Keyword Guide
Resistbot responds when you text one of the keywords below to Apple Messages, Telegram, Instagram, Messenger, or by text to 50409.
Lobby Your Officials
Use these keywords to lobby your officials.
- resist
- Not sure where to start? Start here!
- call
- List your officials and their phone numbers
- 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
- following
- See petitions created by organizers you follow
- 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
- trending
- See what petitions are trending right now
- write
- Write a letter manually to any of your officials
- write [target]
- Use write followed by a letter target as a shortcut
Letter Targets
When prompted for where to send your letter, reply with one of these.
- all
- President, U.S. Congress, Governors & Legislators
- federal
- The President & U.S. Congress
- state
- State Governors and/or Legislators
- congress
- U.S. Senate & U.S. House of Representatives
- senate
- U.S. Senate
- house
- U.S. House of Representatives
- court
- The U.S. Supreme Court
- president
- The President of the United States
- vice
- The Vice President of the United States
- senior
- Senior U.S. Senator
- junior
- Junior U.S. Senator
- gov
- Governor
- legislature
- State Senate & House
- upper
- State Senate
- lower
- State House
- ceo
- Chief Election Official (Sec. of State, Lt. Gov., or Election Dir.)
- mayor
- City or County Mayor
Get Ready to Vote
Voting is your sacred civic duty, make sure you’re ready.
- check
- Check your voter registration
- election
- Find your local (usually county) election office
- polling
- Find early vote sites, ballot dropboxes & polling places
- track
- Track your early or mail-in ballot
Organize & Volunteer
Ten people taking action is better than you taking ten actions. Organize others for more impact.
- 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
- petitions
- See petitions you’ve already created
- 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
- visit
- Visit the capitol or local offices for your federal officials
- volunteer
- Find phone banks, canvassing, and other volunteer events
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
Community Resources
Non-political community resources.
- blood
- Local non-profit community blood centers
- csa
- Community-Supported Agriculture near you
- food
- Food banks near you
- mutual aid
- Mutual aid networks near you
Manage your Account
Bot settings and preferences.
- account
- Change your name, address, prefix/title, or email
- alerts
- Manage what texts/alerts the bot can send you
- buy
- Buy coins to spend on faxes (10), postage (80), and promotions (2)
- close [code]
- Use with a petition code, e.g., PABCDE, to close a petition
- coins
- See how many coins you have
- follow [user]
- Use with a username (e.g., FOLLOW ROSIE) to get text updates from an organizer
- 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
- prefs
- Change bot behaviors
- stats
- See your usage stats and followers
- stop
- Cancel the service completely
- switch
- Connect your SMS account to a non-SMS platform like Apple Messages or Telegram
- unfollow [user]
- Use with a username (e.g., UNFOLLOW ROSIE) to unfollow an organizer