The Most Important Day You Need To Know About!

In this next election, 11 million eligible Latinos are expected NOT to register to vote. This is a staggering number considering the struggles our communities have endured over the years in attaining and protecting this valuable right. Today we can change this. Today we can make a powerful impact. Today is National Voter Registration Day.
You can begin by watching this powerful animated video on how voting has defined eras and generations. How will YOU define your era?
As we join hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of voters and volunteers around the country – who will be registering individuals in all 50 states before Election Day – we start with our most important supporter: YOU. Have you registered to vote?

You can click here to check your registration or register if you haven’t done so!
Now it’s time for you to spread the word. If each one of us recruits a friend or family member, we can begin changing the course.
Please share the video with friends and family and let them know about National Voter Registration Day.

Together we can make an impact.

Yours, Axel Caballero and the Cuéntame team.

PS – What do Snooki, Ninjas and Smartphones have to do with voting. Watch this video to find out!

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a message from : Chad Griffin, Human Rights Campaign

09/27/2012 Nativegrl77

Just 40 days from today, you and your fellow voters in Washington will get to decide whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

We can truly make history here. With your help, the right wing will never again be able to say our side hasn’t won at the ballot.

But we’ve got to turn out voters and volunteers now if we’re going to win this – and that’s where you come in.

We’ve launched a revolutionary tool that uses the power of Facebook to let you get in touch with the people you know at home and in other key marriage battleground states – the people who, like you, are going to help win this.

It’s called Call4Equality, it’s incredibly simple to use, and it could be a total game-changer in these states. New research shows friend-to-friend contact is a hugely powerful motivator in elections.

Check out Call4Equality now. Watch the how-to video, login with Facebook, and start calling your friends and neighbors.

Call4Equality uses Facebook to remind you who you know in your home state and the other three states with marriage on the ballot and then automatically creates personalized call lists and scripts for you to drum up votes and volunteers in this election. It’s a first-of-its-kind tool, and it’s incredibly easy.

The more calls you make, the more points you’ll get – points that can earn you cool HRC prizes.

I know what you’re thinking, because I had the same thought. My friends all want to see marriage equality as bad as I do, and they’re all going to vote the right way. Why would I call them?

Here’s why: study after study shows how contact from friends helps drive turnout. One analysis this month showed how Facebook outreach about friends who voted increased turnout in 2010 by 340,000 votes!

And it’s crucial to ask friends to volunteer for these campaigns. One more volunteer could mean countless more votes in our favor. That means you – and your Facebook friends – have the power to make a difference in this election.

You don’t have to commit now. Just take two minutes to watch the video and take a look around for yourself.

HRC supporters like you ask time and again how to make a difference this election year. This is it – mobilizing our friends to make history at the ballot box this November.

I hope you’ll take a few minutes to check it out and start making some calls now.

Let’s get calling! Chad Griffin

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ThankYouUnions.org

09/27/2012 Nativegrl77

Sep 18, 2012 by BoldProgressives

This is why we fight. Help run this ad in Chicago: http://ThankYouUnions.org

Credit: Gum Spirits Productions (Jim Cole & Aaron Duffey)

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Our new ad that extreme conservatives will hate

09/27/2012 Nativegrl77

Rep. Jeff Flake. He is one of the most extreme conservatives ever to run for the Senate. The people in Arizona know it.

What the people may not know is how Flake has already and plans to hurt veterans. That changes today, with this new ad from VoteVets.org and Majority PAC.

We’re putting $280,000 behind this ad. It’s going to flood the airwaves.

Now, we need you to help us raise another $10,000, to get it even more exposure on the internet.

In the ad, Iraq War veteran Steven Lopez from Chandler, AZ makes it clear. Jeff Flake is so extreme that he:

Voted to cut veterans benefits by billions
Was one of only twelve to vote against the new GI Bill
Was only one of three to vote against job training programs for veterans

CLICK HERE TO HELP US SPREAD THESE FACTS WITH OUR NEW AD
Right now, Flake is in a tied race with Vietnam Veteran Richard Carmona. There is no doubt. When Arizonans find out about this, Flake’s credibility as a candidate will plummet. Now, you have the chance to help us take that effort even further. Please help us do that by clicking above.
Sincerely,  General (Ret.) Wes Clark  Chairman, VoteVets.org Board of Advisors

PAID FOR BY VOTEVETS ACTION FUND NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE’S COMMITTEE