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Midnight tonight is the final FEC fundraising deadline


This is it!

Midnight tonight is the final FEC fundraising deadline of 2010 and we’re just $8,159 short of our $250,000 fundraising goal.

We need to have a strong showing. The world is watching to see how much we have in our bank account at the end of the year. They’ll view our fundraising total as an indication of our unity and strength and our ability to mount a strong campaign to take back our Majority next year.

Contribute $5, $10 or more before Midnight Tonight and help put us over the top. Beating this goal is so important a group of generous Democrats will match your contribution dollar-for-dollar.

Before they’re even sworn into office, Republican freshmen, including a half-dozen tea party supporters, are cashing in on their new corporate connections. They’re planning big fundraising events in the next couple of weeks where they’ll collect four and five figure checks from many of the same special interest lobbyists who funded vicious attack ads against Democratic candidates.

Democrats rely upon individuals like you for 75% of our fundraising revenue. It’s critical that we not fall behind in these final days of the year, or we’ll spend months playing catch up and Republicans will have a huge head start with their repeal agenda in 2011.

Contribute $5, $10 or more before Midnight Tonight and help put us over the top. Beating this goal is so important a group of generous Democrats will match your contribution dollar-for-dollar.

Thank you for your generous support and commitment to the DCCC. I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday and I look forward to working with you in the coming year.

Thank you.

Robby Mook
DCCC, Executive Director

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a message from Speaker Pelosi …


Happy New Year! And as we prepare to ring in the new year, I wanted to reach out and thank you for your commitment to our country and your dedication to making change a reality for millions of our fellow Americans.

But our work is far from done.

Shadowy special interest front groups are already up on radio and television with shameful attack ads aimed at reversing the progress we’ve made, and they’re hoping grassroots Democrats like you will stay on the sidelines until New Year’s. If Democrats fall behind in these final critical days, we’ll have to spend months playing catch-up while the opponents of progress ring in 2011 with a big head start on their repeal agenda.

December 31st marks the final FEC deadline of the year. That means my friends at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) have just 5 days to show the media, the pundits, and our opponents that Democrats are ready to stand up to the powerful special interests intent on rolling back the progress we’ve worked so hard to achieve.

Carmen, can you chip in $10 to help House Democrats raise the $250,000 they need before the year-end FEC deadline on December 31st? This deadline is so important that your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar by a group of generous Democrats.

Because of the hard work of grassroots Democrats like you, we passed historic health care reform, restored common sense regulation to Wall Street, helped ensure equal pay for equal work, and made a college education affordable for millions of young Americans.

Now, the same special interests that fought us every step of the way are intent on rolling back the progress we’ve made. Your action before Friday’s deadline can help ensure that Democrats have what it takes to fight back and stand strong for the interests of hardworking American families.

Contribute to the DCCC before the critical FEC fundraising deadline at midnight on December 31st. Your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar by a group of generous Democrats.

In the year ahead, we will make critical decisions about the challenges we face that will shape the lives of our children and grandchildren for decades to come. I will not stop fighting to protect the progress we have made.

I hope I can count on you to support the DCCC with a generous contribution and to fulfill our responsibility to make tomorrow better than today and guarantee the American dream is alive and well in this country we love.

Together we’re going to make this happen.

Best Wishes,
Nancy
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker Nancy Pelosi

P.S. It’s your unshakable commitment to our shared vision for America’s future that is the lifeblood of our people-powered movement. Please stand with me and support our congressional colleagues at this decisive moment. Thank you. Contribute before the midnight December 31st FEC deadline and your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar.

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Sarah Palin hates this website


RepubliCorp.

That’s our new name for the shadowy network of corporate front groups who’re spending millions to sway the election—and the Republican politicians they’re buying.

RepubliCorp prefers to operate in secrecy. So we decided to do a little public relations for them. We created this website, www.RepubliCorp.us, and this spiffy promotional video.

