Friend, after a long August recess, Congress is back and looking to move a lot of things in a short amount of time.

We’ll cut right to the chase: Important midterm elections are a little over two months away. We have no time to waste when it comes to demanding the House and Senate advance our legislative agenda.

In the coming weeks, we’re giving it our all to turn up the heat on several pieces of legislation that are key to our fight for online privacy, an open internet and so much more. Can we count on your generous donation to Free Press Action to advance our legislative agenda right now?

Our legislative agenda is ambitious — but if we organize we can build some real momentum behind these bills and priorities. Here’s what we’re laser-focused on this fall:

• A fully functional FCC: We need to make sure the Senate confirms Gigi Sohn to fill the fifth seat on the five-member Federal Communications Commission. The agency must get to the critically important work of protecting the open internet and do more to ensure that broadband is affordable and accessible to all.
• Protecting online privacy: The repeal of Roe v. Wade brought home how important our online privacy is. Congress has multiple bills moving — including the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act and the American Data Privacy and Protection Act — that could go a long way towards safeguarding our personal data.
• Restoring Net Neutrality: It’s bipartisan outside of DC, it’s a no-brainer and Congress has the right kind of bill teed up at last, so we need to push the Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act as far as we can before the midterms.
• Stop the giveaways to Big Media: Congress can and should take steps to protect and promote local journalism — but with the problematic Journalism Competition and Preservation Act they are going about it all wrong. This bill would harm local and independent publishers and news outlets and make it harder for online platforms to remove hateful and deceitful content. We cannot let this bill pass.

And that’s just scratching the surface. There’s also legislation that would rein in predatory phone rates for incarcerated people and their families, threats to platforms’ ability to stop hate speech and disinformation and more.

We know competing priorities and the upcoming midterm elections will make our work even harder — but if we have the resources to make our voices heard, Congress won’t be able to ignore us.

Please consider making an urgent donation to Free Press Action so we can make real progress on our legislative agenda this fall.

Thanks for all that you do,

Candace and the rest of the Free Press Action team
freepress.net

P.S. We need your help to advance privacy protections, confirm Gigi Sohn to the FCC and pass a range of crucial bills in Congress. Please support our legislative agenda with a donation today.