ACTION: Contact Congress, and demand STOP to military action in S America

World War three just became MUCH more likely

Listen to Heather Cox Richardson explain how an embattled and extremely unpopular president is trying to use a military action to prop up his failing government.  Cuba may be the next target, and then who knows.....?

ACTION ITEM:  SKIP TO roughly 27:30 to get advice on what we need to do today.

 PLEASE:  Call your Republican congressperson and demand a stop of this invasion.  Demand a stop to yet another Trump war/ Trump bombing/ Trump violence/Trump prolonged war. 

This is urgent:  HCR explains why.

How to contact our elected officials:

Call lawmakers directly.  This is thought to be most effective. Leave a voicemail after hours.  Focus on one topic at a time.  Call several times a day.  Leave voicemail messages including your zip code.

• You can use suggested scripts from 5calls.org application to help formulate your concerned and irate calls, emails or voicemail messages.
• https://5calls.org/issue/trump-venezuela-extrajudicial-murder/

TEXT THEM using Resistbot.  

• This is another automated system that lets a resident contact several lawmakers at once using one message.  Once you set up the system with your personal information, sending a message to all federal lawmakers, or all state officials, is like writing a simple text.

• Open letters are written by other patriotic citizens and you can send their messages to your lawmakers.  

•  I start every original message with a version of the following statement:  "These are my own words. I use this automated system to send the same message to several elected officials at once.  Please honor your oath of office and ACT TO defend our democracy from the NAZI-lover in the White House and his supremely dangerous cronies." 

• Resistbot also provides texts of petitions.  Those are usually very well written, informative, and can be copied and pasted --with your own twist- into a personal message.

Mormon Women for Ethical Government has great suggestions for reaching out to our electeds:

To contact lawmakers as part of MWEG (Mormon Women for Ethical Government), use their website's Calls to Action page for pre-written messages and tools to email or call Congress/state legislators, or use official government sites like house.gov or senate.gov to find contact info directly, focusing on one issue per message with specific details for impact. 

Using MWEG's Tools

1. Visit the MWEG Website: Go to mormonwomenforethicalgovernment.org/calls-to-action.
2. Choose an Issue: Select a topic, such as family, environment, or democracy.
3. Use the Letter-Writing Tool: MWEG provides templates and prompts to help you write and send emails directly to your federal or state representatives. 

General Contact Methods (Federal & State)

• Find Your Legislator: Use tools on house.gov/representatives for House members or senate.gov/senators for Senators, or your state's General Assembly website for state reps.
• Email/Phone/Fax: Once you find them, use their official contact pages for email, phone numbers, or fax.
• Social Media: Search for their names on platforms like Twitter (X). 

Tips for Effective Communication

• Be Specific: Name bills (e.g., SB ###) and focus on one issue per message.
• Introduce Yourself: State you're a constituent from your town.
• Share Personal Stories: Connect the issue to your own experiences; it's powerful.
• In your communication, you might recall how your family members or close friends were killed, tortured, or harmed in other ways by the two world wars or by other military actions. 
• Ask for Action: Clearly state what you want them to do (support/oppose a bill). 
• You might remind the lawmakers that service women and men from this state might be tried 
• for war crimes because they followed illegal orders to murder "alleged" drug-traffickers in 
• small boats who were not able to reach the United States without several refueling stops.
• of this dangerous president. 
• Please consider calling out the UNELECTED ADVISORS behind this plan: 
• NAME them AND CALL THEM OUT for specific crimes, and for being DANGEROUS TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY.  HCR explains how in the video above.
• According to one of the sources, Trump senior aide Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe formed a core team working on the issue for months with regular - sometimes daily - meetings and phone calls. They often also met with the president.
• STEPHEN MILLER, Dept chief of staff and top power pushed for dictatorship,
• PETER KEG-SETH-Defense secr ,
• MARCO RUBIO -Sec of State,
• John Ratcliffe-CIA director

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If you need for information about the dangers of this illegal war, please consider the map below:

Figure modified from Al Jazeera

Prepping for the calls to our lawmakers in Congress made me aware of the several dozens of countries bombed and threatened by the Trump-and-Putin-are-allied-against-American-interests Regime. 

The new war in South America started an exploration of the Trump-Putin-Hegseth-Netenyahu-war-mongering-AXIS. 

Trump's aggressions, wars, bombing and threats are summarized in this map-using-3 colors.  These are almost all condemned by the United Nation and international democracies.

The fact that the Putin-loving-Trump-administration has been doing so much illegal bombing and warring worldwide is another very scary part of the Trump military escalation.

1.  Consider telling our congresspersons that we cannot have new wars without risking World War 3. Be sure to report ~180 people murdered so far, and two kidnapped in South America and Caribbean. 

2. Consider speaking about the other alarming and illegal (war crimes) violence and destabilizing military action shown on the map.
    Yemen suffered ~1000 strikes under Trump and hundreds of dead. 
Somalia suffered 111 strikes! 
All of Western Europe was called a major threat in a National Security update.

3. Please ask that Congress stops funding such dangerous aggression.