CONGRESS MUST ACT TO PROTECT AMERICANS AND OUR DEMOCRACY. TRUMP WON’T.
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because as long as Trump continues to ignore our own intelligence agencies and advances Putin’s interests over those of America and our allies, our democratic institutions and national security are at risk.
I am asking the Senator to demand investigations into the continuing failures and refusals of the Trump administration to protect Americans and our institutions from Russian aggression. I am also asking him to support the FIRE Act to help defend our elections by requiring campaigns to report attempted interference by foreign entities. He must also ensure true oversight of government agencies and officials by protecting independent Inspectors General.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
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SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because as long as Trump continues to ignore our own intelligence agencies and advances Putin’s interests over those of America and our allies, our democratic institutions and national security are at risk.
I am asking the Representative to demand investigations into the continuing failures and refusals of the Trump administration to protect Americans and our institutions from Russian aggression. I am also asking him/her to support the FIRE Act to help defend our elections by requiring campaigns to report attempted interference by foreign entities. He/she must also ensure true oversight of government agencies and officials by protecting independent Inspectors General.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
ACTION THREE: ACT FOR AN ANTI-RACIST FUTURE
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BACKGROUND:
US intelligence services found abundant evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Trump called the findings a hoax. He continued to support Putin’s international agenda.
Republican leadership has blocked every election security bill sent to the Senate and stripped requirements to report foreign campaign interference from the National Defense Authorization Act.
US intelligence has had evidence for months that Russia was directly paying the Taliban to kill Americans. Trump says it’s all a hoax and besides, he didn’t know about it. Instead of responding, he invited Russia to rejoin the G7. Republicans continue to defend him.
They’ve said he didn’t read the reports, discounted them, or forgot them. If so, he’s clearly unfit for office. If he‘s just lying, he’s committed treason.
Trump repeatedly advances Putin’s interests over those of America and our allies. Republicans continue to protect Trump for their own political interest, even at the cost of our democratic institutions and national security.
Congress must act. There must be investigations of the continuing failures and refusals of Trump and the GOP to protect Americans and our institutions from Russian aggression.
And we must act to help get Trump’s and Putin’s GOP allies out of office in November.
