5 Things You Can Do This Week

The senators and representatives are in recess until after Labor Day so if you want, you can call now and leave messages or email about these issues or wait until they get back. If you’re new to calling, the senators rarely have someone answer their phones even when they are in session, so you will have to leave a message. Always leave your street address so they know you are a constituent.

1) Call Your Senators

Senator Gary Peters: (202) 224-6221 

Senator Elyse Slotkin: (202) 224-4822 

(see Resources for more contact info)

• • Thank you for co-sponsoring S. 2994, the Voter Purge Protection Act, preventing the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to purge state voter rolls and restrict the right to vote across the country

  • Thank you for introducing the Keep SNAP and WIC Funded Act of 2025 to prevent the Trump Administration from withholding available funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Keep fighting to restore funding for SNAP and WIC benefits.

  • Oppose the confirmation of Casey Means for Surgeon General. Her medical license is lapsed and she has promoted misinformation about the risks of childhood vaccinations.

  • Oppose the Trump administration’s near elimination of the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education.

  • Continue to stay strong in your opposition to the continuing budget resolution without protections to the tax credits for the Affordable Care Act.

2) Call Your Representative

Be sure to give them your home address so they know you are a constituent. Scholten’s staff has indicated that one call succinctly listing the multiple issues that concern you is preferable to multiple calls addressing one issue for each call.

Representative Scholten: (202) 225-3831

Representative Moolenaar (202) 225-3561

• • Pressure House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring the House back to session and voting on critical issues..

  • Demand House Speaker Johnson swear in Representative Grijalva of Arizona.

  • Oppose use of the military in American cities as law enforcement.

  • Oppose subsidies for fossil fuels at the expense of tax credits for alternative energy.A funds to localities ravaged by extreme weather.

  • Oppose near elimination of the office of Special Education in the Department of Education.

3) Call State Senators

• Thank them for passing Michigan Senate Bill 182 and ask your State Representative to vote for it. S. 182 provides $71 million in Michigan funds to supplement SNAP benefits. The only State Senators to vote against S. 182 include Senate Minority Leader aric Nesbitt (R. Porter Township), Sen. Jim Rumstad (R. White Lake), Sen. Dan Lauwers R. Brockway), and Joseph Bellino (R. Monroe). Unfortunately it is unlikely that the Republican lead Michigan House is unlikely to pass this funding.

4) Thank Governor Whitmer

• • for announcing that the State will provide $4.5 million to support food banks and pantries.

5) Cancel Your Spotify Account

• Spotify is running ads recruiting agents for ICE. Indivisible National is asking anyone who subscribes to Spotify Premium to cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. The same people-power that made ABC/Disney reverse course can work on Spotify. Spotify needs its listeners and subscribers far more than it relies on advertisers. If enough of us cancel our subscriptions, it’ll send a clear message that’s too loud for Spotify to ignore. Click here to watch step-by-step instructions on how to cancel Spotify Premium.

Extra Credit

• Comment on proposed MDOT rules by November 20. A new set of rules, proposed by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), called “New Safety Rules for Roadside Facilities,” is up for consideration. The rules would apply to all 61 highway rest areas, 82 roadside parks, 267 carpool lots, 23 scenic turnouts and 14 welcome centers, as well as on or under highway bridges. The rules would prohibit protests on bridges over highways unless permitted and they also target the unhoused and petition circulators. Public comments on these rules will be accepted until Nov 20. The next step after will be a review by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, which is made up of five Michigan State Reps and Senators. This committee will look at the rules before anything is implemented in the spring of 2026. ‘Only silence is allowed’: Activists decry proposed MDOT rules that could affect protests, unhoused
  Anyone can make public comment on the MDOT proposal entitled “New Safety Rules for Roadside Facilities, using this link (or email: MDOT-PublicComments@Michigan.gov). Hints for commenting:

  1. It’s better to include personal thoughts or other details.

  2. Include words such as: first amendment violation, first amendment right, unconstitutional, public space, free speech, freedom of movement.

  3. Comments can be sent as an email or using the website form. The website form asks for an address. Include your town or zip code to show you live in Michigan.

• Also Contact your state representative with your concerns, especially if they are one of the members of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (the committee that will review the proposal). View list of committee members here.

• Spread the word: The Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Navigation Program(BC3NP) provides low-income women access to breast and cervical cancer screening services (mammograms and Pap tests) and follow-up care if needed. The program does not pay for cancer treatment, but women may be eligible for a special Medicaid program through BC3NP that will cover cancer treatment. For more information, please email BC3NP@michigan.gov. Call 844-446-8727 (TTY 711) if you have questions or need help enrolling. Interpreters available.