Hi, all and happy Tuesday!
Hope you had a great 3-day weekend.
I know there’s a lot of bad news, but I do feel slightly encouraged after reading the latest updates on S1 from Indivisible and For West Virginia’s Future—two groups on the frontlines of this fight. If you’d like me to forward you either of their emails let me know. Or simply watch the 1-minute TikTok I just made—it explains where we are pretty clearly.
The thumbnail sketch? It ain’t over.
So let’s keep on making noise, doing what we know to be essential for our democracy’s survival. And our planet’s. And our judiciary’s. And…so on.
Because juggling all of the balls is how we roll, right? 💙
Call Your Senators (find yours here)
Hi, I'm a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is ______.
First, please ask the Senator to vote yes on the nomination of President Biden’s nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Eunice Lee. She is eminently qualified for the job and deserves a speedy confirmation. [H/T]
Second, I want the Senator to support the section of the bipartisan infrastructure framework calling for $7.5 billion in funding for EV charging stations. We need to build a network of electric vehicle chargers along our national highways, paving the way for a green transportation sector founded on union jobs. On that note, we’re in a massive climate emergency, so please make sure the infrastructure package contains ALL of President Biden’s climate provisions. We need them! Thanks.
Call Your House Rep (find yours here)
Hi, I'm a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is _______.
I want the Congressmember to support the section of the bipartisan infrastructure framework calling for $7.5 billion in funding for EV charging stations. We need to build a network of electric vehicle chargers along our national highways, paving the way for a green transportation sector founded on union jobs. On that note, we’re in a massive climate emergency, so please make sure the infrastructure package contains ALL of President Biden’s climate provisions. We need them! Thanks.
Extra Credit
Can you write more postcards or letters to Manchin constituents? Our initial letter writing and postcard writing to West Virginians has been a tremendous success. Sen. Manchin moved from believing people in West Virginia weren’t concerned with voting rights to voting for S1.
For West Virginia’s Future has told us that the letters, postcards and phone calls we’ve been doing have generated over 7,000 calls to Manchin’s office.
But our work isn’t finished. We have a new postcard script and form letter. Our goal is to get the cards and letters in the mail by the end of July. If you can help again, please let me know whether you want to write cards or letters and how many you can write. (Minimum of 25). I’ll put you in touch with my contact.
Hit the Phoooooones!
Tomorrow Indivisible national will be hosting a supported phone bank to call voters in Arizona, explaining how important S1 is and why they should support it – and why they should call their members of Congress and urge them to protect voting rights. Join here.
Resistbot Text (new to Resistbot? Go here!)
[To all 3 reps] [H/T]
I’m profoundly worried about climate change. Last year, some 22 extreme events — from cyclones and hurricanes to drought — cost the U.S. a combined $95 billion, according to the NOAA. Since 1980, overall damage from some 285 weather and climate disasters cost at least $1 billion each, or a total of $1.9 trillion.
We know that with a government so evenly divided it only takes a few legislators listening to the science attacks and disinformation campaigns of the fossil fuel industry to derail the changes we need to urgently. So I respectfully request you do the following:
Talk to your colleagues—especially those comprising the #Exxon11. Remind them that the people who suffer from climate change will be constituents of both parties. This is a slow-motion American tragedy, not a partisan one.
Tell Rep. Ro Khanna that you encourage him to invite (or subpeona, I don’t care) the CEOs of Exxon, Chevron, and other fossil fuel companies to testify before his Environment subcommittee on their climate disinformation campaigns and coordinated attacks on science.
If you have not done so already, please sign the “No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge,” and join other legislators who’ve pledged not to take contributions over $200 from oil, gas, and coal industry executives, lobbyists, and PACs.
Make it known that you’ve closed your door to fossil fuel lobbyists, in whatever guise they appear. They are no friends to your constituents. Thanks.
OK, you did it again! You helped save democracy! You’re amazing.
Talk tomorrow.
Jess