Easy ways to advocate for impeachment
It takes just five minutes to contact your representative and advocate for impeachment. Follow our guide:
Action 1: sign up
- Sign up here to stay informed (you’ll be redirected back to this page afterward).
- Our Citizens’ Impeachment team emails user-friendly steps to make it easy to participate in Days of Action.
ABOVE ALL: Follow up with the rest of the actions below!
Action 2: email your representative
- Check our tracker to confirm if your representative has taken a position on impeachment.
- Go to the website of your representative. Click to the page to send an email.
- Write your email, with help from our templates! You can be very brief, but ideally you will include some of your own words. To get ideas and get started, jump to the template that matches your rep’s position.
ABOVE ALL: Mention their position and say what you want their position to be.
Action 3: call your representative
- Next, go to the website of your representative. Find the phone number to call — either the D.C. office or the local office is fine.
- Plan your call based on your representative’s position on our tracker, and make the call! The phone call or voicemail can also be very short, since offices tend to simply tally if constituents support an issue or not. Sample scripts are available at the bottom of the page. Again, using your own words is best.
ABOVE ALL: Mention their position and say what you want their position to be. Please be polite.
Action 4: tag your representative
- Search for your rep’s social media accounts: look on their website for links and handles. If you search on platforms directly, you might find both an official account and a campaign account. You want the official account, which should be linked to their office and to government websites (.gov).
- Target platforms where your representative seems the most active. If you’re not sure, a comment on any platform is better than none. Find a post by your representative that’s related to Donald Trump, unconstitutional actions, and/or impeachment.
- Reply to the post: state your representative’s position and that you want them to publicly support impeachment. Be sure to tag them or reply directly in their comment section.
ABOVE ALL:
Tag your rep in your post, or write directly in their comment section; your rep is unlikely to see your comment if their account is not directly tagged.
Templates for emails to your representative
Already supportive of impeachment:
Dear Representative [Last Name],
As a constituent, I wanted to thank you for publicly speaking out in favor of impeaching this tyrannical president. I hope you continue to promote the cause.
It’s so important for citizens to hear from leaders who are willing to take actions that match the threats we are experiencing.
Thank you,
[Insert your name here]
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Still no clear statement on impeachment:
Dear Representative [Last Name],
As a constituent, I wanted to write in to request you begin advocating now for the impeachment of Donald Trump and his removal from office.
The U.S. Constitution provides impeachment as a method to remove tyrants from power, and your silence on this issue is deafening. How can you claim to be fighting back against Trump when you are unwilling to even say that he should be removed from office?
I would like to see a statement from you specifically about your support for impeachment.
Thank you,
[Insert your name here]
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NOT supportive of impeachment:
Dear Representative [Last Name],
As a constituent, I am writing in to express my anger at your position against impeaching Donald Trump.
The president has committed multiple impeachable offenses since coming into office. It is important that you stand for American values by supporting impeachment. Please reconsider your stance on this issue.
Thank you,
[Insert your name here]
Scripts for phone calls to your representative
REMINDER:
These are only suggestions, not exact words to recite. Even a very short message is powerful, especially when it’s in your own words. If you’ve said that you called to advocate for impeachment and that you want your representative to take action now, you’ve done great!
Already supportive of impeachment:
Hello,
My name is [Insert your name here]. I’m calling because I support [Rep’s name]’s stance on impeaching President Trump. Please mark me as supportive of impeachment.
Thank you for your time.
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Still no clear statement on impeachment:
Hello,
My name is [Insert your name here] and I’m calling to say I’m upset by [Rep’s name]’s silence on impeachment.
I would like them to make a firm statement in support of impeaching the president.
Thank you for your time.
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NOT supportive of impeachment:
Hello,
My name is [Insert your name here]. I am upset by [Rep’s name]’s belief that the president does not need to be impeached and removed from office.
I would like them to reconsider and make a firm statement in support of impeaching the president.
Thank you for your time.
Can this really succeed?
Are you wondering how grassroots efforts can possibly sway political outcomes? Special interests groups succeed because they employ professional lobbyists, and yes, we are only part-time volunteers with the credentials of “concerned citizens”. However, a grassroots movement has distinct advantages over elite interests. Our chief strength is the massive number of voters ready to help, and the massive amount of elective power we wield. It takes a very short amount of time for a person to contact their representative and communicate how strongly they believe in impeachment. Yet if large numbers of citizens each do it, the collective impact we can make is enormous. We are the people.