The Democratic Activist
Do yourself a favor, and take a few minutes right now to feed your spirit.
Here's Pink – performing her amazing song: Dear Mr. President from the album "I'm Not Dead" (2006).
Once again, proof positive ... the guitar is indeed mightier than the sword.
Please feel free to share your favorite social activism songs, especially those for which YouTube or audio file links can be provided, in comments to this post, so that we all can nourish our souls and renew our activist commitment through the spiritual power gifted only by art of the heart such as this.
Thank you.
Pass it on.
The Democratic Activist
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
What? IT'S ALIVE! Republicans vote FOR impeachment, Dems vote AGAINST!
The Democratic Activist
Just when it seemed politics in America couldn't get more surreal ... House Republicans today voted en masse IN FAVOR of the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney, while the Democrats voted against it!
Excellent articles on this potential watershed political event are linked below:
Cheney Impeachment Resolution Sent to House Committee
Debate on Cheney Impeachment Averted
The Die is Cast
Here's the text of the resolution:
Rep. Dennis Kucinich Privileged Resolution
In a characteristic display of bullying arrogance and overconfidence, Republicans, thinking they could gain political traction by once again stealing the Democrats' leaders' lunch money and making them look like the wimps and fools they are, dared the fearful, cowardly Democratic Party to debate the impeachment resolution brought to the floor by their own Dennis Kucinich ... by voting FOR the impeachment resolution ... despite the best attempts of the panicked Democrats to make the awful thing go away!
Suffering as it's been for the past two decades from a political version of "battered wife syndrome," the Democratic Party doesn't even know anymore when it's being abused and spat on, so this seemed a pretty safe move on the part of congressional Republicans.
Cowering in fear, afraid to follow the majority of Americans (who by a 54-40% margin already favor impeaching Cheney) and openly debate Kucinich's impeachment resolution on the floor of the House, the Dems' only alternative was to send the resolution to the House Judiciary Committee ... which is where articles of impeachment originate!
So ... by a strange twist of fate fortuitously created by the precise pathologic dysfunctions present in both parties, a reality warp so bizarre it wouldn't be believed as an episode of "The Twilight Zone" ... it looks like impeachment of Dick Cheney may now actually be a serious and imminent possibility!!
---
To read the full text of the impeachment resolution:
1. go to: http://thomas.loc.gov/;
2. enter "H. RES. 799" (without the quotes) into the field titled "Search Bill Text;"
3. select "Bill Number" (immediately below the search field);
4. click the "Search" button.
---
It's now time to FLOOD the offices of members of the House Judiciary committee with communications (phone calls, emails, letters, etc.) demanding that they do NOT allow this impeachment resolution to die in committee ... but, rather, that they pass the resolution along immediately to the full House for consideration.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is Illinois representative John Conyers. He's the one who will have the greatest influence on the outcome of this historic opportunity for America to save its dying democracy.
In addition to Mr. Conyers, all other members of the House Judiciary Committee also need to hear our demand for the will of the American people to be heard, and no longer ignored, by the very party we put into power in 2006 to change course and restore the Constitution and accountability to our government.
The toll-free Capitol Switchboard phone number is:
1-800-828-0498.
Below are links to pages where you can get full information on committee members' names and full contact info:
---
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMembership.aspx
http://www.house.gov/
---
Now is the time to let Mr. Conyers and others on his committee know that we demand he and the rest of the Democrats stop collaborating with neocon criminals, fully support the impeachment resolution presented by Dennis Kucinich (the bill is H. Res. 799), and put American democracy, the rule of law, and impeachment of criminals in the Bush Administration back "on the table" where it has always belonged!
This could actually happen, as unbelievable as it sounds, despite the seemingly intractable corruption in both parties ... if we really pour the pressure oto the right people, right now.
Call everyday, if you can, till the impeachment resolution is passed out of committee to the full House for their consideration.
Please ... do all you can to support this crucial effort, at this most critical time (to read an important action alert update on this, click here).
Thank you.
Pass it on.
The Democratic Activist
Just when it seemed politics in America couldn't get more surreal ... House Republicans today voted en masse IN FAVOR of the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney, while the Democrats voted against it!Excellent articles on this potential watershed political event are linked below:
Cheney Impeachment Resolution Sent to House Committee
Debate on Cheney Impeachment Averted
The Die is Cast
Here's the text of the resolution:
Rep. Dennis Kucinich Privileged Resolution
In a characteristic display of bullying arrogance and overconfidence, Republicans, thinking they could gain political traction by once again stealing the Democrats' leaders' lunch money and making them look like the wimps and fools they are, dared the fearful, cowardly Democratic Party to debate the impeachment resolution brought to the floor by their own Dennis Kucinich ... by voting FOR the impeachment resolution ... despite the best attempts of the panicked Democrats to make the awful thing go away!
