Please call your member of Congress today and tell them Elon Musk must be fired. Immediately.

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(The US Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121. Tell the operator where you're from and the operator will connect you to your representatives and senators.)

Some questions you might ask (depending on what party your Rep is with)

1. Why is the supposedly conservative party condoning the extremist and sloppy approach that Musk and DOGE is taking regarding cuts in the Federal government?
2. Do you condone the way the administration is undermining the authority of Congress?
3. Are you willing to use your subpoena power to tell Musk to stand in front of Congress and answer some hard questions?
4. Why is Musk being allowed to function with no accountability or oversight?
5. Is any congressional committee reviewing what he is doing?
6. Why have he and his team NOT been vetted by Congress?
7. When can we expect you to host a town hall so your constituents can ask you questions in person?
 

CALL YOUR REPS!
 

1. Protest the in-progress takeover of the US military

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Just in the last couple of days, Trump fired several top military leaders including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Air Force vice chief of staff, and the Chief of Naval Operations. His new nominee for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs violates the law because he has not held the requisite assignments (all of this is courtesy of Heather Cox Richardson’s 2/22 “Letters from an American”). If we read about this happening in another country, we would not hesitate to call it a coup. Because it is a coup.

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We know that our GOP “representatives” value nothing except power and money. But this is so fundamental that we have to call them all anyway. The military of a democracy obeys the Constitution, period, the end. This is so flagrantly the opposite that it is reasonable to ask a Member of Congress who fails to speak out in opposition to this, where they draw the line of what is unacceptable in a democratic society. Military leaders who are legally unqualified for their positions and are chosen because of their loyalty to the President would seem to fall squarely into that category.
 

2. Oppose the repeal of Section 504

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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is one of the first laws prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities. It both prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in programs that receive federal funding (including but not limited to schools) and removes barriers to the participation of such children in K-12 schools. It is unclear to me who the constituency is for repealing this. However, someone in the Legislative branch of our country has decided that this is a good idea. If you are an educator, a parent, a worker, or a human being, you have encountered people with special needs and you know that the policies in Section 504 are just common sense. We can’t afford to waste all the human capital (not to mention the human dignity) that goes down the tubes without Section 504.
 

3. Oppose the SAVE Act

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This would require people to present a birth certificate or a passport whenever they update their voter registration. Anyone whose documents do not match their names for any reason, which includes married women who change their names as perhaps the largest group, would be screwed over by this legislation. The more obvious and intentional targets are trans people and the kind of voters who are less likely to have these documents in the first place (poor voters, elderly voters, etc). Urge your Members of Congress to vote no.

OTHER ACTIONS:

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1. Complain to the National Park Service about the removal of “TQ” from the Stonewall Web site. This Web site used to say “LGBTQ" and the last two letters are no longer in the acronym. Go to this NPS link, scroll down to “was this helpful,” choose “no,” and give the idiots a piece of your mind about erasing Trans and Queer from one of the big events that launched the non-straight movement in this country.

2. Donate to Judge Susan Crawford, running for WI Supreme Court (election date: 4/1)

Elon Musk made a big donation to her opponent’s campaign. Nuff said. The campaign also welcomes volunteers if you want to help out with calls, texting, etc.​​​