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Congress - HELP US - WE ARE DROWNING

To: Sen. Cruz, Rep. Carter, Sen. Cornyn

From: A constituent in Leander, TX

February 17

How much more will you tolerate? The American people are exhausted from watching public office treated like a personal revenue stream. The presidency is not a branding platform. The federal government is not a family business. Taxpayer trust is not an asset to be exploited. Yet day after day, controversy after controversy, Americans are left with the same sinking question: Where is Congress? The steady erosion of ethical boundaries, the normalization of conflicts of interest, the spectacle of politics entangled with profit — this is not a sideshow. This is a direct threat to public trust, democratic stability, and the credibility of American governance. We have witnessed: • The relentless monetization of political identity • Fundraising and donor networks raising staggering sums amid persistent transparency concerns • Ongoing ethical questions surrounding financial interests, disclosures, and entanglements • Political loyalty increasingly framed in dollars rather than duty This is not politics as usual. This is politics as spectacle. Politics as commerce. Politics as extraction. And your silence is not neutrality. Your inaction is not oversight. You were elected to serve as a check on power — not an audience to its excesses. Oversight is not optional. Accountability is not partisan. Ethical standards are not decorative. If guardrails collapse, no one is safe — not institutions, not democracy, not the American people who depend on both. Americans are struggling under rising costs, housing instability, healthcare burdens, debt, and economic uncertainty. They are stretching every dollar while watching political dysfunction dominate Washington. They are sacrificing while leaders appear paralyzed. They deserve leadership — not cowardice. They deserve governance — not theater. They deserve integrity — not complicity. Congress, do your job. Hold hearings. Enforce transparency. Defend ethical standards. Reassert your constitutional authority. Act before further damage becomes irreversible. Act before public cynicism hardens into permanent distrust. Act before the idea of public service is reduced to a profit model. We the American people, are not spectators. We are not a donor base. We are not a brand. We are citizens. We are furious.

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