First Action: Call your congressperson:
Send a message to Tarrant County, TX to complain about the 8-year sentence (followed by deportation) meted out to Rosa Ortega, a legal resident and mother of five young American children, who voted in two elections. This is a draconian and unprecedented sentence following a jury trial insisted upon by the Criminal District Attorney Sharen Wilson as a muscle-flexing exercise. This despite the fact that the prosecutor’s office wanted to drop charges in exchange for Ortega testifying about voting procedures before the Texas legislature. More details here: “Illegal Voting Gets Texas Woman Eight Years in Jail and Certain Deportation.” OPTIONAL Extra Actions: The whole point of this group is to make it SUSTAINABLE to be an activist for the LONG TERM. Little and often is the way to go. However, if some of you are just bustin’ to go out in person and stomp and shout, here are a couple of suggestions:
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