See what the other side is doing and saying.
"Keep your friends close...and your opponents closer."
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Phil --
Yesterday morning, Republicans unveiled their plan for governing -- their Pledge to America.
They're pledging to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires.
They're pledging to roll back regulations on big oil and Wall Street.
They're pledging to strike down rules reining in the credit card lenders and the insurance companies.
They're pledging to increase the deficit by trillions of dollars.
Their agenda is a windfall for the folks spending millions to put them back in power -- the lobbyists, the big corporations, and the special interests.
We're not sitting by watching this scheme become a reality. Our plan to win this fall is as different from that of the GOP as our agenda for the country.
We've got organizers on the ground in every state, working with campaigns and volunteers to coordinate an unprecedented voter-turnout operation.
We're knocking on thousands of doors and making millions of calls to get our voters out to the polls.
We pay for this work with our By the People Fund -- and we're trying to reach 3 million grassroots donations through the course of this campaign.
To stay on pace, we need 5,241 donations by the end of the week.
Can you chip in $3 or more to help us meet our goal?
This Republican Pledge to America is nothing new. Even John Boehner said, "We are not going to be any different than we've been."
They're offering up the very same agenda that put us on a path to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
That means they're not prepared to discuss protecting Social Security and Medicare.
They have no plan for education or teachers.
They offer up no solutions to the outsourcing of American jobs.
They lay out no plans to invest in key industries like clean energy and manufacturing.
They don't talk about rebuilding our crumbling roads, bridges, and railways.
With your help, we can send the Republicans back to the drawing board.
Together, we'll make sure the country never returns to the failed policies of the past. But that means moving forward with our plan to win the 2010 elections.
Please support the By the People Fund today:
http://my.democrats.org/BTPDeadline
Thanks,
Governor Tim Kaine
Chairman
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Phil --
We've been written off before.
I saw it firsthand in Iowa during the 2008 caucuses. Polls had us down. The national TV pundits told us for months there wasn't a chance that then-Senator Obama and his supporters could pull it off.
But we did.
And it was person-to-person organizing that helped turn the tide -- talking to voters, getting our message out, and doing exactly what they said couldn't be done.
The game plan is the same this year -- in his Vote 2010 campaign update, David Plouffe made it clear how Organizing for America is going to make the difference in close races across the country.
Get the game plan from David, and, if you can, please chip in $5 or more to help build the team that will prove the pundits wrong in November:
https://donate.barackobama.com/September
Thanks,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
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Phil --
Last night President Obama marked the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
As the President said, the struggle for peace is not over, but the progress we've made is undeniable.
This moment also represents a promise kept. As a candidate, President Obama laid out a vision for this country -- and bringing our troops home from Iraq was a defining part of that vision. It was one of the reasons that all of us knocked on doors, made phone calls, and voted.
Keeping that promise is important, not only for our brave women and men in uniform, but also for their loved ones, and for all Americans who have hoped and prayed for a resolution to this war.
Please take a moment to watch the President's speech if you missed it last night:
Watch the President's Oval Office address:
http://my.barackobama.com/IraqAddress
Thanks,
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
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Phil --
Months before the 2010 election, John Boehner -- the Republican leader in the House -- is launching a full-fledged campaign operation to become the next Speaker of the House. And he's counting on contributions from lobbyists to help pay the bills.
His staffers have established a "Speaker Boehner" committee. They've set up suggested giving levels for lobbyists. Anyone who helps raise $100,000 gets special meetings with the GOP leader, a direct line to a Boehner aide, and the password for a restricted website where they can download "insider briefings."
Protecting the House and keeping John Boehner's hand off the speaker's gavel is a top priority for this election. But we aren't setting up special websites for lobbyists. We aren't counting on special-interest dollars to give us an edge in this campaign.
We're countering that cash with an aggressive campaign funded entirely by people like you. That's why we've launched the By the People Fund to help us reach 3 million grassroots donations before Election Day.
Can you chip in $3 or more to help meet the goal?
To become the next speaker, Boehner has to help the Republicans win 39 seats they don't currently hold.
To ensure that doesn't happen, we're planning the largest voter turnout operation for a midterm election in history. We will knock on more doors, make more calls, and outwork the GOP in every district with a competitive race.
But we need your help to make this happen.
Republicans like Boehner are tearing up the phones, calling in every favor they have to bring in the special-interest cash.
We've made a choice to practice a different kind of politics, and we're counting on support from Americans like you to help us win in November.
Can you chip in $3 or more to the By the People Fund?
http://my.democrats.org/StopBoehner
Thanks,
Jen
Jen O'Malley Dillon
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee
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Phil --
Powerful special interests are pledging to spend $200 million to help elect conservatives this fall.
But President Obama has advocated for a different kind of politics since he launched his campaign, and it's because of supporters like you that we've never let special interests buy their way to victory.
This November, it's the same game plan. Instead of asking for checks from PACs and lobbyists, we're counting on 3 million grassroots donations to elect strong allies for President Obama.
