This week, members of Congress are in their home districts. It’s up to us to make sure they know who they’re supposed to represent. Trump’s radical campaign agenda is now being put into action by a team of fossil-fueled conspiracy theorists. Republicans—aided by too many Democrats—are pushing through legislation intended to turn all control of our nation’s future to a cabal of racist carbon-pollution billionaires.
Meanwhile, communities across the nation are under attack not only by Trump’s reckless cruelty but also by a climate run amok. Since Trump’s inauguration, dozens of Americans have been killed:
All across the country we have been barraged by a weather system that has been poisoned by hundreds of billions of tons of industrial carbon dioxide and methane—while too many of our elected officials say and do nothing, or worse, claim global warming is a scientific hoax. Climate hawks know that this isn’t just “weird weather” or the “new normal.”
This destabilizing destruction is part and parcel of the Trumpian assault on our civic institutions and the people of this nation. For Exxon, the Koch brothers, and Wall Street to keep profiting from fossil fuels, they need our democracy to be overwhelmed by the systemic oppression of people’s basic rights—the right to breathe clean air, the right to health care, the right to vote.
Trump isn’t “draining the swamp” as he promised during his campaign—he is poisoning it. (And unlike Trump, we know that our swamps are beautiful, diverse ecosystems.) His EPA Administrator is a bigot and a climate denier; his Secretary of State is an oil executive and a climate denier; his Secretary of Education is an anti-education billionaire and a climate denier; his attorney general is a racist and a climate denier—see the pattern?
Some members of Congress are helping to lead the resistance, including climate hawks Nanette Barragán of California, Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, and Jamie Raskin of Maryland. But too many are working with Trump or failing to stand up against the fossil-fuel billionaires who pollute our politics. There isn’t a single U.S. Senator who has stood firm against Trump. And they’re the only ones with the power to keep Trump from taking control of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Make sure your members of Congress know that you expect them to resist Trump’s bigoted climate denial, regardless of party affiliation.
Be a part of the Resistance Recess. Find an event or a town hall near you and hold your representatives accountable.
Print out and bring your Climate Resistance sign.