Keep calling! Yesterday, Sen Murkowski (R-AK) noted the U.S. Senate phone system had around 1,600 calls/minute, in contrast to the 40/minute usually received.
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I live in Northern Virginia. Today we are visiting our Rep and Senators in their offices to voice our concerns! We are demanding a no vote on any cabinet nominees!
Wait till all those forced out apply for Unemployment and stop buying, and kids suspend college, and real estate goes down due to foreclosures, and bankruptcy starts! The ripple effect will crush us all eventually. People think they are in silos! And eggs and gas are still costly!
Especially critical if you have Republican senators in your state. Remind them that THEIR power is being taken away. That seems to be the only aspect of this situation that they might understand.
I just called the Capitol Switchboard and when I stated the name of the Senator I wished to speak with nothing happened - just music playing. Did Trump shut that down also??
Who are the 4 Republican Senators that COULD vote NO on Vought? Are there 4? They should be specifically targeted for calls and emails from their constituents!!
OMG! I called him too and I also live in CA! I played the mom card and that if he is who he says he is he will stand up agains Trump! I also called Mitch and said he can still save his legacy lol
Live humans answer. Also today a R Rep.'s outbound mx said constituents 1, non constituents 2, other 3. I was not a constituent so 2, however, it sent me to the main switchboard, so I went back and hit 3, they picked right up. Simple majority = three Rs defect. So pick a few non-magas and call.
I got to 11 calls this morning, and they stopped the recorder by noon!!!
I nearly pissed myself when it stopped answering!!!
Ahhh yes, tomorrow is another day! In three days have called 31 times and left the same message. The girl who used to answer, no longer does and the machine takes the calls.
The tech bros are using the practice of willful infringement, a situation of knowingly violating someone else’s IP rights but proceeds anyway. This opens the door to enhanced penalties because it signals more egregious, deliberate, or reckless behavior than simple (perhaps innocent) infringement
I'm calling! Finally got through to my congressman, and gave the aide an earful. She sounded tired and overwhelmed, and it was early in the day! She didn't even offer any defense of what is happening. My conman is Republican.
Expressed my concerns and what I believe they should focus on to a very nice staffer. They said they would make my representative aware of my concerns. Didn't yell, or scream. Calmly stated concerns.
It reminds them we exist, that there are more if us than the bros they listen to. If we all go away shrugging our shoulders that “nothing matters”, that’s truly how they win.
Murkowski made a post to Alaskans telling them to please be patient, and explaining how many calls are having compared to the usual 40 a day that they get.
We need to start holding Republicans responsible. They’re complicit in this mess by abdicating their Congressional responsibilities. The know it’s wrong but they’re silent.
Call Republican Senators and Reps. Question them. Ask them publicly if they agree with what’s happening.
Also, can anyone else confirm that when you do reach your senator's voicemail, it's weirdly crackly, garbled, underwater-ish? Both Schumer and Gillebrand's were like this. Senate operator said "they know" with laconic disdain when I asked about it. Does the voicemail equiv of 4K cost more?
She used to try to do the right thing. But often flow against the Republicans if she felt it wasn’t the right thing to do. I was one of the nominations. She said she would not vote for. Of course she voted for him. Sadly, her spine has been removed.
Now I think everybody should keep calling and tell her how everyone disapproves of her vote. Overwhelm her inundate her make it known people are mad at her!
I just called Sen. Slotkin, one of my senators. I got voicemail with a message about high call volumes. I left a message demanding she raise her voice against Dicktator Trump.
Keep calling and leave messages. I noticed that the senators from Iowa say mailbox is full and you can’t leave messages. So they will say. I wasn’t getting any negative feedback from my constituents. 🙄
we should stop calling democrats, because they already feel as we do and we should harrass all republicans from now until forever. THEY are the problem. The Democrats are doing what they can with their minority. Want to really fight? CALL REPUBLICANS AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR!!
Call both. What matters to legislators of any party is calls from their own voters. If you’re a constituent of Democrats, it is important to keep up pressure on them to continue the kind of actions we’ve seen over the last few days.
I already emailed both and got responses back. General ones, but still :) Both of the senators in WA are democrats. You may have seen Patty Murray on tv lately :)
That said, it’s a marathon, not a sprint—it may be more effective to call your legislators once a week for the next year than it is to call multiple times a day for a week.
#congress must be made to understand that a #FreeAmerica will never stand for this. We need millions of calls every day until Musk is cuffed and dragged out of the treasury and the new administration is ousted. He has earned an #impeachment!
Where are the democrats?! Where are the republicans!? Four people could end the ruin of our country and choose not to act! They are all elected officials who swore an oath to defend our constitution, not fealty to a leader with no integrity.
True…and Dems are trying with various legislation introduced, filibusters etc. Rep are pandering to Admin and doing nothing. Still, “we the people” can speak up, act up, keep going…
My reps are hard MAGA but I’ve decided to be petty to try and make a point. Downloaded auto dialer app and just let it keep going. If I can get through I run through the script, if not I just let it call again while I work.
Cancun Cruz would not let his staffers say anything about the number of phone calls. So I'm guessing that means he had a s*** ton yesterday! He has a very professional staff, he ought to Aspire to that himself
Have you tried her regional offices? I had to do this for some of my Senators. I prefer calling DC offices, but I'm inferring that most regional offices also have aides who help relay feedback from recorded messages.
Did that nominee get through anyway ? Just like the 7 that voted to impeach him knowing they had the votes to protect him. It’s a game and we’re the losers. Republicans have proven who they are.
