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Putting the Power Back in the Hands of the People Against Rogue Democrats

Paul Loeb | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Baucus, Max Baucus, Filibuster, Lieberman, Joe Lieberman, MoveOn.Org, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Paul Loeb

As the health care fight approaches its end game, there's now a way for us, as ordinary citizens, to exercise power, and create enough of a potential cost to deter conservatives standing in the way.

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Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama's Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ads, Health Care Bill, Trigger, White House, MoveOn.Org, Public Option, Olympia Snowe, Filibuster, Obama, Trigger Option, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Maine, House, Insurance Industry, Obama White House, Senate, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Health Care, Politics News

President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as p...

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Sam Stein

Dawn Smith, Brain Tumor Victim: How Her Story Became Rallying Cry For Health Care Reform Supporters

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cigna Brain Tumor, Cigna Care, Brain Tumor Cigna, MoveOn.Org, Dawn Smith, Smith Health Care Reform, Brain Tumor Care, Dawn Smith Health Care, Smith Moveon, Smith Brain Tumor, Politics News

The past few years of Dawn Smith's life have been a medical nightmare turned around only when her story became a rallying cry for health care reform. ...

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Leaders Absent at Health Care Demonstration in Midtown

Glyn Vincent | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York

Read More: President Obama, MoveOn.Org, Cleon Skousen, Glenn Beck, Kirsten Gillibrand, Salon, Charles Schumer, Philip Weiss, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, New York News
Glyn Vincent

Somehow not a single Democratic politician, official or one of their minions in the entire state of New York was available to make an appearance.

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MoveOn Relaunches "Red-Handed" Campaign Against Anti-Reform Republicans (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moveon, Tiberi Reichert, MoveOn.Org, Dave Reichert, Moveon Red Handed, Patrick Tiberi, moveon.org Redhanded, Politics News

MoveOn.org has brought back its "Red Handed" ads from the 2006 election to target vulnerable Republicans who have voted against health care reform. ...

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MoveOn.org And R.E.M. Encourage Americans To Promote Health Reform

Posted 09.11.2009 | Impact

Read More: R.E.M., Video, Health Reform, Health Care, MoveOn.Org, Impact News

MoveOn.org members submitted photos last week with how them and their families were suffering from health care issues. MoveOn took these photos and cr...

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R.E.M. And MoveOn.org Team Up For Health Care Ad (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Public Option, MoveOn.Org, Michael Stipe, R.E.M., Health Care, Politics News

An R.E.M. song provides the soundtrack for a new video from MoveOn.org in support of health care reform. The ad, which uses personal stories to make ...

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A Party Is Not a Movement

David Sirota | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, MoveOn.Org, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Progressive Movement, Democrats, 2008 Election, Afghanistan War, Campaign Finance, Politics News
David Sirota

Though the 2006 and 2008 elections were billed as progressive movement successes, the story behind them highlights a longer-term failure.

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Daily Pulse: Goldfish and the Public Option

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Talking Points Memo, Insurance, Public Option, Daily Pulse, Vigil, MoveOn.Org, Lindsay Beyerstein, Reform, Obama, Tmc, Washington Independent, The Media Consortium, Healthcare, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

Perhaps the biggest drawback of Obama's hands off approach is that administration can't make a positive case for reform. So, the president has decided to step in and dictate terms to Congress.

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Regaining the Momentum on Health Care Reform

Chris Shiflett | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foo Fighters, Rush Limbaugh, MoveOn.Org, Acorn, Seiu, Max Baucus, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Health Insurance, Cigna, Aetna, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Canada, Politics News
Chris Shiflett

Our job -- liberals, progressives, union leaders, public health advocates, community groups, and even rock-and-roll performers -- is to challenge the lies and distortions put out there by the Fox News crowd.

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Five Things You Can Do About Healthcare, In Ascending Order of Difficulty and Commitment

Ben Wyskida | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, MoveOn.Org, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Firedoglake, Organizing for America, Health Care, Politics News
Ben Wyskida

If you voted last year, gave money last year, obsessed over the blogs and debates and Sarah Palin last year, then right now is the whole ball game. Here, in ascending order of difficulty, are five things you can/should do.

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Limbaugh Yells "Nazi" (And The Press Yawns)

Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post, MoveOn.Org, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Despite the fact that Limbaugh is continuing to compare the Obama White House and the Democratic Party with Nazis, many in the media don't consider it newsworthy and haven't condemned it.

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The Rise of the Dick Armey, the Summer's Biggest Blockbuster

Suzanne Langlois | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Resisinet.com, Freedomworks.org Darla Dawald, Dick Armey, Campaign for Liberty the Club for Growth, MoveOn.Org, Grassfire.org, Health Care Reform, Town Hall Meetings the Taxpayer's March on Washington, Tea Party Patriots, Brooks Brothers Riot, 9-12 Rally Arrangements, Barack Obama, Republicans Health Care, Freedomworks, Republicans Health Care Reform, Republican Party, Politics News
Suzanne Langlois

If patriotism is their private bailiwick, are those of us who truly believe that access to health care is the most basic of civil rights, unpatriotic?

