"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." - Helen Keller

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision." --Dalai Lama


Positives. Yes, there are positives!  Anyone who knows me knows that I tend to focus on the positives. I'm a happy, optimistic person and try to always look for the bright side! Now, even though we are distressed and anxious about the state of the Union, we have got to stay optimistic so that we may continue our journey and have POSITIVE action and a POSTIVE outcome.  

So, Little Sister, tell us: what positives have emerged from this fiasco?

"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." --Thomas Jefferson

Journalism has seen a resurgence.  After years in which print journalism has seen a dwindling of subsciptions and readers, readership is increasing (The New York Times doubled its subscriptions in 2016!) and  people are clamboring for unbiased journalism.   This is a huge positive!  I love reading the newspaper --paper, in my hand-- every day, and I was sad that print news was going away. The fact that more of us are aware of "fake news" and the bias that many "news" websites have are leading us to dig a little deeper and find the truth. At least it has led me personally on that path. Though I have been a "Card-carrying member of the ACLU and a bleeding heart liberal" for years, I now try to be wary of the left-leaning websites and go to a more unbiased source for my news. 

A free press is a requirement for our Democracy. There will be a spark for many young people to be inspired to become journalists, and a new type of information age will be born. I know it!

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.” -- Plato

Politics will have a new face.  Or, at least some new faces.  This age of resistance and activism is inspiring many to get informed and get involved, and some of the best of us are becoming inspired to enter the world of politics.  Great minds are coming up!  This article from The Atlantic talks about how scientists are starting to eye local and national seats and 314 Action, a group that is aiming to help them. The Right's disdain for science --somehow making it a Liberal Conspiracy-- has confounded and dismayed me.  But this very disdain has inspired many to pursue office.  This can only benefit our country.  I'm hoping that more women and minorities will also be inspired to run for office.  We need representation from all corners of our society.


"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship." -- Ralph Nader

Citizenship is becoming invigorated and redefined. Woooo-hoooo!  This is the most exciting, most positive Positive of all!  Millions of us suddenly know the names of our representatives, what the Ways and Means Committee actually does, and how a bill becomes a law. We know who to call and why to call, and we are calling, and writing, and calling again to demand that the people who represent us WORK for us and do our bidding.  We are attending Town Hall meetings; we are attending resistance meetings; we are taking to the streets.  What energy! A bolt of civic duty has hit a million souls, and those millions have banded together into something big!  It is a force that is inspiring and awesome (in the true sense of the word), and it works. **We killed the healthcare bill!!** 

Citizen democracy is becoming a force that will be impossible to stop. Even when SCROTUS is impeached, this tide of activism will continue. It really is an exciting time to be an American. 

"No one has ever become poor by giving." -- Anne Frank

Charitable organizations are receiving a windfall. In the days following the first Muslim ban, the ACLU received $24 million in donations -- SIX TIMES its yearly average!  Starting before the inauguration, Planned Parenthood had a surge in donations -- many hilariously in Mike Pence's name!  (By the way, PP needs our help more than ever.  That same Mike Pence who "donated" 82,000 times was the tie-breaking vote today on a Senate bill that aims to defund Planned Parenthood. Follow this link to donate to PP!)

Other charities have benefitted, from legal entities to environmental protectors and civll rights organizations.  There are lists of worthy causes that are working hard in the resistance. Here are some:

From The Advocate
From Time/Money
From Bustle

As always, do some due diligence and research an organization before turning over your hard-earned cash!  


"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt." --Erma Bombeck

Comedians have been handed a pot o' gold. Alec Baldwin, Melissa McCarthy. Stephen Colbert. Seth Myers. Jimmy Fallon. Samantha Bee. Kate McKinnon. They are helping us laugh through the pain. 'Nuff said. Here are some favorites.

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon." --George Washington

The System works.  America has always been great! Checks and balances!  Listening to constituents! Trying to garner support for your bill--and failing! We are still a nation of laws, laws that must pass votes.  That won't change. 


