Issues

As people take to the streets to protest rising inequality, our members are standing with the 99% for an economy that works for everyone, not just the richest 1%. Over 80,000 people have pledged to move their money and pressured Congress to make it easier. We delivered over 54,000 thank you notes to Occupy Wall Street. And seven bold Congressional candidates from across the country delivered over 35,000 petition signatures to Republican Speaker John Boehner in front of the media. [more]

Big banks are pressuring states to agree to a deal that would let them off the hook for foreclosure fraud they committed when they crashed our economy. Bold attorney generals like Eric Schneiderman in New York and Jack Conway in Kentucky are fighting back. Over 110,000 of our members have joined these attorney generals in fighting back, successfully pressuring California Attorney General Kamala Harris to come out against this deal. [more]

Defending Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security is one of our top priorities. Our members wrote over 50,000 thank you notes, which we delivered to Senator Harry Reid for taking a stand against attacks on Social Security. Our members also made calls supporting the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Senator Whitehouse’s efforts to protect Medicare and Social Security from budget cuts. We also went on offense against Republicans and Democrats pushing for devastating benefit cuts. [more]

When President Obama considered extending George W. Bush’s policy of borrowing billions to fund tax cuts for the richest 2%, over 170,000 of our members signed a petition calling on Obama to them. We also put pressure on Republicans in Congress to hold them accountable and stop defending millionaires and billionaires. Through ads, signatures and calls, our members demonstrated real power to mobilize and fight hard. [more]

Our members continue to support major campaigns for Net Neutrality, advocating against censorship and supporting an open and accessible Internet. In 2010, we launched GoogleDontBeEvil.com and helped deliver over 300,000 signatures to their corporate headquarters. Over 100,000 or our members also signed our petition telling FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to deliver on real Net Neutrality protections – instead of letting corporations write the rules. [more]

As the health care debate came to a boil in Washington, the public option appeared to be “dead on arrival.” To save the public option, we garnered mass support on main street and on Capitol Hill, circulated a breakthrough letter in congress, and ran hard hitting ads that held congress accountable. [more]