The AoC Checklist features clear, well-researched actions for Americans who value democracy, equality, voting, and decency. We are a big tent for all people who want a kinder, flourishing nation.
This Week’s Actions
Action 1: Protect the right of women to vote.
Thank you to the 736 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Contact: Your one House representative: (call, write, or email)
Script: Hi, my name is—in [ZIP], asking you to oppose H.R. 22, the SAVE Act, which would enact broad purges of voter rolls and force voters to prove their citizenship when registering. Almost 10 percent of Americans lack the required documentation, including many women who changed their names when they married. This law could have a chilling effect on women voters. Please assure me of your “no” vote on H.R. 22. Thank you.
Source: The Civics Center
Action 2: Challenge presidential overreach.
Thank you to the 592 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Contact: Your one House representative and your two senators: (call, postcard, or email)
Script: I’m [NAME] from [ZIP], calling/writing in solidarity with the League of Women Voters’ February 14th letter urging Congress to check the president’s executive orders seizing congressional power. Sen/Rep [NAME] must use their authority to protect the rule of law, defend the Constitution, and restore critical checks and balances. So far, his orders have led to firing thousands of nonpartisan civil servants without due process, attempted to end birthright citizenship, has given unprecedented power to the non-elected Elon Musk and “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). Please respond with your plans to address this constitutional crisis.
Source: League of Women Voters
Action 3: Oppose discrimination and violence in the 2025 budget.
Contact: Your two senators and one House representative (postcard, call, or email). Contact them whether you believe they agree or not. Pressure is crucial.
Script: Hello, my name is—from [ZIP]. I am asking Sen/Rep [NAME] to oppose two parts of the proposed Fiscal Year 2025 budget. First, I oppose the extreme cuts to Medicaid and other essential services that would raise costs of health care, food, and college, deprive millions of Americans of health coverage, and endanger people experiencing homelessness. Secondly, I do not support the hundreds of billions of dollars allotted to militarized immigration enforcement, increased deportations, and mass incarceration of families and individuals. I’m calling on Sen/Rep [NAME] to vote NO to funding dangerous immigration practices and cutting to safety-net programs. Thank you.
Thank you to the 437 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Action 3A: Contact Senate leadership with the script above.
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune: 202-224-2321, contact form, or postcard to United States Senate SD-511, Washington, DC 20510.
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at 202-224-6542, contact form, or postcard to 332 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510.
Thank you to the 238 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Action 3B: Contact House leadership with the script above.
- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise at 202-225-3015, contact form, or postcard to 266 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515.
- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at 202-225-5936, contact form, or postcard to 2267 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515.
Action 4: Support families fleeing danger and persecution.
Thank you to the 77 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Every day, families arrive in the U.S. fleeing danger, exercising their constitutional right to seek safety and a fresh start. USCRI provides them with critical support—housing, legal aid, and job assistance—to help rebuild their lives. But a recent unconstitutional federal funding freeze has left essential funds in limbo. To fill the funding gap, an anonymous donor is matching all donations up to $1.9M.
Donate: To support asylum seekers fleeing persecution, give to USCRI.
Action 5: Show some love to federal workers.
Thank you to the 78 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
More than 2.2 million federal civil servants live and work in every state across the nation. Thousands of these nonpartisan employees have been illegally fired, and all have been threatened by the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE).
Take action:Express your gratitude to the federal workers in your life, ask how you can support them, and offer to share resources like: What Federal Workers Can Do to Protect Themselves, Democracy Protection Network, Civil Service Strong, and the American Federation of Government Employees labor union.
Source: AoCC
Action 6: Demand essential care for transgender youth.
Thank you to the 179 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Contact: Robert Grossman, CEO, NYU Langone Health, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Email: robert.grossman@nyulangone.org
Brendan Carr, CEO, Mount Sinai Health System, 150 East 42nd Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10017
Email: brendan.carr@mountsinai.org
Steven J. Corwin, President & CEO, NewYork-Presbyterian, 525 East 68th Street, Payson 122, New York, NY 10065
Email: corwist@nyp.org
Script: Please uphold your ethical and legal duties by immediately and publicly affirming your commitment to provide vital treatment to transgender youth. Every major medical organization supports the provision of age-appropriate, gender-affirming care, and studies show that such treatment leads to lower rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide and increases well being among transgender youth. Please rescind your decision to comply with the administration’s executive order limiting care in order to uphold the values and norms of your profession and New York’s anti-discrimination laws.
