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Pull the (Nuclear) Football bill before Congress to require congressional approval before a nuclear strike.

Healthcare
Trump is working the sabotage from within angle by not funding the subsidies that make Obamacare work. (Vox)

Poll #18940 This week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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called my one senator
4 (50.0%)

called my other senator
3 (37.5%)

called my representative
3 (37.5%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
5 (62.5%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
5 (62.5%)

attended an in-person activist group
0 (0.0%)

participated in phone/online training
0 (0.0%)

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went to a protest
0 (0.0%)

signed up for alerts
1 (14.3%)

took care of myself
5 (71.4%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
0 (0.0%)

did something else
4 (57.1%)

committed to action in the coming week
2 (28.6%)

rydra_wong

(Cross-posting from my DW.)

McCain's a no, Susan Collins is finding it "very difficult" to envision voting for the bill, and others are dithering or have expressed concern. But as I understand it you need three Republican "no" votes to stop Pence from tie-breaking, and Trump and co. are leaning hard on people to fall in line.

The latest trick is revising the bill to send money towards the states of potential holdouts.

So -- things are looking hopeful, but it's not a given that it'll fail.

plaidadder: Zombie Trumpcare 3.0 continues to stagger through the streets. It is time to call your elected representatives again.

bengaliprincess: heads up: as of right now, whip count for the graham-cassidy health care bill (trumpcare 3.0? i think it’s 3.0 honestly i’ve lost track) is split evenly at 50-50.

sashayed: Hello! Good morning! Did you know Congress is trying to kill millions of people, again? (includes script, with screaming; maybe leave out the screaming? or maybe don't?)

digoxin-purpurea: Anonymous asked: yeah that's part of the issue.... phone anxiety means i don't like to make people uncomfortable even if it's Very Worth It (contains very brief and good phone script)

WaPo current tally:

Cassidy-Graham whip count

Satirical commentary:

McSweeney's: Why Won’t You Just Let Us Pass a Health Care Bill and Kill a Few Million People?

tassosss

Apologies again for missing last week's check in.

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Healthcare
Submit a public comment on the Senate's Healthcare bill
Link to spreadsheet for actions and groups resisting AHCA/BRCA
Find a town hall event and call your senators about BRCA

Activism
Donation matching for several groups happening right now (or recently. Still good organizations to give to if you're looking)

Voter Registration / Voting Rights
Call to support the Automatic Voter Registration Act
Call State reps/administration against voter suppression tactics

Climate Change
City of Boston hosting climate change data

How's everyone doing?

Poll #18546 this week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

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called my one senator
5 (62.5%)

called my other senator
5 (62.5%)

called my representative
4 (50.0%)

called my governor
3 (37.5%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a letter/postcard/fax/email
4 (50.0%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated moeny to a cause
2 (25.0%)

attended an in person sctivist group
3 (37.5%)

participated in online phone training
0 (0.0%)

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went to a protest
1 (12.5%)

signed up for alerts
0 (0.0%)

took care of myself
4 (50.0%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
0 (0.0%)

did something else
4 (50.0%)

committed to action in the coming week
2 (25.0%)

tassosss

Happy Father's Day. Sorry for missing last week's check in.

The theme of this week seems to be Secrecy in the Senate to Screw us on Healthcare.

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Healthcare - McConnell wants the trumpcare vote to happen before the July 4th recess. That's two weeks away.
Healthcare Call Scripts from Indivisble
Indivisible Guide: Contact for Senate Staffers
Senate Contact Info
Stop #TrumpCare Senate Call-In Day
Trumpcare Toolkit

Activism
Hustle and Slack: MoveOn Text Team Training
Action Checklist

LGBT+
Pride Month: Donate to LGBT+ groups

Russia
Brennan Center Report on Trump-Russia Investigation

Climate Change
Mississippi River Alliance
Indivisible: Defending the Climate in Local Action

How's everyone doing?

Poll #18505 This week in activism

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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called my one senator
5 (45.5%)

called my other senator
4 (36.4%)

called my representative
1 (9.1%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
2 (18.2%)

called my city reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a letter/postcard/fax/email
5 (45.5%)

attended a town hall
1 (9.1%)

donated moeny to a cause
2 (18.2%)

attended an in person sctivist group
2 (18.2%)

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participated in online phone training
1 (10.0%)

went to a protest
2 (20.0%)

signed up for alerts
1 (10.0%)

took care of myself
6 (60.0%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
2 (20.0%)

did something else
1 (10.0%)

committed to action in the coming week
3 (30.0%)

tassosss

via

wendelah1

For folks like me with a Democratic Senators:

The Indivisible Guide has your back: It's Time to Stop TrumpCare and We've Got a Plan. The Senate is trying to do what the House of Representatives did in May: jam through its TrumpCare bill in secrecy, without public hearings, without a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score, and without knowing its full impact on American families. That’s why the time to put on the pressure is now. We’ve put together new resources and an action plan to help.

executrix

Why talk to the monkey when the organ grinder's line isn't busy?

