Write to Congress, email your senators, or call your House member — reach the people who represent you. Find your U.S. House member and your two Senators, then generate a constituent message in your own words. We build the template — you send it through their official channels. We never transmit anything on your behalf.
Your letter goes out in your name, from your email, through your rep's own contact form — not through an aggregator that sends on your behalf. Offices know the difference, and many now deprioritize aggregator-sourced mail. RTR builds the letter; you send it. That's what makes it land as real constituent mail.
Everything happens on this page and on your representatives' own websites. RTR writes your letter; you send it.
You'll be contacting three offices — your two U.S. Senators and the House Representative from your district. RTR takes you through all three in sequence, with your letter copied and ready to paste at each one.
Before any of that, you'll get a chance to make the letter yours — add what's on your mind about the issue in your own words, edit any section, or drop in a comment after any position. Nothing below is locked.
You will be pasting and typing. There's no way around that, and we won't pretend otherwise. Each office runs its own contact form on its own website. No website — including this one — is permitted to type into another website's page. So RTR writes the letter, copies it to your clipboard, and opens their form; from there, you paste it in and fill out whatever fields that particular office asks for.
Your name and address are already written into the letter itself, so the office has them either way. If their form also asks for those in separate boxes, you'll type them in — the same as on any other website.
Expect 10–15 minutes for all three. Some forms require ZIP+4; some have a CAPTCHA. It is a genuinely cumbersome process. That's the system as it exists today — not a bug on our end, but certainly not the way citizens' efforts at Redress should be heard.
That's why every letter you send from RTR ends with a short paragraph asking your representative to try their own contact process and simplify it. You can toggle it off in the composer below, but leaving it on turns citizen frustration into direct pressure on Congress. Read more about how the contact system got this way, and how RTR is working to change it →
Congressional offices only accept mail from their own constituents, so your letter has to carry your name and address. Type them once — they're written into your letter, they fill in the district lookup in Step 2, and they're saved so you never have to retype them when you revisit this site.
Your letter is addressed to your own two Senators and your House member, so RTR needs to know who they are. If you filled in Step 1, your address is already below — just click Find my district.
Prefer not to share an address? Just select your state and district above. Not sure of your district? Look it up at house.gov.
Uncheck any you don't want in this message, and choose Detailed or Brief for each — your letter updates as you go.
Every position on this issue is unchecked, so this message has nothing to say yet — check at least one back in, or your draft will fall back to a blank template.
You haven't marked any positions yet. Browse the Issues and choose "which reflects your view" on the points you care about — they'll appear here and shape your draft, one issue at a time.
Your letter is written from the positions you mark. That is what makes it yours, and what makes an office read it as a constituent taking a stand rather than a form letter — so there is nothing to draft until you've marked some.
Browse the issues, read the positions across the full range of serious opinion, and mark the ones that reflect your view. Come back here and you'll get a letter built from your picks — plus a chance to add what's on your mind in your own words and edit any part of it before you send. Your details and district are already saved.
Browse Issues →RTR re-addresses the letter automatically at each office as you work through the sequence below — you never have to edit the salutation.
Adds one paragraph asking your rep to experience their own contact form and simplify it. Every citizen who includes it puts direct, measurable pressure on Congress to make itself easier to reach. Recommended.
Put this part in your own words — why it matters to you, what it looks like where you live, anything you want your representative to hear directly from you. This becomes its own paragraph in your letter, below.
This is your letter — edit it anywhere. Add what's on your mind about the issue in your own words — why it matters to you, or what it looks like where you live. Cut anything that doesn't sound like you. Drop in a comment after any position, or add a paragraph that isn't there. Offices read a constituent's own words far more carefully than they read anything else, and nothing you change here is ever overwritten.
Copies the whole message. Your draft stays on this page — each rep's form opens in a new tab, so you can come back and copy again if you need to. Email a copy to yourself if you'd rather paste it from your own inbox later (this opens your mail app — it does not send to your representative).
Tip: keep this tab open the whole time. Right to Redress never transmits anything for you — you stay in control of every message, and offices receive it as real constituent mail from you.
Yes — though not the way most people imagine. Congressional offices use Correspondence Management Systems that log, tag, and tally every message they receive by issue and position. Staff report those tallies to the member. A single message rarely changes a vote on its own; a measurable shift in constituent volume on an issue does get noticed. Your message is counted whether or not you get a reply.
Calls are typically logged faster and are harder to ignore during a fast-moving vote, because a staffer has to handle each one in real time. Written messages carry more detail and leave a durable record in the office's system. If an issue is urgent, call. If you want your reasoning on the record, write. Right to Redress prepares both — you can switch between a letter and a call script above.
Every American is represented by one U.S. House member (determined by your congressional district) and two U.S. Senators (determined by your state). Enter your address above and Right to Redress will identify all three. You can also select your state and district manually if you'd rather not enter an address.
You don't have to start from a blank page — that's the point of this tool. Mark the positions that reflect your view on the Issues pages, and Right to Redress drafts the letter from them: it opens as a constituent, names the issue up front, states your positions plainly, and closes with a specific ask. Your name and address are already in it, so the office can verify you live in the district.
Then make it yours. The draft sits in an editable box — add a line about why this matters where you live, cut anything that doesn't sound like you, or send it exactly as written. What gives a letter weight is that it comes from a real constituent taking a real position, and that is precisely what this is.
No. We never transmit, file, or submit anything on your behalf. Right to Redress prepares your message and opens each representative's official contact form in a new tab — you paste it in and submit it yourself. Offices receive it as genuine constituent mail directly from you, which is exactly what gives it weight.
It's free, and there's no account to create. You can draft your letter and send it to all three of your offices without signing up for anything.