Chop Wood, Carry Water 8/1
Hi, all, and happy Monday!
Hope you had a restful and lovely weekend. I did—so lovely, in fact, that I forgot to send out “Extra! Extra!” last night. I got it out this morning, instead, so if you’re a paid subscriber you should see it in your inbox now. Lots of good news in there—especially on the environmental front. Enjoy!
OK, all. Lots to do today, workwise, and then there’s nature, and beaches, and family to enjoy.
Remember to breathe. We’re going to get this done, provided we all do our part.
Heck, we are already getting it done. Your work is yielding AMAZING results.
So let’s keep at it!
Call Your Senators (find yours here)
Hi, I'm a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is ______.
I know the Senate is about to have another vote on S 3373, the Honoring Our PACT Act of 2022. Please ask the Senator to vote yes and work hard to get it passed this time. Our veterans deserve no less.
[If Republican add:] The Republican Senators who voted against it last week in an attempt to punish the Democrats should be ashamed of themselves. The GOP needs to remember they were elected to help Americans. Will the Senator vote yes this time?
[If Democrat—ESPECIALLY KIRSTEN SINEMA— add:] Also, I want the Senator to support and fight to pass the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. This is life or death for us. Get it done. Thanks.
Extra Credit ✅
We’ve read the recent Judd Legum article about the five giant corporations who have made large contributions to anti-abortion politicians even after they knew Roe v Wade would be overturned. We’ve written to CVS and AT&T already. Now let’s do Cigna.
You can either:
✍🏼 Compose your own email and send it to david.cordani@cigna.com and susan.stith@cigna.com. I’ve put a copy of the letter I used (thanks to subscriber Louise W for the template!) here. Feel free to copy, personalize, sign and send.
Or
✍🏼 Use my click-to-send email tool (this is easier). It will autopopulate a pre-written email in your mail program which you can adapt as wanted. Please change the subject line, add a few sentences, sign your name and city, and generally personalize it so they know real people are writing.
Get Smart! 📚
Dan Pfeiffer, co-host of Pod Save America and best-selling author, will join Big Tent on Wednesday, August 3, at 7pm ET. Exciting!
As former Obama White House director of communications and New York Times best-selling author, Pfeiffer will discuss how to combat the dangerous lies coming from the propaganda machines spreading political disinformation. He will help us understand how to break through the noise with effective messaging and build a bigger megaphone.
Protect Medication Abortion!
One of my subscribers has written a great petition to the FDA asking them to end the unnecessary restrictions on access to abortion medication! Let’s help her get to 25K signatures—it’s so close!
Protect Voters! 🗳
What to help folks in Pennsylvania vote?
VoPro Pros needs volunteers for the PA Voter Assistance Hotline, which answers questions about voting and addresses issues or problems reported by voters, in real time. Their training will walk you through everything you need to know to help voters on the phone.
August 4 and 18, 6-8pm EDT. Sign up here.
Write Postcards!
Y’all, Tony the Democrat put out a special call for volunteers to help finish the list for the August 9th special election in Minnesota. He needs folks to write cards today and tomorrow. As he says, “If you haven't yet written on behalf of Democrat Jeff Ettinger, you still have Monday and Tuesday to write and mail at least 5 postcards to voters. 73.9% progress is amazing. But, our goal is 100%.”
If you’ve written for them before you can email Request@AbbyAddresses.org for addresses.
If you haven’t, go here to get started! (You’ll need to provide your own cards.)
Let’s help get this done!
Resistbot Text (new to Resistbot? Go here! And then here.)
[to your Senators] [Quick send text SIGN POBTLK to 50409]
I know the House just passed HR 1808, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022. This is an astonishingly good thing. Yet we keep hearing that it has no chance in the Senate. This sickens and enrages me. Exactly how many more children have to die before Congress does what it needs to to protect Americans? We are literally under attack from within, and you can help stop it.
You absolutely must.
Please co-sponsor and fight to pass the Senate version of the assault weapons ban bill.
Also, please co-sponsor the child access prevention bill S.190, Ethan’s Law, a common sense gun safety bill which already passed in the House.
Again, if you care about kids you’ll do this. If you don’t do it, you don’t care about kids. Period.
We’ll remember it at the voting booth. Thanks.
OK, you did it again! You helped save democracy! You’re amazing.
Talk tomorrow.
Jess
Gotta ask, from where did the title of your newsletter come?
I have Cigna for Medicare supplemental so that hopefully will carry some weight reminding them I could switch companies if they support the anti-abortion & anti- womens rights!