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Write or Call In CampaignTake Action: Letters to the Editor re Biden's Executive Order
Thanks to another post in this circle (or from bitter experience), we know by now that a letter or email to a senator/representative is unlikely to get anyone to take notice unless they get a flood of form letters from an organization.
However, they DO pay attention to the things newspapers print. This is also effective in generating notice among people in your area; the smaller the circulation of the paper in question, the greater chance you have of getting your letter published.
So my thought is this; look up your local newspapers. Look at the process for submitting 'letters to the editor' (keep it fairly short, try to stick to one topic). The more people submitting letters like this, the better. With any luck the larger publications will start to take notice. With any luck the public at large will start to take notice, take pause and start asking questions.
Biden just eliminated women's rights to single sex spaces, accommodations and services in any facility/program that receives federal funding. This is a BIG DEAL, and getting a lot of voters aware of this via news outlets is probably the best way to make the Democrats and other supporters of this legislation sit up and take notice; they don't want to lose congressional seats in the midterms.
(If anybody has any advice/experience in this area, feel free to post below; any help appreciated. I'm in the process of looking up my local newspapers' 'letters to the editor' programs and drafting mine)
As someone who has wrote 2 letters to the editor in my life and both have been printed- it's really not hard! And I've seen some outright crackpot stuff printed in my (small local) newspaper. So chances yours will be printed will be high. Your newspaper will most likely have a form you can type everything in on their website, you don't even need to use a word/ writing program!
Only catch is they will print your name and town. My 2 letters were critical of trump in an area he won with 70 percent+ vote the first time. Thankfully I never got any abuse about my letters. However I never wrote anything GC and for some reason I doubt people will be as civil about that as conservatives were about my trump hating, lol.
also per the suggestion in the other post, try to call out your rep/ senators by name if your letter involves politics/ laws!
I've written letters to the editor several times in my life. Once I did it in Georgia, and was writing in defense of inmates who wanted to practice minority religions like Wicca but were being denied, a violation of their First Amendment rights. That was the one time I ever got pushback. Some woman looked me up in the phone book and called me up and chewed me out.
So make sure your number's unlisted if you do this. Also, it might be a good idea to not quote it somewhere searchable online under your usual internet handle. You'll dox yourself.