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Hi, all, and happy Thursday!
Your great news of the day: a study from the University of Michigan showed that the December 2020 Covid-19 relief bill and the March 2021 American Rescue Plan dramatically improved American lives. Food insufficiency fell by more than 40%, financial instability fell by 45%, and adverse mental health symptoms fell by 20%.
In other great news: Trump’s blog is dead…of shame.
Elections matter. Your work matters. Your VOICE matters.
Keep using it.
Call Your Senators
Hi, I'm a constituent calling for a couple of reasons today:
First, Louis DeJoy is being investigated by the FBI. And that’s only one of the many reasons he should be fired or forced to step down. I want the Senator to call for this today.
Second, I am horrified by the attacks on voting rights happening across the country. I’m worried for our democracy. I want the Senator to strenuously support S1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
[If Dem] And obviously I want the Senator to publicly support abolishing the Senate filibuster. There will be no progress in the current Senate; we have no choice.
Call Your House Rep
Hi, I'm a constituent calling because I just read that a group of House Democrats led by Jimmy Panetta introduced a bill on Tuesday that seeks to protect the transgender dependents of active duty service members by ensuring their parents or other family members are not stationed in states or countries that place restrictions on gender-affirming health care and treatments. I’d like the Congressmember to add themselves as a co-sponsor. Trans rights and protections are extremely important to me. Thanks.
Extra Credit
Today let’s tell Uber to drop the Chamber of Commerce (more info about this campaign here).
Click here to send an email. Don’t forget to personalize and sign!
Let’s Win Races!
The New York Mayoral primaries are coming up and the Environmental Voter Protect is working to reach low-propensity environmental voters to make sure they get out to vote. As the head of the largest American city and a key driver of the global economy, the next Mayor of New York City will undoubtedly be one of the most important climate policy-makers in the entire world. Can you sign up to make some calls?
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Resistbot Text
[to President Biden—either Resistbot or email] [H/T]
The Senate GOP used the filibuster to block an independent commission on the Jan. 6th insurrection, an event as worthy of investigation as the 9/11 terrorist attack or the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Their party’s continued actions to whitewash, gaslight, coverup or lie about facts is creating a dangerous division within our country. Trump’s Big Lie of a stolen election, besides inspiring bizarre partisan vote recounts around the country, is fueling increasing radicalization of their party. According to the recent survey by the American Enterprise Institute, nearly three in 10 Americans, including 39% of Republicans, agreed that “if elected leaders will not protect America, the people must do it themselves, even if it requires violent actions.”
Our democracy’s record of peaceful transition of power, unbroken since 1860, was a source of pride for us. Now that’s trampled into the broken glass and fecal matter on the floor of the People’s House. Legislators who may have been possible accomplices have succeeded in thwarting a thorough Congressional investigation, ignoring the voices of constituents and the capitol police who’ve been charged with protecting them.
It is no accident that memes regarding Hitler’s first failed coup are showing up now as a warning. We are afraid that the violence done that day was just a preview of our next national election, if we do not find a way to investigate the truth of that day in a thorough, non-partisan and transparent manner. America needs facts that it can trust from people who had no hand in the insurrection NOW!
Please use your power by executive order to create a transparent Kerner Commission-style panel to investigate every aspect of that day, what led up to it, who was responsible, and what can be learned from it.
I appreciate that you have committed to investigating the origin of the COVID virus, so that issue can be laid to rest between Americans. We need to do this for the “Big Lie” behind the Jan. 6th insurrection as well. There can be no reconciliation until we have the truth. Thanks.
OK, you did it again! You helped save democracy! You’re amazing.
Talk tomorrow!
Jess
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