You can also Google their district offices in their respective states. Many times the lines are actually answered by some staff/office person. They would love to be taking your calls at this time. I just spoke with a female office clerk and I’m sure she wasn’t excited by my reason for calling 😂
I’m not from Louisiana but that doesn’t prevent me or anyone from calling the offices of these GOP members who’ve cowered to the idiocy of Trump and Musk.
Red state peeps! It is your turn! We have absolutely flooded the dems and they’re finally taking notice and putting pressure on the Rs. Time to flood *your* reps so that the pressure is coming from both sides. Even if they *don’t* have a conscience buried in there somewhere, we can scare them.
Take 5 minutes to tell the #CDC #PutItBack
they took down websites that doctors use everyday to determine if it is SAFE to prescribe birth control.
use to decide WHICH antibiotic and for how long to treat sexually transmitted infections.
We Taxpayers PAID for the CDC https://5calls.org/issue/restore-cdc-guidance-reproductive-lgbtq-health/
I have a trio of terrible representation - Hagerty, Blackburn & Ogles. They never do the right thing, but I've called their offices every morning this week for my own sanity. Also - it was great to get the message Hagerty's inbox was full 2 of those days. I'm not the only one calling...
I love that you might think Alaska up for grabs. No Democrats or Independents to step up. As much as I hope for better it will probably be Lisa again. If only we could get rid of Dan and replace with someone not so right.
I got my red-state MIL to make calls for the first time. After some trepidation, she had fun! It's so powerful to get calls to R's, so help nudge your friends and family to join in! Share scripts and tips! Soon R House members will have to deal with budget. Make them divide their attention.
Did it change anything? Make them act differently than they were already going to? Just curious if this is doing anything.
Not curious if they HEARD us, just curious if their mind was actually changed.
Rep Mark Pocan (D-WI) announced he would introduce the ELON MUSK Act—the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act—which would ban federal contracts for Special Government Employees, similar to the bans for members of Congress and other federal employees.
Did it do anything yet? So far I just hear talk and see more and more action from the other side. They’re not doing enough and no I’m not in the position to do what needs to be done. I can make calls and protest. But it seems like they just do the same thing they were going to do before we asked.
They would have done this without the phone calls. They were doing it anyway. They talked about it weeks ago and finally did it once last night. The calls had nothing to do with it.
So what did all of those calls actually do?
ARREST AND INDICT ELON MUSK AND HIS RUSSIAN TERRORIST THUGS NOW!!
Trump illegally granted power to MUSK and his monkeys to enter the USAID BUILDING and OFFICE WHERE IS MANAGE THE NUCLEAR CODES??
What else DONALD TRUMP??🤬🤬🤬
I don’t think so… when I was actually able to speak with a real person, I heard her pencil scratching and she asked me to repeat some things. I appreciate whatever they can do!
I apologize if I'm depressingly skeptical. Maybe staffers are actually still working under the belief that they are helping to serve constituents. That may be the case under democrat offices.
However, all of my DC "representation" is Republi-Nazi and I know from experience they DGAF.
Think about the millions who qualified for and need Medicare, particularly children and disabled Americans. Trump wants kill Medicaid. Ruthless. No no sense of empathy. He agreed to pay for medical care for a disabled child in the family. He got mad at the parents and stopped payments.
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Yes, and if you still can't get through or get "vmails is full" message, you can try regional offices. Legislators typically have websites with these details.
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I nearly pissed myself when it stopped answering!!!
Ahhh yes, tomorrow is another day! In three days have called 31 times and left the same message. The girl who used to answer, no longer does and the machine takes the calls.
Musk should be arrested. His handmaidens should be arrested. Where are her arrest warrants? Where are her subpoenas?
They like the calls: they can make political statements in hearings using the data.
Fuck Murkowski!
not sure call volume has really made that big an impression.
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Call away.
Slept? Dozed? Couched? Checked-out?
By the same token they should be afraid of being voted out of office by We, the people.
Call Republican Senators and Reps. Question them. Ask them publicly if they agree with what’s happening.
Toss them out Tuesdays!
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But I won't back down
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The switchboard operators are very nice.
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they took down websites that doctors use everyday to determine if it is SAFE to prescribe birth control.
use to decide WHICH antibiotic and for how long to treat sexually transmitted infections.
We Taxpayers PAID for the CDC
https://5calls.org/issue/restore-cdc-guidance-reproductive-lgbtq-health/
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Iowa
Alaska
North Carolina
Ohio
If you’re a blue dot in those states, your call will be very impactful 💙😃
I forgot the single most flippable Senate seat in Maine
Susan Collins is going to lose!
Dan Sullivan is due up and I think if Mary Peltola ran, she might win 🤞🏼💙😃
Or she has the world’s worst judgement.
Or, the use of “or” was incorrect.
Not curious if they HEARD us, just curious if their mind was actually changed.
The democrats were on the senate floor all night so somebody is listening.
So what did all of those calls actually do?
Maybe we should all do that.
Give us the good news about how you're having an impact.
Trump illegally granted power to MUSK and his monkeys to enter the USAID BUILDING and OFFICE WHERE IS MANAGE THE NUCLEAR CODES??
What else DONALD TRUMP??🤬🤬🤬
#ArrestElonMuskNOW!
#ImpeachMobsterTRUMPNow!!
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However, all of my DC "representation" is Republi-Nazi and I know from experience they DGAF.
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