Category: Featured Campaigns
By MoveOn Staff. Monday, March 31 2014
Today, Public Policy Polling (PPP) released a new set of polls, commissioned by MoveOn.org Political Action, that show a majority of voters in 13 Republican-held House districts support increasing the minimum wage.
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Economic Justice | Elections
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, March 19 2014
Anna Galland discusses MoveOn’s Medicaid expansion campaign with Chris Hayes on “All In” on MSNBC.
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Health Care
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 Anna Galland. Monday, March 10 2014
Last week, Louisiana Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne sent MoveOn.org Civic Action a cease-and-desist letter claiming that the group’s new billboard, which calls on Governor Bobby Jindal to expand Medicaid to 242,000 Louisianans, was tarnishing Louisiana’s award-winning tourism slogan, “Pick Your Passion.”
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Health Care
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. 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