Your Representatives Are Democrats? Great!

Photo by Mona Eendra on Unsplash

Photo by Mona Eendra on Unsplash

My Civic Workout will be on a once-a-week schedule (+ special editions) for the remainder of the summer. We'll be back to a twice weekly schedule in the fall.

Another terrible Republican “healthcare” bill will probably rear its head again, but the current one is dead for now. What a great achievement! Today, we’re going to celebrate the work that we’ve done, and address a question that has emerged time and again as the current resistance movement has unfolded: do I really need to call my members of Congress all the time if I live in a blue state? (“Yes” is the short answer.)

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When They Go Low, We Fight Harder

Right now, we’re all tuned in to the staggering revelations that Donald Trump, Jr. and company met with a Russian government lawyer who claimed to have detrimental information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election campaign. At the same time, Mitch McConnell is quietly pushing forward on a vote on the Senate healthcare bill. We’ve been hammering the issue of healthcare here at My Civic Workout, and today’s edition is no exception.

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