Source: NCYDSA, AoCC
Action 7: Prepare for 2025 elections.
Thank you to the 204 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Are you ready to vote in 2025 elections? More than 100,000 seats are open and up for election in 2025, including governors, municipal governments, school boards, and more. Are you ready?
- Register to vote for the first time (make sure you meet your state’s deadline) or confirm that your voter registration is still valid.
- Update your address or re-register if you’ve recently moved.
- Make a plan to vote by mail or in person.
- Find out who and what is on your ballot.
Source: Rock the Vote
Action 8: Prevent voter suppression in your state.
Thank you to the 59 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Contact: Both of your state legislators: (contact look up)
If you live in AZ, HI, ID, IL, IA, MS, MO, NJ, OK, OR, SC, TX, or WA, your state has introduced legislation that enables or expands automatic voter registration.
Look up your state’s bill to find the legislation number.
Script: Hi, I’m [NAME] from [ZIP], expressing support for automatically registering voters when they visit the DMV or use other state government services. Please vote “yes” on [BILL NUMBER]. Thank you.
If you live elsewhere: Donate to the Voting Rights Lab.
Source: Voting Rights Lab
Action 9: Protect freedom of the press.
Thank you to the 50 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
The White House seizure of unilateral control of the press pool covering the president has earned criticism by media outlets including Fox News and New York Times. The administration stripped the nonpartisan White House Correspondents Association of its authority over the press pool. This was in retaliation for criticizing the White House banning the Associated Press from the press pool when it refused to use the administration’s proposed name for the Gulf of Mexico.
Donate: Reporters need legal aid to protect their First Amendment rights, give to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Source: AoCC
Action 10: Defend the rights of an incarcerated transgender woman.
Thank you to the 33 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Transgender woman Maria Moe (pseudonym) is legally challenging a Bureau of Prisons policy directed by President Trump which threatens to move her to a men’s facility and withdraw necessary medical care, putting her in danger and violating her constitutional rights. Moe transitioned well before her arrest, has been housed in women’s facilities, and has taken essential medication to treat gender dysphoria since she was a teenager. Support Maria Moe’s legal defense and the rights of all transgender incarcerated people.
Donate: Donations to GLAD Law help offset legal fees incurred in representing Maria Moe to protect her safety and rights and establish important legal precedence.
Source: AoCC
Action 11: Oppose a new anti-immigrant policy. TW: 1930s Germany.
Thank you to the 189 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Contact: President Trump at 202-456-1111 (Tu-Th, 11:00am – 3:00pm) or via the White House contact form.
Script: Hello, I’m [NAME] reaching out from [STATE] in strong opposition to the recently announced Registry for Migrants. Requiring people to register with the government based on certain status under threat of criminal prosecution is exactly how the Nazi government began their extermination of millions of people. We the People refuse to allow it here. Drop this despicable plan immediately.
Source: The Sidewalk School
Action 12: Advocate for reinstating Temporary Protected Status for people from violent countries.
Thank you to the 123 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Contact:
- President Trump at 202-456-1111 (Tu-Th, 11:00am – 3:00pm) or via the White House contact form.
- Secretary Kristi Noem via the DHS comment line at 202-282-8495 or via postcard at Secretary of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528
- Your two senators and one House representative (call, postcard, or email)
Script: I’m [NAME] from [STATE], expressing opposition to the president’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for people from Haiti and Venezuela. These orders impact over one million community members, friends, and workers, rescinding their work permits and putting them at risk of deportation to violent, corrupt countries. I’m calling on [NAME] to do everything in their power to reinstate TPS for individuals from Haiti and Venezuela.
Source: AoCC
Action 13: Get an uplifting followup from our fundraiser for L.A. wildfire survivors.