Suffering as it's been for the past two decades from a political version of "battered wife syndrome," the Democratic Party doesn't even know anymore when it's being abused and spat on, so this seemed a pretty safe move on the part of congressional Republicans.
Cowering in fear, afraid to follow the majority of Americans (who by a 54-40% margin already favor impeaching Cheney) and openly debate Kucinich's impeachment resolution on the floor of the House, the Dems' only alternative was to send the resolution to the House Judiciary Committee ... which is where articles of impeachment originate!
So ... by a strange twist of fate fortuitously created by the precise pathologic dysfunctions present in both parties, a reality warp so bizarre it wouldn't be believed as an episode of "The Twilight Zone" ... it looks like impeachment of Dick Cheney may now actually be a serious and imminent possibility!!
---
To read the full text of the impeachment resolution:
1. go to: http://thomas.loc.gov/;
2. enter "H. RES. 799" (without the quotes) into the field titled "Search Bill Text;"
3. select "Bill Number" (immediately below the search field);
4. click the "Search" button.
---
It's now time to FLOOD the offices of members of the House Judiciary committee with communications (phone calls, emails, letters, etc.) demanding that they do NOT allow this impeachment resolution to die in committee ... but, rather, that they pass the resolution along immediately to the full House for consideration.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is Illinois representative John Conyers. He's the one who will have the greatest influence on the outcome of this historic opportunity for America to save its dying democracy.
In addition to Mr. Conyers, all other members of the House Judiciary Committee also need to hear our demand for the will of the American people to be heard, and no longer ignored, by the very party we put into power in 2006 to change course and restore the Constitution and accountability to our government.
The toll-free Capitol Switchboard phone number is:
1-800-828-0498.
Below are links to pages where you can get full information on committee members' names and full contact info:
---
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMembership.aspx
http://www.house.gov/
---
Now is the time to let Mr. Conyers and others on his committee know that we demand he and the rest of the Democrats stop collaborating with neocon criminals, fully support the impeachment resolution presented by Dennis Kucinich (the bill is H. Res. 799), and put American democracy, the rule of law, and impeachment of criminals in the Bush Administration back "on the table" where it has always belonged!
This could actually happen, as unbelievable as it sounds, despite the seemingly intractable corruption in both parties ... if we really pour the pressure oto the right people, right now.
Call everyday, if you can, till the impeachment resolution is passed out of committee to the full House for their consideration.
Please ... do all you can to support this crucial effort, at this most critical time (to read an important action alert update on this, click here).
Thank you.
Pass it on.
The Democratic Activist
Action Plan: Cheney Impeachment Resolution
The Democratic Activist
(Note: this post has been updated, here.)
Of the 38 members of the House Judiciary Committee (HJC), 23 are Democrats, 15 are Republicans.
The Dems on the HJC voted to support the resolution 14 to 9. That's 61% of the Dems on the committee -- a MUCH higher percentage than among all House Dems (that's encouraging).
However, we still need 6 more Dems to have a majority of committee members who will vote to move H. Res. 799 (the new version of H. Res. 333, the original Cheney impeachment resolution introduced by Kucinich back in April that's now before the HJC) through the committee process and on the full House.
So, our job is to convert 6 of 9 recalcitrant Dems on the committee.
Here's a list of the Dems on the HJC, showing how they who voted to on the motion to table the Cheney impeachment resolution (a "Nay" vote indicates support for the resolution; a "Yea" vote indicates opposition to it; those Democratic reps who voted "Yea," against the resolution, are in bold, and are the ones we need to concentrate on):
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Adam B. Schiff - (D) California, 29th
Yea
Anthony D. Weiner - (D) New York, 9th
Nay
Artur Davis - (D) Alabama , 7th
Yea
Betty Sutton - (D) Ohio, 13th
Nay
Brad Sherman - (D) California, 27
Nay
Debbie Wasserman Schultz - (D) Florida, 20th
Yea
Hank Johnson - (D) Georgia, 4th
Nay
Howard L. Berman - (D) California, 28th
Yea
Jerrold Nadler - (D) New York, 8th
Yea
John Conyers, Jr. - (D) Michigan, 14th
Nay
Keith Ellison - (D) Minnesota, 5th
Nay
Linda T. Sánchez - (D) California, 39th
Yea
Luis Gutierrez - (D) Illinois, 4th
Nay
Maxine Waters - (D) California, 35th
Nay
Melvin L. Watt - (D) North Carolina, 12th
Nay
Rick Boucher - (D) Virginia, 9th
Yea
Robert C. Scott - (D) Virginia, 3rd
Nay
Robert Wexler - (D) Florida, 19th
Nay
Sheila Jackson Lee - (D) Texas, 18th
Nay
Steve Cohen - (D) Tennessee, 9th
Nay
Tammy Baldwin - (D) Wisconsin, 2nd
Nay
William D. Delahunt - (D) Massachusetts, 10th
Yea
Zoe Lofgren - (D) California, 16th
Yea
---
Action Plan:
The easiest way to do contact congressional representatives (in the House or Senate) is to call the Capitol Switchboard toll-free at:
1-800-828-0498, and ask to speak to the office of a particular congressperson or senator.
