Gun Control Finally there will be a majority in the House committed to enacting common sense gun safety legislation. There is real hope for action at last. Action: 1. Use this Everytown for Gun Safety page to find your reps’ Twitter handles and send them the sample tweet (or make one up of your own). The list includes the newly elected reps who will be in the House and Senate in the new year. 2. If you don’t do Twitter, contact your MoC and Senators and ask them to make it a first priority in January to enact comprehensive background check legislation. If you have a newly elected rep, you can contact them via their campaign site by googling, eg. “Pat Jones for Congress/Senate,” which should lead you to a campaign site with a “contact” option.
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Trump Goes Too Far Imperilled by the imminently blue House, Trump has put one of his enablers - Matt Whittaker - in charge of the Russia investigation. Whittaker is now Acting Attorney General and is set on stifling the investigation, which he has spoken out against in the past. Action: 1. If at all possible, attend one of today’s MoveOn.org Rapid Response Events. You can find the event nearest you at: http://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/ 2. Contact your Member of Congress and ask them to urgently pass the Special Counsel Protection Act, H.R. 3654, and contact your Senator to ask them to urgently pass the Senate version, S. 1735 (sponsored by Lindsey Graham of all people). Ask your representatives to hold the president accountable for his criminal acts and to demand that Whittaker recuse himself from supervising Mueller on the grounds of conflict of interest. Get Out the Vote Here’s a handy app you can use to remind your family, friends, and associates to vote. You can tailor the message to the recipient, and the app also allows you to send them information about their voter status, polling place, etc. You may already have been using this app and/or may be sick of receiving its messages from your friends! But if not .... Action: Use the app to send last-minute get-out-the-vote messages to your contacts: http://votewithme.us/ ______________________ If you feel the need to induce some calm amid the storm, try Amanda Kemp’s 5 Minute Hold Space Meditation. Last Sunday before the Election. Now, who do you hope the great state of Texas sends to the Senate …. this man or this one? Catch up and/or There’s still time to volunteer to help build the Blue Wave. Find an event here: http://indivisible.org/ Voting Machines Flawed Voting machines are easy to hack and susceptible to malfunction. An 11 year old recently took less than ten minutes to hack into, and change the results of, a replica of the Florida state voting website. Action: Contact your State Senator, State Representative, and Governor, asking them to replace the voting machines in your state. |
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