Thank you to the 8 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Last month, we raised $21,000 for L.A. families through the philanthropy, Give Directly, and they’re inviting us to their live update call on Tuesday, March 4 at 1pm ET / 10am PT. You’ll learn how your donations are helping low-income residents affected by the wildfires. Our partner, Tyler, said, “I think everyone who attends will feel more hopeful about the world.”
RSVP: Sign up for the update call here.
Source: Give Directly
Action 14: Have a hard, brave conversation.
Thank you to the 25 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
One third of Americans did not vote in the most recent federal election. Why not? We won’t know unless we ask. Crossing Party Lines offers free classes about brave conversations that build trust, a healthier democracy, and a shared future. Check this box if you attend one of CPL’s classes or if you will have an open, curious conversation with someone different from you in the next two weeks.
Source: Crossing Party Lines
Action 15: Take action in your own community.
Thank you to the 216 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
It’s our hope that using the Checklist inspires you to become more involved in specific issues and/or local action. In the last two weeks, did you volunteer, do service, advocate, or support a local or state cause? Check the box to let us know!
Source: AoCC
Acts of Gratitude
We believe in gratitude as a tool for change. We will print a letter of thanks from Americans of Conscience with your signature and mail it to the recipient. Your information will be removed from this website no later than four weeks after the Checklist’s publication date.
Thank Gov. Janet Mills (D–ME) for supporting transgender athletes on school sports teams and for upholding Maine’s rule of law.
If you’d like to mail your own personal expression of gratitude, use this address: 1 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333
Thank you to the 421 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Thank Sens. Susan Collins (R–ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R–AK) for putting country above party by opposing the confirmation of an unfit candidate to lead the FBI.
If you’d like to mail your own personal expression of gratitude, use these addresses:
SC: 68 Sewall St., Room 507, Augusta, ME 04330
LM: 510 L St., Suite 600, Anchorage, AK 99501
Thank you to the 398 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Thank Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) for going above and beyond while on maternity leave, showing up to vote against the House budget proposal.
If you’d like to mail your own personal expression of gratitude, use this address: 348 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515
Thank you to the 417 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Thank the Data Rescue Project for preserving public data that the presidential administration is purging from government websites.
In lieu of our usual physical letter, AoCC will email our gratitude message and your signatures to the Data Rescue Project.
Thank you to the 447 Americans of Conscience who completed this action!
Good News
If you find good news for democracy, equality, and the planet, share it with us here!
- Indigenous communities celebrate last year’s U.S. Senate passage of the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies.
- The Air Force resumes use of a training video about the Tuskegee Airmen, which was under threat of removal due to the presidential administration’s ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
- A second federal court orders that the administration unfreeze billions of dollars in foreign aid within two days.
- Bipartisan opposition begins to build against unlawful actions by the unconstitutional “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and its unelected head.
- A federal court temporarily blocks the administration from withholding federal funding from medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care.
- The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and funding to refugee assistance organizations is temporarily restored due to a federal court blocking an executive order, citing unlawfully exceeded authority.
- CO: Two hospitals resume gender-affirming care for youth, following a lawsuit challenging a presidential order seeking to withhold federal funding from hospitals that provide such care.
- NY’s utility regulator approves a transmission line for offshore wind power.
- VA takes a major step towards establishing a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing the fundamental right to abortion and reproductive freedom.
- Following the president’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Bloomberg Philanthropies and other organizations will cover the U.S.’s financial obligations to the United Nations Climate Framework.
- A coalition of Latino leaders led a press conference in D.C. to demand accountability for presidential overreach.
- Communities around the country are organizing strategic economic “blackout” protests, supporting local business over discriminatory corporations.
- Abortion Fund of Ohio supported 6,000 patients seeking abortion care in 2024.
- FairVote releases an overview of elections and ballot measures that utilized ranked choice voting in 2024.
- Constituents across the U.S. fill their representatives’ town hall meetings to voice their concerns about the rogue actions of the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).”
- A U.S. couple buys lunch for a restaurant full of Canadians diners as a neighborly gesture.
- The vast majority of Americans support keeping vaccines widely available due to their scientifically proven protection against diseases.
Need inspiration?
Read this week’s messages from Jennifer Hofmann, AoCC’s Executive Director:
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