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a message from VP Biden … It’s Up To You


Before Americans go to the polls in just 33 days, there is something you can do right now that will make a difference on Election Day.

Midnight tonight is the last quarterly FEC deadline of the campaign, making it the most important deadline of the year.

I’m still confident that we’ll maintain our House Majority as long as we pull together in the final days. The political strategists at the DCCC have prepared a smart and aggressive campaign plan based on a highly targeted media strategy and a state-of-the-art voter contact strategy. Now, they need your help to fully fund it.

We have just hours left and we must raise $62,981 more to help House Democrats.

Every dollar you contribute today will be matched 2-to-1 and can mean the difference between victory and defeat on Election Day. Please contribute today.

Contribute before Midnight Tonight and help the DCCC raise the final $62,981 they need to fully fund their media campaign and voter contact plan. Every dollar you contribute will be matched 2-to-1 by a group of committed Democrats, tripling the impact of your support.

Critical Deadline: Midnight Tonight


Our Republican opponents have targeted House Democrats for defeat with expensive attack ads and have made abundantly clear their intention to derail health care reform, cut taxes for corporations that export jobs overseas and privatize Social Security and Medicare.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Majority in the U.S. House of Representatives are the primary defense against this Republican agenda and the key to moving forward with the President’s agenda for strengthening the middle class and making our economy work for all Americans.

Contribute before Midnight Tonight and help the DCCC raise the final $62,981 they need to fully fund their media campaign and voter contact plan. Every dollar you contribute will be matched 2-to-1 by a group of committed Democrats, tripling the impact of your support.

I know what it’s like to run against a powerful Republican campaign machine. Their resources are virtually unlimited and their willingness to do or say anything to win well known.

But, just as in 2008 when Barack and I proved the pundits wrong, the path to victory in 2010 is clear: Getting out our message to the American people and turning out our voters on Election Day.

This is our moment. This is when we move forward together to victory in November.

Thank you.

Joe biden
Joe Biden

P.S. We have to raise $62,981 more by Midnight Tonight to stay on the air and ramp up our voter contact efforts. Please contribute now and, remember, contributions received by Midnight will be matched 2-to-1. Thank you for your generous support.

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Not much time left …


Rainforest Action Network
Time is running out! Become a member before midnight tonight to help us reach our goal.
Becky and You
Rebecca in Eucador

You are the difference between victory and defeat. Everything we do here at RAN depends on the support of our members – people like you – and with so much at stake right now, we need your help more than ever.

That’s why we’ve set a goal of 250 new members by midnight tonight – and the deadline is just hours away. We need just 8 people from your city to reach that goal, but time is running out. Will you be one of them?

To RAN, victory is convincing six major banks to limit their funding of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. It’s General Mills stepping forward with a commitment to stop buying unsustainable palm oil that contributes to rainforest destruction. It’s RAN activists, local communities, and you coming together to protect vulnerable rainforests and ecosystems.

None of it, not a single step forward, happens without the support of our members.
Please, click here to make your membership gift.

And defeat? Well, we all know what that looks like. It’s slash and burn logging in Sumatra. It’s polluted waterways and sick communities in Appalachia. It’s an end to a way of life for native villages in rainforests around the world, the loss of irreplaceable ecosystems and biodiversity, and unstoppable climate change.

Without our members, RAN can’t fight back. We need your voice, your activism – and, to be perfectly honest, we need your donations. Members of RAN get campaigners to the troubled frontlines of deforestation, and into corporate boardrooms to turn long-time offenders into responsible rainforest stewards.

That’s the difference you’ll make as a member, the difference between victory and defeat. And the easiest part about it? Being a member costs less than a dime a day. Join us today – we need you.

If you’re already a member of RAN, I just want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH. We couldn’t do it without you. Truly.

Rebecca Tarbotton
For the earth,
Rebecca Tarbotton
Executive Director
Rainforest Action Network
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Midnight deadline


Midnight tonight is a crucial quarterly fundraising deadline — the last big one before November. The story the numbers tell will surely become the dominant media narrative going into the final stretch of this election season.

And though the pundits will be paying attention — their opinion isn’t what guides this movement.

Because those who set the national tone don’t hear the one-on-one conversations we’re all having with voters around the country. They’re not with us during the hours we spend making phone calls and knocking on doors.

This is the work your donations help fuel. Your support gets organizers on the ground, ads on the air, and voters to the polls.

Good fundraising numbers generate good news coverage — but more importantly, they help make sure that we keep our efforts rolling in districts around the country.

And the very best way we can beat Republicans — in the press, on the ground, and at the ballot box — is to simply keep blowing them out of the water.

Can you pitch in $3 before midnight tonight?

Our movement has always been about the cumulative strength of individual grassroots donations.

Not lump sum payments from lobbyists or big special interests trying to further their own agendas. Not massive checks cut from super PACs, empowered by newly lax restrictions on corporate spending in elections.

