Contacting Elected Officials

Writing or calling elected officials remains a vital way to make your concerns and priorities known to them. This can be daunting, but fortunately there are tools to make the process less time-consuming and offer some help on phrasing and content!

While we can’t promise that you’ll get an offer of support from your representatives - particularly those who have already publicly capitulated to the Trump regime - we believe it is still important to keep up the public pressure and remind them that they are supposed to serve the public interest and uphold the law.

5 Calls

5 Calls is an American website and app that helps users call their Congressional representatives and features high-profile issues with corresponding messaging scripts, either to use as-is or as inspiration for their own messages.

Users select an issue and the site gives them a script to use in a call, as well as background information. The website provides users with the phone numbers of their representatives and senators, as well as other information about them, using the ZIP Codes of users in order to determine who their representatives and senators are.

5 Calls Website Google Play Store Apple App Store

Resistbot

Resistbot is a service that people in the United States can use to compose and send letters to elected officials from the messaging apps on their mobile phones, with the goal being that the task can be completed in "under two minutes". It identifies a user's federal, state, and city elected officials, then provides an electronic service to deliver to those officials, as well as to local newspapers, and to publish online.

Users can simply text the word "resist" (not in quotations) to 50409, or use a web bot available through a desktop browser. After answering a few questions about themselves and the topic of their message, users then select the official(s) or organization(s) they wish to receive the message.

Resistbot Website Apple App Store

Your Representatives

District boundaries don’t follow county lines exactly. To find out exactly who represents your address, use the Iowa Legislature’s Find Your Legislator tool.