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There are 17 medical professionals in the current House of Representatives. 11 are Republicans. Trying to argue on most issues with the bill is difficult with such a tight deadline, but the one item most people -- including Congressional Representatives -- are reacting to negatively is the closure of Rural and Regional hospitals. This should be a negative for all of the Republicans, but the ones who understand what lack of medical provision can do should be especially ripe to listen, perhaps even be persuaded.

I live in Georgia. Rich McCormick is Georgia District 6, and I live in District 1. But he's more likely to respond to someone from the same state, especially if he has Senate or Gubernatorial ambitions in the future.

The list I found is through The Patients Action Network. If you are in a District with one of these Republican representatives, particularly if they specialize in Emergency or Family medicine, start calling and/or emailing. If you are in the same state, email them and let them know you have a long memory if they're thinking of statewide offices.

In the meantime, send support to the few Republicans in the House who have already voted against it and continue to oppose it. At the very least, let's make them miss their deadline for vacation.

petra

When the Supreme Court has made a decision, as it has in the case of the wrongfully-deported Abrego Garcia, the response from the Executive cannot be "Nah." If there is no check on Trump, even in the case of his hand-picked court saying he's wrong, the Constitution is no longer functional.

( Letter for your Representative, written by a friend who wishes to remain anonymous )

Mods, can we get a "deportation" tag?

tanaqui

A friend in the indie publishing world has put together a bundle of cozy fantasy ebooks that you can get for free if you contact your elected representatives to encourage them to support keeping/passing legislation that improves life for disabled people.

Contact your representatives on behalf of disability rights anywhere between now and March 31.
Send a screenshot or forward a copy to CozyBookBundle@gmail.com.
When the books become available in March, we’ll reply with your download link!

Although prompted by events in the US, this a worldwide offer, open to anyone who contacts the elected officials in their country who influence disability rights legislation and policy.

Full details at https://lynnstrong.com/bundles/

cream_and_custard

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tanaqui invited me to promote my comm

green_joy!

Tired of just hearing bad news and having no where to direct my feelings, this community was created for discussing actions we are taking to help the environment.

The purpose of this is to celebrate, bring awareness to, and encourage more action for our betterment. So if there is anything you've done, either personal or political to help the environment please join and tell us what you're doing!

Our latest post is about raising awareness for the organization Fossil Fuel treaty and their goal to put an end to the proliferation of fossil fuels globally.

If you make an awareness post anywhere, share any of their materials, create your own, or have contacted your representatives to encourage them to sign the treaty, please share it with us a post!

tanaqui

toastykitten left a great comment on our last check in post about two actions you can take to support pediatric cancer care.

Quoting from the post:

As pediatric cancers are very rare, there is often very little research and funding available, leaving many families stranded for support and care. [...] There are a few things that this community is asking support for:

1. Renewal of the Gabriella Miller 2.0 Kids First Research Act - this is the year it sunsets. This act supports funding and data gathering for kids with pediatric cancers and rare diseases.
2. Co-sponsor/support the Give Kids a Chance Act, HR3433, which provides for combinations of new cancer drugs for kids with cancer. This one does not cost taxpayers any money.

Both of these have been supported by both Republicans and Democrats, but there is a lack of awareness, as it's not an easy topic to broach for many people. My House Rep Swalwell, has pledged his commitment. So if you are so inclined, please send a message to your legislators!

chestnut_pod

These are both very short; please expand as needed.

1. Telehealth under Covid has allowed physicians in many states to prescribe medications, including abortion medications, across state lines -- that is, from one state where the practitioner is, to another state where they may not be licensed. The Covid protocols that have allowed this to happen are likely to expire this summer -- and it is quite possible that policies explicitly banning the prescription of abortion medications across state lines will come into play. See this Reuters article for more information. Text PMYQCD to 50409 to ask your Congresspeople to affirmatively protect the right to medication abortion via telehealth.

2. Connecticut became the first state to pass laws protecting those fleeing anti-trans and anti-choice laws in Republican-controlled states. Encourage your state, whatever that may be, to pass their own Safe State laws to protect trans people and their guardians, people having abortions, and healthcare practitioners providing these essential services from legal retaliation. Text PTWZFT to 50409.

jazzyjj

Hi everybody. Someone emailed me a link to the following website last week, and wanted me to test it with Apple's screen reader on the Mac. I think he's planning to do something with it, perhaps spread the word somehow. It seems to be rather new, and I am posting the link here as well as over at my journal. My governor is listed on the site, and I listened to 2 of his answers. Here's the link: https://www.astartingpoint.com . Tags please if I don't get to them later on today?

Current Mood: busy

chestnut_pod

The first one has a filled-in form for contacting your representatives; it was easily adapted to contact them about the other two as well. Thanks to

fresne for bringing these to my attention.

