Contact Your Members of Congress

There are times when we ask for a grassroots effort to contact specific members, or even all of Congress. When this happens, we will let you know how to best communicate the issue with these legislators. It can be by providing a specific list of representatives that are at the heart of the situation or having you contact your congressman and/or senators. When we do this, you will be provided with a list of these legislators.

To facilitate this communication, we provide a few different ways to get in touch with your legislator: Mail, Phone, Facebook, and Twitter (we will even insert a recommended line of text in the generated tweet).

Note: In today’s world of technology, many people find email as an efficient tool to communicate with those whom they may not otherwise contact. Certainly, any action is better than none at all. However, email (which can easily be filtered) has far less impact than a phone call, traditional letter or even a public “tweet” via Twitter. These have been proven methods that grab the attention of those in leadership.

Sign a Petition

Throughout history, petitions have helped to bring about significant changes in government. Notably, nearly 200 years ago, petitions demanding an end to slavery gathered over a hundred thousand signatures and became a catalyst that motivated Congress to take up the issue and eventually outlaw it altogether. In fact, the act of organizing and networking those petition drives helped prepare the women’s suffrage movement for their own political battle years later.

These days, technology allows us to provide you with opportunity to sign a petition in a quick, simple way, with no need to answer the door, pay for postage, or make a trip to the local courthouse.  Here is an example of what a petition may look like in your email:

So what happens when you sign a Tea Party Patriots petition? Watch to find out where your petition goes after you sign it: