Check out our latest action project... THE 50-STATE CHALLENGE! The Purple Living Room Project was started by a group of American expats living in Thailand. In the wake of the US government shutdown, we decided to challenge our community to come together and write a letter to Congress asking for a legislative solution to prevent government shutdowns in the future. We drafted a letter with the goal of capturing the "purple points" around the issue... We shared this letter with our community and began our first 50-State Challenge! Our goal was to collect signatures from voters in as many states and as many legislative districts as possible. We printed letters to send to the Senators and Representatives connected with each of the expats who signed.... We tracked down signatures from each of the voters (in purple ink!) and then addressed, stamped, and sent the letters to Congress... So, how did we do?
The results are in from our first 50-State Challenge... Number of States Represented? 23 Number of Signatures? 49 Number of Letters Sent to Congress? 80 It was a great start... and we can do better! Next steps? We plan to tackle one issue at a time and see if we can find "purple points" that will help us gather signatures from all 50 states! Join us! Let's contact Congress TOGETHER and let our representatives know that we want them to ACT NOW and create legislation that will help us move forward as a nation!
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