50 Things To Mail Your Representatives

March 9th, 2025

Currently Reading: All Art Is Propaganda by George Orwell

Currently Watching: My government being tested

Currently Listening: CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso's Tiny Desk Concert

All politicians need to remember their constituents elected them to uphold democracy and listen to the people, but how do you help them remember your voice when you're working during protest hours and can't stop working without becoming homeless? Easy! Use the postal service!

A postcard only costs 56¢ to send, handwritten letters can be very impactful, but we have more imagination than that. So here's an inexhaustive list of things to send your congressional representatives.

  1. Handwritten letter
  2. Postcard
  3. A copy of Empathy: Why It Matters and How To Get It by Roman Krznaric
  4. Photo of failing infrustructure
  5. Bootstraps
  6. Your latest grocery bill
  7. Pink slip with their information
  8. Pen pal packet themed to Marie Antoinette
  9. Your IUD
  10. The 25th Anniversary Concert Cast Recording of Les Miserables
  11. A copy of U.S. Constitution for Dummies by Michael Arnheim
  12. Map of the Gulf of Mexico
  13. Copy of your medical bill
  14. A Non Cooperation Brick
  15. Trans flag
  16. Photo of your family with people who died from COVID-19 X-d out
  17. A Copy of 1984 by George Orwell
  18. An invitation to a parking lot debate
  19. Lemons
  20. The weather report for a 100+ degree day
  21. A dildo
  22. A Black Lives Matter tshirt
  23. "I Support Ukraine" lapel pin
  24. Class photo with children who died from gun violence X-d out
  25. Super Mario Bros "Luigi" hat
  26. A Palestinian keffiyeh
  27. A copy of The Handmaid's Tale by Margret Atwood
  28. A red arm band with a Tesla logo
  29. Russian-English dictionary
  30. Balance scale
  31. Dead coral
  32. Wedding invitation to your gay wedding
  33. A copy of The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
  34. Apple pie made from mostly good apples but one bad apple
  35. A "For Sale" sign for the United States
  36. A March Madness™ style bracket for the US Government
  37. Copy of the CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual
  38. Their Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)
  39. A bowling ball with Trump's face with members of Congress as bowling pins
  40. An informational DVD explaining tarrifs
  41. A copy of Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  42. A Scrooge McDuck sticker book
  43. A flashdrive with nothing but renditions of the song Bella Ciao
  44. La Vita E Bella on blu-ray
  45. A copy of How To Save a Constitutional Democracy by Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq
  46. A mirror
  47. Five things you did last week
  48. Five things they did last week
  49. Missing flyer with their information
  50. Bullshit

Sending mail to your representitive is not a radical act. It is a civic duty. So have fun with it!

--Beacon