Tag: Democracy
By MoveOn. Wednesday, December 4 2024
By MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting Let’s face it: We’ve got a lot of work to do to fight back against a second Donald Trump term. Those of us who were working to stop Trump simply did not turn out enough votes in enough states to win the White House. While we are processing and […]
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Democracy | Organizing
By MoveOn. Tuesday, November 19 2024
MoveOn’s 2024 Election Program launched during our 25th Anniversary Summit in October of 2023—the earliest MoveOn had ever launched an election program. From the very beginning, we understood the challenges of engaging a complex electorate. That’s why we set out to engage 1.5 million targeted voters in 65 House and Senate districts and 13 key […]
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Candidates | Democracy | Elections
By MoveOn. Thursday, November 14 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris had 107 days to unite the Democratic Party and launch her campaign for president. She made history as the first Black and South Asian woman to secure a major political party’s nomination. And her groundbreaking campaign was carried by Black women and other women of color leaders who came out en […]
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Candidates | Democracy | Elections
By MoveOn. Thursday, October 31 2024
Trump has a detailed plan. Project 2025 contains more than 900 pages of detailed plans for unprecedented levels of deportation, nationwide abortion bans, and major setbacks for public health. He would install Trump loyalists throughout the government. As detailed in Project 2025, Trump plans to fire tens of thousands of government officials and replace […]
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Candidates | Democracy | Elections | Organizing
By MoveOn. Tuesday, October 29 2024
Grab a pint—and watch last Sunday night’s “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Harris-Walz” livestream! Eat ice cream with Tom Colicchio, Shonda Rhimes, Ben and Jerry, and fellow MoveOn members! Here are a few highlights from the call: “Scandal” and “Bridgerton” creator Shonda Rhimes shared that this country is supposed to be about […]
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Democracy | Elections | Organizing
By MoveOn. Friday, October 25 2024
This election will determine the future of our country and our communities, and early voting is a powerful way to ensure that our voices are heard. When President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, we were proud to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the ticket, and especially excited with her incredible vice-presidential […]
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Candidates | Climate | Democracy | Economic Justice
By MoveOn. Tuesday, October 22 2024
Sunday night, MoveOn members came together in solidarity with democracy-loving Americans across the nation and against the looming threat of Project 2025. The stakes have never been higher. The dangerous policies of Project 2025 threaten our freedoms: banning abortion and contraceptives, reversing progress on climate change, slashing Social Security and Medicare, gutting public education, firing […]
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Candidates | Climate | Democracy | Economic Justice
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, June 8 2017
It is now clear that Trump’s effort to use the powers of the presidency to interfere with an ongoing investigation of whether, how, and why a foreign power tried unlawfully to undermine our electoral process is exactly the kind of fundamental abuse of power that the founders believed is an impeachable offense—a ‘High Crime or Misdemeanor’ under our Constitution.
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By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, June 6 2017
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 — 11:00AM ET Press Conference Calls on Members of Congress to Sign Discharge Petition to Create Independent Commission to Investigate Trump Reps Nadler, Doggett, Deutch, Eshoo and Sarbanes Join Members of Common Cause, CREDO, MoveOn, Public Citizen, and More in Push for Independent Commission Investigation of Trump Campaign’s […]
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By admin. Thursday, September 24 2015
Remember when the U.S. government shutdown for 16 days in 2013 because Republicans in Congress opposed Obamacare—you know the law that gave millions of uninsured Americans access to affordable healthcare? (Thanks a lot Obama.) Well guess what? You’re not having deja vu, Republicans are threatening to do it again. Here’s another flashback. Remember in 1973 […]
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Abortion Rights | Democracy