By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, November 26 2013
When the Texas Board of Education started working on its once-a-decade selection of science textbooks for Texas classrooms, an anti-science faction tried to force it to give equal weight to nonscientific beliefs like climate change denial and the idea that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Kathy Miller and the Texas Freedom Network stepped up, creating a MoveOn Petition that asked the Board of Education to stand up for science.
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Climate | Education
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, November 26 2013
After utilities companies botched repairs at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County, California, the plant closed. Unbelievably, the utilities companies demanded that their customers pick up the tab for the repairs—to the tune of $500 million. So California ratepayer John Mattes started a MoveOn Petition to San Diego Mayor Bob Filner and other city officials, asking them to intervene on customers’ behalf.
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By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, November 26 2013
Radiation was leaking from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, and the company tasked with containing the leaks, Tepco, wasn’t telling the public. MoveOn member Harvey Wasserman, an anti-nuclear activist in Columbus, Ohio, was determined to shine a light on the precarious situation.
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, November 25 2013
Apply to be one of 50 MoveOn #FrackingFighters and you could win $500, materials, and expert training for your campaign to end fracking.
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Climate
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, November 22 2013
We are just 18 votes away from being able to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the House.
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Immigration
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, November 21 2013
Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democratic leader to come out in support of expanding Social Security benefits. Check out her brilliant appearance on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, then see MoveOn’s new polls showing deep support for Social Security expansion.
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Economic Justice
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, November 21 2013
Since President Obama was elected, Republican senators have been using the filibuster to block critical executive branch and judicial nominations. MoveOn members and progressive champs in the Senate, like Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, have been working tirelessly to pass meaningful filibuster reform and fix the dysfunction in Washington.
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Democracy
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, November 20 2013
This year, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act and dozens of U.S. states got busy introducing restrictive voting bills that would prevent poor, minority, and elderly voters from making it to the polls. Meanwhile, Massachusetts legislators were working to pass an election modernization bill that would allow online voter registration and early voting. That’s why Sara Brady of the organization MassVOTE started several MoveOn Petitions asking members of the Massachusetts General Court to stand up for the state’s voters and pass the bill.
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Democracy
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, November 20 2013
A new survey commissioned by MoveOn.org and looking at 10 key House and Senate districts found that voters there strongly oppose cutting Social Security benefits. The survey was taken as the bi-cameral budget committee began deliberations on a proposed bill that could include benefits cuts, and indicates that support for such cuts could imperil lawmakers […]
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Economic Justice
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, November 19 2013
Find out which sector poured the most cash into your state’s political campaigns last year with this map from Mother Jones.
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Elections
