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Sad Political Reality? - Obama Flips on Super PAC Cash

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Democratic Party of Wisconsin endorses Tammy Baldwin for U.S. Senate

By Eric W. Dolan Monday, January 23, 2012 The Democratic Party of Wisconsin... more

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Progressives United New Website

From an Email I received this morning: "Since Russ Feingold launched... more

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The Reform Revolution

A number of us wishing to do more to achieve the reform of government that is being demanded, have decided to put a name to the (collective) efforts which constitute this movement. It is merely, The Reform Revolution.

We are openly asking Russ Feingold to act as an advisor on congressional reform.

We are openly asking Matt Taibbi to serve as an advisor on financial reform.

We are asking for suggestions and recommendations of others to act as advisors on these same issues, plus on the military, the budget, entitlements and all primary issues which are seriously affecting the state of the union and the people therein.

All are welcome to participate in the reclaiming and reforming of our government. All are welcome to contribute ideas and suggestions which need acting upon, in order to facilitate achieving these objectives. We particularly need the participation of those who can literally help organize and perform, actions and events which contribute to reform. Those who are unable to participate in actual events, may be able to help coordinate them.

At this time, we recommend interacting with USUncut.org to help coordinate protests of those issues and concerns which currently contribute to the corruption of government and the country. We believe that the best next step is to ramp up, and maximize the benefit of, those protests that have already begun in Wisconsin and beyond, which can best be coordinated by utilizing the US Uncut site. We ask that you expand upon those protests by introducing other relevant issues to them, and address the broader issue, and not merely a symptom of it. Since there is no central planning to US Uncut, we encourage more communication on that issue herein.

At this time, we encourage protests at every state capitol where legislative attacks on the rights, liberties and freedoms of individuals is being waged. And that battle is being waged all around the country. We believe in perpetual protests, continuing until the issue being protested is resolved in the people's favor.

We also encourage the protest of every corporation, their subsidiaries and products, that are socially parasitic, destructive of the environment or are aggressively antisocial. Please post the corporations, products and services which you identify as such, herein.

We will continue to use this forum to communicate for now. However, this particular thread is meant more for action related communication, as opposed to pure philosophical expression. Thank you, from each of us who are committing ourselves to reclaiming the legacy that was bequeathed to us by our founding fathers, for any and all effort that you can contribute to our common cause.A number of us wishing to do more to achieve the reform of government that is being... more

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OPEN LETTER TO RUSS FEINGOLD

Only yesterday I was asking, who has heard what of Russ. Today I received your link. Kudos! You have put this site together very nicely. The help build an agenda feature is brilliant, and I see this evening that your response volume is quite respectable. I've been posting your link all over Current.Com blog pages. Your success will be a triumph that I can revel in.

You know better than anyone who hasn't been in Congress, how difficult it is to achieve meaningful reform in government, once it has gone as far off the path of government of the people, for the people and by the people, as it has. Congress is stalemated and lamed until at least the next elections. Even with a Democratic controlled government, Democrats could not get out of their own way and fear, to enact desperately needed reforms, in spite of your singular efforts! As a trend watcher, I perceive that conditions have been put into a ball and sent down a snowy hill, which is only growing larger and increasing in speed as it continues to roll down. And I ask, what will happen if that ball is allowed to reach the village at the bottom of that hill? Yet, it occurs to me that the now great big and heavy snow ball is already 3/4 of the way down that hill, leaving very little time to prevent total catastrophe, if that is even still possible.

In one day your supporters have identified an agenda that could keep a typical administration tied up in knots for the duration of it's term, and far beyond. But with Congress in a protracted state of dysfunction and ineffectiveness, how are we to even allow for hope that any of these issues could be positively addressed, particualarly with a sworn in blood obstructionist House determined to help drain the last of life force from the American public? While a few sympathetic ears in Congress may be turning towards the calls of the American people, they are far too few to be able to effect urgently needed reform.

