Put the 6 numbers in your phone (all under P – Politician.) An example is McCaskill MO, Politician McCaskill DC, Politician Blunt MO, etc., which makes it really easy to click down the list each day.

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From experience since the election: If you hate being on the phone & feel awkward (which is many people) don't worry about it — there are a bunch of scripts (Indivisible has some, there are lots of others floating around these day). After a few days of calling, it starts to feel a lot more natural.

F) They may get to know your voice/get sick of you — it doesn't matter. The people answering the phones generally turn over every 6 weeks anyway, so even if they're really sick of you, they'll be gone in 6 weeks.

E) Be clear on what you want — "I'm disappointed that the Senator..." or "I want to thank the Senator for their vote on... " or "I want the Senator to know that voting in _____ way is the wrong decision for our state because... " Don't leave any ambiguity.

D) Pick 1-2 topics per day to focus on. Don't rattle off everything you're concerned about — they're choosing 1-2 topics to mark you down for on their lists. Ideally choose something that will be addressed in the next few days; if not, call anyway. It's important that they just keep getting calls.

C) If you can make it personal, do so. "I voted for you in the last election and I'm worried/happy/whatever" or "I'm a teacher, and I am appalled by ——-," or "as a single mother" or "as a white, middle class woman," or whatever.

Give them your zip code. They won't always ask for it, but make sure you give it to them, so they can mark it down. Extra points if you live in a zip code that traditionally votes for them, since they'll want to make sure they get/keep your vote.

If you don't, that's ok: ask for that person's name, and keep talking to whoever answered the phone. Don't leave a message unless the office doesn't pick up at all; it's better to talk to the staffer who first answered than to leave a message for the specific staffer in charge of your topic.

A) When calling the DC office, ask for the Staff member in charge of whatever you're calling about ("Hi, I'd like to speak with the staffer in charge of Healthcare, please") — local offices won't always have specific ones, but they might. If you get transferred to that person, awesome.

They said that Republican callers generally outnumber Democrat callers 4-1, and when it's a particular issue that single-issue-voters pay attention to (e.g. gun control) it's often closer to 11-1, and that's recently pushed Republican congressmen on the fence to vote with the Republicans.

Every single day, the Senior Staff and the Senator get a report of the 3 most-called-about topics for that day at each of their offices (in DC and local offices), and exactly how many people said what about each of those topics. They're also sorted by zip code and area code.

The staffer was very clear that any sort of online contact basically gets immediately ignored, and letters pretty much get thrown in the trash (unless you have a particularly strong emotional story — but even then it's not worth the time it took you to craft that letter).

Calls are what they count

2) But those in-person events don't happen every day. So, the absolute most important thing that people should be doing every day is calling.

YOU SHOULD MAKE 6 CALLS A DAY:
2 each (DC office and your local office) to your 2 Senators & your 1 Representative.

1: The best way to get you congressperson’s attention is face-to-face time. If they have town halls, go to them. Go to their local offices. Attend the "mobile offices" their staff hold periodically (times are located on each congressperson's website).When you go, ask many questions.