We need just 25,000 donations this week to be on track to meet that goal -- and are counting on 4 donations from Flower Mound.
Please donate $3 today and add your name to the By the People Fund.
Organizing for America supporters like you set this movement apart -- and together, we're changing politics.
With your help, we're going to run a real, grassroots, on-the-ground campaign to win in November -- knocking on doors, making calls, and talking to neighbors in every single state.
As we saw in 2008, no amount of special-interest money can compete with that.
Please donate $3 or more today:
https://donate.barackobama.com/ByThePeopleFund
Thanks,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
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Phil --
Eighteen years ago, shortly after graduating from law school, I helped lead a voter registration campaign in Chicago that generated record turnout on Election Day.
That experience taught me one of the most important lessons I ever learned as a community organizer: When people promise that they'll do something -- like voting -- they are far more likely to do it.
That's why one key part of our Vote 2010 plan this year is to get folks like you from across the country to commit to vote, to make sure we get as many people as we can to cast their ballots this fall.
But getting the commitments we need starts with your own promise to make it to the polls and cast your ballot.
Will you please commit to vote in the 2010 elections?
Over the next 82 days, volunteers across the country will spend countless hours calling voters and knocking on their doors, asking them the same question.
And you can bet that I am counting on you to join them in talking to voters in your community.
This election offers a stark choice. We Democrats are hard at work trying to move America forward, repairing a decade of damage and growing an economy based on the Main Street values of hard work and responsibility.
We've fought for and won historic reforms to our health care system, a victory 100 years in the making, and to Wall Street, the most sweeping overhaul of the financial system since the Great Depression.
But after years of policies that landed us in the worst recession since the 1930's, the Republicans who got us there have not come up with anything different from the policies of George W. Bush.
We simply cannot afford to go backwards or let them repeal our reforms. And making sure we can continue moving forward starts with your own promise to cast your ballot in these elections.
Please commit to vote this fall:
http://my.barackobama.com/Commitment
Thank you,
President Barack Obama
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Phil --
Right now, my job -- along with those of my colleagues -- could be in jeopardy.
I'm a public school teacher in Philadelphia. And, like most states across the country, Pennsylvania is facing some bad budget shortfalls.
Without federal help, a lot of teachers like me -- as well as other public servants like police officers and firefighters -- will lose their jobs. Maybe you know some of these people. Maybe it's you.
Democrats in Congress are trying to do the right thing, proposing emergency assistance for states to preserve more than 100,000 jobs like mine. They're racing back to the Capitol for an emergency session this week to pass this bill and save these jobs.
But Republicans are standing in the way. Minority Leader John Boehner is calling the bill a "payoff" to "special interests" and attacking every Democrat who is fighting for us.
But I'm not a special interest. I'm a teacher.
Can you join me in telling House Democrats that they have our support as they fight for our jobs?
Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- and the entire Democratic Caucus -- have decided to rush back to Washington to make sure that hundreds of thousands of workers like me will get to keep our jobs. In addition, the bill will actually create even more job growth by closing tax loopholes for companies that ship American jobs overseas.
But the Republicans are going to do everything they can to prevent this aid.
Please stand with me, in support of Democratic leaders who are standing up for folks like me:
http://my.barackobama.com/MyJob
Thank you,
Wendy C.
Teacher
Ambler, Pennsylvania
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Phil --
On March 7th, 1965, 600 of us lined up to walk from Selma to Montgomery, to march for voting rights.
When we tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River, we were met by state troopers. They attacked us with tear gas, bullwhips, and nightsticks.
It became known as Bloody Sunday, and the national outcry over the brutality that day led to the enactment, exactly 45 years ago today, of the Voting Rights Act.
The progress we've made since then is remarkable.
But the expansion of voting rights for millions did not happen overnight. It was the product of a continued struggle, by many people, over many years.
And just as change did not come easily then, it does not come easily now.
Discrimination still exists in America -- its effects can be as harmful as they were decades ago. And we can always become a better, more just society.
Two years ago, this movement -- led by Barack Obama -- brought millions of people into the political process for the first time.
I'm told that many of you are working hard now to get as many as possible of those folks -- and others from across the country who are with us in these fights -- to the polls this year.
It's an important effort, and the legacy of the fight for the Voting Rights Act is that it is not only our right to vote, and to help others do so -- it is our duty.
Can I count on you to help out between now and the elections in November?
When I was a child, I tasted the bitter fruits of racial discrimination -- and I did not like it.
That was what spurred me to act. In those early days, we sacrificed our very selves for our rights as Americans. But we never gave up.
And now barriers that kept an entire people from full participation in this country have been removed.
No longer are people who look like me met with violence when we register to vote.
No longer is the idea that an African American could become president just a dream.
We live in a better world, a better country.
But our work is not complete. We cannot wait for someone else to make change.
We must all do it. You must do it. I must do it.
Please sign up to help millions more vote:
http://my.barackobama.com/VolunteerVRA
Thank you,
Representative John Lewis
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