On Tuesday, we set a goal to raise $20,000 in one week to support ThinkProgress’ on-the-ground, hard-hitting reporting across the country. The response has been overwhelming. In just two days, hundreds of you have contributed, and we are more than halfway to our goal. But we need you to get us over the finish line:

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In the 48 hours since I wrote to you last, we’ve been following the Tea Party Bus Tour all around the state of Iowa. On Tuesday, we captured Rick Santorum blaming poor history scores on a left-wing plot to keep students uninformed. (Our story was picked up by MSNBC, The Huffington Post, Keith Olbermann, and other major news outlets.) Yesterday, we exposed Tea Party darling Herman Cain‘s plan to put the oil and coal company CEOs in charge of regulations at the EPA.

We believe that the best antidote to the right wing is to ask tough questions, pull back the curtain, and report the facts. With your help, we’ll continue to bring you important stories you can’t find anywhere else.

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Judd Legum
Founder, ThinkProgress.org

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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Judd Legum wrote:
As you may know, ThinkProgress has been hitting the road to ask tough questions and bring you the unvarnished truth from around the country.
For example, when Paul Ryan was booed by his constituents in Milton, Wisconsin, for defending his plan to privatize Medicare, the traditional media was nowhere to be found. But ThinkProgress was there to capture it all on tape. The clip was played dozens of times on national TV, and hundreds of thousands of people watched the video online.
Overall, our reporters have traveled to 20 states, interviewing nine presidential candidates and 56 members of Congress. We are making an impact and shaping the debate.
But this kind of on-the-ground reporting isn’t cheap. We need to raise $20,000 in the next week to keep our efforts going strong.
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This week, I’m in Iowa to cover the Tea Party Bus Tour — organized by a radical group advocating a return to the gold standard. Several GOP presidential candidates are scheduled to participate.
We’ll be visiting Ames, Iowa Falls, Webster City, Oskaloosa, Creston, and Council Bluffs. With your support, we’ll be able to keep this show on the road and keep holding the right wing accountable.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any comments or questions.

Best,
Judd Legum
Founder, ThinkProgress.org