I've subscribed to a service from congress.org called Megavote. It is a very non-invasive, once a week or so email that lines out what your senators' and represenatives' have voted recently, as well as votes that are upcoming in the next week. It's small, simple and without bias.
Congress tends to dislike anything that makes its' votes easy to track and obvious, because it makes them accountable.
I especially like the upcoming votes section, because phone calls and letters and even emails are much much much more effective when targeted toward subjects that are specific, and upcoming in the near future, and actionable. If you write an email railing about the war, it will go in the "railing about the war" pile and be noted. But if you write about the upcoming vote on the Internet Tax Freedom Act - H.R.3678, that is a whole different matter entirely. It is something your representative can actually do something about. Then, in the next month or so, you can see how they voted and ask them to explain themselves if they vote in a way that you disagree with. Simple, but very effective.
This is an easy way to be involved and informed without being overwhelmed or deluged by media.
Enjoy your representative form of government, while it still lasts,
Bp
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Interesting site/concept. I signed up to give it a try. It was difficult to choose only 5 issues from that list!
Man you are on top of it, this post has only been up for like 2 minutes.
Hm, I didn't see the "issues list" I'll have to go check it out. I've been subscribed long enough that maybe there are new features on the site/form that I don't know about.
Nice man, i also had a hard time deciding on only 5 issues, but i like the idea of this
You can modify your status after the fact and add more than 5 topics.
Good luck with those guys!
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