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“Republican Sharron Angle has said two American cities are under Islamic law.” width=300 height=169] Jeff Simon CNN (CNN) – Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle told a crowd of Tea Party rally-goers last week that two cities — Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas — are under Sharia law, the sacred law of Islam. “We’re talki … Read More

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If you knew …

10/11/2010 Nativegrl77

If you knew that what you did today could make a difference in stopping the destruction of three decades of progress on November 2nd — would you act?

Women have the most to gain from this election. We also have the most to lose.

Unless we stop the Republicans, this year may be the first year in 30 years that the number of women in Congress actually decreases. And that would be truly devastating to America’s middle class.

Courageous Democratic women across America continue to be the target of vicious Republican attacks by well-funded outside groups. I am asking you to help me raise $500,000 before Friday — crucial funds that could mean the difference between victory and defeat for Democratic women nationwide.

And that could mean a lot to you, or your daughters, sisters, wives or mothers. We must act now.

Your generous support is urgently needed to help our courageous Democratic women under attack by the Republicans and their outside groups so we can maintain our strong Democratic House Majority. Contribute $5, $10 or more today.

Women will decide the outcome of this election and the stakes have never been higher.

The very first bill President Obama signed was our Lilly Ledbetter legislation to restore the rights of women to challenge unfair pay. Democrats have continued to put women and children first, but now all of our progress could be turned back.

Republicans have pledged to dismantle our most historic achievements for women and families, including a repeal of health insurance reform that has ended the days where being a woman in America qualifies as a pre-existing medical condition.

Your generous support is urgently needed to help our courageous Democratic women under attack by the Republicans and their outside groups so we can maintain our strong Democratic House Majority.

Since 2006, Democratic women have known their power in elections. It is because of their determination and your generous support that I have the honor of being the first woman House Speaker. But we must work even harder in the days ahead.

Now is the time to remind ourselves of all that we can achieve for America’s women and families by maintaining our strong Democratic Majority and with our courageous Democratic women Members leading the charge!

Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House

P.S. With so many Democratic women in battleground races being targeted by vicious Republican attacks by well-funded outside groups, every dollar you give could mean the difference between their victory or their defeat. Contribute before Friday.

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a message from Mitch Stewart

10/11/2010 Nativegrl77

The path this country takes after November 2nd will be determined by what we do over the next 22 days.

That’s the message the President is delivering on the stump across the country, but he’ll be the first to tell you: he needs you at his side.

We want to thank and recognize the people who are driving this grassroots campaign — organizing house meetings, talking to voters, and funding this effort one small donation at a time.

The extreme candidates on the other side aren’t just intent on bringing our progress to a halt, they want to take us backward, well beyond the failed policies of the last administration.

They envision an America where Social Security is privatized and left to the whims of the market. They picture an America where education programs get cut to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. And they look forward to an America where the insurance companies once again have the right to deny coverage to anyone they want.

This election is about choosing the direction this country takes.

On one side is the millions from undisclosed donors attacking our candidates. On the other is us. And each and every one of us who is committed to this struggle for change has a role to play.

That’s why we all need to be knocking on doors, making phone calls, and spreading the word from here through Election Day. The President is doing all he can, and he’s counting on all of us to take that next step today.
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Thanks,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America

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How to earn the resentment of the Right

10/10/2010 Nativegrl77

Thanks to all of you who responded to my recent email and who have given generously to my campaign.

My Republican opponent – a Tea Party favorite – just boasted to the Wall Street Journal that he had received $400,000 in contributions during the month of September from out-of-state people seeking to remove me from Congress because the right-wing regards me as such an irritant.

For those of you who have not yet given but would like to support my fight against the right, I will be truly grateful for your help.

It pains me to say that modern elections cannot be fought without money, and until we change that system, good candidates will have to count of the generosity of many thousands of engaged Americans in order to have a chance against powerful, richly-endowed, right-wing forces.

Thank you for joining the battle. I hope it will be some compensation to you for your generosity to know that some of the most obnoxious — and dangerous — people in the country will very much resent you for doing so.

Barney Frank

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Job Tracker …

10/09/2010 Nativegrl77

Search Working America’s Job Tracker to find corporate traitors in your area.

Every day, more U.S. workers are told “You’re fired!” Not because they did something wrong—and not because the work they do isn’t needed anymore—but because their jobs are being shipped overseas.

So our friends at the AFL-CIO’s community affiliate Working America created Job Tracker—a website that exposes which companies are guilty of outsourcing our jobs. Just enter your ZIP code, and Job Tracker will find corporate traitors near you.

Search your area for companies that have sent jobs overseas, risked the safety and health of workers or violated their rights.

When we see the plant near us closing or mass layoffs in the next town over, it’s hard to know the disturbing scope of the problem—after all, corporations don’t want to publicize unpopular, anti-worker actions, and the government doesn’t track every job lost to outsourcing in one easily assessable place.

I was shocked to learn from Job Tracker that 13 companies right in my area are outsourcing jobs, and a shocking 6,515 companies have safety and health violations! Want to know what things are like in your community? Get the stats on greedy companies near you, and report any missing companies you know about.

By making this information public, Working America is putting greedy CEOs on the defensive. For the first time, working people have one place to see the real impact of outsourcing, bad trade deals and currency manipulation. Every corporate traitor Working America exposes—and every company you and your friends, co-workers and family add—makes a stronger case for holding corporations accountable.

So check out Job Tracker, and if any companies are missing, tell us about them. We’ll research your submissions and add them to the site when we verify the information.

In solidarity,

Manny Herrmann
Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO

P.S. Corporations aren’t going to stop moving jobs out of America unless we force them to stop. That starts with compiling concrete information on just how much corporate greed is costing America’s workers. Check out Job Tracker, and help us take the first step by shining a light on outsourcing, safety and health violations and labor law violations.