{"id":30383,"date":"2025-01-16T05:28:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/democracy-io-contact-members-of-congress\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T05:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T05:28:29","slug":"democracy-io-contact-members-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=30383","title":{"rendered":"Democracy.io &#8211; Contact Members of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Why we\u2019re doing this.<\/h2>\n<p>First, we want contacting your elected officials to be easy. Then more people will do it. And that\u2019s good for democracy.<\/p>\n<p>We also want to show off the functionality of the tools Taskforce.is has been creating over the last several years. We are working from the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/unitedstates\/contact-congress\">contact-congress<\/a> dataset originally created by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.participatorypolitics.org\/\">Participatory Politics Foundation<\/a> and later adopted by and improved upon by <a href=\"http:\/\/sunlightfoundation.com\/\">the Sunlight Foundation<\/a>, EFF, and several collaborating organizations. Together, we\u2019ve been working on a large-scale project to improve how Internet users contact elected officials and other decision makers.<\/p>\n<p>Democracy.io lets you test out one of these tools\u2014emailing members of Congress\u2014but we\u2019re also creating simple ways to send Tweets to members of Congress, call Congress, sign petitions, and submit official comments to government agencies. If you\u2019re an advocacy organization that likes how this works, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tfrce\"> Github page<\/a> and contact <a href=\"http:\/\/democracy.io\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#690a06071d080a1d290d0c04060a1b080a10470006563a1c0b030c0a1d542d0c04060a1b080a10470006\" target=\"_top\"><span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"89eae6e7fde8eafdc9edece4e6eafbe8eaf0a7e0e6\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/a> to discuss whether these free software, user-focused tools are a good solution for your advocacy needs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why we\u2019re doing this. First, we want contacting your elected officials to be easy. Then more people will do it. And that\u2019s good for democracy. We also want to show off the functionality of the tools Taskforce.is has been creating over the last several years. 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