Action Bulletin #4

The line wraps around the block.

It is not a breadline, though it might as well be. But these are women—grey-haired, some stoop-over, standing sentinel in folding chairs outside a shuttered building with “Social Security Administration” printed in letters that once meant something.

They waited four hours in that line because the system—the one they paid into with decades of labor and silence—had stopped answering the phone.

And if you believe that this is all an accident—an unfortunate series of clerical missteps—then they’ve already won.

A machine is being taken apart. Not with dynamite, but with keyboards and memos. A cut here. A reassignment there. A “cost-saving measure” that closes the only Social Security office nearby.

This is how you undo a promise made 90 years ago in 1935 and kept until Inauguration Day, 2025.

Since Donald Trump’s return, since the DOGE-men—led by Elon Musk, suited in power and contempt—stepped in to “streamline” the Social Security Administration, the machinery of care has begun to break down.

Not all at once. That would be too obvious.

Instead:

You already know this, though it helps to write it plainly.

Women carry the unpaid hours. The caregiving years. The broken time in the paid workforce. The jobs that paid less for work that mattered more. And in the end, Social Security was never about charity—it was hard-earned by the lifetimes of underpaid women.

Over half of women aged 65 and older rely on Social Security for nearly all their income. They have no stock portfolios, no golden parachutes, no legacy wealth. They have survival. And it is now being negotiated away in back-rooms by men with the mean spirit of misogynists.

The irony is brutal: a program built on the labor of millions of women and men now stolen to fund tax gifts for billionaires.

Musk and his DOGE-bros say they want to “fix” Social Security. And by fix, they mean destroy.

In the Republican-controlled House and Senate, the GOP just passed a budget blueprint to pave the way for trillions in tax cuts for the ultrarich. But they need to get the money from somewhere. So, they reach for the $2.72 trillion in the Social Security Trust Fund—the vault built by women and men, by nurses and waitresses and single mothers and retired teachers.

It is not enough for them to steal from the future. They must rewrite the past.

They claim there is no crisis. The lights at the Social Security Administration are on, they say. Pay no attention to the people waiting in long lines.

This is gaslight government. This is engineered collapse. This is privatization by erosion.

And don’t for a minute think only older women should care.

If anything, younger women should care more—because they are the ones being told to look away. To focus on now, not later. To hustle, to rise, to lean in, to plan a wedding, then a family, then a career—as if these things are sequenced and clean and come with a pension.

But retirement, like age, creeps in sideways. It’s never the right time to think about it, until it’s too late.

Here’s what Musk and his team won’t tell you in their endless patter of disinformation:

And yet—here we are. With billionaires talking about “reforms” and “fraud” and “efficiencies” while young women are being asked to settle for TikTok side hustles and Do-It-Yourself retirement spreadsheets as a backup plan.

No. This is their fight, too.  A fight by every woman for every generation.

Because Social Security isn’t charity. It’s your insurance plan. You are already paying into it. It is your receipt for the labor you do, the time you spend, the body you lend to the world with your labor and skill.

And if we don’t defend Social Security now, what will be left?

They will call it obsolete. They will call it bloated. They will call it socialism. And then they will say they need to privatize it, handing it over to the investment bankers and hedge fund managers and they’ll try to explain it with some distorted political sales pitch.

But we are not here for their fiction.

We are here for the truth. For each other. For the future we were promised—and that we intend to collect.

We are organizing where they expect us to fold.

We are mobilizing voters, occupying Congress-members’ inboxes, calling their district offices.

Call the Local District Offices of Your Representative and U.S. Senators
Do not call them in Washington. Speak loudly where it counts. Call the district office—the local one. That’s where your voice is a thunderclap, not a whisper.

Visit: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Say:

“I’m a constituent. I demand you protect Social Security. Not for later—for now. For women. For the aged. For the future. I’m watching what you do next.”

And Make a Donation, If You Can

Every movement needs its fuel. Ours comes from you—not oil, not stocks, not luxury yachts, nor corporations. Your contribution—$10, $50, $500—isn’t just money. It’s defiance. It helps us fund digital campaigns, fight disinformation, hold public forums, and send organizers where the silence is deepest.

The story of women in the endless line is not a parable. They are your neighbors, your aunt, your future self. This letter is not a cry for pity. It is a dispatch from a frontline.

We are being asked to believe that the largest and most successful social program in American history is “broken.” But what’s broken is not the program. It’s the greed, the short-sightedness, the rot of those working to dismantle it.

We’re told to accept crumbs, while billionaires feast. Told to invest in dreams while they ignore our realities. Told to wait our turn—when it’s our lives on the line.

They’ve drawn the line. Cross it with us. Please reach out to your Representative and U.S. Senators today.

With resistance, we won’t go back!

P.S. The MAGA gang in Congress are betting on your exhaustion. Your silence. Your good manners. Do not give them what they want. Call. Give. Resist. And when they say, “Everything is fine,” say: “We know the truth. And we’ll remember in November.”