The letter is written for you — all it needs is your story and your signature. Below are the templates: pick the one that fits your situation and your district, copy it into a document, fill in the brackets, and mail it. Every template covers the five things Congress can do right now, cites the court rulings, and shows exactly where your own situation goes — so your letter arrives informed, personal, and ready to count.
Pick your Template
Not sure which? Use the Universal. If your member is a Republican and your story is about your family, use the Family template; if it’s about your job or business, use the Competitiveness template; if your member is a Democrat, use the Leadership template.
How to Send It:
- Copy the template into any document (Google Docs, Word, the Notes app on your phone — anything you can print from)
- Fill in every [bracketed] item and delete the fill-in options that don’t apply to you
- Include your campaign email address from Step 1 as your contact — it shows the office you’re one voice in an organized national campaign
- Enclose copies — never originals — of any case documents you have: approval notices, embassy letters, appointment confirmations. Documents turn your letter from opinion mail into case mail
- Print, sign in ink, and address it to your member’s district office (from Step 2)
- Mail it — regular first-class mail is fine
- Follow up by phone in two weeks: call the district office and ask, “Did my letter arrive, and has the Representative responded?” The follow-up is what turns a sent letter into a logged one
Why physical mail?
Congressional offices log every letter that arrives, and a stack of letters on one issue is the single strongest signal a district office sees. Email forms get filed automatically; phone calls get tallied; a physical letter from a constituent, with documents enclosed, goes to a caseworker. A thousand petition signatures are one data point. A hundred letters are a hundred data points. Yours is one of them the day it’s postmarked.
After you send it
Keep a copy of what you mailed and the date you sent it. When the office responds — with anything other than a form letter — send the reply to [email protected] (Step 5). Every reply becomes a data point on the campaign’s public scoreboard of where every member of Congress stands. Your letter gets read; the reply gets recorded.