Nita Chaudhary
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Nita Chaudhary was most recently the National Campaigns and Organizing Director at MoveOn.org Political Action. As a part of that role she oversaw and managed MoveOn’s national campaigns department, including the organization’s work on Health Care reform, the economy and Social Security as well as supervising MoveOn's Campaign Directors. During her tenure at MoveOn, Nita oversaw the fundraising program for the 2008 election, and led some of the organization’s largest campaigns including MoveOn’s work to end the Iraq war, protect Constitutional Liberties and address Climate Change. Prior to that she was the Democratic National Committee's first Director of Online during the 2004 cycle. She started her career at People for the American Way where she held several positions, including Media Research Analyst, Web Editor, and Online Organizer.

She is the co-founder of UltraViolet.

Blog Entries by Nita Chaudhary

Obama: Don't Nominate Summers to Lead the World Bank

0 Comments | Posted March 22, 2012 | 12:12 PM

Right now President Obama is deciding whether to nominate Larry Summers -- his former economic adviser -- to head the World Bank, the global bank tasked with reducing world poverty. Larry Summers can't possibly fulfill this mandate for one simple reason: he has an almost comical gift...

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"Appropriate" Testimony for Congress to Hear

7 Comments | Posted February 28, 2012 | 10:58 AM

Today, the circus that is the United States Congress will continue its campaign against birth control with not one but two hearings scheduled on this apparently controversial topic for the week. While we're eager to hear more about how birth control coverage is a Stalinist plot to ruin...

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This Is a Joke, Right?

200 Comments | Posted February 16, 2012 | 2:20 PM

Birth control is going to create more homeless veterans!

Fighting birth control is the Catholic Church's Rosa Parks moment!

Obama is Hitler because he wants health insurance to cover birth control without co-pays!

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Karen Handel Needs to Resign

45 Comments | Posted February 6, 2012 | 1:05 PM

"If we just say it's about investigations, we can defund Planned Parenthood and no one can blame us for being political."

That's what Komen for the Cure's Vice President of Public Policy Karen Handel told staff when she led the organization to defund Planned Parenthood's grants -- a decision...

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Birth Control Matters

123 Comments | Posted January 30, 2012 | 10:39 AM

Birth control matters to women. This is not an opinion. It is a fact. But you wouldn't know it reading political coverage of the administration's decision to do the right thing and approve the rule mandating coverage of it.

And frankly, that's shameful.

When Health and Human Services Secretary...

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