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  1. United States
  2. Sen. Richard Durbin

Sen. Richard Durbin

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Letters
Map PinGlenview, IL

Ta-da! Tonight we take the tally. Truth told, I am a tired teller of tales, a tenacious tabulator of treacheries, but this testimony is no trifle: it is a tally of treason, timestamped and true. Take the telephone, a tyrant tersely telling a tremulous tally-keeper to tease out a tidy total. Take t

Verified VoterGurnee, IL

Stand Up to Censorship and Authoritarianism and “Let Freedom Read”

October 10 is Let Freedom Read Day during National Banned Books Week. I urge you to defend our First Amendment freedoms, protect education, and confront the threat of censorship and authoritarianism. The freedom to read is inseparable from the freedom to think, question, and challenge those in powe

Verified VoterBatavia, IL

Impeachment Now!

Map PinChicago, IL

Invoke the 25th

If a sitting president is advocating for a foreign power to eliminate entire cities, it is time to invoke the 25. Vehemently. Categorically. Unequivocally. To fail to do so, is to be complicit. When will I see you on the floor advocating for removal?

Map PinDixon, IL

Impeach Trump over Remarks about Attacking U.S. cities

I am your constituent, and I urge you to support the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump over his remarks about Iran attacking Los Angeles and San Diego. At his October 5, 2026, rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, Trump said: “Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”

Verified VoterChicago, IL

Please do not support the Sunshine Protection Act. As a teacher, this will be exceptionally detrimental to my health if I cannot get light in the morning. Please do not do this to me, not in support of the golf industry and the wealthy country club goers.

Verified VoterEvanston, IL

Support an International Agreement to Slow Down AI

As your constituent, I’m asking you to call for an international agreement to slow down the development of advanced AI. AI is developing too rapidly for humanity to stay in the driver’s seat and the people closest to this technology are the ones sounding the alarm. • The heads of all four leading A

Map PinChicago, IL

Please block any transfer of National Park Service land inside Yosemite to Kingsbarn Realty Capital. The Trump administration is reportedly pushing the park service to hand over a quarter-mile parcel inside Yosemite — America's first national park — to a Nevada developer who wants to build a priva

Map PinChicago, IL

You cannot compromise with fascists.

I don't even know how to express my disappointment and disgust anymore. This Congress has allowed such heinous behavior both here at home and abroad that it boggles my mind. Your inaction and attempts at compromise have led us straight into the mouth of a fascist regime. Just like we have all been w

Map PinHampshire, IL

Jack Smith, who handed you all a slam dunk on a silver plate, is now being grilled by a man whose intellect is lower than a pair of socks. In four years you couldn’t manage to convict a man engaging in open corruption and crime. If, and it’s a big if, you regain Congress in November YOU HAVE ONLY TH

Map PinHampshire, IL

Dear My Public Servants, I’m so terribly happy that, in addition to using my tax dollars to enrich his friends and ill-begotten spawn, the Great Orange Pedophile is now using them to air commercials. If it would be more convenient for you blood suckers to get more of my money to support arches and

Verified VoterSkokie, IL

Heidi Overton is an anti-abortion extremist and should NOT run the FDA. I’m writing today to urge you to OPPOSE her nomination.

Map PinChicago, IL

Support the Reimagining Safety Act. Dismantle DHS & ICE.

As your constituent, I urge you to support the Reimagining Safety Act and dismantling DHS and ICE. DHS and ICE have terrorized the American people and, especially under this administration, consistently defied the law. In just a year, they have deported more than 170 people in violation of court or

Verified VoterBatavia, IL

Fight Trump Election Interference!

