WHAT MAGA WANTS
Republicans in Congress have many ideas to drive their campaigns, not all of which they’re willing to share with American voters.
QUICK READ: Biden’s agenda is out for all to see, including rebuilding America and preparing for the challenges ahead. Republicans, however, are having a hard time settling on one “contract” with Americans and have proposals all over the map. Hard to find in those proposals are ideas for paying for their wishlist.
CONTENTS:
BACKGROUND
Biden’s agenda is out for all to see, including rebuilding America and preparing for the challenges ahead. Republican proposals are much murkier.
While MAGA candidates have been busy scrubbing from their websites their abortion views, other Republicans are publicizing varied agendas for America.
Texas Republicans are, as usual, the most brazen. Their wishlist includes calling homosexuality “abnormal,” rejecting all gun-free zones, and repealing the 1965 Voting Rights Act while trumpeting Texas’ right to secede.
Somewhat less hyperbolically, House Republicans are touting their “Commitment to America.” It calls for 200,000 more cops but kills Biden’s plan for 87,000 IRS agents relabels their forced birth agenda of “defending the unborn.”
Florida Senator Rick Scott, the Republican Senate Campaign Committee’s Chair, takes a different path. Scott’s “Rescue America'' plan includes raising taxes and killing Social Security and Medicare. Despite blowing $180 million on social media, the campaign has gone nowhere.
None of these proposals has a price tag.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said little. He believes attacking Democrats' policies is more successful than proposing his own.
At the polls, voters can either pick a party that will continue rebuilding and modernizing America or one that will further restrain the economy and pit Americans against one another. The choice is clear.
ACTION One: Call the Senate.
Script for Oregon Senators
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
My name is [--] and I'm a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Please loudly support your party’s election platform. Each party has “plans” for America. Sell those and let voters choose.
SEN. WYDEN:
Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Please loudly support your party’s election platform. Each party has “plans” for America. Sell those and let voters choose.
Script for Republican Senators
D.C switchboard: 202-224-3121
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], [state], [zip code].
Please loudly support your party’s election platform. Each party has “plans” for America. Sell those and let voters choose.
ACTION TWO: Call the House.
Script for Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01)
Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | DC office: 202-225-0855
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Please loudly support your party’s election platform. Each party has “plans” for America. Sell those and let voters choose.
Script for Cliff Bentz (OR-02)
Medford office: 541-776-4646 | DC office: 202-225-6730
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Please loudly support your party’s election platform. Each party has “plans” for America. Sell those and let voters choose.
Script for Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Oregon office: 503-231-2300 | DC office: 202-225-4811
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Please loudly support your party’s election platform. Each party has “plans” for America. Sell those and let voters choose.
Script for Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | DC office: 202-225-6416
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Please loudly support your party’s election platform. Each party has “plans” for America. Sell those and let voters choose.
Script for Kurt Schrader (OR-05)
Salem office: 503-588-9100 | DC office: 202-225-5711
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Please loudly support your party’s election platform. Each party has “plans” for America. Sell those and let voters choose.
ACTION THREE: Good Trouble.
GOOD TROUBLE: Below are opportunities to fight for our democracy. As John Lewis said, go make some “good trouble.”
Get involved with Extinction Rebellion or another group working for climate change. For more information, click here.
Fridays at 4 - Letter and Postcard Writing — Indivisible Oregon.
Learn about persuasive language and communication research at the Zoom ASO Movement Briefings every second Wednesday. (DELAYED THIS AUGUST. WATCH THE WEBSITE FOR UPDATES.)
Join the campaign to hold the House and Senate at GiveNoGround.org
Work to protect democracy in the House by electing Democrats Val Hoyle in District 4, Jamie McLeod-Skinner in District 5, and Andrea Salinas in Oregon’s new Congressional District 6.
Check out the Poor People's Campaign Readies 'Massive, Nonviolent' Effort to Save Democracy
Outside of Portland? Check out COIN Oregon.
FURTHER READING
Republicans’ midterm agenda: what we know - Vox
How Hopeful Should Democrats Be About the Midterms? | The New Yorker
U.S. House GOP outlines agenda in bid for control in the midterms - New Jersey Monitor
GOP Could Retake the House in 2022 Just by Gerrymandering Four Southern States – Mother Jones
Rescue America: Rick Scott's Plan for our country's future
How a Record Cash Haul Vanished for Senate Republicans - The New York Times
