Author: MoveOn Staff
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, March 19 2014
On Wednesday, March 19, MoveOn members across the country will be ramping up their national Medicaid expansion campaign by urging GOP leaders to stop blocking health care access for millions of Americans and encouraging them to accept federal funding to expand Medicaid with a series of new TV and radio ads.
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Health Care
By MoveOn Staff. Monday, March 17 2014
Did you catch MSNBC tonight? Al Sharpton covered our campaign for Medicaid expansion and the outrageous lawsuit filed against MoveOn on Friday, which tries to silence us for speaking the truth about the millions of Americans being left without health care due to the intransigence of Republicans like Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Watch it here […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, March 6 2014
BATON ROUGE — MoveOn.org’s lawyers received a cease-and-desist letter from state of Louisiana officials today, one day after the state’s Republican lieutenant governor told the Baton Rouge Advocate that the state would pursue legal action to try to take down a billboard criticizing Governor Bobby Jindal. According to Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne, the state is […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, March 3 2014
Meet Jennifer Lunden and Linda Cook, two first-time MoveOn petition-starters who, together with nearly 30,000 signers, are fighting for healthcare.
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Health Care
By MoveOn Staff. Monday, March 3 2014
As Republican governors and state legislators face increasing criticism for failing to provide access to health care for some of their poorest constituents, MoveOn members in Texas, Nebraska, Florida, Louisiana, Wisconsin, and Virginia are using billboards, petitions, and rallies to ratchet up the pressure on their elected officials and urge them to accept federal Medicaid funds, which would allow them to extend health coverage to more than two million Americans.
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Health Care
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, February 28 2014
In reaction to news out earlier this week that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson was filing a lawsuit to stop the construction of a water tower in his community used for storing water for fracking, MoveOn.org has decided to offer the CEO its #FrackingFighter grant, which provides training, materials, and up to $500 in reimbursements in expenses for materials used to run an anti-fracking campaign in a local community.
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Climate
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, February 27 2014
Last week, Arizona’s House and Senate passed S.B. 1062, a bill that would allow businesses to deny services as long as they invoked religious beliefs. The bill would mean a free pass for discrimination against marginalized groups like the LGBT community. That’s why the organization GetEQUAL started a MoveOn Petition, demanding that Republican Gov. Jan Brewer veto the anti-business, anti-equality, anti-LGBT bill.
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LGBTQ+ Rights
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, February 21 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court could issue its ruling in the case some are calling the next Citizens United any day. On October 8, 2013 the court heard arguments for McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.
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By MoveOn Staff. Friday, February 21 2014
We’re fighting the corrupting influence of big money with people power—like filling the streets with our allies to respond to the Supreme Court decision the day it comes out—and we’re doing it the MoveOn way, with a bunch of members chipping in a little bit.
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Democracy | Elections
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, February 21 2014
MoveOn members tell Congress to support the Voting Rights Amendment Act.
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