Make Sure Your Voice Is Heard

As the plutocratic Republican Party (irony alert) tries to ram its almost universally unpopular repeal of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) down the throats of the American people, we need to let our voices be heard by our representatives. This is a particularly critical stage in the legislative process, as committees dominated by sociopathic Republicans race to pass their "afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable" dystopian repeal bill without public hearings, Congressional Budget Office scoring, and with as little discussion in committee as possible.

If you care enough about what's happening in this country, continue to speak out and show up. Here are some resources:

E-mail your Representative

Visit or write to your Representative's local office (recommended)

E-mail or write your Senator

Participate in town halls

Make sure you have the facts about the Republican repeal bill;  Kaiser Family Foundation has a detailed section- by- section summary (pdf), but if you want just the low points, you can start here or here.

Let's continue to let the people who are supposed to be working for us know, "this is what democracy looks like."

Let Them Hear You!

Here's a valuable, ongoing resource (h/t Balloon Juice): Townhall Project 2018 is providing a list of upcoming town hall meetings being held by members of the House and Senate. Please get out if you can (and bring your friends) and let your representative (Democrat or Republican) know face- to- face where you stand on the issues. Marches and demonstrations will continue and are excellent means of achieving media coverage and letting elected officials know that this is a powerful movement that's not going away. As we saw to our detriment in the Obamacare rollout in 2009, town hall meetings are also a very effective way of influencing your Congresscritter.  We just need to show up in force.

Always remember:  a majority (54%) did not vote for Trump, he's historically unpopular after just under 2 weeks in office, and we progressives have the moral high ground and momentum.  Have your facts in hand, go and participate!

To provide updates to the list linked above, please go to townhallproject2018@gmail.com.