Here's what you can do:
1. Contact House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (either by calling the Capitol Switchboard number below, or by calling his Washington D.C. office number: 202-225-5126), expressing support for Cheney impeachment resolution H. Res. 799 and demanding that Congressman Conyers make passing this resolution the committee's top priority, hold a hearing on the resolution as quickly as possible, and work hard to swiftly move the resolution out of committee and on to full debate and consideration by the entire House.
2. Contact each Democratic member of the HJC who voted "Yea" to table H. Res. 799 in opposition to the Cheney impeachment resolution (names in bold in list of Democratic committee members, above), express your own ardent support of the resolution, and insist that recalcitrant Democrats on the committee fully and enthusiastically support the resolution and its quick passage to full debate and consideration by the entire House (you might also want to contact all the "Nay" voters to applaud them for their support of the Cheney impeachment resolution, and the office of Rep. Dennis Kucinich to thank him for his courage and commitment in authoring and presenting the resolution to congress).
3. Contact House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Steny Hoyer (call the Capitol Switchboard number, above) to express your support of the Cheney impeachment resolution and demand that they obey the will of a solid majority of Americans and the vast majority of Democrats to immediately impeach Dick Cheney, to put impeachment back on the table where it belongs, and to energetically work as leaders of the Democratic Party to see that Cheney and other criminals in the currently administration are removed from office and held fully accountable before the law.
4. Contact your own representative in the House (click here to find your representative's name and web site), express your fervent support of the Cheney impeachment resolution, urge him or her to co-sponsor the resolution to impeach Dick Cheney, and ask him or her to lobby members of the HJC to work hard to advance the resolution swiftly through the committee and on to the full House.
5. Contact national mass-media outlets and request full coverage of this important news story (click here to go to a page listing addresses, phone numbers, and live email links to major U.S. news outlets).
Afterdowningstreet.org has their own action page (click here) with additional ideas and ways to further the cause of impeachment.
Be creative!
Add to this list of action items by including your own ideas and links in comments to this post, so others can benefit from them.
---
Carrying out the full action plan above requires that you make 12 short phone calls.
12 calls to the Capitol Switchboard takes about 15 minutes. Committed individuals could easily do it on their lunch break, using their cell phones (not at all a difficult or onerous task, for those who really care). In addition, you can quickly and easily send email messages to your congressperson and senators, Speaker Pelosi, the HJC, and a letter to your nearest daily newspaper in support of the Cheney impeachment resolution by clicking here.
Activists should implement the action plan each day, till the resolution is moved to a hearing, and until we get public commitments to support the Cheney impeachment resolution from HJC Chairman John Conyers and at least 6 more Dems on the HJC.
Direct action is only half the battle, though. The other half is enrolling others in the fight.
In addition to making these critically important calls yourself, it is VERY IMPORTANT that activists email a link to this page and the information it contains to as many people as possible, with an short explanation of the crucial issue at hand and a request for their own active involvement at this critical time.
Letters to representatives are also extremely effective, more so even than phone calls ... though they do, of course, take more time to generate and mail. Please consider writing a short letter template, and then printing out and mailing a separate copy of your letter to each of the HJC members who voted "Yea" to table H. Res. 799 (for mailing addresses, click here to go to the HJC main page, then click on a member's name to go to that representative's web site and contact page). Make clear your unequivocal support for Cheney's impeachment, and that your continued support of the Democratic Party, financially and otherwise, depends on Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee acting speedily and decisively to move the Cheney impeachment resolution through the committee to the full House.
Although most House members only accept email messages sent through the contact page of their web sites from zip codes within their home districts, HJC Chairman John Conyers can be contacted directly via email at the following address:
John.Conyers@mail.house.gov
Letters to Chairman Conyers can be addressed to:
Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
Click here to read the text of the Cheney impeachment resolution, and here to view supporting documents.