On election day, before the polls had closed and the returns started coming in, I posted a photo of my American Flag to Facebook with the caption, "I refuse to be pessimistic about the USA."  I still refuse.  I believe, at his base, this system works well and for the greater good. There is a LOT to improve (like #1 priority: getting big business out of the pockets of our legislators!), but Citizen Democracy is our country's lifeblood, and it is working. Bigly!

Now go, Sisters and Brothers of the Resistance.  Get out there and keep your face to the sunshine! 

A Slow News Week

It was a slow news week.

That's Americanese for "A Clusterf**k Happened, We're in A Constitutional Crisis, and We're Entering Extremely Dangerous Times."

The week in Washington started off with a bang when FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers sat before Congress's House Intelligence Committee and told them that there is an active investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 Presidential election, and the investigation includes exploring possible coordination with members of SCROTUS's team. His bombshell statement:

"I've been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 elections, and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts. As with any counterintelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed."

So let that sink in. The "President" of the United States is under a FBI investigation for coordinating interference with the Russian government in interfering with our election.

In the same hearing, he put to bed the claims by the Lunatic-in-Chief about Obama wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign. Unequivocally. No evidence that Obama wiretapped The Foot Licker. None. And the Justice Department agrees. Didn't happen. Let it rest. Let it rest!

I was glued to the radio in my car, where I listened as I drove around town that day. Director Comey didn't say much more, but members of the committee pushed for specifics, with some quite moving rhetoric. It got me all verklempt with love for my country. Representative Adam Schiff's (D- CA) opening remarks were powerful and quite sobering.

You can read the full transcript here. Or, if you're a junkie, watch the video....

Here is the 5 1/2-hour hearing in full.  (Rep. Schiff's remarks start at 10:10)





Even while the hearings were being conducted, the Rabid Yam was tweeting what he offered as vindicating snippets. He showed video of Comey's answers about specifically "Did the Russians change vote tallies in certain states?" No, was the answer. SCROTUS tweeted, “The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process.”

The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process. pic.twitter.com/d9HqkxYBt5

— President Trump (@POTUS) March 20, 2017

<eye roll> The action of going in and changing vote tallies is a little bit different than the larger question about influencing the election, Li'l Adolph!

Interestingly, Mr. Comey himself fact-checked the tweet in real time during his testimony. Representative Jim Himes (D-Connecticut) read the tweet to Director Comey, to which he answered, "We've offered no opinion, have no view, have no information on potential impact because it's never something that we looked at." When pressed by Himes, he answered, "It certainly wasn’t our intention to say that today because that’s not something we looked at."

On Wednesday, another Shit Show occurred. --Very distressing, what is happening to our country!-- I was listening to CNN when the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) took matters into his own hands and, after somehow getting his eyes on some documents relating to surveillance, decided to brief the press and run over to the Whitewash House to "brief" 45. This, before he shared the information with his own committee. It was quite the sideshow. This stunt led ranking member Rep. Schiff to rebuke him strongly, saying, "The chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct, which includes allegations of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russians, or he is going to act as a surrogate of the White House. Because he cannot do both." In Schiff's mind, as in mine, the Intelligence Committee cannot do a proper investigation with this kind of behavior, and an independent investigation committee should take over, a la the 9/11 Commission. Given that this issue is SO huge and potentially SO explosive, it only makes sense for an outside impartial body to conduct the investigation. This will also free the committee members to do other tasks, of which there are plenty in this whole Not Normal Situation.

Sooo.....

On Monday, at the same time as the Russia hearings, over in the Senate, Judge Neil Gorsuch was making a statement and questions were being asked in his confirmation hearings. I wasn't able to listen to that until Tuesday, and again I listened in my car when I could. Those hearings continued until today, Thursday. There were some tough questions, and generally Judge Gorsuch came across as a capable, well-spoken, calm individual. Very judge-like!

I didn't like some of his answers, though, such as his decision involving a trucker who, unable to move his trailer in sub-zero weather, decided to drive his cab to warm up and return to his trailer later. He was fired, and Judge Gorush ruled in favor of his employer. Here is Senator Al Franken grilling him on this case:





My personal beef against Judge Gorsuch is his decision in the Hobby Lobby case. He ruled that a corporation has the right to invoke its religious beliefs in limiting its employees' behavior, in this case to prevent female employees from making choices about birth control. This to me is a horrid decision and one that makes me entreat my Senators to vote against his confirmation.

But the bigger fact that leads me to ask my Senators to filibuster, is the fact that the man who nominated him to a lifetime appointment is under a cloud of illegitimacy. We must get to the bottom of the Russia situation and the legitimacy of the 2016 election before such an important decision should be made. We're in a constitutional crisis, and a decision like this is too big to be made at this time.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) agrees with me and has announced he cannot support the judge's nomination. The Democrats are planning to filibuster. The Republicans have threatened use the "nuclear option" to change the rules so that they can bypass the normal 60 votes needed to confirm. If they are so, so hot for this nominee, then that also gives me pause about him and his conservative bent.

Another interesting tidbit. During the very time that Judge Gorsuch was appearing before the Senate, the Supreme Court was hearing cases. They reached a unanimous decision to reverse an interpretation that Judge Gorsuch helped craft in a case revolving around the education of an autistic child. You can read about that case here.

SCROTUS also had a re-election campaign rally in Kentucky on Monday night. Just weird, bizarre and wrong.

That was the start to the week.

But wait! There's more!

We also walked into the Big Tent for the Circus that was the SCROTUS hard-sell for passage of his American Health Care Act (ACHA), aka TrumpCare. It would be better named, "TЯUMP Don't Care 'bout Nothin' But Lining The Rich's Pockets Just a LEEETLE Bit More." (The TDCBNBLTRPJALBM Act). That was interesting.

I was listening again as SCROTUS was meeting with members of Congress, alternatively sweet-talking them and making deals and outright strong-arming them (You'll "lose your seat" in 2018 if you don't vote for this; "I'm gonna come after you”) .....Gah this man is so odious!

Changes were made to the bill to court the conservatives, but even as the conservative members were on-board, more moderate members' votes were lost.

And when all was said and done, the vote was postponed until tomorrow. It doesn't sound like he turned enough votes -- but you just never know. I'm hoping that tomorrow's news will be good. The scuttlebutt is that if it fails, this will be a real blow to his "Presidency." But really, there have been so many "blows" that this one will just leave a bruise. Hopefully it will convince the House to work on making the ACA better, which is what polls show the majority of Americans want. (Aside: It still blows my mind that a full one-third of American citizens do not know that "Obamacare" and the "ACA" are the same thing!)

Today marks the seventh anniversary of Obama signing the bill into law.

If that weren't enough for one week in Washington, SCROTUS gave an interview to Time Magazine. The cover story is to be about Asshat Littlefinger's lies. In the interview, without a trace of irony from the #AlternateLeader, the lies and rants just kept pouring forth. He continued to harp that Obama did indeed "wiretap" him (Quotes, OK? QUOTES!); that he won the popular vote; that the government economy statistics are "phony" (unless they are favorable to him, of course); that the leakers are the real issue; that he'll "win" the Time cover contest over Nixon (Bwahahaha!); that Ted Cruz's father was an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald (he got that one from the National Enquirer!); that when he spouts lies it's because he is "a very instinctual person"; and that he's "President and you're not," neener neener neener! Read it here. Truly bizarre.

Not Normal. #resist

3 AM: A poem for World Poetry Day

3 AM

The King of Fools sits on his porcelain throne,

His marmalade face deepening in tangerine tone.

One hand clasps the TP; the other his cellular phone. 

His latest tweet reads like a third grader’s koan.

When King D don't like the facts, they don't exist. 

And in their place, stuff from the TP he bends and twists. 

“My crowds were YUGE! She’s a sad loser!” He hissed.

“No Tic Tacs needed for that ugly feminist!”

He wants the fools to think a bear's a goat,

Or even that he won the popular vote. 

The orange-faced loon can scream and shout and gloat

We 60% know the twitiot is really just a scrote.

Ears and whiskers up, my fabulous pussy kittens!

Cuz when our Senators are called and all our letters written,

This King of Fools’ throne, the one he takes a shit in,

Will be moved from Pennsylvania Avenue, out West to ol’ San Quintin.

SCOTUS Nominee Neil Gorsuch

"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever." -William Howard Taft

I've been wanting to blog about SCROTUS's SCOTUS pick, Neil Gorsuch (Haha, autocorrect makes him "Grouch"), just about since the inception of this blog.  Now that the confirmation hearings are scheduled to begin Monday March 20, the urgency is upon me to read, gel my thoughts, and tell my Senators what to do.

Part of me wants the Democrats to get retribution and block ANY of SCROTUS's nominees, but I also fundamentally disagree with the Republicans' tactic against President Obama and his nominee Merrick Garland. Two wrongs do not make a right. There ain't no way SCROTUS will nominate Garland, and we need a functioning Supreme Court. To have them hobble along for four years with eight justices just does not feel right.  So, we need to let the process happen. And pray to the gods that the Notorious RBG stays alive for four more years.

This man is 49 years old and the decision to confirm him or not is probably the most important question we'll deal with during these four years.  The potential that he helps shape America for decades to come is a very serious issue.

This op-ed from the New York Times caught my eye back at his nomination, a lifetime ago (6 weeks feels like multiple lifetimes under this administration).

The author, an acting solicitor general in the Obama administration, worked with Gorsuch during the Obama administration and found the judge's temperament to be suited to the post. He wrote that Gorsuch "brings a sense of fairness and decency to the job, and a temperament that suits the nation’s highest court."  He has confidence that Gorsuch would bring renewed confidence to the rule of law.  We need that in these times. The rule of law is just about the only thing that can reign in this apocolypse-horse-drawn carriage we are riding in.  We are counting on you, Judicial Branch!

A couple weeks later, Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumar (D-NY)  wrote a scathing op-ed about Gorsuch outlining his serious concerns about Judge Gorsuch's abilities to be independent, criticizing the judge's refusal to publicly condemn SCROTUS's comments about the judiciary,  and comparing Gorsuch's demeanor and hedging to (then-Judge) Roberts before his confirmation hearings.

Here is a video clip of Senator Schemer discussing these concerns with Rachel Maddow.





Today I've been reading more about Judge Gorsuch.

There was an excellent op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times.  Please read it and help formulate some  questions for your Senators to ask of the judge.  As an "originalist" Gorsuch should be questioned about his basic attitudes about the Constitution and precedents.

I encourage you to read about Judge Gorsuch's jurisprudence on the SCOTUS Blog.  Reading there may help you decide if you would like to encourage your Senators to support his nomination or filibuster. But whatever you do, you need to contact your Senators by email TODAY and TOMORROW, as hearings start Monday and a vote could take place as early as Thursday.  Here is how to contact your senator. 

My quick-n-dirty about Gorsuch:

He doesn't have a clear record on abortion, but he did favor Hobby Lobby in their case as plaintiffs wanting to restrict their obligation to allow their female employees' coverage for birth control. Read more here.

His 4th Amendment rulings have been thoughtful, in my opinion. Read and make your own conclusions.

His attitudes on Civil Rights seem to be quite conservative. 

There's another concern.  Judge Gorsuch has been cozy with a Colorado billionaire, Philip Anshutz.  Of course he should recuse himself from cases involving Mr. Anshutz or his companies, but as this article outlines, the association with the billionaire is more like a web, with many individuals and entities coming in to play.  The Senate should delve into this question, and you should ask them to do so.

After my admittedly brief reading, my conclusion is that the Democrats should filibuster this nominee. SCROTUS should nominate another judge, one more centrist, which is a move that may start to heal the deep chasm of differences in this country. The most obvious choice is Garland, of course.

For your part, join me in emailing your senators some tough questions to ask the judge next week. And after you hear his answers, ask your Senators to take action in whatever way you think is fit. Be a part of the process!

Thanks again for reading.

International Women's Day

"Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul."--Coretta Scott King

It was a beautiful Spring Day on Wednesday. I put on a red dress and my fierce pink pussy hat and drove to De La Guerra Plaza for International Women's Day. The Women's March folks put on a rally there. There were a couple hundred people, most in red, to celebrate women and bring awareness to women's rights, especially equal pay and reproductive rights.

It was also to be a Day Without Women. Women were encouraged to strike by refraining from work, shopping, and volunteer activities. I had a light day of work, but there were patients who needed me, so I did make a few visits.

The rally was good.  There were a few people who spoke, and a couple women sang inspirational songs.  We were reminded that not all women are as fortunate as some of us who have the freedom to strike.  We were reminded that the fight for women's rights continues. We must continue the battle for women's rights, especially now with the SCROTUS administration.

Here are my photos and a video:

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There were a few media folks there. Here is their coverage.

KEYT: Santa Barbara women rally for International Women's Day
You can spot me in the crowd at :35 in the video!

The Santa Barbara Independent

Here is a photo from Noozhawk. There's my back!

I was surprised by a couple Facebook friends who took offense at the idea of the day, espeically the strike aspect. They posted these pieces.

From FAUX NEWS:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/03/08/day-without-women-who-are-women-who-wont-be-marching.html

and from "One America World Network"




This second one is especially offensive --  it's disheartening that women can call other women "hormonal emotional brats." -- but if you can get through her shriek-y demeanor, what strikes me is the irony. She states that a strike is elitist, but both of these pieces really show the lack of empathy and the narrow world view that some on the right embody. It's obvious neither of these women actually talked to women who were taking part in the Day's events. It seems to me both of them kinda missed the point.

As I said in response to both of these posts, though, at least the Day brought women's issues to their attention, and in their anger-filled way, both still gave attention to women's rights.  And they exercised their freedom to loudly and strongly speak their mind, thanks to courageous women who went before.

Yay for women, in all their glorious forms! 

"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."

"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go." Claudius, Hamlet, William Shakespeare

So.  We just need to say it. SCROTUS is a sick, sick man.  He is mad.  Mad!

We all know that there is something terribly wrong with the status of SCROTUS's mental health. The concern is becoming bigger and bigger as he leads us more and more toward dangerous ground.

Psychologists and psychiatrists have been hesitant to speak out about the subject, but more and more are speaking out.

Back in the 70s, an ethical rule was instituted by the American Psychiatric Association called the Goldwater rule. This was in reaction to a magazine's questionnaire to 12,000 psychiatrists regarding the mental health of Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.  Of some 2000+ respondents, about 1800 agreed that Goldwater was "not fit to be President."  The APA later decreed that psychiatric assessment of public figures was verbotin.

As a healthcare provider whose expertise is in the analysis of behaviors, I understand the ethical question about diagnosing someone that you have not met and examined in person.  However, when observing obvious traits and behaviors, a professional can spot disorders; it's what we are trained to do.  The current situation is so disturbing, so outrageous, that it is understandable that there are more mental health professionals, including esteemed professionals from top medical schools,  who are voicing their concerns and saying that not only does the Goldwater rule not fit in this case, but not raising alarms is the unethical choice.

The earliest and most vocal among them has been Dr. John Gartner, a psychotherapist from Johns Hopkins University Medical School. He has used the term Malignant Narcissism to describe SCROTUS. He also created an on-line petition on which 25,000 mental health professionals have voiced their conern about the Cream-Faced Loon's state of mental health and fitness for office.

Malignant Narcissim is Narcissitic Personality Disorder on Steroids.  The list of traits of NPD fits SCROTUS like a Little Willy condom:

• Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
• Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
• Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
• Requires excessive admiration
• Has a very strong sense of entitlement, e.g., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
• Is exploitative of others, e.g., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
• Lacks empathy, e.g., is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
• Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
• Regularly shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

Malignant Narcissism takes NPD traits on a dark journey.  Those traits have been listed as:

• Anti-social behavior 
• Sadism 
• Aggressiveness 
• Paranoia 
• Grandiosity 
• Entitled 
• Regressed 
• Manipulative 
• Destructive 
• Egocentric 
• Use of projection 
• Lack of conscience 
• Narcissistic

Take any public appearance, any tweet, from Faustus, Jr and you can see the obvious traits.

Here is Dr. Gartner explaining his view:

Many other professionals have added their voice. Besides Dr. Gartner's petition, thirty-five mental health professionals signed a letter to the editor of the New York Times expressing their concern. Other professionals have also written about their concerns. It has been obvious for a long time to us back-seat psychologists that there is something terribly wrong with that man. Now that thousands of mental health professionals are rising up and speaking out, there is more of a sense of urgency to remove him from office.

The consequences of allowing the lump of foul deformity to continue his erratic behavior is scary to think about.  Like Dr. Gartner and Dr. Dodes said, a paranoid person without empathy filters who has sadistic and aggressive tendencies and who has nuclear codes at his fingertips...... it is overwhelming to think about the possible consequences.

What can we do?  Keep watch! Read, be informed, contact your Members of Congress and express your concerns.  Encourage investigations, impeachment, whatever it takes to remove this sociopath from power. 


Here is more reading about the subject:

Psychology Today

US News

Columbia Journalism Review

Forbes

Washington Monthly

A Primer for Contacting your Representatives and Taking Other Action

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." --Napoleon Boneparte

Soon after the election, people were clamoring for ways to take action to resist the incoming administration. Those days were full of angst, with hightened emotions, confusion, feelings of being overwhlmed and not knowing what to do. There were good summary articles about what to do to resist, like this one from the New York Times and this from Huffington Post.  There were also suggestions just to take the time to grieve before finding a way to act.

I remember being completely overwhelmed, not knowing where to turn, how to help. Luckily, organizers came together quickly.

One of the first things I saw was on November 14, when  Emily Ellsworth, a former congressional staffer, outlined in a series of tweets the best way to contact your Members of Congress.

Soon after, other former congressional staffers took to twitter and and tweeted a general course of action that they knew was effective. They had witnessed the Tea Party's tactics and learned what worked. They started with a google doc and it boomed into a guide and finally a nationwide organization, with local groups coast-to-cost, called Indivisible. Santa Barbara has an Indivisible group. Check the website to see if there's a group in your community.

Since then, a few other organizations that have popped up to facilitate action by resisters. These organizations are a boon! They do the legwork and make it easy to take part in Democracy by making phone calls.

One is Daily Action. You can sign up for a daily text notification. Your text will outline an issue and suggest an action. You can call their number, put in your zip code, and they will patch you through to your representative or the correct department to which you can make comments. I have used this one and I like it.

Find more information here: https://dailyaction.org/

Antoher option is 5 Calls. This one lets you choose an issue that is most important to you, outlines the issue of the day, and provides a sample script. You can log the call on their site as well. My Big Sister Resister has used it throughout the last few weeks and has made her voice heard.

Learn more and subscribe at: https://5calls.org/

3/27/17 Edited to add:  Resistbot is a great app that lets you enter a letter to your MoCs via text. They will format it into a fax and fax it for you. It works great!

Learn more here: https://resistbot.io

Once resisitbot made me aware that faxing is a good way to contact MoCs, I've been using my personal fax service (it uses email) to fax my representatives and also to contact Committees.  Look up the committee you are interested in contacting. There are fax and phone numbers listed. I've written the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Intelligence Committee, as well as the House Committee on Ways and Means. Learn about the issues and tell them what they should do. They work for US!

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There are other sites and groups that can help navigate this huge web of issues. Here is a good compliation of various sources. There are a lot! You can sort by category.  I haven't explored all of these, but you may want to. Please check in with a comment below if you have experience with other online resistance action groups.f

And if you want to learn more about the bills that Congress is introducing you can go straight to the source. Congress.gov has a good search tool to explore current and past legislation.

Please join us in taking action. Go in! Make a call. Make just one phone call on an issue that is important to you. Just one. Add your voice. All the voices added together are impossible to ignore!