I am extremely concerned about the Trump administration’s ongoing interference with our election systems. I ask that the Senator defend the integrity of our elections by publicly condemning the DOJ’s unlawful seizure of state voter records and Trump’s unconstitutional calls to nationalize the electi

Verified VoterSpring Grove, IL

Democracy GONE

Our Democracy is GONE! When you have domestic terrorists armed with guns and pepper spray shooting citizens and legal immigrants is domestic terrorism. Each time an injury/shooting occurs the ICE goons, who we are discovering were not vetted before hiring them; lie about the circumstances surroundin

Map PinSkokie, IL

Prevent election tampering

Please take emergency action to disallow Starlink connectivity to election ballot data, tallying, and transmission. Elon Musk cannot be trusted. He clearly tampered with the last presidential election. And no, I’m not a crazy conspiracy theorist—just a very sane, very concerned citizen. Please act b

Map PinHampshire, IL

A timely reminder: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

Verified VoterBatavia, IL

Investigate ICE killing & Stop ICE Now!!

I’m outraged and so very angry that yet another person, Wilber Garces Perez, has been shot by ICE. It is wrong and sickening and the madness wrought by ICE MUST BE STOPPED,!!! ICE is completely out of control. Perez, was a DoorDash driver simply trying to make a delivery when ICE agents rammed

Map PinElmhurst, IL

Align Economic Incentives to Govern AI Before It's Too Late

Regulating AI without fixing the economy it operates in is a losing strategy. Restrictions alone won't work — corporations have spent centuries skirting regulations, exploiting loopholes, and capturing the politicians who write the rules. AI will let them do this faster and at a scale we've never se

Verified VoterVilla Park, IL

Defend Freedom of the Press

"Our liberty depends on the Freedom of the Press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." -Thomas Jefferson "The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty,

Map PinChicago, IL

Please support current efforts to regulate AI, including HR 9914, HR 9477, and HR 10362. We know what autonomous systems can do now, and we need to stop them now.

Map PinElmhurst, IL

Block ICE's $5 Million Federal Voter Database

Block ICE's plan to build a national voter database. DHS has announced ICE will spend up to $5 million to create a centralized federal repository of voter data, framed as part of a broader push to investigate alleged voter fraud. This is a dangerous overreach by an immigration enforcement agency tha

Map PinElmhurst, IL

Support Federal Limits on Automated License Plate Readers

Congress needs to pass meaningful restrictions on automated license plate readers before law enforcement lobbyists kill the momentum. This week, senior police officials from the Major County Sheriffs of America, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Association of State Criminal

Verified VoterChicago, IL

Good morning, while you all whine about “palestine,” the conman in the WH is destroying this country from within. He, combined with the far left dsa who has too many hamas supporters, are making this place completely unsafe for your Jewish continents. How are we supposed to support a candidate for s

Map PinChicago Heights, IL

Hello! I am writing today because I am painfully and increasingly aware of how outdated Medicare rules pertaining to coverage of wheelchairs really is. Many of the things Medicare and does not cover with respect to people who need wheelchairs date back to the old ugly laws when disabled people w

Map PinChicago, IL

Dear Sen. Durbin, I would like to thank you for always trying to hold this administration accountable for what they are doing. Your seriousness. Your tough questions. Holding their feet to the fire. Letting them know that we see them. We see what they are doing. They have to answer for what they hav

Verified VoterCrystal Lake, IL

Dear Mike Johnson & his blackmailers

Please share this with Mike Johnson. You cannot avoid votes to avoid impeachment. You cannot have a 170,000+ salary and not work for the people who pay you. Not talking about the billionaires you favor, the the normal every day citizens of the United States of America. Whatever they have on you will

Verified VoterWestmont, IL

47 has committed multiple impeachable crimes. Please vote to REMOVE THE POTUS from office! Please. Save democracy. Save lives. Save our country!! Thank you

Verified VoterGlenview, IL

Support the 32-Hour Workweek Act

Please co-sponsor and vote yes on the 32-Hour Workweek Act. The 40-hour standard hasn't been updated since 1940, and the economy looks nothing like it did then. Productivity has surged for decades while workers have seen little of those gains — cutting the standard workweek is a concrete way to chan

Map PinWheeling, IL

Support Israel in the fight vs Islamist jihadists taking over our world

Please ignore the many letters you get falsely accusing Israel of committing "genocide" because they are propaganda lies. Instead seek the truth and speak the truth of the atrocities Hamas perpetrated on October 7th and the fact that Hezbolla and Hamas plan to continue to attack until all of Isra

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