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Tell Senate Not to Endanger Nonprofits

A dangerous bill is expected to come to a vote in the Senate.

Email your Senators.

Tell Your State to Put Limits on Political Action Committees to Eliminate Super PACs

A political action committee called a Super PAC can spend unlimited money promoting a candidate and can take unlimited money from individuals -- or can in most states, but not any longer in Maine.

Tell your governor and state legislators that we need this same reform now.
Join With Other Constituents to Tell Democrats in Congress That Rahm Emanuel Is Unfit to Be Chair of the DNC

As a constituent, you can exert vital pressure on the Democrat(s) representing you in Congress -- letting them know that Rahm Emanuel would be an unacceptable choice for chair of the Democratic National Committee.

If you have a Democratic Senator and/or Representative, take action.

View a selection of actions

Tell Congress to Pass the College for All Act

Let's make higher education a right, not a privilege.

Please email your representative and senators.

Tell Your State to Tax the Super Wealthy

Massachusetts has created a very successful way to tax the very wealthy. Your state can easily do it too. Only Washington D.C. and these six states have a higher tax rate for the wealthiest: CA, HI, NY, NJ, OR, MN.

Please email your state legislators.

Fix the Minimum Wage in Your State

Let's fix this once and for all.

Email your state legislators and governor.

Let's Fix the Electoral College Problem

What do you say we stop allowing candidates who lose the national popular vote to ever enter the White House as president again?

Please email your state legislators and governor.

Make Voter Registration Automatic in Your State

Every election season, thousands of volunteers toil endless hours on a task that need not exist at all: registering voters. And voters are denied the right to vote when told they are not registered.

Please email your state legislators and governor.

End Life Sentences Without Parole for Those Under 21

According to a neuroscientist at MIT: "As a number of researchers have put it, ‘the rental car companies have it right.’ The brain isn’t fully mature at 16, when we are allowed to drive, or at 18, when we are allowed to vote, or at 21, when we are allowed to drink, but closer to 25, when we are allowed to rent a car."

Please email your state legislators and governor.

Ban Slavery in Your State

Some states still allow slavery, most of them as punishment for crime, as in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Email your state legislators and governor.

Tell Your State to Abolish the Death Penalty

The death penalty's slow death is accelerating.

Please email your state legislators and governor.

Tell Your State to Put Limits on Political Action Committees to Eliminate Super PACs

A political action committee called a Super PAC can spend unlimited money promoting a candidate and can take unlimited money from individuals -- or can in most states, but not any longer in Maine.

Tell your governor and state legislators that we need this same reform now.

Blasts From the Past

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