This public option fight has been a loooong fight. We've all been hit with numerous requests to sign petitions, make phone calls, attend rallies, give money, etc.

In our money-laden, lobbyist-laden political system, it's easy to wonder if grassroots pressure makes a difference. And as MLK...

(Harry Reid responded -- more below.)

Last night, Rachel Maddow reported that thousands of people have signed the Progressive Change Campaign Committee's new petition to Senator Harry Reid -- and read the petition aloud on national TV:

Any Democratic senators who support a Republican attempt to block a vote...

Last night, at 3:31am, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee launched a petition asking Congress to censure Rep. Joe Wilson:

"Enough is enough. On an issue as critical as health care reform, it's time to stop the lies, the misinformation, and the uncivil disruptions. Rep. Joe Wilson went way over the...

Today, as reported by Rachel Weiner, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee is unveiling a full-page New York Times ad featuring hundreds of Obama campaign workers asking the President to fight strong because "A bill without a public option would not be 'change we can believe in.'"
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Yesterday, news broke that President Obama will make a big speech to Congress next Wednesday on health care.

And according to reports, "although House leaders have said their members will demand the inclusion of a public insurance option, Obama has no plans to insist on it himself."...

ACTION: Click here to auto-Tweet this message: petition @ThirdWayTweet to make transparent how much $ they get from insurance interests http://act.ly/gg RT to sign #actly #p2

Yesterday, Third Way -- which claims to be the "moderate wing of the progressive movement" -- proved why they should rebrand...

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America recently began airing ads in Nebraska holding Ben Nelson accountable for undermining the public option.

Immediately after these ads were announced, The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reported that Nelson called the small-business owner featured in the ad and...

Forrest Brown, one of our great fellows at the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, dug up this gem.

Newt Gingrich on the House floor during the health care debate -- March 16, 1994:

Mr. GINGRICH.

I agree with my friend, the gentleman from...

Ladies and gentleman...Norm Coleman's insistence on being a sore loser has now raised over $140,000 to help progressives defeat Republicans in 2010.

Thanks so much to the many Huffington Post readers who read about and participated in the PCCC and Democracy for America's "Dollar a Day to Make...

Yesterday in Minnesota, Norm Coleman thought he was being greeted by supporters outside a local Republican event.

But instead, Coleman came face-to-face with the fact that his insistence on being a sore loser has raised over $90,000 to help progressives defeat Republicans in 2010 -- thanks to the "Dollar...

On the very day Arlen Specter became a Democrat, he lamented that not enough right-wing Bush judges got confirmed, he opposed workers' right to organize, and he compared himself to Joe Lieberman. The DSCC and Pennsylvania Democratic Party will be supporting Specter in the primary.

If there is a potential...

UPDATE: Now, we're up to $29,000! Let's keep it up!

Recently, on the front of OpenLeft.com, I critiqued the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's "petition" asking Norm Coleman to get out -- saying there was no "theory of change" about why people taking that action would have any impact....

Did you see the Colbert Report Tuesday?

Stephen Colbert nailed the connection between special-interest campaign contributions and results in Congress (in a way only he could).

In the process, he also nailed Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), who Colbert accuses of selling out to the Payday Loan industry for...

Yesterday, I posed the question: "Is the Chamber of Commerce Using Bailout Money to Attack Workers?"

The Chamber took to their blog and ambiguously wrote, "No. No we are not."

It's well documented by Sam Stein at The Huffington Post that bailout recipients have been...

2 plus 2 = 4.  So, what do these two excerpts add up to?

Monday's Wall Street Journal reports:

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a $1 million television advertising campaign that takes a new line of attack against the Employee Free Choice Act...The new Chamber ads...

Working for MoveOn from 2005-2008, I wrote lots of emails inviting people to take action.

At Change Congress and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, my two hats these days, I still do.

I know as well as anyone that some emails that you expect to work simply flop....

It's incredible. Just as 20,000 viewers signed an open letter to CNBC telling them to listen to Jon Stewart and hold Wall Street accountable instead of mindlessly repeating Wall Street talking points, NBC doubled down.

This morning, Meet The Press host David Gregory repeated what CNBC's Erin Burnett...

Last month, on the Huffington Post, I wrote about NBC's "Erin Burnett problem" after she relentlessly spouted Wall Street talking points on Meet The Press.

I pointed out that we have a bunch of "embedded" reporters on Wall Street -- like we did at the start of the Iraq...

Last Friday night, I was in Colorado and attended a House party for recently-appointed Colorado Senator Mike Bennet. Joining me was Darcy Burner, the legendary people-powered congressional candidate from Seattle, who spoke on a panel with me the next day.

I was very much looking forward to taking inventory of...

Hi, this is Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

Monday morning, at the Huffington Post, I posted this piece: "NBC Has An Erin Burnett Problem."

I made the case that on Sunday's Meet The Press Burnett repeated pro-Wall Street talking points over and...