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Demand Background Checks for All Gun Sales
Background checks are essential if we wish to keep convicted felons and other dangerous individuals from getting guns. And yet, Federal law only requires checks from licensed dealers, meaning that private sellers at gun shows and online are exempt. These private sales account for an estimated 40% to 50% of gun sales in America, meaning that as many as half of all gun sales take place without background checks (source). Having an exemption like this is about as logical as locking your front door...
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Tell Boehner: Remove Bachmann from House Intelligence Committee
Michele Bachmann Has Gone Too Far! Tell John Boehner She Should Be Removed from the Intelligence Committee Immediately! Use the form to the right to add your name to this letter to Speaker Boehner: Dear Speaker Boehner: In service to ugly Islamophobic fear mongering, Rep. Michele Bachmann continues unabated in her unfounded and irresponsible attacks on dedicated public servants -- a witch hunt that has targeted Huma Abedin, a key aide to...
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Stand with President Obama on Immigration Reform
Add your name right now to stand with President Obama on immigration reform. President Obama is tackling immigration reform. As he said in his inauguration address: "Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country." This issue is critical. Help us reach 100,000 strong standing...
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Thank you, Hillary!
Hillary Clinton is stepping down as Secretary of State, and taking a well-deserved break after years of service to America. Let's take a moment and thank her for her services as a Senator, as Secretary of State, and a strong voice of reason in an ever-changing world. Send Hillary a message, and tell her "thanks!"
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Tell Rush: "Joking that Guns Should Be Used for Abortions isn't Funny, it's Disgusting"
Once again, speaking on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh manages to sink to even lower depths: "You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun." It's a disgusting statement to make at any time, but even more so at a moment when the nation has just endured multiple mass shooting tragedies. Send Rush Limbaugh a message. Tell him that joking that guns be used for abortions isn't funny – it's disgusting. ...
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Stand with President Obama to Prevent Gun Violence
Enough is enough
Add your name right now, stand with President Obama, and speak out for action to prevent gun violence. Enough is enough. It's time for a comprehensive solution to reduce and prevent gun violence. Congress should move immediately to pass sensible reforms and prevent gun related tragedies from tearing apart any more of our families. Sign the petition right now and help us reach 100,000 strong saying it's time to take action to prevent gun violence. ...
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Don't Let Republicans Defund Planned Parenthood
Stand with Planned Parenthood
We're just days into the new Congress, and already, Planned Parenthood is already under attack from Congressional Republicans: "House Republicans are so eager to strip federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood that two of them have introduced identical bills to do so in the first days of the new Congress. Tennessee Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R) and Diane Black (R) separately reintroduced a bill during the first two days of the 2013 legislative session that...
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Tell the Republicans: "Stop Hurting America's Economy with Debt Limit Threats"
Tell the Republicans: Stop Hurting America's Economy with Debt Limit Threats
Just weeks after bringing America to the brink of fiscal-cliff disaster, Republicans are threatening to do it all over again by refusing to raise the nation's debt limit in February. Let's be clear about this: The debt limit is not about future debt, it is about paying for spending already approved by Congress. Not raising the debt limit would send America into default, and most likely trigger a global recession, or worse. But it's not just default that is the problem. These threats are...
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Tell the Feds: Back off states that have legalized marijuana
For too long, America has been waging a costly, damaging, counter-productive war against marijuana. A majority of Americans now supports legalization, and several states are trying versions of it, ranging from medical marijuana to full legalization. The Federal government, however, has been getting in the way, with everything from raids of medical marijuana distributors to inconsistent enforcement that creates profound uncertainty and fear. Most Americans agree, the the Federal government...
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End Tax Cuts for the Rich. Stand with the President
Support President Obama's Call for Tax Fairness
Add your name if you agree with President Obama that the rich should pay their fair share. Republicans continue to overwhelmingly stand behind Grover Norquist's pledge against making the wealthiest few pay more so we can pay down the debt, protect tax cuts for the middle class and avoid the fiscal cliff. And just recently, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi made it clear that "higher higher income people have to pay their fair share." No other option is a real solution. Help us...
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