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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-usDear Senator / Representative:Please elevate the problem faced by our most critically challenged metropolitan area, New Orleans.Southern Louisiana is facing 7 to 23 feet of sea level rise and the loss of three-quarters of its remaining coastal wetlands, which will cause the shoreline to migrate as much as 60 miles inland.Compounding the sea level threat, New Orleans is sinking at the rate of one to two inches per year. Even if factors contributing to rising sea levels were to magically stop today, New Orleans would still become an island within generations.Rather than investing in more levees that will merely postpone (maybe) the inevitable, political leaders of all stripes should be supporting and encouraging a complete revamping of the New Orleans area. It is impossible to keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.We must begin tackling climate change impacts. Throughout history, cities have relocated. Save New Orleans and all of its cultural history by moving the parts that can be saved and encouraging people to relocate. I love New Orleans, but in my lifetime, I will see it disappear. Save what can be saved.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #NewOrleans #ClimateCrisis

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-usDear Senator/Representative -ICE is starting a new surge. I want you and your staffers visit every facility rented or use by ICE, including the temporary spaces that they occupy during this surge. I need you gearing up for oversight and ready to get loud and public.At the May 5 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Tom Homan said, "You will see more ICE agents than you've ever seen before, so congratulations." I have seen what happens during those surges - massive human rights abuses. We have seen people denied access to phones, lawyers, food, and water. I have seen ICE using office bathrooms as temporary detention facilities, forcing a dozen people to sleep in close quarters on tile floors. During the Minnesota surge, they released people from detention miles from their homes, in the middle of the night in the freezing cold with no phone, no ability to call anyone, no jacket, and no shoes. What are we going to see this time? Will we have people being released in 100 degree heat, miles from home, with no shoes? Will we see refugees and documented asylum seekers again held incommunicado for weeks despite being legally in this country?DHS is gearing up for more abuses. They have not been held accountable for their past abuses. What will you do to hold DHS accountable?#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #ICE #DHS

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-usDear Senator/Representative -I am against the plans of this Republican Administration to make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment for Medicare, I am against the use of AI claims denial in Medicare, and I want you to fight these efforts.Medicate Advantage costs US taxpayers 14% more than if those same people were enrolled in traditional Medicare, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee. This extra $76 billion of my tax dollars gets paid to for-profit health insurance companies. Study after study has shown that Medicare Advantage, while costing more, does not lead to better outcomes for patients. Medicare Advantage deserves to be completely dismantled, not expanded, as does the new program to use AI for prior authorization in Traditional Medicare Washington state hospitals say their Medicare patients are waiting two to four times longer for procedures that are now subject to prior authorization under a new Medicare program. But this administration of Ballroom Republicans doesn't care about healthcare access or costs for ordinary Americans. Their policies show they only care about their ballroom friends and corporate profits.I want to see you develop better policies that serve every American, not just the rich.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Medicare #Healthcare #BallroomRepublicans

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us Dear Senator / Representative -How are we supposed to respond to the continued lawlessness of the Executive Branch of this Republican Administration?Top Justice Department officials declare that court rulings aren't legally binding and keep going about their business. This Republican Administration calls them “unlawful district court rulings,” saying that the administration will “continue to comply with lawful court rulings.”You and I both know that the Executive Branch doesn't determine what is lawful. That's what courts do. Even the Supreme Court has upheld more than half of the rulings by lower courts, particularly when it comes to rulings related to immigration policy, yet the Executive Branch continues to ignore even those ruling.What is our nation when the Executive Branch ignores the Supreme Court and Congress lets them? With gerrymandering now the rule, not the exception, what recourse do we citizens have?People in my community are losing their healthcare, their jobs, and their ability to keep their families housed and fed while the rich get richer.I want a fair nation, when the most vulnerable among us are taken care of, where everyone has a chance at success.I want to hear your vision, and I also want to hear your plan for holding this administration accountable.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us Dear Senator / Representative -For the first time since 1946, US national debt now exceeds 100 percent of GDP, according to new Treasury Department data. As of March 31, the total debt was $31.265 trillion, while GDP from 2025 was $31.216 trillion, putting the ratio at 100.2 percent compared with 99.5 percent at the end of the last fiscal year. The US now spends $1.33 for every dollar it collects, and the budget deficit for this year is projected to be $1.9 trillion. The 100 percent milestone is a symbolic marker of a financial question looming over the US.This Republican Administration pays attention to trifles—a ballroom, a royal visit, an Instagram post of sea shells—and not enough to the long term stability of the US economy and the consequences of their chosen war on Iran.Republicans say they want to run the government like a business. When a business runs into debt, they work to generate more revenue. Here is what I want -- enforcement of the existing tax code against the ultra-wealthy and corporations, a tightening of tax loopholes exploited by the ultra-wealthy and corporations, a removal of the Social Security Maximum Income Cap, and a raising of the capital gains tax.Look at the top tax rate in the US from the years 1947 - 1957. This is where we should set the tax rate again.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #TaxTheRich

