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The Contact Your Lawmakers button gives your audience the ability to send a pre-written email or tweet or find phone numbers for their lawmakers. This functionality is currently only available for audiences in the Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

After clicking Create New and selecting your button type (Single Action or Sequenced Actions), choose the Contact Your Lawmakers action and click Next. Learn more about creating a new button. You'll be brought to the Action Details screen where you can configure your Contact Your Lawmakers action and see a preview of your button.

Country is required, and your location is selected by default. The options are the Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States. The country you select will determine which lawmakers can be contacted, and who will be able to use your button. People whose addresses are outside of the selected country will see a message that they're not eligible to complete the action since they're not located in your selected country.

The Recipients field is required, and the available options are determined by the country you've selected above (e.g., if you select United Kingdom, the recipients options are UK MPs, Scotland MSPs, Wales MSs, and Northern Ireland MLAs)

These are the recipient options for each country.

You can choose to limit your button to specific geographies so only certain lawmakers receive messages from your supporters. Supporters outside the area will see a message explaining that they can’t take action. Depending on your selected Recipients, there are different geography options. For example, a button aimed at US Representatives allows for district or state limits whereas a button aimed at US Senators only allows for state limits (since US Senators are elected at the state level).

The Title field is required, and once entered, will appear in the preview, as will Description. You can clickin the top right corner of these fields to add text styling and smart fields, which populate with information appropriate to the person using the button.

The checkboxes next to Email, Call, and Post on X are checked by default for most recipients. These checkboxes control the channels through which people can contact their lawmakers with your button. Unchecking them will remove the associated buttons from the preview.

Topic will appear as a dropdown menu if you select US Senators or US Representatives as your recipients. This field is required, as US Senators and Representatives use it to categorize the messages they receive.

Email Subject only appears when Email is checked above, and is used to create a template for your audience to use when contacting their lawmakers. It is required. What you enter here as well as in Email Body will appear in the contact form preview. Your audience will be able to edit this before sending. You can clickto add smart fields, which populate with information appropriate to the person using the button. You can also leave Email Body empty if you want your audience to craft a personal message.

Post on X only appears when Post on X is checked above. The text you enter will pre-fill the Post on X field when a person clicks the button.

Once all required fields have been filled in, click Next. You can now share your button with your community!

Messages sent via Contact Your Lawmakers buttons look like they are coming directly from constituents. The "from" name is set to be the constituent's name, and when a lawmaker replies to the email, the email is sent directly to the constituent.

The footer of emails to lawmakers includes the postal code of the sender so lawmakers can verify that they are actually a constituent.

📌 Note: ActionButton maintains a delivery rate of over 95% to lawmaker inboxes, so you can be confident your supporters' messages are reaching their lawmakers.