1. United States
2. Colo.
3. Letter

As your constituent, I demand that you support H.R. 8809, the Americans Insist on Political Agent Clarity Act, also known as the AIPAC Act. If you serve in the House, cosponsor it immediately. If you serve in the Senate, introduce or cosponsor companion legislation without delay. This bill does not ban speech, restrict advocacy, or prevent Americans from supporting any foreign country. It does something far more basic: it requires transparency when powerful lobbying organizations advance the political or economic interests of a foreign government. Foreign influence should not be laundered through domestic branding. If an organization’s lobbying activities, stated mission, coordination, repeated policy demands, or political activity principally advance the interests of another country, the public has a right to know. That is exactly what the Foreign Agents Registration Act is supposed to address. AIPAC’s influence over Congress is not theoretical. Its network directs enormous political spending, pressures lawmakers, funds challengers, and demands unconditional U.S. backing for Israel even as that backing deepens U.S. complicity in occupation, apartheid, war crimes, and genocide in Gaza. Members of Congress should not be more afraid of AIPAC than they are accountable to their constituents. The AIPAC Act would clarify that U.S.-based organizations may still qualify as foreign principals under FARA when their work principally benefits a foreign nation. It would establish objective indicators such as coordination with foreign officials, repeated advocacy aligned with foreign diplomatic objectives, and material support or strategic direction tied to foreign interests. It would also allow U.S. citizens to file DOJ complaints requesting investigations into possible FARA violations. That is not censorship. That is disclosure. That is democratic accountability. AIPAC and any similar organization should have to play by the same rules as every other lobby working to influence U.S. policy on behalf of a foreign power. Congress has no legitimate excuse to preserve a loophole that shields one of the most powerful foreign-policy lobbies in Washington from scrutiny. This bill should have full bipartisan support. Cosponsor H.R. 8809, demand hearings, and move this legislation forward. Senators should introduce companion legislation immediately. The American people deserve to know whose interests are shaping U.S. foreign policy: ours, or a foreign government’s.