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?

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.

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!)

Mine are both Republicans and have no sway in it.

I'm in Florida. I don't have anyone I can contact.

(In sorry, we tried.)

I sent angry voicemails to all of my representatives before the midterms. My capacity for action has been met for a bit. I do not have room in my brain for more political action right now.

Plus, I gave my info to the local election people so I could volunteer for elections next go around. I'm doing my part.

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

I posted it!

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.

Being the Senate majority leader requires a different skillset than retail campaigning. We need a progressive in that role, though, definitely, someone who will take risks and bend only when absolutely necessary.

You also don't want to put any potential presidential candidates in there--legislators have a lot of exposure to attack ads by voting for bills they don't 100% agree with but are worth the tradeoffs and a majority leader is going to have less freedom to vote No.

Bernie is not a Democrat, they'd never let him become Majority leader for their party. I'm not even sure if it would be possible unless Sanders switched from I to D

Progressives don't have enough clout yet to choose the speaker. A lot of the people who just won new seats are conservative to moderate Democrats.

At this point I just want a fighter who's going to go after maga. I'm pretty progressive but we need to be realistic about how Congress actually works.

I'm in favor of Elizabeth Warren. She can fight

Bernie is a million years old let the poor man rest and get someone younger for that job man.

Let's have Jon Stewart as Speaker of the House.

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.

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

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

You also may not have realized that you would be on their email list for the rest of your life.

If she gets 50 cents for each signature, and this one hit half a million signatures, then she just made $250,000.

That's of course scummy as hell, but you know what?

If it leads to the permanent ouster from leadership of that corrupt demagogue with zero charisma or other redeeming qualities, I'd say she earned it and should get double if she can do the same thing to Schumer too 🤷🏻

Currently 800k signatures and rising, so more then that.