A Message from American Workers to Our Elected Representatives and Senators

American workers are amplifying our voices. For too long, we kept our heads down, working hard every day to keep this nation running — only to be ignored in Washington until the next election cycle.

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To the Honorable [Full Name],
United States House of Representatives
[Washington, D.C. Office Address]

And to the Honorable [First Senator’s Full Name]
And the Honorable [Second Senator’s Full Name]
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510

Subject: We Must Replace You to Restore the Republic

Dear Representative [Last Name] and Senators [Last Name] and [Last Name],

While we were busy working, surviving, and providing for our families, the Republic was being sold out from under us. We showed up every day with knots in our stomachs, playing by the rules — while corporations and their lobbyists turned too many of you into servants of the donor class. They changed the rules. They rewrote the game. And the constitutional guarantee of a republican form of government became little more than a paper tiger.

For five decades, Congress has increasingly answered to corporate donors, K Street lobbyists, and foreign-influenced interests rather than to the American people. A system that treats corporations as “persons” and money as “speech” has reduced real workers to replaceable costs. Corporate profits have soared while working families have struggled.

This shift was not inevitable. It was a deliberate choice.

For decades, workers received nearly two-thirds of the national income. Today, labor’s share has fallen to roughly 54% — near its lowest level on record. Analyses of long-term trends show this redirection has cost working Americans tens of trillions of dollars in lost wages and income since the 1970s. That money did not vanish. It was captured at the top.

We have no confidence that corporations will ever allow you to put people first — whether in ordinary times or during crises. While corporate profits boom, lobbyists set your priorities in the D.C. echo chamber. Our emergencies never become yours. Urgency has no seat at your table.

This is what urgency actually looks like on the ground: tens of millions of Americans living in or near poverty — including millions of children who go to bed hungry and millions of seniors who worked their entire lives only to face insecurity in retirement. American workers are being displaced as both producers and consumers, by large numbers of foreign-born labor and now by rapid advances in artificial intelligence.

Proper wages are the key. Our labor laws, meant to protect workers, have also become a paper tiger. They fail to shield coworkers who simply ask for a raise or better conditions.

If even one of you had stood up on your own and declared:

“The family is the most important unit in American life, and wages are the lifeblood of families. Everything is connected to adequate wages. Every American worker must be protected when exercising their rights, regardless of union status.”

Things could have been different.

But that day never came.

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If any of you had clearly stated:

“No — corporations are not people, and money is not speech. That is not what the United States Constitution intended.”

Things could have been different.

But that day never came.

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Your silence has been damning evidence of complicity in the erosion of our Republic.

We will no longer wait for you to find courage. As corporate proxies, you have divided us, distracted us, and overwhelmed us while wages have stagnated and costs have risen. We are awake now.

The ideal of political parties serving workers is dead to us. We will exploit every weakness in the current system to replace you — and then decide the future of those parties.

This is not a threat. This is reality.

The sleeping giant that is the American worker has awakened. We — the millions of working people who have been voiceless for far too long — will no longer accept a Congress that puts corporations first.

The time for corporate-first politics is over. We are choosing new representatives from among our own ranks — people who will do what the people actually want.

Sincerely,

[Your Full Name]
[Your Address]
[City, State, ZIP Code]
[Your Email and/or Phone – optional]

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