Things You Can Do Right Now

1. Contact Rep. Kilmer and thank him for voting NO (along with 196 other Democrats) on H.R. 10515, the Continuing Resolution to fund the government concocted by Trump and Mike Johnson after Trump torpedoed their original Continuing Resolution the previous Day. The House has not passed a farm bill, so H.R.10515 included some of the farm bill that has been written, as well as a two-year debt limit suspension that Trump wants to clear the way for extending and increasing the tax cuts for billionaires the GOP is planning in 2025. (President Biden wisely negotiated a debt limit that does not need to be increased until June.)

2. Contact President Biden and urge him to publish the Equal Rights Amendment in the Federal Register.

4. Urge President Biden to commute the sentences of the 40 inmates currently on federal death row. Read "Trump and Barr's Last Minute Killing Spree" by ProPublica.

5. Urge President Biden to pardon members of the House subcommittee that investigated Jan. 6. Democrats like Sen. Adam Schiff, who participated in the two impeachments of Trump during his first term, should be pardoned. Biden should also pardon Dr. Fauci, generals Milley, Kelly and McChrystal, Lt. General Mattis, Lt. Colonel Esper, and Navy admirals Mullen and Stavridis, everyone who participated in the Mueller investigation and everyone on Jack Smith's team. Because they have done nothing wrong, it is unlikely they will accept pardons, but the offer should still be made. Trump has nominated Pam Bondi for Attorney General, and she is on the record as advocating for "investigating the investigators."

6. Urge Merrick Garland (202-353-1555) to release to the public with minimal redactions Jack Smith's forthcoming report on his investigation of Jan. 6 and the stolen intelligence documents.

7. Push our senators to work with the "sane" Republican senators to oppose the nominations of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tulsi Gabbard as director of national security, Mehmet Oz as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Kash Patel as director of the FBI. Putting vaccine critic Dave Weldon in charge of the CDC also rates as a "worst."

8. Push our senators to confirm the remaining 13 nominees to be federal district court judges. Since the Nov. 5, election, the Senate has confirmed 12 district court judges with 13 nominees left to go, including two new Biden nominees.

9. Call our senators and urge them to include President Biden's two nominees to the USPS board on the priority list for Senate confirmation. With Republicans hell bent on using the Comstock Act to prevent medication abortions, leaving these seats open for Trump to fill would a calamitous error. If confirmed, the appointees may finally throw out Louis DeJoy.

10. Call our senators and urge them to pass S.2074, the PRESS Act. The PRESS Act would prohibit the federal government from compelling journalists and providers of telecommunications services (e.g., phone and internet companies) to disclose certain protected information, except in limited circumstances such as to prevent terrorism or imminent violence.

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