Even though many of us not from Wisconsin, know you primarily for you efforts on campaign finance reform, that single position signals to us an attitude towards the country, and the people, that puts you more on the side of all the people, and the entire country, than not. It occurs to me that in order to be able to achieve any semblance of change in government for the benefit of the people, or healthy reform, it will require much more than sending emails to the president and members of Congress. It occurs to me that in order to achieve any semblance of change and reform in government during the next few years, we are being compelled to raise our heads, and our voices, as they have been doing in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana, Egypt and Libya, to insist on immediate changes that will address the crucial issues which weigh heavily upon us now! If the snowball is left unchecked and allowed to hit the village, how beneficial to the residents of that village will be future reform? I'm sure that it is not necessary to wax poetically or plaintiffly, for you to understand the urgency that pain, hunger, cold, homelessness and other public sufferings, call out to be addressed now.

In conjunction with your overall long term strategy to deal with your official agenda, I take the liberty of asking, on behalf of those too preoccupied with the daily demands of mere existence and caring for families, for you to consider supporting an effort to continue protest marches, on every state capitol and the national capitol, while presenting the list of issues on your agenda to the government, with the insistence that those issues be resolved, continuously protesting until every issue is sufficiently resolved. We would like to begin a series of national, if not international, work stoppage days, merely to get the attention of government and to demonstrate that the corporate right is not the ultimate force determining their own profit margins. We wish to organize coordinated national boycotts of every product and service of every socially irresponsible and unfriendly corporation or business. We aspire to put those businesses, out of business.

Specifically, and as I communicated to your office earlier, we wish to begin the first work stoppage day on March 9th, if that allows sufficient time to organize a national work stoppage day. As we continue the perpetual protest on the capitols, we wish to culminate that effort with a protest march on Washington D. C. particularly, from May 5th through May 9th, with May 5th being a national work stoppage day. We believe that if all business were to stop functioning on May 5th, with much of the country on the capitol mall in D.C., waving banners of every socially irresponsible company and product, and every politician that has sold the public out for corporate money, that we will gain the ear and attention of a government, long negligent to it's employers. Can we, the public, count on your support in this effort?Only yesterday I was asking, who has heard what of Russ. Today I received your link.... more

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Russ Feingold Fighting for Workers on WTDY Radio

This morning on WTDY Radio, Russ Feingold was given an open-mic to raise a much needed... more

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Announcing Progressives United (Watch)

Russ Feingold - Founder on YouTube calling us to action! This is a brief... more

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Politics News Progressives United

Breaking News Updates When some senators retire, they decide to take lucrative... more

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Russ Feingold Launches 'Progressives United'

Corporate influences in politics interferes with holding elected official accountable.

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Weekly Mulch: Climate Deniers Set to Freeze Progress in Congress

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger A chill is coming to Washington. A wave... more

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Campaign Cash: Tea Party Vows to Block Campaign Finance Reform

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Welcome to the final edition of Campaign... more

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Campaign Cash: How Citizens United Will Change Elections Forever

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NYTimes article on Senator Feingold: Uphill in Wisconsin

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/opinion/13wed1.html? Hello all - The New York... more

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(VIDEO) Angry VP Joe Biden Calls “Lower Our Taxes” Store Owner, A Smartass…Classy

Joe Biden Calls Manager Who Told Him To Lower Taxes ‘Smartass’... more

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U.S. Senate Rejects Afghanistan Exit Timetable

The US Senate has rejected a proposal to require President Barack Obama to submit a... more

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1984 in 2010: Hijacking Democracy to Spy on Americans

Nearly a decade ago, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) stood alone as the Senate's... more

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SEN. FEINGOLD HOLDS OBAMA RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS OF PUBLIC OPTION

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) formally announced on Sunday that he would support the... more

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Holder: Indefinite Detention Will Include Measures Of Due Process

Eric Holder asserted on Wednesday that terrorism suspects indefinitely detained by the... more

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Obama Gets a 'D' on State Secrets from Democratic Senator

President Obama is receiving a "D" for his handling of state secrets in a... more

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Feingold votes against Mukasey for Attorney General

Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold In Opposition to Judge Mukasey as the Next... more

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