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us Dear Senator / Representative -I want you and your staffers to be regular fixtures at ICE detention facilities and ICE offices because local authorities and health inspection teams are still being denied access. GEO group, the corporate entity running many ICE detention facilities, continues to claim that they do not have to allow health inspections until the Supreme Court says they must.I want health inspectors testing the water at ICE detention facilities. I want health inspectors present in the kitchens at ICE detention facilities. I want health inspectors looking at their medical clinics and interviewing people.I want you to make sure that either you or a staffer visit ICE detention facilities with a local health inspector at your side at least once a month.You have the power to investigate ICE. You have the power to push for regular health inspections. Bring health inspectors with you to force the issue in public.Use the power of your office to shed light on the conditions in ICE detention facilities. You cannot let the abuse taking place disappear from the news cycle. Please inspect the facilities and report all your findings publicly. On behalf of your constituents, use the power of your office to defend those who have no voice and record an accurate record of what is taking place.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #DHS #ICE

Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your members of Congress and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-usDear Senator / Representative -I am appalled that Congress left the Capitol for a week on the eve on the 1973 War Powers Act deadline for the Iran War. I am tired of Congress abdicating its responsibility to the American people. I am tired of Congress acting like a lap-dog to this Executive Branch.This war is illegal in three ways: it violates the US Constitution (only Congress can declare war); it violates the UN Charter (which prohibits the threat or use of force except in self-defense against an armed attack); and now it violates the 1973 War Powers Act. There is no "reset" of the limit because of a ceasefire. Congress either approves the war or it doesn't.This war has cost untold billions of dollars. I do not trust the $25 billion estimate from an Administration that regularly lies under oath to the American people. We, the United States, have killed thousands of people. The Department of Defense of this Republican Administration has expended an overwhelming number of our munitions stockpile.I want Congress to do its job: force President Trump to end this deeply unpopular war of choice. #Resist #ResistOfTheDay #IranWar

Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your members of Congress and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-usDear Sen / Rep -I want you to reverse the decision made by this Republican Government to stop funding drug test strips. These test strips - a simple strip of treated paper that can swiftly signal whether a street drug contains deadly fentanyl or other contaminants - not only save lives, they also help get people into drug treatment.I have seen this play out in my community. A public health worker giving test strips to a person addicted to drugs is the gateway to that person receiving more help. One act of care - the giving of a test strip, telling that person that this test strip could save your life - is often the first step into treatment. There is no data to support the claims of this Republican Administration that harm-reduction measures like test strips encourage drug use. The data shows that the distribution of test strips can stave off overdoses and encourages people who use drugs to exercise more caution. Exercising that caution, that pause before using drugs, is what allows harm reduction specialists to make positive ground with those people struggling with substance abuse.I want my tax dollars supporting those who struggling to make ends meet, those who are struggling to keep roofs over their heads, those who are struggling with mental health and substance abuse. A rising tide lifts all boats. #Resist #ResistOfTheDay

Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your members of Congress and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-usDear Senator / Representative I angry about the Supreme Court ruling and the standard it sets. This decision effectively erases a key provision of the Voting Rights Act and opens the door for unchecked racism through redistricting across the country. The Supreme Court has determined that voters of color no longer have the right to a fairly drawn map—from school districts to congressional districts—and is willing to allow undemocratic, racist maps to determine our future representation. Partisan gerrymandering IS racial gerrymandering. Packing, cracking, and otherwise undermining minority voting strength are the central tools used to achieve Republican political goals. It is how Texas Republicans reconfigured a state where less than 40 percent of its population is Anglo to achieve a congressional map where 70 – 80 percent of its districts will elect the Anglo candidate of choice over the choice of minority voters.There can be no more business as usual.I want every American to have a fair and equal vote.I want you to fix this. I will do what I can in my community, but I need you lead loudly from the front. This racist effort to deny people equal representation must be reversed.There are bills in Congress to do this. Grind Congress to a halt until every Americans has the right to fair representation.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Vote #VRA

Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your members of Congress and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-usDear Senator / Representative -I want you to crack down on the way this Republican Administration is creating AI fake humans to spout their talking points. I saw within an hour of the shooting this weekend, social media erupted with posts in support of a new ballroom.AI deepfakes cause harm, and I want you to start drafting legislation to stop it the use of AI deepfakes and fake human supporters. Boys and men are creating deepfake nudes of female classmates and coworkers. Politically motivated bad actors are making both deepfakes of opposition politicians with malicious intent and creating legions of fake supporters to make people feel outnumbered.I would like you to follow Denmark's example and change US copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features, and voice.Everyone has the right to their own body, their own voice, and their own facial features. Changing copyright law is a simple, straightforward way to combat deepfakes and would provide fixed financial penalties that would discourage the generation of deepfakes, force social media to take down the deepfakes, and force payment to the person whose image was used. Let's start getting serious about the harm AI is causing. #Resist #ResistOfTheDay #AI

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-usDear Senator / Representative:.I oppose any tax or private dollars being used to build the Trump ballroom, a monstrosity that would overshadow the White House.I strongly object to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s suggestion that Congress provide $400 million for the ballroom and fund it with “customs fees,” which is another way to say “American consumers and taxpayers.”Graham’s comment -- “I’m convinced if there had been a presidential ballroom adjacent to the White House, the guy would have never gotten in.” – is a logical fallacy. The White House Correspondents Dinner is a private affair, not a White House one.It would be a travesty to allow the proposed ballroom project that dwarfs the White House to proceed. At 90,000 square feet, it would overwhelm the White House, at 55,000 square feet.I urge Congress to mandate restoration of the East Wing to its original design, consistent with the historic character of the White House complex.I want you to hold accountable those who proceeded with demolition or construction work without proper legal authority.To allow this project to proceed continues the trend of allowing this entire Republican administration to ignore legal processes and safeguards.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Ballroom

Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your Representatives and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-usDear Representative -I am against increasing the national debt by $70 billion to fund ICE and CBP for the next 3+ years and I want you to use all the tools at your disposal to fight adoption of the Senate funding resolution for ICE and CBP passed Thursday morning.The 2025 Republican budget allocated $75 billion over four years to ICE. Just 10 years ago, the ICE annual budget was less than $6 billion. I am against throwing more money at DHS when they continue to abuse people, deny people their due process, and ignore court orders. DHS's violent behavior has not stopped -- the news cycle has moved on from reporting it. DHS's denial of basic due process has not stopped -- the news cycle has moved on from reporting it. DHS's flagrant disregarding of court orders has not stopped - the news cycle has moved on from reporting.I am against DHS's brutal mass deportations. I am against the use of corporate profit-driven prisons to hold people detained by the US government. If the government detains someone, the government has the duty follow due process, to house the people safely in facilities with regular and open inspections, to give them access to lawyers and family members.You have the power to fix this. Please use every procedural tool at your disposal to deny this enhanced budget to ICE and CBP. #Resist #ResistOfTheDay #ICE #CBP #DHS

Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your members of Congress and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-usDear Sen/ Rep -I want you to make it clear that the constitutional duty of the Department of Justice is investigating crimes, not enacting political vengeance. I want you to fight the nomination of Todd Blanche for Attorney General using every procedural tool that exists.Blanche's recent statements - a sitting President has the right to fire attorneys for political reasons and a sitting President should use the DOJ to investigate people with whom he disagrees politically - demonstrate that he is unfit for the office.Jimmy Carter was investigated twice by the Department of Justice while serving as president, once over his relationship with a bank and a second time related to his brother. In both instances, Carter cooperated and was cleared.Ronald Reagan's involvement in the Iran-Contra affair was also fully investigated. Bill Clinton was investigated by federal prosecutors for nearly the entire duration of his two-term presidency. None of these presidents ever fired the prosecutors who conducted these investigations. No one ever suggested that it would be unethical for the prosecutors to continue working at the DOJ. And no attorney general would have had the audacity to suggest that firing them was the right step to take.Todd Blanche, Trump's personal attorney, is unfit to be the Attorney General. #Resist #ResistOfTheDay #DOJ

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us Dear Sen/Rep - Our tax dollars are flowing to already profitable companies, and it must stop. Corporations are lining up for $166 billion in tariff refunds for costs that they passed on to the consumer. S&P 500 companies posted record profits in 2025. Walmart posted the highest 12-month sales of any company in the world last year. In the four states that disclose corporate SNAP data (CO, MA, IL, MI) 10,920 Walmart workers and 9,633 Amazon workers were enrolled in SNAP in 2024. Both companies generate sufficient profits to pay workers a living wage and provide full health coverage. The Institute for Policy Studies examined 20 S&P 500 corporations with primarily U.S.-based workforces and the lowest median wages in the index. These companies employ 6.7 million Americans. At 75% of these companies, median pay falls below the Medicaid eligibility threshold for a family of three. At 13 of the 20, median pay also falls below the SNAP income threshold for a family of three. These same 20 companies spent $32.5 billion on stock buybacks in 2024 alone. The wages of these workers could have risen from $29,087 to $59,600. Instead, median pay among the Low-Wage 20 declined in real terms from $30,474 to $29,087. End to corporate stock buybacks. Demand living wages for all workers.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Greed