Check ’em out and pass ’em on.

Because the more light we can shed on the corporate interests trying to swing this election, the more we’ll help the progressives they’re targeting. And because during a dark time, a little humor never hurts.

www.RepubliCorp.us

Thanks for all you do.

–Ilyse, Robin, Marika, Duncan, and the rest of the team

PS. Remember—next time you’re talking about all those secretive groups spending millions to buy Congress, they have a name: RepubliCorp.

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Is the Chamber of Commerce using foreign money to buy elections?


Change.org

Don’t let the Chamber of Commerce undermine our democracy. 

Sign the Petition

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the poster child for corporate corruption of our electoral system.

This year alone the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has pledged to spend an unprecedented $75 million on ads attacking candidates who don’t bow to corporate interests.

However, an explosive new report by the Center for American Progress reveals that some of that corporate cash might actually be coming from foreign entities, which would be a federal crime.

There is already too much corporate cash spent to influence our elections. It’s unacceptable that our democracy would be further undermined by illegal donations from foreign interests.

Election Day is just around the corner, and time is running out. Please join the movement of people demanding that Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department investigate the U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately.

Tell the DOJ: Investigate the U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately.

The Chamber of Commerce denies that it uses foreign money in any way that’s illegal, but the Center for American Progress has documented how the Chamber aggressively raises money outside the United States from foreign entities – including state-run companies in Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, India and Russia – and deposits that money into the same general fund used to fund the Chamber’s political program.

Because of the Chamber’s tax status as a trade organization, it can shield most of its financial information from the public. So without a government investigation, all we have to go on is the Chamber’s word.

Given the stakes of this election, we cannot just take the Chamber’s word for it. And we cannot wait for this issue to drag through a partisan Federal Elections Commission – the election is days away and there’s too much at stake this November.

Add your name to the chorus of people around the country calling on the Department of Justice to immediately move to investigate this explosive charge.

Tell the DOJ: Investigate the U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately.

Thank you for taking action,

– The Change.org Team

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Tell the DOJ: Investigate the Chamber of Commerce’s campaign spending!


Tell the DOJ: Investigate the Chamber of Commerce’s campaign spending  

We can’t let the Chamber of Commerce undermine our democracy!
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Clicking here will add your name to this petition to Attorney General Eric Holder:  

The Department of Justice must launch an immediate investigation into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s use of money from foreign corporations to influence our elections.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the poster child for corporate corruption of our electoral system.

This year alone the Chamber has pledged to spend $75 million on ads attacking candidates who don’t meekly bow down to the biggest and wealthiest corporate interests.

However, an explosive new report by the Center for American Progress reveals that some of that corporate cash might be coming from foreign entities, which would be a federal crime.

There is already entirely too much corporate cash spent on our elections. It’s intolerable that our democracy would be further undermined by illegal donations from foreign interests.

That is why we are joining our friends at MoveOn in asking Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department to open an investigation immediately.

Click here to automatically sign our petition and tell the DOJ to investigate the U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately.

The Chamber of Commerce denies that it uses foreign money in any way that’s illegal, but the Center for American Progress has documented how the Chamber aggressively raises money outside the United State from foreign entities — including state-run companies in Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, India and Russia — and deposits that money into the same general fund used to fund the Chamber’s political program.

Because of the Chamber’s tax status as a trade organization, it is able to shield most of its financial information from the public. So without a government investigation, all we have is the Chamber’s woefully insufficient word that it is abiding by the law.

Given the stakes of this election, we cannot settle for nothing more than “Trust us” from an organization with such a huge credibility problem. And we cannot wait as this issue winds its way through a Federal Elections Commission rendered slow and toothless by its Republican members.

That is why we are calling on the Department of Justice to immediately move to investigate this explosive charge.

Tell the DOJ: Investigate the U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately. Click here to automatically add your name.

Thank you for working for a better world.

Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

1Click here to read the report from the Center for American Progress.