Dick Cheney, in addition to conceiving and committing the high crimes outlined in the impeachment resolution, is the man most responsible for the insane plan to attack Iran, probably timed to occur next spring or summer, before the election ... which Republicans fear they're otherwise almost sure to lose.
Are the American people ready for another outrageous, ridiculous, felonious, wasteful war based on greed, deceit, and power-madness?
Are we as a people and as individuals willing to lose America to a budding dictatorship, risk the advent of WW3, and ignore the most fundamental principles of American democracy ... by leaving criminals like this in office one day longer?
This is it. We actually have a real chance to impeach Dick Cheney.
It's now, or never. Time to move. It will take work. But we can do it.
Please forward this information to as many people as possible, make calls and send letters yourself, and urge others to do the same.
(Click here to read the update to this post.)
Thank you.
Pass it on.
The Democratic Activist
(Note: this post has been updated, here.)
Of the 38 members of the House Judiciary Committee (HJC), 23 are Democrats, 15 are Republicans.The Dems on the HJC voted to support the resolution 14 to 9. That's 61% of the Dems on the committee -- a MUCH higher percentage than among all House Dems (that's encouraging).
However, we still need 6 more Dems to have a majority of committee members who will vote to move H. Res. 799 (the new version of H. Res. 333, the original Cheney impeachment resolution introduced by Kucinich back in April that's now before the HJC) through the committee process and on the full House.
So, our job is to convert 6 of 9 recalcitrant Dems on the committee.
Here's a list of the Dems on the HJC, showing how they who voted to on the motion to table the Cheney impeachment resolution (a "Nay" vote indicates support for the resolution; a "Yea" vote indicates opposition to it; those Democratic reps who voted "Yea," against the resolution, are in bold, and are the ones we need to concentrate on):
---
Adam B. Schiff - (D) California, 29th
Yea
Anthony D. Weiner - (D) New York, 9th
Nay
Artur Davis - (D) Alabama , 7th
Yea
Betty Sutton - (D) Ohio, 13th
Nay
Brad Sherman - (D) California, 27
Nay
Debbie Wasserman Schultz - (D) Florida, 20th
Yea
Hank Johnson - (D) Georgia, 4th
Nay
Howard L. Berman - (D) California, 28th
Yea
Jerrold Nadler - (D) New York, 8th
Yea
John Conyers, Jr. - (D) Michigan, 14th
Nay
Keith Ellison - (D) Minnesota, 5th
Nay
Linda T. Sánchez - (D) California, 39th
Yea
Luis Gutierrez - (D) Illinois, 4th
Nay
Maxine Waters - (D) California, 35th
Nay
Melvin L. Watt - (D) North Carolina, 12th
Nay
Rick Boucher - (D) Virginia, 9th
Yea
Robert C. Scott - (D) Virginia, 3rd
Nay
Robert Wexler - (D) Florida, 19th
Nay
Sheila Jackson Lee - (D) Texas, 18th
Nay
Steve Cohen - (D) Tennessee, 9th
Nay
Tammy Baldwin - (D) Wisconsin, 2nd
Nay
William D. Delahunt - (D) Massachusetts, 10th
Yea
Zoe Lofgren - (D) California, 16th
Yea
---
Action Plan:
The easiest way to do contact congressional representatives (in the House or Senate) is to call the Capitol Switchboard toll-free at:
1-800-828-0498, and ask to speak to the office of a particular congressperson or senator.
Here's what you can do:
1. Contact House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (either by calling the Capitol Switchboard number below, or by calling his Washington D.C. office number: 202-225-5126), expressing support for Cheney impeachment resolution H. Res. 799 and demanding that Congressman Conyers make passing this resolution the committee's top priority, hold a hearing on the resolution as quickly as possible, and work hard to swiftly move the resolution out of committee and on to full debate and consideration by the entire House.
2. Contact each Democratic member of the HJC who voted "Yea" to table H. Res. 799 in opposition to the Cheney impeachment resolution (names in bold in list of Democratic committee members, above), express your own ardent support of the resolution, and insist that recalcitrant Democrats on the committee fully and enthusiastically support the resolution and its quick passage to full debate and consideration by the entire House (you might also want to contact all the "Nay" voters to applaud them for their support of the Cheney impeachment resolution, and the office of Rep. Dennis Kucinich to thank him for his courage and commitment in authoring and presenting the resolution to congress).
