Contacting Your Reps
Hey, yes, I know you are all being inundated by messages about contacting your representatives to flood them with demands to not let the United States and our rights be stripped away.
Trust me, I am ANXIOUS. Just looking at the news gives me heart palpitations and makes my depression spiral these days.
But here are some easy ways you can contact your reps relatively painlessly and feel like you are helping and doing your duty.
I first recommend 5Calls. It is an easy, free to use app that gives you who your reps are, the current issues, and a CALL SCRIPT. That's super helpful and important.
Do you hate calling people like me, a super anxious millennial?
I would still get 5Calls but THEN, do this:
Take the script and type it into the Email Me/Message section of your Congressmen's Contact options.
All House Representatives and Senators have options where you can message them online. While calls/voicemails are quickest and most effective, there are staff who are REQUIRED to check these messages and record constituent responses. Always ALWAYS check any box that says you want a response back, it forces them to look at your message and accurately record your concerns.
5Calls tells you who your congressmen are, BUT if you need to find your congressmen's official website and contact details, go here: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Simply enter your address, click enter, their info will be pulled up including the phone numbers for their local offices where you live and if you press 'Contact' you'll be led to the pages where you can message them.
Please, please use your voice.