Republicans, armed with this kind of cash, are hoping to hijack the dialogue this fall. They’re looking for a repeat of the past, where elections like this served as negative referendums on the party in power. They’re turning up the volume on turning back the clock.

Let’s remind them that this is not one of those past election years.

This is 2010 — a year that Democrats passed historic health insurance reform, put in place the strongest consumer protections ever proposed, and enacted legislation that provides tax cuts and expanded credit for small businesses. It’s a year that we’ve spent going to work for the American people while Republicans have done everything they could to block our progress.

And it’s a year that presents us with the opportunity to continue making change that matters.

By donating $3 today, you can provide the momentum we need going into the final month of this election season.

Please donate today:

http://my.democrats.org/MidnightDeadline

Thanks,

Jen

Jen O’Malley Dillon
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee

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Seattle got the job done


Organizing for America

Hours ago, we shattered our By the People Fund goal. We’ve received more than 3 million grassroots donations to fund our work this fall.

We hit the mark a month early, and now have an incredible opportunity to expand the ambitious Vote 2010 plan we built together earlier this year.

But tomorrow, September 30th, marks a critical deadline. We’ll close the books on the quarterly fundraising numbers we have to report to the FEC and the national media.

And Thursday, at midnight, we’ll be finalizing much of our Vote 2010 budget. We’ll have to make tough decisions about which races we’ll be able to play a role in. What you do between now and tomorrow night will determine the impact we have on tight races across the country.

Can you donate $5 today to help us go big?

Right now, supporters in Seattle and around the country are helping to change the story of the 2010 election: the millions of phone calls you make, the numbers of voters you’re talking to, the more than 25,000 supporters who rallied last night with the President in Wisconsin — larger than any rally in Wisconsin during the presidential campaign.

How we do in the final days of this quarter will determine if we can keep telling that story.

Chip in $5 before tomorrow’s deadline — and help show the momentum we’re building:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Momentum2010

Thanks,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America

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Secrets and lies: NOM Exposed!


Human Rights Campaign

Don’t believe the lies:
NOM is not a respectful, tolerant group.

NOM Exposed

Sign the petition at
www.NOMexposed.org

Are you tired of the National Organization for Marriage, a.k.a. NOM, putting on a mask of tolerance for the media?

Are you sick of their claim that they speak for a majority of Americans – while they support extreme anti-gay zealots and keep their donors secret?

Well, we are. And today, along with our friends at the Courage Campaign, we’re launching a website that pulls back the curtain on NOM for everyone to see.

NOM Exposed uncovers shocking secrets so people can get the real facts as NOM throws its weight around in race after race this election cycle. We’ll post up-to-the-minute dirt on NOM over the coming months and years, so bookmark the site and come back often.

NOM recently released a slick new ad on behalf of Tom Emmer, the candidate for governor of Minnesota with ties to a group that condoned the execution of gays. The ad disguises NOM’s anti-LGBT agenda behind a fake claim of protecting civil rights.

NOM even had the gall to compare itself to Martin Luther King, Jr., flashing images of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

It’s a flagrant distortion of reality – the latest in a history of deception since NOM opened for business during the Prop. 8 campaign.

NOMexposed.org is about spreading truth. We’ve spent months digging into NOM’s funding, shady ties, ethics violations, and more. We created this site so that every time someone searches for NOM – voters, elected leaders, reporters – they’ll get the real story. They’ll find out that:

  • Brian Brown, NOM’s President, has said that “allowing gay marriage is akin to allowing polygamous marriage.”
  • Not to be outdone, NOM founder Maggie Gallagher has said same-sex marriage is worse than polygamy.
  • NOM has close ties to the powerful and secretive right-wing religious group Opus Dei.
  • Robert George, the “reigning brain of the Christian right” and Chairman of NOM’s board co-authored the Federal Marriage Amendment that would have written anti-gay discrimination into the U.S. Constitution. He also believes that repealing antiquated laws banning sodomy will lead to incest.
  • To hide its political activities, NOM has blatantly flouted campaign finance laws.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. We’ve tracked NOM’s financial ties, showing how huge, secret donations have swelled its budget from $500,000 to $10 million in just three years. We’ve connected the dots to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and the Mormon Church.

Now we need your help to get the word out – share shocking facts on Facebook and Twitter or spread the truth by simply passing this email along.

If you believe that strong families aren’t about “straight” or “gay” but about love and commitment; if you’re a person of faith; if you’re straight or LGBT, married, partnered or single – add your name and say “NOM Doesn’t Speak for Me.” We’ll share this petition with officials and the media in states where NOM is at work.

We’ve called NOM out before, whether revealing the audition tape for “Gathering Storm” or alerting the press to their lies. But NOM Exposed goes deep into the organization’s roots and represents a commitment to keep tabs on their activity and connect the dots for voters.

NOM wants to claim the middle ground. But people don’t know who they really are. We are not going to sit by and let them dictate the terms of the debate. We’re going to expose the lies – not just today, but every day.

Won’t you join us?

Thanks,

Joe Solmonese
Joe Solmonese