Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!) Scroll down to the matching number of your option:
- Fight for affordable healthcare
- Keep up the anti-war (especially illegal war) message
- Boycott Hilton
- Sign or rewrite and send a Resistbot letter reminding Congress that congressional oversight is required, not optional
Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m a constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored.
Contact info:
Angus King
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292
Susan Collins
DC: (202) 224-2523
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417
Chellie Pingree
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019
Waterville: (207) 873-5713
Jared Golden
DC: (202) 225-6306
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767
Find your State Representative:
By name: Here
By district: Here
(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)
Actions
1) Fight for affordable healthcare:
House Democrats could move as soon as today to force a vote on extending the expired ACA subsidies for three years. Our representatives–especially GOP–need to hear from you, their constituents, that you want them to vote for the extension without strings attached. Millions of people are already seeing their health insurance premiums rising exponentially. If the subsidies are not extended, many will be forced to choose between feeding their families and having health insurance (without which the costs of healthcare could bankrupt families across the country).
Bottom line: Republicans want to rip away tax credits from working- and middle-class Americans in order to give tax breaks to the corporations that rip us off. The big irony is that some of those corporations getting tax breaks are the health insurance companies who charge unaffordable premiums to begin with.
Contact Rep. Jared Golden to make sure he’s going to vote for a “clean extension” of the Affordable Care Act Tax Credits.
2) Keep up the anti-war (especially illegal war) message:
Senator Tim Kaine plans to force a vote this week to block further military action against Venezuela without congressional approval. “We’ve entered the 250th year of American democracy and cannot allow it to devolve into the tyranny that our founders fought to escape,” he said. If you’re uncertain about the illegality of Trump’s military operation and the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president and his wife (and yes, they are evil, horrible people, but that’s not the point), read this helpful explanation: https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/back-to-legal-basics-on-venezuela.
Contact Senators King and Collins and demand that they support Tim Kaine’s war powers resolution. Point out to Susan Collins that this is not a partisan situation: This is legal vs illegal, right vs wrong, good vs evil. It sets a terrible precedent, supporting the idea that military might—not a sovereign nation’s own people—can determine who has power in another country. That goes against everything ever set up after WWII to prevent war across the globe. If Trump wants to revitalize a country, he can begin with our own country, which he has been doing everything in (and outside of) his power to destroy. Enough is enough. Congress has to take back its job and stop this criminal president.
Contact Rep. Golden and demand that he support or introduce a similar resolution in the House. Same arguments as above. Plus he’s ex-military and he’s resigning after his term is over, so he should also join Mark Kelly et al in reminding servicemen and -women that they are expected to disobey illegal orders. He’s got nothing to lose.
3) Boycott Hilton:
A lot of us were happy with Hilton when the Hampton Inn Lakeville Minneapolis canceled reservations for ICE agents at their hotel. But after the DHS accused the entire Hilton hotel company of helping to “undermine and impede D.H.S. law enforcement,” Hilton responded by sycophantically assuring DHS that it wasn’t their company’s policy, just an act by a rogue franchise. And now that franchise has been removed from the Hilton website as an option for booking a room. So now we should boycott Hilton and tell them—and everyone on social media—why. You can email Hilton at hilton.comments@hilton.comand hiltonhonors@hilton.com. To be on the safe side, send your email to both addresses. If you’re a Hilton Honors member, make sure they know it. So let’s tell Hilton that we refuse to stay in a hotel where ICE agents might be staying—we wouldn’t feel safe around those thugs. Or say whatever you like. Just make sure they know they’ve lost your business until they get with the humanitarian, anti-kidnapping-and-deportation-without-due-process, anti-masked-enforcers program.
4) Sign or rewrite and send a Resistbot letter reminding Congress that congressional oversight is required, not optional:
To send the Resistbot letter, text SIGN PHUCNM to 50409, or to @Resistbot on Apple Messages, Messenger, Instagram, or Telegram. To rework it in your own words, you can read the original letter hereand then rework it in your own words and send it to Susan Collins, Angus King, and Jared Golden.
Yours in Civic Action,
Bold Coast Civic Alliance
