From a verified voter in Oakland, CAIllegal deportations
This week Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal resident of Vermont, walked into an immigration office in Colchester for what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Instead, he was arrested and removed in handcuffs by plainclothes, armed, individuals with their faces covered. Like the other
From a constituent in Oakland, CASupport Senator Van Hollen!
I understand that Senator Chris Van Hollen has announced that if Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not home by midweek he plans to travel to El Salvador to check on his condition and discuss his release. EVERY DEMOCRAT should be saying the same. Please support Senator Van Hollen by joining him!
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAcongress I am writing today to urge you to SUPPORT H.R. 2601, the Delete DOGE Act, introduced by Representative Sara Jacobs of California. The legislation would prohibit federal funds from being used for DOGE's work, rescind unobligated funds currently available to DOGE, and restrict any future exp
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAThe House has passed a bill that limits the authority of federal district judges to issue nationwide orders. This is an obvious reaction and retaliation to several court rulings against the Trump administration. Republicans blame “activist liberal judges” for blocking the regime’s attempts to dism
From a constituent in Oakland, CASupport Senator Van Hollen
Please join Maryland Senator Van Hollen in his declared mission to free Abrego Garcia. Travel with him to El Salvador if needed. Investigate CECOT. Demand Garcia's safe return. Be brave. Stand up for due process and fundamental human rights. A Congressional delegation will send the message we need.
From a constituent in Oakland, CAICE must be stopped
ICE is acting as the secret police in the US at this moment. I wish I were being paranoid, but I'm not - Amnesty International, the ACLU, and Human Rights Watch have all taken note. And without due process, every US resident is at risk. ICE must be stopped. Better yet, dismantled completely. This is
From a constituent in Oakland, CATell Ortez to free Abrego Garcia NOW
President Ortez of El Salvador is being hosted by our current administration this week. This would be a good time to ensure the release of wrongly imprisoned Abrego Garcia. It would also be a good time to advocate for the end of transfers to CECOT entirely. The US should not be paying another govern
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAcongress I am writing to you today to call to your attention that it has been 20 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots. The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is inexcusable. This is a significant and appallin
From a constituent in Oakland, CADon't Forget Signalgate
The President managed to distract the country from his administration's security blunders by threatening a trade war with the world. Now that he has walked back some of his tariff threats, it's time to remember that his appointees compromised national security and broke the law by making war plans o
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAThe Trump regime has announced that it plans to cut regional offices of the Social Security Administration by 90%, and move all communications to X, the platform owned by Elon Musk. First, it is absurd to think that the agency can function well with only 10% of its current staff. It can’t, and ther
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAThe Supreme Court has not done its job of ensuring justice for Americans. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported by ICE, should be brought back to the US immediately. Everyone at ICE involved in the creation of this horrifying situation should immediately be terminated. Due process is the American
From a constituent in Oakland, CAStudent loan repayment relief
The current administration has suspended income-derived student loan repayment programs. Without those programs, my student loan payments are far too burdensome to sustain. I honestly don't know what I am going to do without the program. I am a part-time ESL teacher with a disability. With income-ba
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAI am writing today to insist that you OPPOSE the SAVE Act, which does nothing except to disenfranchise millions of voters. If the bill passes, more than 21 million Americans could be blocked from voting. The bill’s requirement that voters produce these documents “in person” would also upend most
From a constituent in Berkeley, CAToday I am writing about vaccines, specifically Novavax Covid vaccine. It needs official approval. Will you please do all you can to advance that? Thank you for everything you do.
