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Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to ram through a reauthorization of the government's powers under FISA to spy on US persons' communications without a warrant, and without suspicion of any of us being involved in an actual crime. We need privacy from the government more than ever. How can people learn to form their own opinions, or discuss them freely with friends, if we're under constant watch? We're free citizens, not terrorists or traitors or children. We deserve privacy, not automated, AI-driven suspicionless mass surveillance programs. It's time to let the People's representatives know that they can't just pick and choose which Constitutional rights to honor - or dishonor. They swear, on taking office, to uphold the Constitution. That includes security against unreasonable searches and seizures of our persons, papers and effects. Now it's time for them to do it. This isn't about which party is in power. This is about intelligence agencies that both parties since 9/11 have allowed to run hog-wild in our data, surveilling ordinary parents, journalists, worshippers, protesters, campaign donors and potential love interests, with no sense of decency or restraint. Write to your Representative's office today, and tell them: - Vote NO on any effort to reauthorize FISA without warrant reforms, in committee or on the floor of the House. - Cosponsor either of the two good reform bills that have been filed (the Government Surveillance Reform Act, "GSRA", H.R. 7901; or the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act, "PLEWSA", H.R. 7816). Either of them would require a warrant by default for searches of the contents of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702, close the data broker loophole, and strengthen court oversight of what the government's up to.