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Drumbeat


Today is a critical day for our fight for America’s future — one week from today, the American people will go to the polls. And tonight at Midnight, the money we have in the bank will determine what last-minute television advertising we can send back out to races for the final week and just how strong our ground game will be.

The Republicans believe you have already given up. They believe that the special interests, with their millions of dollars in secret money, have already drowned out your voices. We have proven them wrong before, and we will prove them wrong this time.

But we need you in this fight. Dozens of Democrats are locked in too-close-to-call races. Our success literally depends on being able to urgently wire funds to these too close-to-call races tomorrow. We are just $51,294 away from our one-week out goal.

Please contribute $5, $10 or more before Midnight Tonight so we may wire these final funds to our Democrats under attack by the special interests and ensure that they can get every Democratic voter to the polls on Tuesday. Your gift will be matched 2-to-1 by a group of House Democrats.

Contribute Today


The stakes could not be higher. Democrats want to preserve Social Security and Medicare. Republicans want to privatize Social Security and cut Medicare.

Democrats want you to make it in America. Republicans want to send your job overseas. Democrats are fighting for the middle class of our country. Republicans are the hand maidens of the privileged few.

We cannot let the special interests drown out the voices of the American people.

Please contribute $5, $10 or more before Midnight Tonight so we may wire these final funds to our Democrats under attack by the special interests and ensure that they can get every Democratic voter to the polls on Tuesday. Your gift will be matched 2-to-1 by a group of House Democrats.

We will win because grassroots Democrats like you have created a drumbeat across America for change. Every dollar you contribute brings us closer to a strong Democratic House Majority.
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House

P.S. There is no doubt that we will succeed, but we need to raise $51,294 before Midnight Tonight to support our voter turnout activities in this final week. Every dollar you contribute brings us closer to victory. Please contribute before Midnight Tonight.

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you’re in this video


Voting is important. But somehow this year it doesn’t feel as important as it did in 2008, right?

WRONG!

Here’s a message from the future about what will happen if you and your friends don’t vote on November 2 (hint: it’s not pretty).

You’re actually in this video message—so we wanted to make sure you saw it.


http://cnnbc.moveon.org/?id=24634-9640874-scVu2ax&t=2

Thanks for all you do.

–Daniel, Laura, Nita, Milan, and the rest of the team

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Moving America Forward …


Democrats Are you going to see friends or family over the weekend? Print a few copies of our 1-page document “Moving America Forward: Five ways Democrats have made progress for American families” and bring them to share!

Click on the Moving America Forward link below …make several copies and pass them out to your friends and family

dccc.org

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is the official campaign arm of the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
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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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Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes …Google-Official blog


Posted: 21 Oct 2010 09:06 AM PDT

Earlier this year we announced our plans to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of American communities. Since then, a team of Google engineers has been hard at work experimenting with new fiber optic technologies. And following a series of tests we’ve run on Google’s campus, we’re excited to announce the next step in our project. 

We’ve reached an agreement with Stanford University to build an ultra-high speed broadband network to the university’s Residential Subdivision, a group of approximately 850 faculty- and staff-owned homes on campus. Through this trial, we plan to offer Internet speeds up to 1 gigabit per second—more than 100 times faster than what most people have access to today. We plan to start breaking ground in early 2011.

To be clear, this trial is completely separate from our community selection process for Google Fiber, which is still ongoing. As we’ve said, our ultimate goal is to build to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people, and we still plan to announce our selected community or communities by the end of the year.

Stanford’s Residential Subdivision—our first “beta” deployment to real customers—will be a key step towards that goal. We’ll be able to take what we learn from this small deployment to help scale our project more effectively and efficiently to much larger communities.

Why did we decide to build here? Most important was Stanford’s openness to us experimenting with new fiber technologies on its streets. The layout of the residential neighborhoods and small number of homes make it a good fit for a beta deployment. And its location—just a few miles up the road from Google—will make it easier for our engineers to monitor progress.

We’re excited about this beta, and we look forward to announcing our selected community or communities for Google Fiber in the coming months.

Posted by James Kelly, Product Manager