ACTION: HOW TO CONTACT CONGRESS

 

How to contact our elected officials:

Congress should be composed of a variety of people, instead MAGA has seized control.  Register to vote please and write congress to express your views.  Artist

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/

• https://5calls.org/issue/ice-raids-abuse-detention/ 

 

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.
• Resistbot share open letters from different parts of the country too: UTAH is here
• Resistbot guide is here
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Mormon Women for Ethical Government have 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