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MoveOn.Org Comes Out Against Senate Health Care Billl

AP | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The liberal group MoveOn.org is opposing the Senate health care bill and urging Democrats to block it. In a letter to members Frid...

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MoveOn Fighting Bernanke Reappointment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, MoveOn.Org, Move on Bernanke, Move On, Politics News

If Ben Bernanke wants the people to give him a second term, according to a leading progressive advocacy organization, he'd better convince them he's o...

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MoveOn Launches Fundraising Drive For Anti-Lieberman Ad Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

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The progressive community is moving swiftly against Sen. Joseph Lieberman for killing the public option for insurance coverage and the provision to ex...

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MoveOn Holding Emergency Rally At White House Over Health Care

Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

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MoveOn.org is once again battling President Obama -- this time over health care reform. The progressive advocacy organization recently clashed with O...

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Why We Lost Healthcare

John Neffinger | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, MoveOn.Org, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Progressives, Fdr, Politics News

For Obama to do his job, he needs progressives to do theirs: let progressives fight on the left flank to make room for the President to steer a middle course. Otherwise the "centrists" will always win.

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The Do Good Web

Lee Schneider | Posted 12.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Tiger Woods Affair, Adultery, MoveOn.Org, Tiger Woods, Forwardtrack, Charity Focus, Jimmy Wales, Vinay Guypta, Gandhi, Charity-Focus, The Giving Life, Living News

Swadeshi means self-sufficiency. It was a key part of Gandhi's strategy to free India from British rule. Today, there's a new kind of swadeshi with online social activism.

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We Need a Clean Vote Now on Afghanistan Escalation

Robert Naiman | Posted 12.04.2009 | World

Read More: Congress, Afghanistan, Politico, MoveOn.Org, Jim McGovern, Afghanistan Escalation, President Obama, World News

Already, President Obama has ordered Marine units to be deployed later this month. If Congress waits for months to debate the issue, most of the new troops may already be in place.

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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

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

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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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

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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 11.22.2009 | 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

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 11.17.2009 | Politics

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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 11.11.2009 | Impact

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

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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

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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