February 17: What You Can Do to Hold This Regime Accountable

On February 17, go to your local representative's office with the following statement of your choice:

I’m here today as a constituent because our democracy is in crisis. In the first weeks of 2026, this administration crossed constitutional lines that no president in our history has had the authority to cross by launching a military strike in Venezuela without congressional approval, sanctioning domestic violence through ICE’s paramilitary actions, and obstructing investigations into federal crimes connected to Epstein’s trafficking network. These are not isolated abuses; they are part of a pattern of tyranny, treason, and obstruction of justice.

As your constituents, we need you to act. Congress is a coequal branch of government, and the Constitution gives it one supreme remedy for executive lawlessness — impeachment. You do not need permission from leadership. You do not need more investigation. You already possess both the constitutional authority and the moral responsibility to defend this Republic.

We are asking you to file or co‑sponsor articles of impeachment against president †®*mp and his enablers and to take immediate steps to defund and abolish IÇE. These demands come from voters across your district who have watched their rights erode, their neighbors terrorized, and their trust in government collapse under an unaccountable executive branch.

Democracy does not defend itself. It requires the courage of elected leaders and the engagement of ordinary citizens, and that’s why we’re here. We will continue to organize, to visit, and to make our expectations clear: no votes, no excuses, no waiting. We want action — now — to impeach, convict, remove, and defund.

Thank you for hearing us today. We stand ready to work with any member of Congress who is prepared to uphold their oath to the Constitution and defend the rule of law.

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In the first days of 2026, this regime ordered an unprovoked military assault on Venezuela without congressional authorization, a war power the Constitution vests in Congress alone. Civilians and soldiers were killed under a 'president' who did not even bother to seek your consent as their representative. That is not “foreign policy.” That is an illegal war.

At the same time, IÇE and associated federal forces have escalated into a de facto paramilitary that treats immigrant communities as enemy territory. A five‑year‑old child was seized from his own driveway after preschool and transported across the country as leverage in an enforcement operation. Families in our district live with the knowledge that armed agents can rip their children away and disappear them into a system with almost no accountability. This is state violence, not “border security.”

These actions are part of a broader pattern: launching unconstitutional strikes, threatening allies with force, normalizing military and paramilitary deployment against civilians, and obstructing justice in cases involving child sex trafficking and powerful elites. When the executive can kill, kidnap, and cover up without consequence, we no longer live in a functioning constitutional democracy.

I am not here to ask you to “consider” impeachment. I am here to tell you, as a constituent, that your job is on the line. Your oath was to the Constitution, not to a party, not to leadership, and not to any president. Impeachment is the remedy the Constitution gives you for exactly this: a 'president' who wages unauthorized war, unleashes domestic forces on the public, and obstructs justice to protect himself and his allies.

I am asking you to do four concrete things:

1. File or co‑sponsor articles of impeachment against president †®*mp and his key enablers, and bring them to the floor under Rule IX.

2. Publicly support existing impeachment resolutions against officials who have helped weaponize state power against civilians.

3. Move to defund and abolish IÇE and to prosecute any federal agents who have committed crimes against civilians, regardless of immigration status.

4. State, on the record, whether you believe a president may kill, kidnap, and wage war without congressional approval or judicial review.

I want to be absolutely clear: if you choose not to act, you are choosing to tolerate murder, kidnapping, and lawless war by the U.S. government. You cannot claim to oppose these abuses while refusing to use the one constitutional tool designed to stop them. My future vote for you depends entirely on whether you are willing to impeach, remove, and defund now—not after the next election, not after “more studies,” but now.

We are here because people have already died. Children have already been taken. Communities are already living under armed occupation. History will not remember who filed the nicest statement. It will remember who stood up when their own government turned its power on the people it is supposed to serve.

ON A SIDE NOTE, THESE ARE SOME REASONS WHY TARIFFS AND IÇE ARE SO HORRIBLE FOR MISSOURI ALONE:

Why tariffs are bad for Missouri

• Missouri’s economy depends heavily on farm exports; agriculture contributes nearly $94 billion a year, and the state ships around $5.6 billion in agricultural products abroad, including soybeans, corn, and livestock.

• †®‑mp’s tariff fights with China and other partners led to steep retaliatory tariffs and months of near‑zero U.S. soybean exports to China, our biggest customer, driving prices down and “uprooting” demand for Missouri farmers.

• Even after partial deals, U.S. soybean sales to China remain roughly one‑third below earlier levels, while Brazil and Argentina set export records and cement long‑term market share.

• Missouri soybean farmers describe this as a “man‑made” crisis: they lose their number‑one customer, face lower prices, and watch Brazil and Argentina permanently steal market share while bailouts only paper over long‑term damage.

• Missouri economists and farm groups are clear: alternative markets and domestic uses help, but they do not replace what was lost, turning this into a prolonged, man‑made income crisis that ripples through rural towns, equipment dealers, and local tax bases.

• When commodity prices crash, farmers cut spending on equipment, local services, and retail, which ripples through rural towns, hurting jobs and tax bases across Missouri.

Why IÇE harms Missouri communities

• Immigrants are a crucial part of Missouri’s workforce, especially in agriculture, manufacturing, health care, and services; they make up about 5–6% of the state’s workers, hold roughly 6–6.2% of jobs in the state, and have a higher labor force participation rate than U.S.‑born workers, underpinning sectors that keep small towns alive.

• Aggressive IÇE activity and raids in Missouri — including warrantless workplace removals in the Kansas City area and arrests in St. Louis — have created a climate of fear where people avoid working, shopping, or even sending money, directly cutting into local business revenue and economic participation.

• A Missouri study on rural Latino communities found that anti‑immigrant enforcement and discrimination undermine participation in the local economy, making it harder for workers to contribute and for businesses to thrive.

• Researchers and local organizers warn that when a slice of the workforce is too afraid to work openly and a slice of consumers is too afraid to shop, all of Missouri pays the economic price.

• When IÇE seizes workers — often parents — from job sites or homes, it destabilizes families, leaves kids and spouses in crisis, and disrupts small businesses that rely on those employees, multiplying harm far beyond any one arrest.