Call your Republican Senators.
They're the jerkwads who need to start caring about their out-of-sight constituents.
If federal Republicans don't start putting the American people's interests before the Party's ridiculously cruel takeover, then we won't have even the appearance of three-branch federal government that does anything to serve the country for much longer.
https://www.callyoursenate.com/find-your-u-s-senators/
Learn more about your Congressional representatives at GovTrack.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/current
Because wealhy lobbyists have excessive power, it maybe would help for all of us to send messages to Congressional funders or their closest public-facing organizations.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress
Tips from my imited experience on both sides of calls to and about gov:
• Call multiple times: the first is to learn how the office takes calls (immediate voicemail, real person, or a bot meant to discourage callers) and each time after is with a specific point.
• Explain what you want; refrain from mentioning what you don't want. Make your message as clear as you can manage to without threats.
• Before calling, choose an address or phone number of a public serving location like your USPS office or county health department if you don't have or you don't want to use your own. Some office require contact info to file a report.
• Avoid federal .gov domains when possible during the shutdown, because security might be lax.
CW for links: Call Your Senator has blog posts displaying AI-generated images. GovTrack contains LinkedIn ad elements. Open Secrets contains a tracker for Google
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