1. United States
2. Maine
3. Letter

I expect you to stand with the Governor Mills, respect for the rule of law, and respect for human rights. It is simply not enough to let the issue play out in the courts. People are sharing, extraordinarily dehumanizing and violent images and information in the name of the Republican agenda. If you do not believe the US Congress should stand for undermining our core civil rights, you must speak very loudly and do all you can to directly educate your constituents. The US Congress should invest in addressing disinformation and promoting basic literacy about the US Constitution. If sharing information about our collective Constitutional Rights is controversial, we must take even more extra extraordinary measures to assess our civil society. Much of this education relies on museums and libraries, and as a an educator, I am particularly disturbed by the EOs which are attempting to control the images and historical information being shared – this has too many routes in the “cultural revolution” and not in the American one. Please do your jobs and insist that funding be restored without political gimmicks or hoops to jump through.