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–Stephanie
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Important update: Late Monday night, we got a call informing us that Lauren Valle, a MoveOn supporter, was attacked by campaign volunteers for Rand Paul, the Republican Senate candidate in Kentucky. The video is pretty awful: Three men threw Lauren to the ground, held her down, and stomped on her head and neck. She ended up in the hospital with a concussion. She’s still recovering, but she’s already speaking out about what happened—and pressing charges against her attackers, at least one of whom is so unrepentant he just demanded an apology from Lauren.
This is upsetting and outrageous and fundamentally anti-democratic. What’s worse, it’s part of a growing pattern of right-wing violence and intimidation, fueled by violent rhetoric from Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, and others.
Here’s the thing, folks: we can’t let this intimidate us or derail us (which is the intent, after all). Instead, let’s work even harder over the next week to defeat the candidates that are stirring up hate. Lauren’s not stopping, and we won’t either.
If you want to make a contribution in Lauren’s name to support Jack Conway (the MoveOn-endorsed Democrat she was trying to help when she was attacked), click here:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=93155&id=24703-17809870-CiQAoFx&t=1
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Democratic leaders can learn from this new video of Conway “on offense” against Rand Paul Watch it and chip in $4 to help Conway win in the final stretch!
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BIG NEWS: A new poll shows Democrat Jack Conway surging in the Kentucky Senate race — beating Tea Party leader Rand Paul 49% to 47%.
Conway shared the secret of his success in an email to PCCC members Monday: “The way for Democrats to win in 2010 is to have a spine — and go on offense.”
We compiled a new video of Conway going on offense (which national Democratic leaders could learn from).
Click here to watch the video and chip in $4 to fuel his insurgent campaign!
Or click here to see the video and sign up to help us make 25,000 calls for Conway.
The new video includes Conway in debates, speeches, and media interviews slamming Rand Paul for his Tea Party belief that Social Security is unconstitutional. It also includes Conway talking about his partnership with PCCC on the Today Show!
If Conway wins, it will be a huge progressive victory and change the entire story about 2010. But he needs us to fight with him right now.
Please donate $4 or make calls to help Conway win– and thanks for being a bold progressive.
— Stephanie Taylor, Adam Green, Michael Snook, Keauna Gregory, and the PCCC team
Have you watched cable news lately? The Tea Baggers are everywhere!
The Tea Party is news because they’ve won a few upset primaries — but let’s be honest — that’s not the only reason they’re getting wall-to-wall coverage. Honestly, that weirdly racist tinge makes for good TV. Bizarre, wide-eyed accusations of the President and hilariously misspelled signs demanding an English-only country will drive up news ratings. I don’t mind, though. People should know about these extremists.
But the best-kept secret of 2010 is that progressives have won primaries up and down the ballot all across the country — way more than Tea Party. That’s right — Progressive challengers have beat out fabled “Mama Grizzlies” in state after state.
Just this week, progressive champion Ann McLane Kuster won a landslide victory in New Hampshire. Earlier this year, progressives won big upset victories in Pennsylvania with Joe Sestak, in North Carolina with Elaine Marshall and in Kentucky with Jack Conway — and that’s just in U.S. Senate races.
But DFA doesn’t just support Senate candidates. We support progressives up and down the ballot in all 50 states. In fact, 67 percent of all DFA-endorsed candidates won their primaries this year. 67 percent! That’s a great record and we couldn’t do it without you. We depend on small contributions from DFA members to make it happen.
Contribute $10 right now and keep beating the Tea Party this November.
With the 2010 Democratic primaries over, just take a look at the work we did together this season:
We didn’t just endorse candidates who we were sure-things or had big names, either. We endorsed local candidates like Toni Preckwinkle in Chicago. She was a reformer running against a corrupt incumbent for Cook County Board President. It was a tough fight, but she ran a grassroots campaign and scored a landslide win in the primary.
We endorsed winning candidates in tough primaries in Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and a whole lot of other states. That’s the DFA strategy at work — electing progressive in primaries across the country to take our country back with people-powered campaigns.
Can’t get enough? Here’s a few more numbers from 2010 primaries. We endorsed four U.S. Senate candidates, 11 U.S. House candidates, three gubernatorial candidates, four candidates running for other statewide office, 16 candidates for State House or State Senate, and five candidates for county or municipal offices — across 24 states.
That’s 43 candidates total — 29 wins — and we couldn’t done it without you.
Now that the primary season is over, all the focus is on winning in November and finishing the job. We must defeat Tea Party Republicans everywhere and we can’t do it without your support.
Contribute $10 today and beat the Tea Baggers in November.
Come November 3, the only reason the Tea Party should be on TV is for losing a lot of elections.
Working together, we’re going to make that happen. Thanks you for everything you do to move America forward.
-Arshad
Arshad Hasan, Executive Director
Democracy for America
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