Call or write your elected officials.
Use a 30-second script and ask for a written response. Prefer not to call? Use the same words in the office’s contact form or a letter.
03 / How you can help
You can help.
Start with one action.
Watch the LIVE, choose an issue and speak up in a way that works for you. No account is needed to use these tools.
Start with the conversation
Join the daily LIVE Q&A.
Hear what’s happening, why it matters, and whether there’s a useful action to take. Some actions carry over while we keep following up.
One action is a start
Use your voice in a way that fits.
Contacts & calling scripts
Show up at a town hall.
Check the official event details. Bring one clear question about a campaign goal and listen to the answer.
Bring someone into the effort.
Share a useful LIVE or invite someone to take action with you. A thoughtful letter to your local newspaper can also bring attention to an issue.
Put a bill number behind your request.
See two proposals we’re watching, their committee stage, and a short question to ask an office.
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Add your activity to the effort. Choose what you did, check your daily total, then confirm your report.
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Our four goals and the path forward.
Choose an issue. See who makes the decisions, then use that goal’s calling script.
Protect Social Security
Who decides: House Ways & Means · Senate Finance
Prevent benefit cuts. Usually 60 senators are needed to end debate. Social Security benefit changes cannot use reconciliation.
Social Security calling scriptImprove SSA customer service
Who decides: House + Senate Appropriations: Labor–HHS–Education subcommittees
Fund staff to reduce waits through the annual administrative budget. Ask SSA to show whether service improves.
Customer service calling scriptProtect Medicaid
Who decides: House Energy & Commerce · Senate Finance · Governors and state legislatures
Reverse federal cuts. Protect state funding and access to care. Both Washington and your state have a part.
Medicaid calling scriptMedicare for All — start at 60
Who decides: House Ways & Means / Energy & Commerce · Senate Finance
Eligible budget parts may use reconciliation: 51 votes, or 50 plus the vice president. The full plan must clear Senate rules.
Medicare for All calling scriptAsk for a bill, a vote and a funding commitment. Federal laws also need House passage and presidential approval, or a veto override.
What the vote numbers mean, and our sources
For most bills, the Senate’s 60-vote hurdle is about ending debate. Final passage usually needs a simple majority. Reconciliation is a budget process with limited debate, but its rules restrict what can go in a bill. It is not an automatic path for the whole Medicare for All proposal.
SSA’s annual administrative budget pays for staff and operations. It follows a different approval process from benefit payments. The committees listed above are key starting points; a particular bill may involve others. State Medicaid agencies and federal administrators also carry out policy.
Let’s see the movement at work
Let’s see the movement
in the video comments.
Called an office? Wrote a letter? Went to a town hall? Leave a comment on the video you watched. Say what you did and what you heard back—even if you’re still waiting.
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This movement segment is about actions and officials’ responses. Personal benefit questions belong in the regular Q&A.
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