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Sahil Kapur

New MoveOn Ad Blasts Insurance Companies: "They Kill People Each Year" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: MoveOn Insurance Shark, Moveon Ad, MoveOn.Org, Health Care Reform, MoveOn Insurance Companies, MoveOn Shark Ad, Politics News

As the health care battle moves to the airwaves during the August recess, the progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org has likened insurance companies to...

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MoveOn Threatens Blue Dogs Who Might Block Health Reform

The Plum Line | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Ads, Blue Dogs Public Option, MoveOn.Org, MoveOn Ads, Blue Dogs, Health Care Reform, MoveOn Blue Dogs, Blue Dogs Health Care, Politics News

MoveOn has produced a hard-hitting ad that will be unleashed in the districts of any Blue Dog Dems who vote against the House Dems' health care bill i...

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MoveOn.org Releases Ad About Clean Energy Jobs Featuring Sarah Palin (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Green Jobs, MoveOn.Org, Energy Jobs, MoveOn Ads, Sarah Palin, Politics News

MoveOn.org has a new television ad featuring the now former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin that focuses on the Republican Party's opposition to green job...

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Senatorial Silence on Single-Payer

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 08.24.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Health Care Bill, Physicians for a National Health Care Program, MoveOn.Org, Claire McCaskill, Single Payer, Health Care, Eyes & Ears News
Jeanine Molloff

When you consider the vast resources of the US Senate, we should demand serious accountability and transparency when it comes to the health care debate.

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Anti-Palin Fundraising E-Mail Raises $100,000 In One Day

The Plumline | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sarahpac, Cap and Trade, Washington Post, Fundraising, Palin, MoveOn.Org, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Wow, it looks like Sarah Palin is one heck of a prolific fundraiser -- for the left, that is. A fundraising email that MoveOn blasted out yesterday a...

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Women Who Tech

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Women Who Tech, Women Ini New Media, Shireen Mitchell, momsrising.org, Deanna Zandt, MoveOn.Org, Lynne D. Johnson, Laurel Touby, Media Bistro Circus, Tracy Viselli, Women in Technology, Google Earth Outreach, Holly Ross, Joan Blades, Blogher, Shewrites, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

As new media continues to be an amplifying platform for previously under-recognized constituencies and agendas, women are looking to claim their piece of the pie.

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MoveOn.org Rallies Activists Over Public Option Compromise

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health Care Trigger, Public Option Trigger, Health Care Trigger, Moveon, Rahm Emanuel, MoveOn.Org, Rahm Moveon, Public Health Care Option, Rahm Emanuel moveon.org, Politics News

Rahm Emanuel has caused consternation among progressives -- including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Howard Dean -- for suggesting health care legisl...

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BizarrObama's Backwards Health Care Strategy

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, MoveOn.Org, President Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Mary Landrieu, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Insurance, Rahm Emanuel, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Universal Health Care, Max Baucus Health Care, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Satire, Humor and Satire, Politics News
Matthew Filipowicz

Sadly, the main figures who will likely end up blocking the health care plan are not Republicans, but a small handful of Blue Dog conservative Democrats in the Senate.

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Sam Stein

Exclusive: MoveOn Targets DiFi On Healthcare In New Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feinstein Health Care, Feinstein Ad, Health Care Moveon, Moveon Ad, MoveOn.Org, Health Care Reform, Diane Feinstein, Politics News

Intensifying efforts to keep recalcitrant Democrats in line on health care, the progressive activist organization MoveOn.org is launching a new televi...

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Will Pelosi Allow a Vote on an Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?

Robert Naiman | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Rules Committee, MoveOn.Org, Afghanistan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congress, Jim McGovern, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

Who has the greatest power over whether Members of the House will be allowed to vote on the McGovern bill? Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House.

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A Chance for Liberals to Break Their Silence

Tom Hayden | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: MoveOn.Org, Cia, Torture Photos, Obama Torture, Censorship, Torture, Politics News
Tom Hayden

Silence in the face of the censorship means collaborating in the cover-up of torture.

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We're Going To The Moon...Again

Ben Fractenberg | Posted 06.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Neil Armstrong, The Great Depression, Nasa, MoveOn.Org, Jerry Bruckheimer, MTV Cribs, Moon, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Save the Children, Bill Richardson, 1969 Moon Landing, Comedy News
Ben Fractenberg

From the people who brought you the 1969 moon landing comes a sequel. Let's call it, The Moon 2: This Time We Mean Business.

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