Get rid

Every two years there is a vote for leadership...

Mainstream media immediately jumped on those two shitbirds as the default, but they have absolutely zero claim.

They don't reflect the values of Dem voters, and they're both shitty leaders. There is zero reason to give them leadership, or to keep determining committee chairs based solely off seniority.

People are so used to how neoliberals ran shit for 30 years, they forget there is absolutely nothing making the next congress follow those bullshit traditions.

I really need to get into grifting. It seems very profitable.

So this person made somewhere between $150-250k for posting this? How do I become a Change Ambassador?

e: You have to have a social following of >100k. You get an upfront payment based on audience size, then performance-based payouts for each petition on top of that.

But where does that moeny supposedly come from? Ads aren't likely to generate that much per person signing.

I didn't know this was a thing, gross.

They let MAGA rise and re-rise, and they've done NOTHING since to demonstrate that they've earned or deserve a THIRD chance to fuck it up. It's time for some competence in our government, and these two losers ain't it.

I have very little faith in Schumer and Jefferies.

That's still a little too much

Mine are both Republicans and have no sway in it.

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!)

I was initially writing a reply about how my district's incumbent Republican unfortunately won by less than a percent but that I'm with y'all in spirit, and I looked it up to verify that the difference hadn't changed. Fuck me, I missed that we elected who will now be my first Democrat House Representative. First Democrat to represent the district covering my hometown since the 30s lmao. So, thanks for the reminder to check the results after the initial disappointment, lol.

Yep - already sent this to my rep:

Now that the democratic party will have a majority in both houses of Congress, I and your constituents, along with democrats across the country, demand an end to the lackluster democratic leadership currently in place. We require new majority leaders that will actually hold Trump and his allies responsible for the many crimes that they have committed against this country and others worldwide. Please lend your support to candidates that will support action against this criminal behavior. Justice is what will ultimately help our nation to heal, not "moving on" or ignoring what has happened.

Contact your representatives and sign the Change org petition. It shows public pressure and only takes a few minutes, so why not?

And then they sell your data to every spam list imaginable.