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They have slowed some appointments in House committees.
The Senate Democrats have stayed late to filibuster nominations
Democrats have repeatedly attempted unsuccessfully to enter federal agency buildings to investigate 'what the Doge doin'
Democrats have an upcoming opportunity to refuse to pass a budget with the trillion dollar tax cuts that Musk and other billionaire are trying to somehow justify with every fibre of their being. This means that everyone in the House (including purple state Republicans) have to be in lock step, even 2-3 R-defectors will mean it doesn't pass.
Democrats have been proposing amendments left and right, into the night... House members have suggested excluding people with wealth over $10M, $100M and $500M, all voted down. Senators like Andy Kim for example, have put on their Instagram pages, what they are trying to do.
Congresspeople are doing their job harder than they ever thought they would have to, but we should expect more.
I do think all the Democrats, should take more opportunities to visit their states to make people aware of what's going on, what they're doing in Congress to try to stop the worst stuff happening, and what ordinary people can do to push back as well. I think members should also boost each others message because probably pages like AOC's have a lot more viewers from a district than their own district's House Rep.
Perhaps a better question is, "What are you doing to help?".
Supporting a national strike, canceling Amazon, leaving FB, might be a good start. Contacting you representative who doesn't represent you seems to be futile. Maybe flash protests?
Good they are doing some legislative opposition, but you're right they need to be doing more to push back outside of congress.
I've wondered if the they started buying ads on mobile games with a quick few lines to tell people what they have done or what the republicans are doing would work?
you by-pass large media, you get a younger audience and it gets a message out there quickly.