#Members of Congress

[calicojack1718]

Influencing Your Member of Congress and Other Government Office Holders: A Guide to Surviving 2025 and Beyond

Reading time: 8 minutes A thorough guide to contacting your government representatives and being an effective participant in our democracy. If we're going to stop the fascists, we're going to have to actually do some things. This is the least of it.

Summary: This post provides practical guidance on how to effectively communicate with your elected representatives. It emphasizes a hierarchy of contact methods, ranging from in-person meetings to social media interactions. The importance of group coordination and local press coverage is highlighted to amplify advocacy efforts. Additionally, the post encourages readers to engage with…

[noneofyrbz]

Something to say?

Vivek Ramaswamy

[irittratt]

Irit Tratt - Assisting Several Members of Congress

Irit Tratt is an alum of The George Washington University, where she received a Master’s in International Affairs with a focus on the Middle East. Since 2021, she has served as the Executive Vice President of The Young Israel in Scarsdale. She currently serves on the Board of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Insisting that if leftists all refuse to vote, the Democrats will be forced to move left and give in to all our demands is kind of like insisting that if I refuse to show up to work, my boss will be forced to give me a raise.

Like yeah, there's kind of a kernel of truth there, leftists COULD turn themselves into a voting bloc worth appealing to and strikes CAN work. But you're leaving out the massive amounts of organization, cooperation, and support that it takes, and in the meantime if I just stop showing up to work I am simply going to get fired.

[daddies-i-love]

Mike Bost

I need those hairy arms around me.

[dadsinsuits]

Dan Sullivan

[swampthingking]

andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

[ghostpalmtechnique]

US media, What, and I cannot stress this enough, The Fuck?!

[contemplatingoutlander]

These politicians denied democracy on Jan. 6. Now, they want your vote.

This is a brilliant editorial by Washington Post cartoonist Steve Brodner. This is a gift🎁link, so anyone who uses it can read the entire article, even if they don't subscribe to the Post. Below are a few highlights, focused on the chief congressional players in the failed coup.

While the violent mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, aiming to subvert democracy and keep President Donald Trump in power, another group was already working on the same project inside. In an unsuccessful bid to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, 147 Republicans formally supported objection to counting Joe Biden’s electoral votes. Some have already left office. But as many as 117 members of Congress are running for reelection in 2024. Here they are, drawn together; a collection of American politicians engaged in using democracy in order to attain the power to subvert it. [color emphasis added]

I encourage people to use the gift link above to see the minor GOP Congress members who aided and abetted Trump's attempted coup and now will likely be campaigning for reelection.

________________ NOTE: The order and arrangement of the congressional players above has been modified from the original editorial.

[calicojack1718]

Call Your MoC: Pass a Clean Continuing Resolution & Why the Freedumb Cockus is Damn Dumb

Recharge your batteries, top up your phone, it's time to call your members of Congress. We need a clean continuing resolution and we need it now. Then we need the GOP to comply with their budget agreement. Calling works. Here's how.

SUMMARY: This urgent post highlights the impending government shutdown and the severe consequences it holds. It sheds light on the historical ineffectiveness of government shutdowns and their exorbitant costs. It emphasizes the detrimental impact on government employees and businesses depending on government contracts. The author passionately calls on readers to take action by contacting their…

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

AIPAC…Ted Cruz and the other Republicans would have had their bribery schedule disrupted had this guy been successful.

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[meandmybigmouth]

Trump won! accept it! says the maga mofo's!

accept women and young girls dying in a f***king hospital as they watch her bleed out!

accept preteen rape victims forced to have their rapists baby!

accept military men and women veterans facing their benefits cut!

The f**king list goes on and on and my only response?

[tomorrowusa]

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08) is a living national treasure of democracy.

Rep. Raskin visited with Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders-Townsend at MSNBC's The Weekend to talk about a number of issues.

He said Trump "came back to the scene of the crime" with his first visit to Capitol Hill since 06 January 2021. Trump met with GOP members of both chambers who ignored the fact that he put their lives at risk with his coup attempt.

Of course Trump offered no apology for his endangerment of their lives or for his damage to American institutions of democracy. It says a lot about the mindset of most Republicans these days that they will suffer no humiliation too great to show their grovelling loyalty to wannabe dictator Trump.

Rep. Raskin also talked about the GOP Supreme Court's NRA-friendly approval of the use of "bump stocks" – devices that permit assault rifles to be converted into machine guns.

Republicans willingly gave up their claim to being the party of law and order so they could incessantly pander to Trump's lust for dictatorship and to empower the NRA's goal of putting machine guns in the hands of every nutjob in the country.

This election requires more personal effort than previous ones. Be willing to do more grassroots work and make our case to low-information voters you may know.

[elucubrare]

yale polisci guy says that people have said that Machiavelli doesn't care about goodness but that he uses "the language of virtue on almost every page," but if you're going to go through the trouble of relating "virtù" to its latin root, "manliness," shouldn't you also look at a single discussion of Machiavelli to realize that he's not using it in the modern sense of moral virtue?