The author of the text, Jarod Reyes, is sharing a "12 Hacks of Christmas" series on social media platforms, with today's focus being on calling one's congressman. The tool called Call Congress was created by a taskforce of hackers to make it easy for campaigns to connect voters with their local congressperson based on zip code. This open-source tool can be easily deployed to any website and provides an automatic click-to-call solution, allowing individuals to quickly contact their representatives.