Even in moments when positive change is hard to come by at the national level in the United States, RootsAction's online campaigns have been part of successful efforts to create progressive policies at the state level.
We've helped to legalize balcony solar power, create taxes on millionaires and billionaires, restore value to the minimum wage, ban slavery in state constitutions, ban the wearing of masks by ICE, pause or permanently ban capital punishment, add more states to those committed to a national popular vote that would eliminate the electoral college.
Can you help us keep these successes building by contacting your state legislators and governors using the action links below?
Tell Your State to Ban Corporal Punishment in Schools
If you live in one of these states, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, then . . .
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Ban Automatic License Plate Recognition Cameras
Spy cameras made by Flock and various other companies are being use to make wrongful arrests, to spy on ex-lovers of police and camera company employees, and to routinely and massively violate the Fourth Amendment by documenting times and locations of millions of license plates.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Your State Needs a Moratorium on Data Center Construction
The New York legislature has passed and Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers. Other states can do the same.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Your State Can Stop Making Prisoners Pay for Phone Calls
Six states (CA, CO, CT, MA, MN, NY) have made phone calls in prison free. Your state can do the same.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Counties and States Must Prosecute ICE Crimes
Counties and states upholding the rule of law, including on masked thugs committing murder on public streets, ought to go without saying.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Every State Can Ban Corporations Spending on Elections
States have the power to stop corporations from corrupting elections.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Allow Balcony Solar
Utah allows people to plug small solar panels on balconies or patios into ordinary outlets for enough electricity to run their home appliances without paying any power company for it.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Ban Forever Chemicals
People are dying, suffering, and being born with birth defects.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Your State Can Unmask ICE
California has passed a ban on ICE agents wearing masks in the state. Your state can do the same. Every state should.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State Legislators and Governor: Free Pre-K For All Now!
If New Mexico can do it, so can your state.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Make Your State a Nuclear Free Zone
Let's prevent a spread of nuclear energy.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Tax the Super Wealthy
Massachusetts has created a very successful way to tax the very wealthy. Your state can easily do it too. Only Washington D.C. and these six states have a higher tax rate for the wealthiest: CA, HI, NY, NJ, OR, MN.
Please email your state legislators.
Fix the Minimum Wage in Your State
Make Voter Registration Automatic in Your State
Every election season, thousands of volunteers toil endless hours on a task that need not exist at all: registering voters. And voters are denied the right to vote when told they are not registered.
End Life Sentences Without Parole for Those Under 21
Massachusetts has banned sentencing young people under 21 to life in prison with no possibility of parole. Michigan and Washington have eliminated making such sentences mandatory. What about your state?
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Ban Slavery in Your State
Some states still allow slavery, most of them as punishment for crime, as in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Abolish the Death Penalty
The death penalty's slow death is accelerating.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Put Limits on Political Action Committees to Eliminate Super PACs
A political action committee called a Super PAC can spend unlimited money promoting a candidate and can take unlimited money from individuals -- or can in most states, but not any longer in Maine.
Tell your governor and state legislators that we need this same reform now.
