmoshannon
You can also write a letter or email or leave a voicemail. Follow this link to learn more: 39ebcf_1f4e5023ca00494b9d62c298e2bb8c46.pdf
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
Joe Katz at Rogan's List has prepared a list of phonebanks that can be sorted by race or day of week - check it out here: https://susanrogan.substack.com/p/how-to-help-win-the-midterms?open=false#%C2%A7phonebanking-deep-canvassnon-standard
Make calls with Citizen Action of NY to voters in Republican Mike Lawler's district (NY-17):
Tuesdays: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/885487/?utm_source=roganslist
Phone bank with Citizen Action of NY to talk to people living in New York's 17th Congressional District about what issues matter most to them & how policy decisions at the federal level are impacting their everyday lives in the Hudson Valley.
Make calls with the PA House Democratic Campaign Committee: https://www.mobilize.us/pahousedemocraticcampaigncommittee/?tag_ids=212
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.