Text SIGN PNNLPM to 50409 — Our rights and federal agencies and democracy are being torn apart. Illegally. In contravention of the laws and statutes and constitution of the United States. The constitution you swore to support and defend. Look what Trump has been doing: Having judges arrested. Deporting children with cancer who are American citizens. Rejecting due process. Trying to overturn numerous articles and amendments of the constitution. Making illegal executive orders. Betraying our allies. Using the office of President to cash in bitcoin schemes. Usurping the rightful powers of Congress. Not just failing to see the laws faithfully executed but flouting the Supreme Court... Trying to weaponise the IRS against personal foes... announcing his resignation wish to illegally render American citizens and non citizens alike to foreign prisons. Yet these egregious abuses are only a fraction of the high crimes and misdemeanours of Trump. What will it take for you to honor your oath to the constitution and hold Trump accountable? There has been much talk about members of Congress feeling personally threatened. Please: consider the courage of our armed services and the dangers they face as they honor their oath to the constitution and serve our nation. Consider the sacrifices of those who gave their lives to defeat Naziism. Consider how Trump has backed down... to China. To Harvard. It's time for you to stand together with your colleagues now. Expose and reject threats and shakedowns. Uphold the constitution as you solemnly swore to do. Consider what history and your grandchildren will think if you fail to hand on a democracy to them, their civil rights, and right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It's time for Congress to take back its power. It's time for you to say no to threats. Unless you take action against Trump's assault on the constitution you are betraying your own oath. You will be despised by history for complicity with fascism. Please, DO YOUR JOB. IMPEACHMENT NOW.

Text SIGN PUZXQL to 50409 — We haven't forgotten Signalgate. Now there there are daily news items --further instances of dangerous incompetence and irresponsibility-- which show that Peter Hegseth is unfit to remain in office. Leaks. More security breaches. Shedding staff. Sharing signal chats about attack plans with his wife, his attorney and others. "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat. Some of those people said that the information Mr. Hegseth shared on the Signal chat included the flight schedules for the F/A- 18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen - essentially the same attack plans that he shared on a separate Signal chat the same day that mistakenly included the editor of The Atlantic Mr. Hegseth's wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, is not a Defense Department employee." Per Politico: The changes [ie the staff losses] will leave Hegseth without a chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, or senior adviser in his front office...'There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership." Leaks in recent weeks, apart from Signalgate, are numerous and disturbing: they include the disclosure of (hypothetical?) military plans for the Panama Canal, U.S. carrier movement in the Middle East, the halting of intelligence gathering on behalf of Ukraine, and a briefing at the Pentagon with Elon Musk. It's clear that our troops and our national security are endangered by this apparent culture of disregard for rules about classified information. Hegseth is unfit for the grave responsibility of any post at the Pentagon. Our national defense is not a TV show. Many people warned Congress that Hegseth lacked appropriate credentials, experience, and reputation for personal integrity. Thousands of constituents asked the senate not to confirm him. Please ensure that you and your colleagues take such advice seriously in the future. Advise and consent does not mean to stop rational thought; it does not mean to put the president's whims before the safety of our armed forces and national security--- as Congress so shockingly did with this and other appointments. Do your job, please. Oversight, hearings, investigations, impeachment. Please take our national security and the safety of our armed forces seriously. I should not even have to ask this: I am as appalled by Congressional inaction as I am by the grave implications of this chaos around Hegseth at the Pentagon. Action now please. ---

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