January 20, 2025 ‘Turn Your Back’ Initiative

What This Is

Beginning November 29, 2024, we began writing to President Biden, Vice President Harris, Senator Majority Leader Schumer, House Minority Leader Jeffries and our own Senators and Representatives to request that they turn their backs during the Oath of Office and Inaugural Address on January 20.

We encourage you to write both hard copy letters and emails–best sent via official websites. Calling works as well. Here are some places to get started (also included in the template below):

https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/write-or-call/

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives

A two-page letter template with guidelines for participating is available here: https://healingamericasnarratives.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/template-for-turn-your-back-on-trump-initiative-2.docx

For this to have any chance of succeeding, we need as many folks in as many states as possible to share this information, including the link to this page, the above link to the template/guidelines.

Below is the full text of the first hard-copy letters that went out on November 29, 2024. That’s not my actual signature, which does appear on the letters: