Keyword Guide
Resistbot responds when you text one of the keywords below to Apple Messages, Telegram, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, or by text to 50409.
Lobby Your Officials
From Mayor to President, your elected officials work for you.
- resist
- Not sure where to start? Start here!
- copilot
- Ask our AI to write a letter for you to any of your officials
- copilot [H.R. 3000]
- Send a bill number (e.g., H.R. 100, S. 100, H. RES. 200) to have the bot write a letter for you about that bill
- copilot [link]
- Send a link to a news article (e.g., a story from CBS News or NPR) to have the bot write a letter for you about that issue
- offices
- Get the capitol or local offices for your federal officials
- officials
- List your officials and their phone numbers
- review
- Submit a public review of your elected officials
- sign [code]
- Use with a petition code, e.g., SIGN PUCZGE to send that petition to your officials
- write
- Write a letter manually to any of your officials
- write [target]
- Use write followed by one of the keywords below as a shortcut
Letter Targets
When prompted for where to send your letter, use one of these!
- president
- The President of the United States
- federal
- The President and the U.S. Congress
- congress
- U.S. Senate & U.S. House of Representatives
- senate
- U.S. Senate
- senior
- Senior U.S. Senator Only
- junior
- Junior U.S. Senator Only
- house
- U.S. House of Representatives
- court
- The U.S. Supreme Court
- state
- State Governor and/or State Legislators
- gov
- State Governor
- legislature
- State Legislators
- upper
- State Senate (Upper Chamber)
- lower
- State House or Assembly (Lower Chamber)
- ceo
- Chief Election Official (Sec. of State, Lt. Gov. or Election Director)
- mayor
- City or County Mayor
Get Ready to Vote
Check and protect your registration, get an absentee ballot, and more.
- check
- Check your voter registration & be alerted if it changes
- eighteen
- Get a reminder to register when you’re eligible to vote
- id
- Get voter ID requirements & an ID if you need one
- local
- Find and local election office
- Learn how to vote by mail in your state
- polls
- Find early vote sites, ballot dropboxes & Election Day polling places
- register
- Register or pre-register to vote
- protect
- Report an election problem to the nonpartisan Election Protection coalition
- track
- Track your early or mail-in ballot
- vote
- See all voting-related features
Organize & Volunteer
Ten people taking action is better than you taking ten actions. Organize others for moreimpact.
- claim
- Claim your own keyword and amass followers
- import
- Turn your Action Network petition into a Resistbot campaign
- image
- Get an image of your last letter to share
- image [code]
- Get an image for any petition to share (e.g., IMAGE PCCPGW)
- image [keyword]
- Get an image for any keyword on Resistbot to share (e.g., IMAGE CHECK)
- invite
- Use with a campaign code, e.g., PABCDE, to see how many people have signed your campaign and to invite more
- moms
- Find local Moms Demand Action events
- petition
- Make your last letter a signable petition
- promote
- Spend coins to promote your petition or vote drive to other Resistbot members
- run
- Find local elected offices to run for with Run for Something
- volunteer
- Find phone banks, canvassing, and other volunteer events
- worker
- Find out how you can work the polls during elections
News, Issues, and Numbers
Informational keywords for issues, news, and data.
- abortion
- See abortion policies in your state after the overturning of Roe v. Wade
- bills
- See upcoming bills in the U.S. House
- donors
- See the top donors to your Congressional officials’ campaigns
- guns
- See how much gun rights and gun safety groups have spent on your representatives
- native
- See what native lands you’re currently occupying
- NRA
- See how much the gun manufacturers lobby has spent for/against your representatives
- page
- Get up to three newspaper front pages delivered daily
- trending
- See what petitions are trending right now
Community Resources
Non-political community resources.
- blood
- Find a local non-profit community blood center
- covid
- See current mandates and what’s open and closed in your state
- covid act
- Get state and county pandemic data from COVID Act Now
- covid test
- Find COVID testing sites near you
- csa
- Find Community-Supported Agriculture near you
- food
- Find your nearest food banks
- hospitals
- Data on your local hospital capacities and COVID patients
- mutual aid
- Find your nearest mutual aid networks
- vaccine
- Find your nearest vaccination location
Manage your Account
Bot settings and preferences.
- account
- Change your name, address, prefix/title, or email
- alerts
- Manage what alerts the bot can send you, like promoted & trending campaigns
- buy
- Buy coins to spend on extra letters (10), faxes (10), postage (75), and promotions (2)
- close [code]
- Use with a petition code, e.g., PABCDE, to close a petition
- coins
- See how many coins you have
- commands
- Get a list of these commands
- feedback
- Take our product survey
- follow [user]
- Use with a username (e.g., FOLLOW ROSIE) to get text updates from a member
- following
- See who you’re following
- pair
- Use from a messaging app like Apple Messages or Telegram to pair your SMS (text) account
- premium
- Upgrade your account to premium and unlock more features
- premium cancel
- Cancel your premium membership
- premium change
- Change the payment method attached to your account
- petitions
- See all petitions you’ve created
- prefs
- Change bot behaviors
- stats
- See your usage stats and followers
- stop
- Cancel the service completely
- support
- If you can’t find an answer on the help page you can get to human with this keyword
- switch
- Connect your SMS account to a non-SMS platform like Apple Messages or Telegram