If you think you already have a good handle on what you can and can't say to a politician, feel free to bounce down to my list of resources to help you contact your elected officials.
First things first: While nothing I am telling you to do is illegal (and I am explicitly telling you not to do anything illegal), it is a good idea to learn some Surveillance Self-Defense, not just to protect yourself while organizing, but as a general best practice. That disclaimer aside, you need to be contacting your politicians constantly. Elected officials will often not do the right thing unless their constituents are complaining, and Republican politicians in particular have a tendency to believe Trump's bigoted policies are popular if they aren't constantly being yelled at by constituents proving otherwise.
There are multiple ways to yell at your elected officials depending on what works best for you. Calling them directly on the phone is generally regarded as the most effective method, because it is immediately impactful and frequently very annoying. The least effective? Emails. If you are unable to make calls, you are still making a difference by writing paper letters, sending faxes, engaging directly with politicians on social media, and and yes, even emails. Better yet, do a bunch of them! You could call, write a letter, send a fax, comment on their Facebook, include their @ on a critical message posted to Twitter/X, and send an email all for the same issue.
While you should definitely try to be as eloquent as possible, it's worth remembering that most of these aren't going to be directly read by the recipient themselves, but will be sort of tallied together in statistics of "people agree with this" and "people don't agree with this." That said, do a separate set of actions for each issue you are concerned about, don't just send a list of grievances. If you're contacting them via phone call, write a script (or use one from somewhere like 5 Calls) that gets straight to the point.
If you are in a position where you see elected officials in person, you can also yell at them in person, such as by going to local events like town halls that are open to the public.
Please note that, with all these interactions, and especially in-person ones, "yelling" here means calling people out for their inaction, not threatening. There have also been a lot of people being real stupid over the past few months by posting content and making comments that can be considered actionable threats, even if they didn't actually intend them to be threats. It is really easy for the government to find out who you are on the Internet, and they will track you down if they think you are threatening a public official.
Speaking of social media, again, you can absolutely call out politicians publicly on social media, and there is some benefit in that these comments are public. It is worth mentioning right now there is a huge censorship problem on social media, because the owners of the major social media sites are all collaborating with Trump on some level. This is not some grand conspiracy theory or anything, it's just very well known that Facebook, Twitter/X, and a number of other popular social media providers regularly allow people to say ignorant, sometimes even violently transphobic things, while suspending or banning trans people who do innocuous things like use the word "cisgender." If you use these services as your primary way of contacting friends and relatives, you should be doubly careful about what you say (and, in my opinion, you should try and find a way not to have Facebook be your primary communication method).
So don't be an idiot: Yell at politicians responsibly.
As I already mentioned, you should be contacting all your elected officials, regardless of their level of support for Trump or what party they are in. Republican legislators can be flipped, at least on some issues, if their constituents are relentless enough. In addition, you should be contacting people at all levels of government, not just the Senate and House. Yell at the mayor, the governor, and your local elected officials too.
While you're at it, you can also contact government entities that you find complying with Donald Trump's illegal orders. In these cases, there is usually a contact page available for you to find this information.
You can get a list of all your elected officials at USA.gov by entering your address. It contains information like mailing addresses, phone numbers, emails, and social media accounts. Personally, I like to print off big sheets of address labels for my elected officials, and I save form letters to update and print periodically. Some benefits of doing it the traditional way, in your own words:
Calling elected officials is generally considered the most effective way to get through to them. 5 Calls is a great resource that will provide the phone numbers of your elected officials as well as scripts you can use to call them. If you have a lot of phone anxiety and do not want to talk to a live human being, one option is to try calling after hours to see if you can get their voicemail. It also has a lot of good information on what is happening to keep you in the loop, and you can also sign up for a newsletter.
Resistbot is a service you can use to automatically send letters to your elected officials. It stores your contact information so you can automatically send messages to your legislators that you either write yourself or that are pre-written by others who have the same goals. You can send an email for free, or use coins to send via first-class mail or fax.
FaxZero has a service that will allow you to send free faxes to your representatives, if they are accepting faxes, and has some handy lists you can refer to:
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