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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. 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.
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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
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!
Don’t believe the lies:
NOM is not a respectful, tolerant group.
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
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worrisome Wednesday …&some News
Folks we are just five weeks from a pivotal moment in the process of moving into the 21st Century.
20 months have gone by and change has been slow
I have been listening, reading and hearing comments about Obama having taken a great first step toward change but hasn’t gone far enough to sedate or fulfill the promises he made to the young voters or progressive groups during his campaign but the reality is that most if not all the folks with those attitudes are not being truthful about what this President actually campaigned on. Yes, he is far more liberal than the Republican party maybe even the other options we had but then again any law or legislation needed to solve the issues at hand have been in major conflict with the rules in both Chambers in Congress. That conflict has been an issue that has blocked stalled or scaled back the real progress needed to get our economy back on track. Negative comments are becoming bold, louder and more frequent …
change takes time … it takes cooperating with Congress and since that is not happening …the change we need will take those who supported this President to Call your member of Congress then call the others to tell them that we may have a huge tent but damn we are also a Political Party that is sabotaging ourselves with all the nonsense ….not getting done the things that will get people back to work, help and get the middle class back where they should be because the rich are way ahead of all of us. The issues facing Americans are non-partisan but the Republican Tea Party is making a political game of our lives …people are suffering
**Environmentalist… like Phil Radford, exec director/Greenpeace USA stated among other things,” Obama is missing in action” as it relates to global warming …in an article written by Bryan Walsh from Time Magazine… instead of pointing fingers get together and ask for a meet up with all the major folks needed globally again again until folks get it but don’t blame the President we need a movement that will impact the entire country as well as overseas then maybe people will want to make our lives livable and sustainable not to mention create new green jobs right here in the USA and prove that progress is a patriotic thing to do.
**Gay/Lesbian leaders… are starting to make comments about Obama not going far enough on don’t ask/don’t tell but today he announced he will enact federal benefits for same sex couples …moving too slow? too little too late? come on… People of colour know what being impatient means maybe getting organized to vote true supporters in November is what will get this finalized.
**Health-care liberals… are impatient and talking about how they put Obama in office and threatening a change in 2012 … this is attitude is unacceptable. The conflict on the floor meant compromise so we got some of what we want; what liberals and independents need to do is organize around what we have in common and get more true democrats in both Chambers of Congress instead of trying to take each other down just because the end result just was not far enough …HCR was the most sweeping effort ever
**Wall Street … flexed their muscles to show Obama who really is in charge of the market … bad behavior needs to be Regulated and now we not only have Liz Warren but a new Financial reform laws and this is in direct response to what Wall Street did to Americans and a great achievement of President Obama’s
change will happen, President can’t do it all himself, we need to call, write and march to let Congress know what We the People voted for
The change we believe in is definitely one that we must all take part in.
Be a Seed for Change 
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