From a verified voter in Berkeley, CAUS Treasury yields at levels not seen since the 9/11 attacks
Yields on US treasuries have hit highs that were last seen when we were attacked on 9/11. High yields are a sign that Financial authorities worldwide have lost confidence in the US because of Trump's wild antics with tariffs. US Treasuries have provided the foundation for the world economy for 80 y
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAOn March 3, 2025, the Treasury Department announced that it would stop enforcing “any penalties or fines associated with the beneficial ownership information reporting rule under the existing regulatory deadlines, but it will further not enforce any penalties or fines against U.S. citizens or domest
From a constituent in Oakland, CACECOT is a travesty of human rights
CECOT in El Salvador is not a prison. It is a death camp. It violates so many basic human rights that it should not exist at all. Yet we are now paying the Salvadorean government to house immigration detainees there. ("House" is an ugly joke in this context.) We must not only stop sending anyone to
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAI am writing in concern over reports of Elon Musk and his accomplices exerting control over government information systems. At best, Musk and his team are unauthorized personnel who apparently are installing new email systems and blocking authorized employees from accessing government information sy
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAI am writing today to draw your attention to Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii. Senator Schatz has held up more than 300 of Trumps’ unfit nominees to various offices and positions. Senator Schatz has a page on his website that goes far beyond the generic “Help” pages found on most congressional offic
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAAs a constituent, I am writing to urgently request that you support the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the face of a direct attack by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Since April 1, DOGE has put dozens of the NEH’s staff on administrative leave, making it impossible fo
From a constituent in Berkeley, CAThere is so much to be concerned about, but I'm writing again about social security. I'm one of your constituents who receives social security disability, and if my husband is ever able to retire it will be because of social security payments. I am so outraged about the cuts to SSA staff and the
From a verified voter in Berkeley, CAMy 401k lost over $100k in one week because of Trump tarrifs
Trump's tariffs are terrible for those of us approaching retirement. My retirement fund has lost over $100,000 in the last week & my wife has lost a similar amount. We avoid individual stocks and invest primarily in cheap normal market funds. The tariffs are hurting real people, not just corporate
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAcongress I am writing today to ask you to take action to OPPOSE the order from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to increase timber quotas by 25% nationwide. The order opens up 176,000 square miles, primarily in the Western United States, to plundering and ruin by the logging companies. While
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAcongress During the Biden Administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a rule which limited bank overdraft fees to $5 (down from the current average of $35). Under Trump, a GOP-sponsored joint resolution in the House (H.J. Res. 59) and Senate (S.J. Res. 18), seeks to undo
From a verified voter in Alameda, CASenate Republicans are pushing a new budget plan that makes the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent and adds a further $1.5 trillion in cuts. The tax cuts are already disastrous and unfair, and must not be extended for even one day. Despite the fact that budget reconciliation rules require that a decrea
From a verified voter in Alameda, CAI am writing today to say that Congress MUST take action to override Trump’s horrific and destructive tariffs. Everyone in Congress needs to support legislation to reclaim Congressional authority over US trade policy. Trump’s destructive and nonsensical tariffs must be repealed, and his authority t
From a verified voter in Oakland, CAPALESTINIANS ARE PEOPLE! Take a stand for them, and for all of us!
I understand that you have not yet taken a stand against the ongoing war crimes Israel is committing in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. Please understand this: it is immoral and unacceptable for us as a country to be cutting national funding for everything from cancer research to social security whi
From a constituent in Berkeley, CADon't let Trump take Congress 's funding powers! Support the Grassley Cantwell bill and make sure only Congress can approve tariffs. And go even further. The President should not be able to pull funding from programs Congress funds The idea of one person pulling funding for teachers and essential se
From a constituent in Berkeley, CADefend NEH and NEA, save our museums and libraries! Among all the other cruel, hasty and possibly illegal cuts are layoffs aimed at NEA and NEH as well as IMLS targeting museums and libraries. As your constituent I ask you to please fight to protect our cultural treasures. Please save these impo
From a constituent in Berkeley, CANovavax Covid vaccine needs to be approved. There is still a chance it will advance this coming Tuesday, but its approval has been delayed. I am one of many looking forward to getting another Novavax booster. Please speak out on this in my name. Thank you for all you do.
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