Call your senators, they can still block this despite Schumers push. The vote is tomorrow. If all republican vote for it, they need 7 dems. 8 with Rand Paul who has said he’ll vote no. (Republicans are not using reconciliation so it needs the the filibuster)
Many senate dems are publicly coming out against voting for cloture (meaning they won’t vote to let it get through the filibuster). As of what I last read, around 11 dems are thought to potentially vote to let it pass filibuster. Most of those are still not sure. We only need a handful more of those to become noes and it will get blocked. Some yeses have flipped to noes because of public pressure. We cannot let up now
Link to find direct numbers your senators
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Or call the capitol switch board (202) 224-3121
House dems are publicly telling the senate not to do this (and it’s not just AOC on this - it’s quite a few of them). Earlier read that 7 Dem state AGs are saying the same. Federal worker unions are telling senate dems not do this. Keep the pressure up
Call volume doesn’t indicate the opinion of the constituents, just that they called. I mean this with no disrespect, but if you have not looked around for a while you may have missed that very few politicians give a fuck about people think anymore
I mean that they tally support / oppose issue in volume. Congressional staffers do note that calls matter in terms of people's votes. They are used a proxy for the opinions of constituents and also how strongly people hold those beliefs. Whether or not that's fair is a different question. Republicans have historically been waaaay better than leftists about flooding the phone, but the large backlash here is starting to have an impact.
Some of the senators have switched their pledged vote in large part due to the calls. For instance, Tim Kaine went from actively encouraging others to vote in favor of letting it pass the filibuster to now being a hard no against it
Plus other dems in congress are deeply pissed about it on the house side. The larger the number of calls the more ammo they have to senate dems. This is the kind of ideal situation for outside voices mattering - when people within the system are pissed with you
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/14/house-democrats-angry-chuck-schumer-shutdown
Showing up at their door matters.
That's even better certainly. Showing up and protesting outside their office or someplace they can see is great
But the vote is in the morning, so I imagine most of the people here are not going to be able to show up at such short notice
There’s never a bad time to let a politician know that you know where they live, and what their families look like.