How to Write a Letter to the Editor (LTE)

How to Write a Letter to the Editor (LTE)

A Letter to the Editor (LTE) is a great way to publish your message in a newspaper or online paper and persuade its readers to join your cause. Your goal is an all-of-the-above approach to educating people, which is why we must also continue utilizing LTEs. 

Step-By-Step Directions:

1.) Helpful Tips

✔️ LTEs are usually 250 words

✔️ Your goal is to persuade/inform the reader

✔️ Back your statements up with facts

2.) Issues to Write About

➡️ Back the Blue

➡️ Secure Our Borders

➡️ Human Rights (FGM)

➡️ Free Speech

➡️ Designate Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization

3.) General Format

✔️ Make a statement

✔️ Back up the statement with 3 supporting facts

✔️ Conclude your LTE with an emphasis on why your initial statement is correct and relevant

4.) Where to Send LTEs

➡️ This link provides you with the top 100 online and print publications across the country: https://www.theopedproject.org/submission-information/

➡️ Each publication gives you instructions on word limitations, as well as how to send in your LTE

5.) Victories

✔️ Email us at chapters@actforamerica.org when your LTEs are published

6.) Example of a Muslim Brotherhood LTE

Did you know that Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates have all designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization? Yes, these are all Muslim-majority countries. America should follow suit and has the opportunity thanks to Senator Ted Cruz's proposed bill, the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017 (S.68).

On November 24, 2008, a federal jury in Dallas convicted five leaders of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) charity for providing material support to Hamas, a terrorist group. The US government provided evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood set up the HLF with the intent to fund Hamas. Even worse than the HLF donating $12.4 M to terrorism is that the Muslim Brotherhood's goal is to destroy Western Civilization from within.

A federal judge also listed the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim Brotherhood group, as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. CAIR's president, Nihad Awad, is a professed Hamas supporter. With Muslim Brotherhood groups in the US, like CAIR, it is clear we must designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Please call your Seantors and ask them to sign on to Ted Cruz's bill as cosponsors.