3. Contact House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Steny Hoyer (call the Capitol Switchboard number, above) to express your support of the Cheney impeachment resolution and demand that they obey the will of a solid majority of Americans and the vast majority of Democrats to immediately impeach Dick Cheney, to put impeachment back on the table where it belongs, and to energetically work as leaders of the Democratic Party to see that Cheney and other criminals in the currently administration are removed from office and held fully accountable before the law.
4. Contact your own representative in the House (click here to find your representative's name and web site), express your fervent support of the Cheney impeachment resolution, urge him or her to co-sponsor the resolution to impeach Dick Cheney, and ask him or her to lobby members of the HJC to work hard to advance the resolution swiftly through the committee and on to the full House.
5. Contact national mass-media outlets and request full coverage of this important news story (click here to go to a page listing addresses, phone numbers, and live email links to major U.S. news outlets).
Afterdowningstreet.org has their own action page (click here) with additional ideas and ways to further the cause of impeachment.
Be creative!
Add to this list of action items by including your own ideas and links in comments to this post, so others can benefit from them.
---
Carrying out the full action plan above requires that you make 12 short phone calls.
12 calls to the Capitol Switchboard takes about 15 minutes. Committed individuals could easily do it on their lunch break, using their cell phones (not at all a difficult or onerous task, for those who really care). In addition, you can quickly and easily send email messages to your congressperson and senators, Speaker Pelosi, the HJC, and a letter to your nearest daily newspaper in support of the Cheney impeachment resolution by clicking here.
Activists should implement the action plan each day, till the resolution is moved to a hearing, and until we get public commitments to support the Cheney impeachment resolution from HJC Chairman John Conyers and at least 6 more Dems on the HJC.
Direct action is only half the battle, though. The other half is enrolling others in the fight.
In addition to making these critically important calls yourself, it is VERY IMPORTANT that activists email a link to this page and the information it contains to as many people as possible, with an short explanation of the crucial issue at hand and a request for their own active involvement at this critical time.
Letters to representatives are also extremely effective, more so even than phone calls ... though they do, of course, take more time to generate and mail. Please consider writing a short letter template, and then printing out and mailing a separate copy of your letter to each of the HJC members who voted "Yea" to table H. Res. 799 (for mailing addresses, click here to go to the HJC main page, then click on a member's name to go to that representative's web site and contact page). Make clear your unequivocal support for Cheney's impeachment, and that your continued support of the Democratic Party, financially and otherwise, depends on Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee acting speedily and decisively to move the Cheney impeachment resolution through the committee to the full House.
Although most House members only accept email messages sent through the contact page of their web sites from zip codes within their home districts, HJC Chairman John Conyers can be contacted directly via email at the following address:
John.Conyers@mail.house.gov
Letters to Chairman Conyers can be addressed to:
Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
Click here to read the text of the Cheney impeachment resolution, and here to view supporting documents.
Dick Cheney, in addition to conceiving and committing the high crimes outlined in the impeachment resolution, is the man most responsible for the insane plan to attack Iran, probably timed to occur next spring or summer, before the election ... which Republicans fear they're otherwise almost sure to lose.
Are the American people ready for another outrageous, ridiculous, felonious, wasteful war based on greed, deceit, and power-madness?
Are we as a people and as individuals willing to lose America to a budding dictatorship, risk the advent of WW3, and ignore the most fundamental principles of American democracy ... by leaving criminals like this in office one day longer?
This is it. We actually have a real chance to impeach Dick Cheney.
It's now, or never. Time to move. It will take work. But we can do it.
Please forward this information to as many people as possible, make calls and send letters yourself, and urge others to do the same.
(Click here to read the update to this post.)
Thank you.
Pass it on.
The Democratic Activist
Contact Addresses: National Mass Media
The Democratic Activist
These days, it's just as important to lobby the mainstream mass-media as it is to communicate frequently and passionately with our governmental representatives in Washington D.C. and elsewhere.
Below is a collection of addresses, phone numbers, and live links to use to communicate your opinions and requests for coverage to major U.S. news and entertainment outlets (please let me know via comments if any of the information or links below are incorrect or non-working, or if you know of other contact info that should be included):
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ABC
ABC NEWS
77 W. 66 St.
New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-456-7777
World News Tonight (put show in subject line): NETAUDR@abc.com
Good Morning America (put show in subject line): NETAUDR@abc.com
World News Now: wnn@abcnews.com
Nightline: nightline@abcnews.com
This Week with George Stephanopoulos: thisweek@abc.com
Primetime: abc.news.magazines@abc.com
20/20: 2020@abc.com
---
AP
Associated Press
Dallas Bureau
4851 LBJ Freeway, Suite 300
Dallas TX 75244-6002
(972) 991-2100 News
(972) 991-7207 Fax
---
CBS
CBS NEWS
524 W. 57 St.
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-975-4321
Fax: 212-975-1893
CBS Evening News: evening@cbsnews.com
The Early Show: earlyshow@cbs.com
48 Hours: 48hours@cbsnews.com
Face The Nation: ftn@cbsnews.com
CBS News Sunday Morning: sundays@cbsnews.com
Up to the Minute: uttm@cbs.com
---
CNN
CNN
One CNN Center (or: Box 105366)
Atlanta, GA 30303-5366
Phone: 404-827-1500
Fax: 404-827-1906
CNN asks for emails to all shows to go through this form:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/
---
FOX
FOX NEWS
1211 Ave. of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 301-3000
Fax: (212) 301-4229
Special Report with Brit Hume: Special@foxnews.com
FOX Report with Shepard Smith: Foxreport@foxnews.com
The O'Reilly Factor: Oreilly@foxnews.com
Hannity & Colmes: Hannity@foxnews.com, Colmes@foxnews.com
On the Record with Greta: Ontherecord@foxnews.com
DaySide with Linda Vester: Dayside@foxnews.com
FOX & Friends: Friends@foxnews.com
FOX News Live (put show in subject line): Feedback@foxnews.com
Heartland w/ John Kasich: Heartland@foxnews.com
Studio B with Shepard Smith: Studiob@foxnews.com
The Big Story with John Gibson: Myword@foxnews.com
---
LA TIMES
Los Angeles Times
202 West First Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 800-528-4637 or 213-237-5000
Fax: 213-237-4712
Readers' Representative: readers.rep@latimes.com
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MSNBC
MSNBC
One MSNBC Plaza
Secaucus, NJ 07094
Phone: (201) 583-5000
Fax: (201) 583-5453
Viewer Services: viewerservices@msnbc.com
Hardball with Chris Matthews: hardball@msnbc.com
Countdown with Keith Olbermann: countdown@msnbc.com
The Situation with Tucker Carlson: Tucker@msnbc.com
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NBC
NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
Phone: 212-664-4444
Fax: 212-664-4426
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: nightly@nbc.com
Today Show: today@nbc.com
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NY TIMES
New York Times
229 W. 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-556-1234
Fax: 212-556-3690
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-862-0300
Byron Calame, public editor: public@nytimes.com
National Editors: national@nytimes.com
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NPR
NPR
635 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001-3753
Phone: 202-513-2000
Fax: 202-513-3329
Email correspondence to NPR must go through this form:
http://www.npr.org/contact.
All Things Considered: atc@npr.org
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PBS
PBS
1320 Braddock Place
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-739-5000
Fax: 703-739-8458
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: newshour@pbs.org
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USA TODAY
USA Today
7950 Jones Branch Dr.
McLean, VA 22108
Phone: 800-872-0001 or 703-854-3400
Fax: 703-854-2165
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WSJ
Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty St.
New York, NY 10281
Phone: 212-416-2000
Fax: 212-416-2658
Letters to the Editor: wsj.ltrs@wsj.com
General comment: wsjcontact@dowjones.com
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WASHINGTON POST
Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Phone: 202-334-6000
Fax: 202-334-5269
Ombudsman: ombudsman@washpost.com
Michael Abramowitz, national editor: abramowitz@washpost.com
---
Thank you.
Pass it on.
The Democratic Activist
These days, it's just as important to lobby the mainstream mass-media as it is to communicate frequently and passionately with our governmental representatives in Washington D.C. and elsewhere.Below is a collection of addresses, phone numbers, and live links to use to communicate your opinions and requests for coverage to major U.S. news and entertainment outlets (please let me know via comments if any of the information or links below are incorrect or non-working, or if you know of other contact info that should be included):
