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Petition to replace Hakeem Jeffries as Democrats’ House Speaker hits 500k signatures (www.newsweek.com)
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A petition calling on House Democrats not to support House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as the next Speaker has hit 500,000 signatures, according to its creator.

It follows the Democrats' dramatic midterm election victory that saw the party flip both the Senate and the House of Representatives, which will lead to a new Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House.

The petition, which labels Jeffries part of the “Democratic establishment,” suggests Democratic leaders are likely to remain under pressure from their party’s left-wing over both personal and policy choices. It was created by Nicole Whitted, an author and Democratic supporting social media creator with over 210,000 followers on TikTok.

For those who don't want to give newsweek a click: https://www.change.org/p/house-democrats-choose-a-new-speaker

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[–] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Big fan of https://5calls.org/.

Even if I'm calling about something that is not a listed topic. In that case, I'll

  1. click on the first topic and get the phone numbers off of it for the House rep
  2. hit Skip when I'm done instead of Made Contact or Voicemail. This, I think, avoids counting it as a contact on that specific topic, so I don't mess up their numbers.
  3. repeat steps 1 and 2 for both Senators.

In other words, I use their site and/or app (Apple here, Android here) to just spoonfeed me the phone numbers of my representatives. So easy, less friction, and the easy habits get kept.

Another option is to write down the numbers in your contacts once, naming them something like 111111 HouseRepName, 111111 Senator1 , 111111 Senator 2 to ensure they stay together and at the top of your contact list, and then run down the list calling.

(Listing for onlookers, I know you probably know!)

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