New Hampshire Open Letters

From a constituent in Windham, NH

Stop Erasing Our Rights by Executive Rule

I am writing as your constituent in Windham, and as the author of a study documenting how democratic accountability is being dismantled in this country — not through any single dramatic act, but through lawful, ordinary means that draw little notice precisely because each step is legal. The pattern

From a constituent in Dover, NH

Protect our endangered species

I am writing as your constituent to urge you to oppose the ongoing rollback of Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections currently being advanced through federal rulemaking. The proposed and recently finalized changes — including restoring the pre-2019 framework that allows “economic and other impact

From a constituent in South Hampton, NH

Congress Must Impose Independent Accountability After Fatal ICE Shootings

I am writing in response to the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero by a federal immigration officer in Biddeford, Maine. Durán Guerrero was not the person ICE agents had gone to the neighborhood to arrest. DHS initially provided Senator Angus King with materially incorrect

From a constituent in Dover, NH

Save the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante Monuments

The president is leaning on legislation that was designed to create national monuments to gut Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante in order to “give it back to the people”- while we know what he really wants to do is let private companies extract from what is already public land. This is a lose-

From a constituent in South Hampton, NH

Address ICE's culture of operational impunity: Take Action To Halt Operations

I wrote to you earlier regarding the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero by an ICE officer in Biddeford, Maine. I am writing again because asking for an investigation, while necessary, is no longer sufficient. I cannot prove, and therefore will not assert, that this was an

From a constituent in South Hampton, NH

Fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero by ICE in Biddeford, Maine

Dear Senator [Shaheen/Hassan]: I am writing as a New Hampshire constituent to ask you to take immediate congressional action following the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero by an ICE officer in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13. I recognize that investigations are still under

From a constituent in Dover, NH

STOP the SAVE Act! Surveillance is not Safety!

Stop the KIDS Act. This act doesn't protect children. Surveillance isn't safety. The degree of censorship created by this act is a breach of our right to freedom of speech. Supporters make the claim that this bill protects minors online, but its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free exp

From a constituent in Windham, NH

Require AI firms to prevent and report AI-generated child sexual abuse material

AI is now being used to manufacture child sexual abuse material, and the companies whose models produce it face almost no accountability for it. This is not hypothetical. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received roughly 4,700 reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material in