---
ABC
ABC NEWS
77 W. 66 St.
New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-456-7777
World News Tonight (put show in subject line): NETAUDR@abc.com
Good Morning America (put show in subject line): NETAUDR@abc.com
World News Now: wnn@abcnews.com
Nightline: nightline@abcnews.com
This Week with George Stephanopoulos: thisweek@abc.com
Primetime: abc.news.magazines@abc.com
20/20: 2020@abc.com
---
AP
Associated Press
Dallas Bureau
4851 LBJ Freeway, Suite 300
Dallas TX 75244-6002
(972) 991-2100 News
(972) 991-7207 Fax
---
CBS
CBS NEWS
524 W. 57 St.
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-975-4321
Fax: 212-975-1893
CBS Evening News: evening@cbsnews.com
The Early Show: earlyshow@cbs.com
48 Hours: 48hours@cbsnews.com
Face The Nation: ftn@cbsnews.com
CBS News Sunday Morning: sundays@cbsnews.com
Up to the Minute: uttm@cbs.com
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CNN
CNN
One CNN Center (or: Box 105366)
Atlanta, GA 30303-5366
Phone: 404-827-1500
Fax: 404-827-1906
CNN asks for emails to all shows to go through this form:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/
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FOX
FOX NEWS
1211 Ave. of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 301-3000
Fax: (212) 301-4229
Special Report with Brit Hume: Special@foxnews.com
FOX Report with Shepard Smith: Foxreport@foxnews.com
The O'Reilly Factor: Oreilly@foxnews.com
Hannity & Colmes: Hannity@foxnews.com, Colmes@foxnews.com
On the Record with Greta: Ontherecord@foxnews.com
DaySide with Linda Vester: Dayside@foxnews.com
FOX & Friends: Friends@foxnews.com
FOX News Live (put show in subject line): Feedback@foxnews.com
Heartland w/ John Kasich: Heartland@foxnews.com
Studio B with Shepard Smith: Studiob@foxnews.com
The Big Story with John Gibson: Myword@foxnews.com
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LA TIMES
Los Angeles Times
202 West First Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 800-528-4637 or 213-237-5000
Fax: 213-237-4712
Readers' Representative: readers.rep@latimes.com
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MSNBC
MSNBC
One MSNBC Plaza
Secaucus, NJ 07094
Phone: (201) 583-5000
Fax: (201) 583-5453
Viewer Services: viewerservices@msnbc.com
Hardball with Chris Matthews: hardball@msnbc.com
Countdown with Keith Olbermann: countdown@msnbc.com
The Situation with Tucker Carlson: Tucker@msnbc.com
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NBC
NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
Phone: 212-664-4444
Fax: 212-664-4426
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: nightly@nbc.com
Today Show: today@nbc.com
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NY TIMES
New York Times
229 W. 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-556-1234
Fax: 212-556-3690
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-862-0300
Byron Calame, public editor: public@nytimes.com
National Editors: national@nytimes.com
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NPR
NPR
635 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001-3753
Phone: 202-513-2000
Fax: 202-513-3329
Email correspondence to NPR must go through this form:
http://www.npr.org/contact.
All Things Considered: atc@npr.org
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PBS
PBS
1320 Braddock Place
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-739-5000
Fax: 703-739-8458
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: newshour@pbs.org
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USA TODAY
USA Today
7950 Jones Branch Dr.
McLean, VA 22108
Phone: 800-872-0001 or 703-854-3400
Fax: 703-854-2165
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WSJ
Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty St.
New York, NY 10281
Phone: 212-416-2000
Fax: 212-416-2658
Letters to the Editor: wsj.ltrs@wsj.com
General comment: wsjcontact@dowjones.com
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WASHINGTON POST
Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Phone: 202-334-6000
Fax: 202-334-5269
Ombudsman: ombudsman@washpost.com
Michael Abramowitz, national editor: abramowitz@washpost.com
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Pass it on.
The Democratic Activist
Update: Cheney Impeachment Resolution
The Democratic Activist
After initial success on Tuesday, I've been utterly unable to get through by phone to the office of House Judiciary Committee Chairman, John Conyers, since then. Repeated attempts each day. Nothing but busy signals. All phone numbers completely jammed.
(Note: as of Tuesday, 11/13/07, phone calls to the office of John Conyers are once again getting through.)
So, what can an activist do, after making his daily round of calls to the "Ninny Nine," as blogger Gail Jonas calls them?
Keep those phone calls coming ... but don't forget to write!
Good, ol' fashioned snail-mail letters count much more than phone calls to reps who receive them, since they take more effort to send and therefore far fewer people do so.
Below, you'll find postal address information for each of the nine Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee who voted to table the Cheney impeachment resolution earlier this week (indicating their opposition to impeachment). They're the folks we need to target with calls and letters. (Remember ... the toll-free Capitol Switchboard number is: 1-800-828-0498. Have you memorized it, yet? Put it in your speed dial!)
If you're organized, you can easily compose a short, three paragraph letter template, print nine letters, and then sign, stamp, and seal them, in half an hour.
Ideally, you should also send letters to Chairman Conyers, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, while you're at it. We really do need to bombard Mr. Conyers with letters ... since the poor chairman has his phones jammed up so terribly. (Postal addresses for Mr. Conyers, Mr. Hoyer, and Ms. Pelosi are included under those for the "Ninny Nine," below.)
