1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I am writing to you as your constituent in Federal Way, Washington. I am exhausted. I am angry. And I am afraid — not just for the people of Iran, but for what our country is becoming. Today the President of the United States threatened to destroy an entire civilization. He set an arbitrary deadline to bomb civilian infrastructure — bridges, power plants — and when asked whether that constitutes a war crime, said he wasn't worried about it. Congress has not authorized this war. The Constitution is clear about who holds the power to declare war, and that power has been abandoned. I have watched this erosion for years. I watched Congress fail to pass a resolution to curb the President's authority to attack Iran. I watched as threats escalated from posturing to airstrikes on residential neighborhoods. Children are dead. A university campus has been bombed. And now we're told a whole civilization may die tonight. I need you to understand: I am not writing this as a political exercise. I am writing because I cannot sit with this in silence. The exhaustion is real — the sense that the mechanisms meant to prevent exactly this kind of unchecked executive violence have simply stopped functioning. But I refuse to accept that this is permanent. I am asking you to do everything in your power to: - Assert Congress's constitutional war powers authority and demand an immediate vote on authorization for the use of military force against Iran - Support legislation to constrain unilateral executive military action, including meaningful enforcement mechanisms - Publicly oppose the targeting of civilian infrastructure, which violates international humanitarian law regardless of the President's indifference - Work toward restoring the institutional checks that were designed to prevent one person from threatening genocide on a Tuesday afternoon I know you may already agree with me. Agreement is not enough. I need action. I need to see my representatives treating this as the constitutional crisis it is — not just issuing statements, but using every procedural tool available to reassert the legislature's role. We will get through this. But only if the people we elected to represent us fight like the future of democratic governance depends on it. Because it does.