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Stand with Sens. McCaskill & Gillibrand against Sexual Assault in the Military
Recently, the Air Force lieutenant colonel in charge of sexual assault prevention was arrested for sexual battery. And that's just the tip of the iceberg: The Pentagon's own estimates suggest as many as 26,000 service members were sexually assaulted in 2012. But with a record number of women serving in the United States Senate, including five Democratic women on the Armed Services Committee, there are leaders making real noise and taking real action. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has...
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Tell Boehner: Enough already with the damned 'Repeal Obamacare' votes
House Republicans have now voted 37 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, aka, "Obamacare." (source) 37 times. Even though repeal has no chance of passing the Senate, and certainly no chance of being signed by President Obama. There is real work to be done, and yet Boehner and the House Republicans have chosen to focus instead on appealing to their lunatic fringe through a series of "Groundhog Day" votes. Enough is enough. Tell Boehner: Enough already with the damned '...
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Elizabeth Warren is Right: Let Students Borrow at the Same Low Rate Big Banks Get
Without action by Congress, student loan interest rates for millions of students will double from 3.4% to 6.8% on July 1st. Enter Elizabeth Warren: Warren's first-ever standalone legislation, introduced Wednesday, would prevent that hike and take the additional step of cutting the rate to 0.75 percent — the same rate that big banks are allowed to borrow at - for one year until Congress can achieve a more permanent fix... "The taxpayers are investing in the big banks," Warren...
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Tell Michele Bachmann: Take a Hike
Sign your name right now if you want to defeat Michele Bachmann in 2014. From threatening to investigate political opponents for being anti-American to plain old extremism, Michele Bachmann is among the most radical members of Congress. If you think it's time for Bachmann to take a hike, sign your name and help us defeat her.
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Stand against Ken Cuccinelli
As attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli supported LGBT discrimination and attacked climate science. The Washington Post called him "the most overtly partisan attorney general in Virginia's history" after he used his office to threaten women's health providers. He even thinks Justice Antonin Scalia is too liberal. Now, he's running to be governor of Virginia. Don't let that happen. Please, sign the petition from Left Action and Terry McAuliffe pledging to stop Ken Cuccinelli. ...
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BoycottRush.org
Boycott Rush!
Sign our petition, and join over 100,000 others asking Rush's advertisers to drop him Enough is enough. It is time for Rush Limbaugh's sponsors to stop supporting his hate speech and anti-woman tirades through their advertising dollars. His recent "joke" that abortions should be performed with guns was particularly appalling. And now, in bizarre rant, he has linked the kidnappings of three women in Cleveland -- held for 10 years -- to voting for Obama and welfare....
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Tell Harry Reid: Fix the Filibuster!
Enough is enough.
For too long, America has watched helplessly as the the Senate became the place where good bills go to die. The ridiculous, outdated, undemocratic filibuster means that majority rule is turned on its head, and the stubbornness of 41 senators is enough to block the hard work and good will of 59 others. And with the Republican minority using the filibuster at an unprecedented pace, work and progress ground to a halt. Harry Reid tried a "handshake agreement" deal with Senate...
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Don't Let Republicans Raise Student Loan Rates
John Boehner and House Republicans have voted to increase student loan rates to as high as 8.5% for the families who already struggle the most to afford a college education. That is despicable. President Obama is threatening to veto, but he needs you behind him to stop this disaster of a bill. Tell House Republicans that we won’t let them wring every last penny out of middle class families. Sign your name, and pledge to stand with President Obama if he vetoes this. ...
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Tell Tom Coburn: Don't Hold Oklahoma Emergency Aid Hostage
Oklahoma has been devastated by a major tornado, and it's up to all of us to help. Sadly, however, some in Congress are already threatening to use Federal disaster aid as a political weapon. Led, astonishingly. by Oklahoma's own senator, Tom Coburn: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said just hours after a major tornado ravaged his state that he would use the federal relief funds as a cudgel to force Democrats into accepting more spending cuts to programs like Social Security and...
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Stand Against the Virginia GOP's Extreme Ticket
We didn’t think it was possible, but Ken Cuccinelli's ticket got even more radical: E.W. Jackson is now officially the nominee for lieutenant governor. And right off the bat, Ken Cuccinelli is not shying away from supporting his new radical running mate, calling Jackson a "powerful fighter and communicator for first principles." See, Ken Cuccinelli and E.W. Jackson are really one in the same: They have both called homosexuality a sickness, compared legal abortion with slavery,...
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