The 147 Congress Members Who Voted to Overturn the Election, Part II

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1. If you're fortunate enough that your congresspeople are not on this list of the 8 senators and 139 representatives who voted to overturn the result's on November's free and fair election, call (or email) them to tell them to call for the resignation and/or removal of Hawley, Cruz, and the other six senators on the list (when calling your senators) and McCarthy and the other 138 representatives on the list (if you're calling your representative). This may require a bit of personalization, as some have already called for at least some of these people to resign--checking their Twitter feeds will often give you info on their latest statements if you're not sure. (If you would like help figuring out where your rep stands, comment here or message me and I can help you poke around.)

If you need a reminder on who your representative is, you can check here on Common Cause, which will also give you their contact info.

(5calls also has some scripts up for various topics, if you find that helpful.)

2. Regardless of where in the US you live, you can contact the companies that have given money to the 147 congresspeople who voted to subvert our elections and demand that they vow never to do so again. In the linked article they list 144 companies, of which four made some sort of commitment to at least pause giving to these congress, several more said they would review their donation policies, and the vast majority said nothing at all. Here also is a Twitter thread from the author of the article, with a summary of the article's info. Email, Tweet, send a letter saying that funding politicians working actively to undermine our democracy and overturn free and fair elections is reprehensible; if you're a customer and are able to follow through, tell them you won't buy from them/use their services until they commit to never donating to any of the 147 again.

ETA 1/13: This list has changed a lot in the past few days as more and more companies commit to not donating to the senators and representatives who voted to overturn the election (though there are still plenty of companies who haven't). The article above is staying updated with new developments, and the author's Twitter is a good place to get real-time updates as well. He's also tracking companies who are halting donations to the Republican Attorneys General Association, which spread election lies and robo-called people to urge them to attend the January 6 protest-turned-attack. 

Comments

[jazzyjj]

Thanks for this. Last night while a neighbor was reading me an article on the subject, we came across a Congresswoman who happens to have the same first and last name as the mother of a friend of mine. Naturally said neighbor and I were curious, so just a few minutes ago I did a search for this Congresswoman. I found a Wikipedia article on her, which apparently has been removed from the platform. The next result that came up was from The Guardian. It says she is from Illinois' 15th district, but I am having trouble finding out where exactly that district is located. She is a Republican who apologized for stating that Hitler was right. I can post the link here if that would be of any help. I'm unsure at this point if my friend and his mom are Trump supporters, but I don't think so. I've known them since high school and they just don't seem like it.

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Here’s a New York Times article from a few days ago discussing Representative Mary Miller and her apology for her “Hitler was right” remark, that also includes some general info about her. (If the paywall is giving you trouble or if you don’t want to use one of your free monthly articles to read it, let me know and I can copy-paste relevant info.) Miller also voted to overturn the election results last week. And here’s a Wikipedia article breaking down Illinois’s House districts, with a helpful map—it looks like the 15th covers a large swath of the south-eastern part of the state.

[jazzyjj]

None of the external links worked. I got 404 error messages, which redirected me back to Dreamwidth. But thanks for posting. I wonder if this was a paywall or something.

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Sorry about that! Links were misbehaving for me yesterday. Here is the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/mary-miller-hitler-remarks-controversy.html

Here's the list of Congress members who voted to overturn the election: https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/248656.html

And here's the Wikipedia link for Illinois's congressional districts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_congressional_districts