1. United States
2. Pa.
3. Letter

Federal civil servants and political appointees must not use official government resources or websites for partisan purposes. The Hatch Act prohibits partisan political activity by federal employees in their official capacities. Posting inflammatory, partisan content on official federal websites undermines public trust, politicizes government operations, and violates federal law. - **Example 1 Agency Homepage Partisan Article** A Department director posted a featured article on an official homepage that labeled opposing viewpoints as threats and urged support for a partisan policy agenda using agency branding. - **Example 2 Guidance Framed as Propaganda** Senior officials published guidance on an official subsite that presented a policy debate in partisan terms, attacked officials of one party, and linked to outside advocacy. - **Example 3 Official Account Cross-Posting** An official departmental account posted an inflammatory partisan statement to the agency news feed with endorsement-style language and official letterhead. - **Example 4 Coordinated Messaging with Campaigns** Website posts were timed and tailored to align with partisan campaign events, using agency credibility to amplify campaign talking points. - **Example 5 Failure to Retract** Requests from career staff and stakeholders to remove partisan content were ignored or inadequately addressed, leaving partisan material publicly visible. Demands 1. **Immediate Investigations** Open expedited formal investigations into each incident and every official who posted, approved, or failed to remove partisan content. 2. **Preserve and Produce Evidence** Preserve and provide website histories, CMS audit logs, drafts, emails, messages, approval chains, and calendar entries related to the posts. 3. **Public Findings** Publish investigative findings, legal analysis, and recommended disciplinary actions without delay. 4. **Corrective Actions and Discipline** Remove offending content, post formal retractions on official sites, require mandatory Hatch Act remedial training for implicated leaders, and impose discipline up to removal for willful violations. 5. **Systemic Reforms** Issue binding guidance prohibiting political content on official sites, require pre-publication legal and ethics review for senior communications, implement robust audit logging and public transparency reporting for web content, and mandate recurring Hatch Act and ethics training for political appointees and senior career officials. 6. **Congressional Oversight** Convene oversight hearings, subpoena internal records where necessary, and pursue statutory or administrative changes to strengthen enforcement and remedies. I demand prompt, transparent, and enforceable action to restore nonpartisan use of official government websites and to hold accountable any officials who willfully violated the Hatch Act.