Building a Pro-Crypto Tweet towards Members of Congress

One of the things I have seen other communities do well is arming their followers with standard messages that they can email or call to their representatives; erasing the need for every person to think on the spot. This makes it easy for many motivated members of a community to get their coordinated message out and show your politicians what their constituents care about. So how do you craft your tweet?

Step 1 Research.

I would recommend starting broad and going to the party’s website to see what is in their national platform. I live in Las Vegas and all my representatives are in the democratic party so I went to the Democratic National Party Platform.

I quickly latched onto the “building a stronger, fairer economy.” Seems like it fights right at home to the Crypto message. From there I started to look for examples in the crypto space. One thing I was reminded of is from Bankless where the podcasters discuss multiple times where code doesn’t discriminate based on sex, gender, employment status, FICO score, etc. It treats everyone the same and everyone operates under the same rules. I looked at AAVE for their current interest rates (both for depositing and borrowing) for validation.

Step 2 Build Your Message.

Once I knew what I wanted to center my tweet on I started to develop my message. I fairly quickly came up with the following tweet:
@your senator/congressman one point of the National Democrat Platform is “building a stronger, fairer economy.” Crypto does this. Through the use of code, defi apps don’t discriminate based on sex, race, or employment status. Also, they provide better returns than a conventional bank, with no overdraft fees. On Polygon’s version of AAVE, a person can earn nearly 4% interest on their stable coin investment with transactions costing just a fraction of a cent. I would ask you to help us build crypto through regulation informed by those who live and work in the crypto industry and help make America a crypto powerhouse.

I then placed the tweet into Twitter to determine how much I exceeded the max character count. I was 340 characters over. I then had to decide if I wanted to tweet out a single message or multiple. Since I was generating examples I decided to do both and allow others to decide what seemed best. I started to trim everything I could such as making “and” in a “&.” I started to also trim words and phrases I did not think were as central to my message. Eventually, I ended up with:
@your senator/congressman one point of the DNC Platform is “building a stronger, fairer economy.” Code/defi apps don’t discriminate on sex, race, etc. with better returns than a bank, with no overdraft fees. Help us build crypto with regulation informed by those who live & work in the crypto.

It’s not perfect but we all have to start somewhere.

Step 3 What are my Congressmen and Senator’s Twitter handles?

My first stop was to Congress’s Find Your Member Website

I typed in my area code and then my Congressman and Senators appeared along with a link to their websites. Most did not have their Twitter handles on the website so the search continued, but at least I knew their names. Usually, I could find them on Twitter by typing “@” and then their names, and they usually appeared. Once I had their handles in, I copied and pasted my message and press send. Now my Representatives in Congress know where I stand on crypto and why.

Note: I’m not aligned with either party, my Representatives to Congress just happened to all be members of the Democrat Party.