It's way past ironic (truly surreal) that the only thing standing in the way of removing criminals from the highest offices in our land is the leadership of the Democratic Party.
Surreality aside ... please ... get those letters printed and mailed, asap!
Mine are ready to be mailed, and will go out this morning after I finish this post.
We've got to keep up the pressure well into next week, and probably beyond, to move the Cheney impeachment resolution (H. Res. 799) to a hearing, and on to the full House. That means each of us should make a daily round of phone calls to the "Ninny Nine," at minimum, if possible. In addition, calls and emails to family, friends, neighbors, etc. with info about the resolution and requests for their active involvement are just as important at this extremely critical time.
Here are the postal mailing addresses you'll need, ready to copy and paste:
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The "Ninny Nine:"
Hon. Howard Berman
2221 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Hon. Frederick Boucher
2187 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Artur Davis
208 Cannon H.O.B.
Washington, D.C. 20515
Hon. William Delahunt
2454 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Zoe Lofgren
102 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Hon. Jerrold Nadler
2334 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Linda Sanchez
1007 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
118 Cannon H.O.B
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Adam B. Schiff
326 Cannon House Office Building
Washington D.C. 20515
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Democratic Party Leadership
Chairman John Conyers, Jr.
House Judiciary Committee
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
Mr. Steny H. Hoyer
House Democratic Majority Leader
H-107, The Capitol Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
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Note: Gail Jonas has posted complete contact info (including fax numbers, district office address and phones, etc.) for Chairman John Conyers and the "Ninny Nine" in a new post at Thinking Out Loud. To get the info, click here.
Thank you.
Pass it on.
The Democratic Activist
After initial success on Tuesday, I've been utterly unable to get through by phone to the office of House Judiciary Committee Chairman, John Conyers, since then. Repeated attempts each day. Nothing but busy signals. All phone numbers completely jammed.(Note: as of Tuesday, 11/13/07, phone calls to the office of John Conyers are once again getting through.)
So, what can an activist do, after making his daily round of calls to the "Ninny Nine," as blogger Gail Jonas calls them?
Keep those phone calls coming ... but don't forget to write!
Good, ol' fashioned snail-mail letters count much more than phone calls to reps who receive them, since they take more effort to send and therefore far fewer people do so.
Below, you'll find postal address information for each of the nine Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee who voted to table the Cheney impeachment resolution earlier this week (indicating their opposition to impeachment). They're the folks we need to target with calls and letters. (Remember ... the toll-free Capitol Switchboard number is: 1-800-828-0498. Have you memorized it, yet? Put it in your speed dial!)
If you're organized, you can easily compose a short, three paragraph letter template, print nine letters, and then sign, stamp, and seal them, in half an hour.
Ideally, you should also send letters to Chairman Conyers, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, while you're at it. We really do need to bombard Mr. Conyers with letters ... since the poor chairman has his phones jammed up so terribly. (Postal addresses for Mr. Conyers, Mr. Hoyer, and Ms. Pelosi are included under those for the "Ninny Nine," below.)
It's way past ironic (truly surreal) that the only thing standing in the way of removing criminals from the highest offices in our land is the leadership of the Democratic Party.
Surreality aside ... please ... get those letters printed and mailed, asap!
Mine are ready to be mailed, and will go out this morning after I finish this post.
We've got to keep up the pressure well into next week, and probably beyond, to move the Cheney impeachment resolution (H. Res. 799) to a hearing, and on to the full House. That means each of us should make a daily round of phone calls to the "Ninny Nine," at minimum, if possible. In addition, calls and emails to family, friends, neighbors, etc. with info about the resolution and requests for their active involvement are just as important at this extremely critical time.
Here are the postal mailing addresses you'll need, ready to copy and paste:
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The "Ninny Nine:"
Hon. Howard Berman
2221 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Hon. Frederick Boucher
2187 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Artur Davis
208 Cannon H.O.B.
Washington, D.C. 20515
Hon. William Delahunt
2454 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Zoe Lofgren
102 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Hon. Jerrold Nadler
2334 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Linda Sanchez
1007 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
118 Cannon H.O.B
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Adam B. Schiff
326 Cannon House Office Building
Washington D.C. 20515
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Democratic Party Leadership
Chairman John Conyers, Jr.
House Judiciary Committee
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
Mr. Steny H. Hoyer
House Democratic Majority Leader
H-107, The Capitol Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
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Note: Gail Jonas has posted complete contact info (including fax numbers, district office address and phones, etc.) for Chairman John Conyers and the "Ninny Nine" in a new post at Thinking Out Loud. To get the info, click here.
Thank you.
Pass it on.
The Democratic Activist
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