AB 2054, the Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems (CRISES) Act, arranges funds for grants awarded to community-based organizations that replace duties, such as mental health crisis response, that are usually taken on by police. Act here: https://allianceforbmoc.org/crises-act.

ACA5, which basically re-legalizes affirmative action in CA. The language of the bill itself sounds kind of scary --you want me to do WHAT to discrimination protection??-- but it's essentially a repeal of Prop 209, which made affirmative action illegal in publicly funded institutions. The CA NAACP is asking Californians to contact their reps in support. Act here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/endorse-aca-5?fbclid=IwAR3oVGV6nrdjSDPuMcZYbMg3XVjl2-aH2TNdFzmVbVb_gtKqv9FN-oDA6Mo

ACA6, which would restore voting rights to individuals on parole, essentially means that someone just out of prison could immediately vote again. Yay voting rights. Email your reps for this one!

Note: "ACA" means it's a CA state constitution amendment, so you should definitely contact both your state senators and your assemblymembers, while support for AB 2054 should go only to your assemblymember.

tanaqui

State Primary Elections are another (important) opportunity to vote:

These primaries are used by political parties to determine candidates who will run for all partisan offices in their states on the general election ballot on Nov. 6, 2018. These include legislative seats in 46 states along with U.S. senators and representatives, governors and statewide officials.

Find out when your state is holding its primary elections in 2018 at:
http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/2018-state-primary-election-dates.aspx#Dates

Also, a handy compilation of "the 23 most vulnerable House Republicans (R+3 or less) who have an "A" rating from the NRA": https://mobile.twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/977622008337960961?p=v

redbird

I just got another "thank you for contacting me" from an elected official about something I have no recollection or record of calling or emailing about. In this case it's from Elizabeth Warren, and it's something I easily might have called about, the special counsel. Maybe I should start tracking those random signed online petitions (my activism spreadsheet currently has a tab for emails, with the note "not tracking petitions, because really").

I've also gotten one where the auto-reply system clearly hadn't parsed things well (I'd added something about accessibility of his website to an email to Ed Markey, and got a reply that was only about that addendum, not the three paragraphs before it). When I emailed Paul Ryan's office about the DREAM Act (yes, a long shot) the email thanked me for writing about the economy and then gave his opinion on that. I knew we disagree, but I would have expected "thank you for writing about immigration policy" if he wrote back at all.

(crossposted from my own journal)

tanaqui

Control of the House in 2018 will be decided by a small number of Swing Districts, places where the last election was decided by a thin margin. The House of Representatives has 435 seats, 70 of which are considered competitive; to gain control, progressive candidates need to win back at least 24 of them (and hold existing seats, of course).

SwingLeft lets you find your closest Swing District and join its team to learn about actionable opportunities to support progressives — and defeat Republicans — in that district, no matter where you live.

https://swingleft.org/

redbird

I just called my Congressmember to ask him to support Rep. Nydia Velasquez's request to suspend the Jones Act (so foreign ships can bring aid to Puerto Rico) and not require Puerto Rico to match FEMA disaster relief funds (because Puerto Rico doesn't have the money). The staffer said she'd pass this along to him: she was generally sympathetic to the request to help Puerto Rico after the hurricane, but I'm not sure she, or Rep. Capuano, is aware of this specific.

I heard about this on my Twitter feed, and Rep. Velasquez's press release and letter to the acting secretary of homeland security are here:

https://velazquez.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/members-congress-push-recovery-plan-puerto-rico

tanaqui

From

watersword in a comment in our suggestions post:

Rep. Ted Lieu (D - CA) has introduced a bill to ban conversion therapy (aka abusing queer people to make them not-queer) nationwide: HR.2119 - Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017. There's a companion bill in the Senate, S.928 - Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017. People can contact their reps or senators to thank them for co-sponsoring (the list of cosponsors is available at those links), or urge them to vote for the bills if and when they get out of committee.

executrix

Phone numbers and Twitter contact info for "rubber stamp reps" who are supporting the Trump agenda:

https://www.ofa.us/rubber-stamp-reps/?email=dshilling41%40gmail.com&zip=07302&utm_medium=email&utm_source=obama&utm_content=1+-+Today+OFA+is+launching+a+new+project+to+&utm_campaign=em_x_ofa_20170515_x_x_kh_sixmonths&source=em_x_ofa_20170515_x_x_kh_sixmonths&refcode=em_x_ofa_20170515_x_x_kh_sixmonths

tanaqui

From It's Time To Fight:

Ok, I think all you have to do is go online, and get a sense of why this is not great news. Yes, we all think Comey's a wanker who definitely helped influence the election negatively.