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends, https://www.congress.gov/contact-us .Dear Senator/Representative - I need you to make a strong stand regarding the president’s unstable behavior. HIs behavior is worthy of impeachment, and I want you collecting evidence, sharing it widely, and engaging firmly with your Congressional counterparts. This president is spending a billion dollars a day on a war he started without evidence of a clear threat to the U.S. This president is acting, according to multiple reports, against the advice of top intelligence, senior military officers, and his vice president. This president has issued profanity-laden threats against the leaders of other nations, including our traditional allies. He is dictating what other heads of state and religious leaders should do and not do. His open encouragement of the US military to commit war crimes is undermining the safety of the members of the US military overseas, and the safety of Americans traveling abroad. Yet, Congressional Republicans have done absolutely nothing to deal with this president's declining ability to conduct the nation’s business. I want accountability. I want every elected member of Congress to remember that they are supposed to serve the people, not the president. Impeach. Now.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Impeach

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us.Dear Senator/Representative -I object to renewing Section 702 of FISA without modifications to protect American citizens from warrantless surveillance.Clearly the FISA Court is prone to approving requests for surveillance. There were 349,823 surveillance targets in 2025, an increase from about 246,000 in 2022. Although the targets must be foreigners, Americans get swept up in the warrantless surveillance. The Court itself has characterized the FBI’s use of those data over several years as "persistent and widespread" violations. In 2021, there were over 3.4 million known searches on American citizens. According to the Brennon Center, these violations included “warrantless searches for information about a local political party” and searches “when two men ‘of Middle Eastern descent’ were loading cleaning supplies into a truck.” Today we have no idea how many searches – legal or illegal – there might be because the Trump Administration has killed the tool that monitored the searches.Section 702 of FISA needs a clear requirement that searches related to American citizens comply with the Fourth Amendment and occur only with a warrant.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #FISA

Today's message is about a rule change that could result in the eviction of 80,000 families from subsidized housing. The open comment period ends Tuesday (April 21st).To Comment, start here: https://www.regulations.gov/document/HUD-2026-0199-0001?link_id=1&can_id=5202973acd103d50e1bbdd9e5c0772b9&source=email-trump-is-trying-to-blame-immigrants-for-the-housing-crisis-and-it-wont-work&email_referrer=email_3198069&email_subject=trump-is-trying-to-blame-immigrants-for-the-housing-crisis-and-it-wont-work&&At the top left is a blue box that says "Comment." Click on that to type in your comment.Here are sample comments:For decades, HUD has allowed people living in mixed status households to access federal housing subsidies. This new rule would ban entire families from subsidized housing programs if even one person in the household cannot provide proof of their immigration status. This rule change would remove eligibility for housing from those with DACA status who came into the country as infants and children, those in the US on Temporary Protected Status, and those here on work visas, student visas, and visas for survivors of violence. Millions of people in the US lack access to the types of documents needed to prove citizenship. Millions of US citizen children in the United States have one parent who is not a US citizen. This Republican Administration constantly talks about the benefits of a two-parent household, yet this rule change would force families to choose between staying together and becoming homeless or splitting up the family to stay in subsidized housing. I do not support changing the rule. Let families of mixed immigration status retain their access to subsidized housing. #Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Housing

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends, https://www.congress.gov/contact-us Dear Senator/Representative -I want you to support the Equal Tax Act because this country is not just for those 800 billionaires, it is for all 340 million of us.The Equal Tax Act ensures wealthy investors pay the same tax rate on their income that working people pay on their income, by taxing investment income at the same rate as earned income for those earning over $1 million annually. It also eliminates one of the ways the wealthy avoid taxes by ending the stepped-up basis loophole with unprecedented protections for family farms and businesses.Polls indicate 66% of voters support raising capital gains rates on the wealthy, consistent with years of polling indicating support for closing tax loopholes that benefit the wealthy (74%) and making millionaires and billionaires pay more in taxes (70%). This proposal delivers by raising significant revenue exclusively from households that have more than $1 million in annual income.This needs to be a cornerstone policy moving ahead. Those living off the interest on their investments should not pay a lower tax rate than teachers, farmers, nurses, and firefighters.It's the right thing to do.#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #TaxTheRich #Greed