Contacts for the staff person handling health care issues for each senator: https://www.indivisibleguide.com/resource/senate-health-care-staffers/

rydra_wong

Indivisible have declared today Stop #TrumpCare Senate Call-In Day, complete with scripts.

Another resource post, with a transcript added:

https://vassraptor.tumblr.com/post/161650467293/so-what-can-people-do

tanaqui

(both seen at

fail_fandomanon)

Here's a twitter thread with a good summary of the current situation, as well as some great ideas and resources for taking action. These include a link to a list of Health Legislative Assistants for various senators, and the suggestion to reach out via social media to friends in states with key senators who need to be influenced:

https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/872911051628707841

It also points out that, worryingly, staffers report calls to senators' offices have fallen back to near to "normal", pre-Trump levels.

This Trumpcare Toolkit also provides a list of the key senators who need to be influenced and gives some easy ways to reach them. There's also a link to a letter asking the Senate to take expert and public testimony on the bill:

https://www.trumpcaretoolkit.org

Edit: Another list of staffers dealing with healthcare for Republican senators:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jonfavs/status/873223442518073346

From the responses to that thread: if your senators are Democrats, you can call and ask them to hold off on all non-essential business until a public hearing is scheduled for the new bill.

tassosss

hattip to

morgandawn

Russia is the long game, healthcare is now.

McConnell starts fast-track process for Trumpcare in the Senate (DailyKos)

Call/write/fax your Senators.

The senators called out to pressure in the article are
Jeff Flake (AZ)
Dean Heller (NV)

but all of them need to be put on notice.

tassosss

Sorry this is late going up. I had a non-computer day. It's been a bit of a roller coaster week with the Republican's healthcare bill hitting the fan.

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It's been quite quiet in the comm this week, but here are some reminders of ongoing or future actions

Action
Healthcare
Keep the pressure on your House reps that you are happy/unhappy with how they voted on the AHCA bill.
Donate to ActBlue or SwingLeft to target vulnerable Republicans in 2018

Immigration
Call scripts for Haiti TPS

Upcoming Protests
June 11: LGBT+ March

Other Info
New system for opinion calls showing up

The Senate is already scrapping the AHCA and writing their own healthcare bill

Analysis of Executive Order on Religious Freedom to Promote Candidates

Post AHCA vote, a little inspiration

What's in the Congressional Spending Bill

Everybody gets hugs this week *(((((((( you)))))))))*
How are you doing?

Poll #18340 This week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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called my one senator
3 (25.0%)

called my other senator
3 (25.0%)

called my representative
6 (50.0%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
1 (8.3%)

sent a letter/postcard/email/fax
7 (58.3%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
5 (41.7%)

went to an in person activist group
1 (8.3%)

particiapted in phone or online training
0 (0.0%)

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went to a protest
2 (20.0%)

signed up for alerts
0 (0.0%)

took care of myself
5 (50.0%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
2 (20.0%)

did something else
4 (40.0%)

committed to action in the coming week
5 (50.0%)

tanaqui

(I don't think this has been posted yet. If it has, I don't think it will do any harm to post it again.)

ActBlue has set up a 2018 Democratic Nominee Fund to collect contributions and distribute them equally (unless you specify otherwise) to democratic nominees in 24 House races once they have been chosen in the primaries:

Twenty-four Republicans from districts where Trump won less than 50 percent of the vote in 2016 voted for this bill. Democrats need 24 seats to take back the House. Most of these races don't have Democratic candidates yet or have primaries next year. But we're not waiting till then. Every dollar you contribute to a Democratic Nominee Fund on this page will be transferred to the Democratic nominee when they win their primary next year. That means every dollar will go directly to beating Paul Ryan's majority and taking back the House.

Donate to the ActBlue fund here

Additional Action: I saw this linked over at

fail_fandomanon. The person who posted the link also suggested calling your representative if they voted for Trumpcare, even if they're not in one of the 24 districts listed, and telling them that you donated and why.

tassosss

House Republicans say they have votes to pass controversial health-care bill Thursday (WaPo)

via

giandujakiss

The House will be voting soon; find out if your representative at this link is persuadable and if so, tell them to vote no on the current proposal.

