You don't have to wait until November 6 to make your voice heard during the midterm elections. What candidates hear on the campaign trail influences the actions they are willing to take once elected.
Ask your candidates where they stand on peace and justice. Select a topic to get started:
Native American tribes have a right to govern themselves and their lands, yet Congress often ignores tribal leaders' priorities.
Climate change is a global problem that needs global solutions, but the Trump Administration is pushing us in the wrong direction.
The U.S. incarceration system is unfair, unjust, and expensive. Congress can help by passing the bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act.
Enforcement-only immigration policies waste money, enrich private prison corporations, terrorize border communities, tear families apart, and abrogate Constitutional protections.
Making public assistance contingent on work hurts people receiving these benefits without helping them find employment.
From mass killings to “everyday” deaths from suicide, domestic violence, or at the hands of police, Congress can prevent gun violence.
Arming local law enforcement with weapons designed for a battlefield reinforces the threat that communities of color see in police.
Congress must cancel the blank check for war that three administration have used to justify at least 41 military engagements.
The United States must engage in dialogue and diplomacy with North Korea to avoid war while securing vital national interests..
Pentagon spending is out of control. Congress must stop wasting taxpayer money on war and violence.
The U.S. must stop supporting the devastating Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has plunged that country into a humanitarian crisis.
The Iran nuclear deal successfully prevented Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and made the world safer.
The U.S. can work to build peace if our government invests in the institutions and personnel necessary for peacebuilding to succeed.
Congress must support policies that demonstrate openness to refugees, victims of violence and human trafficking, and those seeking asylum.