Today is national mid-term election day! Exercise your Constitutional right and privilege and VOTE! The race for control of Congress is going to be a close one, so every vote will really count. Now more than ever it’s important to get out the vote. If you’re not sure where to find your polling place, here’s […]
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Vote Today!
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 · Comments Off on Vote Today!
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Attention Liberals: Please Breed
Friday, September 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Mark Morford / SFGate: Attention Liberals: Please Breed / Conservatives are outbirthing libs by a wide margin. How soon can you get knocked up? Let this be your rallying cry. Let it be your new hot-button topic, a raw naked condomless blog-ready wildfire underground grassroots crusade, your juiciest of incentive programs, your inspired call to […]
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Sweeney Gone Wild
Friday, April 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment
This is too funny: My representative in Congress (NY-20) hard at work, representing his constituents in a district that’s not even his own. I love the quote from Rep. John Sweeney’s spokeswoman, Melissa Carlson: “As a committed representative of the people throughout the area where he lives and works, he enjoyed the discussion he shared […]
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The Oreo Perspective
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 · Comments Off on The Oreo Perspective
In light of the budget cuts to education, health care, and the parks system announced yesterday — coupled with increases to what else? — defense and homeland security spending — the Oreo Perspective from TrueMajorityACTION is even more poignant: We’re defending ourselves to the point that our children are getting dumber. (Thanks, Johnny, for the […]
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Gore’s MLK Speech
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 · Comments Off on Gore’s MLK Speech
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. Once violated, the rule of law is in danger. Unless stopped, lawlessness grows. Once that ability is lost, democracy itself is threatened and we become a government of men and not laws. As a result of its unprecedented claim […]
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Stop Alito
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 · Comments Off on Stop Alito
Join me in the fight to stop the appointment of Bush’s latest disaster of a Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito, designed to appease the far right and roll back workers’ rights, civil rights, and women’s rights. Subject: Rights at risk on the Supreme Court – time to speak out! Hi, I just received an important […]
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Stop Roberts
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 · 7 Comments
Roberts Has Solid Conservative Credentials: “As a private lawyer, the Buffalo, N.Y., native represented Toyota at the Supreme Court, winning limits on disabled workers’ claims.” Who fights against disabled workers? Is anyone really that heartless? Maybe John Roberts has never known anyone who’s been disabled. In the past weeks, Republicans and Democrats have called on […]
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Fire Rove
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 · Comments Off on Fire Rove
From moveon.org: On Sunday, Newsweek magazine revealed that Karl Rove – as you know, the President’s closest political advisor — was responsible for disclosing the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame. The agent, Valerie Plame, worked on weapons of mass destruction for the agency and by exposing her identity, the leaker could have jeopardized […]
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Save PBS and NPR
Thursday, June 16th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Dear Congress, It’s despicable to think that you might do away with the important resources of NPR, PBS, and public radio on which we rely for unbiased news, education for our children, and in-depth reporting about the world in which we live. These are all qualities that one is hard-pressed to find in the mainstream […]
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Deep Throat Revealed
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005 · Comments Off on Deep Throat Revealed
Washington Post / FBI’s No. 2 Was ‘Deep Throat’ / Mark Felt Ends 30-Year Mystery of The Post’s Watergate Source: Deep Throat, the secret source whose insider guidance was vital to The Washington Post’s groundbreaking coverage of the Watergate scandal, was a pillar of the FBI named W. Mark Felt, The Post confirmed yesterday. As […]
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