ACTION ALERT!
If you haven't yet called your Congressional representatives, no matter who they are, about voting NO on the Republican's healthcare bill now is the time. Like before tomorrow morning/early tomorrow morning is the time. This is pick-up-the-phone-and-wade-through-voicemail time.

It's all hands on deck time.

tanaqui

The latest attempt to repeal the ACA (which is designed to placate the Freedom Caucus) is now being opposed by some of the more moderate Republicans who were on board with the first attempt. With the House Republican leadership trying to figure out how to proceed next week, here's a target list of representatives who need to be contacted today or Monday to let them know you oppose ACA repeal.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/857975457106538497

executrix

A solid 35-page report on facts about PPACA and Marketplaces from the Congressional Research Service:

https://benefitslink.com/m/url.cgi?n=37535&p=1491495867

executrix

http://familiesusa.org/initiatives/protect-our-care

Second verse, same as the first...

snickfic

It's been too long since I made a roundup, and I have MANY ARTICLES to link. Here's the first half, which is all healthcare-related. This is pretty much all news/analysis.

* Is Trumpcare already here? (Politico)

* Something new for the Minnesota Legislature: a caucus of first Minnesotans (MinnPost)

* Left out of AHCA fight, Democrats let their grass roots lead — and win (WaPo)

* Sanders, Democrats rally thousands across the country to save Obamacare (Chicago Trib, Jan 2016)

* Will Obamacare Really Explode? (Politico). Interview with Kaiser Family Foundation health care expert Larry Leavitt.

* Inside the GOP’s Health Care Debacle: Eighteen days that shook the Republican Party—and humbled a president (Politic). Nice summary of events and what went wrong.

* The Republican Waterloo (Atlantic). AHCA post-mortem by conservative David Frum, who's watched his moderate views be completely eclipsed in recent years by the far right. Very interesting perspective from the other side.

* HHS Inspector General Confirms Investigation of Trump Administration Suspension of Affordable Care Act Outreach Efforts (press release from Sen. Warren). I'm not sure what this might amount to, if anything, but it seems hopeful?

* How Republicans quietly sabotaged Obamacare long before Trump came into office (Salon)

* The GOP’s top priority is in trouble (WaPo). Explanation of some of the difficulties in making the tax cuts GOP wants and how the AHCA was supposed to smooth the way for some of them.

* President Trump's healthcare plate is full, and it won't go down easy (Modern Healthcare). Laundry list of health-related issues Trump + Congress will be dealing with this year, not just ACA.

* GOP senator acknowledges Americans’ ‘right’ to health care (MSNBC)

tassosss

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Get Involved
Call to support House Resolution for Trump to release his tax returns
Ides of Trump - Send him a postcard (technically was March 15, but no reason you still can't send him a postcard)
Call Representatives about Medicaid Cuts (technically was organized for the 16th, but the talking points are still valid)
Thank a government scientist

Info of Georgia Special Election on April 18. Registration deadline for those not registered is March 20

Run for your State Democratic Committee, petitions due April 3

Tools
Use Resistbot to use texting to fax your reps. It's extremely easy.

Upcoming Protests
April 1: March for Health
April 15: Tax Day March
April 22: March for Science

News to know
Confirmation Hearings
Jay Clayton for Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Labor Secretary: Alexander Acosta's hearing delayed to this week
Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing of Neil Gorsuch Begin March 20 (WaPo coverage)

Immigration / Dreamers
Chatbot helps refugeescomplete paperwork
ACLU Freedom Cities Action Plan
The second Muslim Ban Executive Order blocked by Federal Judges in Hawaii and Maryland, and Trumps words used against him. (WaPo)

Healthcare
Linkspam: CBO score for Republican health plan, what it means for people, talking points, potential impacts

Get Educated
Link Roundup: Why calling Congress is worthwhile, Virginia Democrats gearing up for primaries, fight over electric vehicles, lessons from Obamacare, sequestration will cause problems for Republican health plan
Ballotpedia watches all the States' upcoming legislation so you don't happy. You can sign up for their newsletter.

How is everyone doing out there? Let me know if you want me to add categories to the check-in poll.

Poll #18099 This week in the resistence

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16

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called my one senator
4 (25.0%)

called my other senator
4 (25.0%)

called my representative
3 (18.8%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a letter/email/postcard/fax
10 (62.5%)

donated money to a cause
3 (18.8%)

went to an in person activist group
2 (12.5%)

participated in an online training or call
2 (12.5%)

went to a protest
1 (6.2%)

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signed up for daily action alerts
3 (27.3%)

took care of myself
9 (81.8%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
0 (0.0%)

did something else
4 (36.4%)

executrix

The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care sent out an action alert.

March 16 is National Call-In Day to protest planned Medicaid cuts. The SEIU provided a toll-free number for the calls.

1. Call (866)-426-2631
2. Enter your zip code and phone number
3. A person will answer--leave a brief message asking your Representative to vote against the AHCA, specifically because block-granting Medicaid will lead to cuts in funds available for nursing home and home care. The elderly and disabled cannot afford to pay out of pocket for this exorbitantly expensive care, so Medicaid cuts means that they will not be able to get the care they need.

tassosss

from Vox

The American Health Care Act: the Republicans’ bill to replace Obamacare, explained

The puzzling way Republicans want to replace the individual mandate, explained with a cartoon <- I liked this.

Vox Sentences: Pretty much no one likes the GOP’s health care bill

Today in Obamacare: The rollout of the GOP plan is not going well

The GOP health bill is a $600 billion tax cut — almost entirely for the wealthy

Senate rules could force GOP to drop key policies in health bill

4 key arguments Democrats will use to attack Trumpcare

from Washington Post

How the House Republicans’ proposed Obamacare replacement compares <- also good graphics

Conservatives lash out at House GOP’s Obamacare replacement bill

Income separates the winners and losers in Republicans’ health-care plans

from New York Times

Republicans’ Changes to Medicaid Could Have Larger Impact Than Their Changes to Obamacare <- good graphics on Medicaid

G.O.P. Health Bill Faces Revolt From Conservative Forces

The Republicans are trying to get this passed as fast as they can before even the Congressional Budget Office can get a report done on how much it will cost and who it will hurt. Because of Senate rules, the Republicans can't afford to have more than 2 of their own not vote for it. So calling your Republican Congresspeople is worthwhile, especially if you are in a state that expanded Medicaid

ACTION: This is a topic to call your Senators and Representatives on this week.

Script: Hi my name is [NAME] and I live in [ZIP CODE]. I'm calling because I am against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and opposed to the Republicans Healthcare plan. The Republicans plan puts a financial burden on sick people and will cause millions to lose their insurance coverage and I want [Congress Person] to vote against it.

(Add in a personal story or other talking point you'd like to hit, as you will.)

ETA: Audio stream on Indivisible call is here

executrix

April 1, but no joke: March for Health April 1, confirmed locations are Washington DC, NYC, Seattle Santa Rosa, Rockledge, Bethlehem, and Morgantown, and several other cities may have their own marches: see

https://www.facebook.com/MarchForHealth/

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tassosss - Weekly Check in Oct 15
rydra_wong - Graham-Cassidy: it ain't over until it's over
tassosss - Weekly Check in July 2
tassosss - Weekly Check in June 18
tassosss - Healthcare Call Scripts from Indivisble
executrix - Indivisible Guide: Contact for Senate Staffers
rydra_wong - Stop #TrumpCare Senate Call-In Day
tanaqui - Action: Trumpcare (again...) - Trumpcare Toolkit
tassosss - Action: Healthcare in Senate being fast-tracked
tassosss - Weekly Check in May 7
tanaqui - Donate: Contribute now to Take Back the House (ActBlue fund)
tassosss - Action: House voting on AHCA healthcare TOMORROW
tanaqui - Action: calls to moderate GOP reps over Trumpcare 2.0
executrix - CRS Report on PPACA Facts
executrix - Protect PPACA Toolkit for Upcoming Recess
snickfic - 3/26/17 link roundup - the all-healthcare edition
tassosss - Weekly Check In March 19
executrix - Tomorrow is National Medicaid Call-In Day
tassosss - Healthcare: Republicans Healthcare Plan
executrix - March for Health April 1

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Entries tagged with healthcare

Weekly Check in Oct 15

Graham-Cassidy: it ain't over until it's over

Weekly Check in July 2

Weekly Check in June 18

Healthcare Call Scripts from Indivisble

Indivisible Guide: Contact for Senate Staffers

Stop #TrumpCare Senate Call-In Day

Action: Trumpcare (again...) - Trumpcare Toolkit

Action: Healthcare in Senate being fast-tracked

Weekly Check in May 7

Donate: Contribute now to Take Back the House (ActBlue fund)

Action: House voting on AHCA healthcare TOMORROW

Action: calls to moderate GOP reps over Trumpcare 2.0

CRS Report on PPACA Facts

Protect PPACA Toolkit for Upcoming Recess

3/26/17 link roundup - the all-healthcare edition

Weekly Check In March 19

Tomorrow is National Medicaid Call-In Day

Healthcare: Republicans Healthcare Plan

March for Health April 1

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