With that being said, we're not all outraged right now FOR Comey. I keep seeing people on the left and the right make this mistake. We're outraged over:

1) Why Comey was fired,
2) What it means that POTUS abused his powers like this.
3) Trump flat-out lied in his letter, and is trying to fool the masses.

(It's Time To Fight also has a copy of Trump's -- gobsmacking -- letter, if you haven't seen it yet, as well as other useful links and information.)

Contact your representatives. Here's a suggested script (also from It's Time To Fight):

You: Hi, [my name is] and I’m calling from [zip code].

You: I’m asking [MoC/Senator] to push for a special prosecutor and an independent commission to investigate the Trump Administration.

You: The firing of Director Comey was a clearly a partisan act, based on false reasons. This reinforces the idea that we are in need of non-partisan investigations, urgently.

You: Please support this effort, and do what you can using the Ethics in Government Act. Please do what you can. Thanks. [hang up]

A group are also working on organising marches/demonstrations for Saturday 3rd June to:

call for an impartial investigation into Russian interference in the US election and ties to Donald Trump, his administration and his associates.

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

As seen on twitter from Ben Wikler (@benwikler) of MoveOn

https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/859838674258755584

If House GOP succeeds in passing #TrumpCare tonight (or any day), the public's IMMEDIATE response will massively shape what happens next. 1/

The biggest risk: the vote gets hailed as a breakthrough victory for Trump and the GOP, praised by conservative groups... boom, momentum. 2/

It will be tempting for activists to immediately swing their focus over to pressuring the Senate. Don't do it. Job one is BLOWBACK. 3/

Most of all, swing Senators will be watching to see what kind of political price GOP reps pay for voting to uninsure their constituents. 4/

Citizens' jobs will be to make clear that voting for AHCA is politically toxic. Career suicide. A highly visible, public firestorm. Rage. 5/

If the House passes TrumpCare, every Republican member of Congress has to feel like they're walking into a political buzz saw. 6/

Their phones should ring off the hook. Their district offices should be jammed. Town halls? Furious overflow crowds, chanting "SHAME." 7/

The intensity and visibility of response to the House vote will define the news cycle and the Senate's willingness to touch this thing. 8/

So—if we lose the vote, don't mourn. Fight. Crucify the House. Only after pulverizing the House GOP, turn, eyes ablaze, to the Senate. 9/9

ETA

from sashayed on tumblr

The most effective protest, and the one with the best optics, is the one you make physically: showing up at your shitbag Representative’s district office, camera in hand. Be there when he gets to work in the morning. Be there when she leaves. Ask her if she is embarrassed. Ask him if he is ashamed. Tell her interns and assistants about yourself, about your loved ones. Explain to your local newspaper, to neighborhood blogs, to your facebook friends and Twitter followers why you are furious and disappointed and why you will not forget.

If you would rather call, here’s a potential script. It is maybe not the best? I’m pretty angry.

Hi. I’m calling to register my anger and disappointment at Rep. ____’s Yes vote on the AHCA. [I/my loved ones] am now at risk of losing my insurance, and I am appalled that social programs that personally affect me and my loved ones will be stripped in order to provide tax breaks to the wealthy. Rep. ____ should be ashamed of himself. I and my community will not forget this vote. Will you please take down my information and send me confirmation that the Congressman is listening to constituents? Thanks.

If your rep voted YES and you don’t want to call them, there are PLENTY of people on tumblr who will call on your behalf.

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

What to do about sham town halls:

https://www.indivisibleguide.com/resources-2/sham-town-halls

stardreamer

I'm loving the heck out of this. It reminds you that it's time to resist again every few days, and if you've been keeping track you'll already have an idea of what you want to say this time.

Also, one of the things I was less than satisfied about -- the inability to select House, Senate, or Both -- is apparently fixed as an add-on after you've used it a few times. That's really going to help with the flexibility of what I can text about.

If texting is something you're comfortable with, I can't recommend this utility highly enough.

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Ideas to block the current bill

Trump must abide by SCOTUS in the case of Abrego Garcia: Contact your Representative

Free bundle of cozy fantasy ebooks when you contact your reps about disability rights

Community for Climate Action

Actions: support for pediatric cancer care

Two Roe-related ResistBot petitions

A Starting Point

3 CA State Legislature Bills to Support

2018 State Primary Election Dates

odd replies from politicians

2018 is the year for taking back the House

Calling about hurricane aid for Puerto Rico

Action: Contact your reps about Bill to ban Conversion Therapy nationwide

Organizing for Action Rubber Stamp Reps

Action: Responding to Comey's firing -- call script + march to demand a special prosecutor

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

Action: If your rep voted YES on AHCA call them to tell them you are furious

Action: calls to moderate GOP reps over Trumpcare 2.0

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