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Today's Daily Action is to call your Representative and ask them to co-sponsor and vocally support H.R.669/S200, Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Ted Lieu's legislation that would prevent any President from launching a nuclear "first strike" without Congress first passing a Declaration of War.

Under previous Presidents—Republicans and Democrats alike—such a bill would seem unnecessary, even unimaginable. But given the current President's world-famous temper and his previous statements revealing a willingness to use nuclear weapons, a disregard for the Geneva Conventions, and an outright hostility toward the basic norms that help to protect civilians in wartime—for example, giving civilian populations advanced notice to escape cities being bombed—the unthinkable has become a distinct possibility.

If we allow this legislation to die in Congress, Trump will interpret its defeat as "proof" that the American people back his trigger-finger nuclear policy. This is one small but necessary step to help protect 7.5 billion human lives from nuclear cataclysm.

We will keep you updated on this legislation as it progresses.
DC callers will be directed to Ted Lieu’s Los Angeles office. Thank him for this important legislation.
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