By Ben Riggleman

If you’re like me, you haven’t been feeling too politicized lately. It’s been over three months since President Trump took office. At first, you felt a sense of urgency. Maybe you joined a demonstration in protest, or went to a Women’s March or found some other way to speak out against Trump. Maybe you’ve still got your pink hat. But the momentum is slipping. You try to “stay woke,” but the news from Washington has become a constant drone, a low-frequency cacophony of Tweets, bluster, scandal and outrage that puts your inner activist to sleep. There’s too much to keep straight — and what can you do about any of it?

That question might seem rhetorical, but it doesn’t have to be. For my benefit as well as yours, I’ve picked out some current issues worth dialing your Senator or House representative about.

First, here’s why you should call: Congressional phone lines are generally seen as the most effective way for ordinary citizens to lobby elected officials. (In January, for instance, a deluge of calls protesting Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos resulted in the Senate very nearly rejecting her nomination.) Maine’s senators are particularly important, too, since both are centrists, meaning they’re swayable — and could help decide close votes.

With all that established, let’s get to the issues.

First off, the national budget. If you’re reading this before April 28, a budget showdown in Congress is coming right up. That date is when the current budget expires — and if it’s not replaced, the government will shut down, as it did in 2013. Trump and his cohort want to see the “Great Wall” built at all costs, and they intend to do so by slashing funds for medical research, diplomacy and, of course, Planned Parenthood. Perhaps most importantly, the National Institutes of Health, which conduct and fund biomedical research (just stuff like potential treatments for the zika virus), would lose $1.2 billion under Trump’s scheme.

Then there’s the upcoming budget for fiscal year 2018. If anything, Trump’s budget plan is even crazier. It would cut the Environmental Protection Agency by a third, both in personnel and budget. Obama’s Clean Power Plan, unsurprisingly, would be defunded entirely. The State Department and other international programs would lose a similar proportion, and in particular, U.N. climate-change-reduction activities would lose all funding. At home, job-training programs would get eliminated, the NIH would be see 18 percent of its funding forcibly amputated, and the national endowments for the arts and humanities would disappear. Oh, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would get axed. Say ‘bye to Big Bird.

Next up: tax reform. Trump is going to present his proposal on April 26, and it’ll probably be pretty bad. Regardless, the message to send here should be simple: If Trump can find it in him to show us his taxes, then we’ll talk. Senator Susan Collins, who is part of the Senate Russia investigation, said back in February she’d consider subpoenaing Trump’s tax returns to look for Russian dirt, so she should be easy to persuade on this issue.

Then, of course, there’s “TrumpCare.” It sunk in the House, luckily, and wound up shelved, but it’ll surely rear its ugly head again. When that happens no Republican congressperson should have a quiet phone line. It wouldn’t hurt to call Angus, too.

Finally, here’s a niche one: There are two poisonous bills before the Senate right now, House Resolutions 1430 and 1431, whose purpose is to undermine the EPA. They’ve already passed the House, and once ratified by the Senate, a presidential rubber-stamp is guaranteed.

H.R. 1430, the dishonestly titled “HONEST Act,” would hobble the agency by restricting the science it can use and requiring that it all be made publicly available — while only allocating $1 million for that purpose. H.R. 1431 would bar certain people from serving on EPA advisory boards. Its purported point is to cut down on conflicts of interest — ironic, considering the current face of the Republican party — but it would simply make it harder for committed scientists (and possibly easier for industry representatives) to find a seat on EPA boards.

So tell your Senators to vote these bills down. Or pick any of the issues above — whatever means the most to you — and do the same. Or pick all of them. The only thing holding you back is your cell plan.