Hello! I hope that you’re doing well.
Often in these open threads, I will suggest that you call or email your legislator, or member of Congress or City Council members or whatever. So let me suggest a few tips for when you do.
Calling is probably the best, not least because there might be some verify that you aren’t a robot things. Do what you’re comfortable with.
If you are calling, you can say whatever before you actually call. Many organizations will have a script, but even if they don’t, you can write it down before calling. You will probably talk to an answering machine, especially if you call outside of business hours.
Only contact the people who represent you, sorry.
Generally, it should go something like:
Hi, my name is [name] from [location in the district you are actually from],
I’m calling about [issue or specific bill]. I am urging you to [support/oppose] it because [1 or 2 reasons, maybe a short personal story or connection to the issue].
Thank you
That ‘s it. The more you do it, the better you’ll be at it. Emails can be similar.
WaPo lost half its audience during the Biden years:
Spend three years explaining to the world that there is nothing wrong with Joe Biden, all evidence to the contrary, and some credibility – and readership – is irretrievably lost.
Walz and Frey caved. Your headline du jour:
Tom Homan Pulls 700 Agents Out of Minnesota. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for Democrats.
I mentioned this in the DL thread, too.
Those two liberal domestic terorits who FAFOd in Minneapolis didn’t have to be dead today. Walz and Frey told them to be dead.
It’s dangerous to the right when the government is wrong.
As the Troll continues his attempt to distract with his old news and bullshit, the economy here is getting worse, the farming industry is going belly up, our freedoms are being fucked with including the right to bear arms, and justice is nowhere to be served, bigotry and racism are on the rise, and Nazis are running free along with pardoned drug dealers and insurrectionists.
Deplorable. Do not engage with the deplorables. Ignore the Deplorable Supporter of Heterosexual Pedophilia. It’s just a game to it.
Now that Republicans have decided to effectively eliminate the filibuster in order to
nationalizemess with elections, Democrats are putting together their own legislative shopping list:1. Supreme Court reform
2. Redistricting reform
3. Immigration reform
4. Qualified immunity reform
5. Conflict of interest reform
6. Billionaire tax reform
7. War powers reform
8. Federal spending reform
9. Eliminate presidential immunity
10. Puerto Rican and D.C. statehood
11. Enact national abortion rights
12. Strengthen and extend anti-discrimination laws
13. Strengthen civil service protections and whistleblower laws
14. Anti-union busting laws
15. ICE victims compensation fund
16. Make fucking horses a federal crime
I’m sure they’ll think of others. 2029 is going to be a progressive Valhalla!