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Sign our petition to legislators saying you support marriage equality - we'll deliver it during the special session!
Sign our petition to legislators saying you support marriage equality - we'll deliver it during the special session!
Sign our petition to legislators saying you support marriage equality - we'll deliver it during the special session!
Sign our petition to legislators saying you support marriage equality - we'll deliver it during the special session!
"It's like being hit by a bowling ball."
2011 Michigan Summit: Save the Date!
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35,000 reasons to call your county commissioner, Mark Ouimet
Daily laughs at 5AM.
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ACT NOW: Tell Congress to extend clean energy incentives!
Tell your senator to oppose the Mensch Amendment to Senate Bill 732 and to support the passage of Senate Bill 732 as it is.
Act Now on HIV Prevention!
Affordable Care Act
We, the undersigned, believe the State of Michigan values people, families and diversity and call on advertisers to continue their support for the All-American Muslim TV show on the TLC Channel.
Alliance For Public Transportation
America, Not Arizona
Rep. Todd Akin is afraid to defend his radical positions face-to-face with concerned constituents. But we won't let that stop us from taking our questions directly to him.
Ban Great Lakes Drilling
What would happen to Wisconsin if the BP oil spill in the Gulf happened in Lake Michigan instead? Support a constitutional amendment to ban drilling in the Great Lakes.
Better Care Not Bottom Lines - Thank You Legislators
Better Care, Not Bottom Lines
Beyond Coal
Two Ways To Stop Rate Hikes
Beyond Coal: Wolverine
Derrick Visits the Great Lakes State
Our Economic Future petition for first day of session 2010
Click here to sign a petition calling on the Senate to pass this bill to prevent the layoffs of over a thousand teachers and education professionals
We're joining community organizations and progressive activists statewide on Monday, Jan. 10 to send state senators one coordinated, overwhelming message: end unfair tax breaks and raise revenue to protect our future.
Can you work til 69?
In April, Central Michigan University faculty agreed to a zero percent increase in faculty compensation if tuition were capped at last year's levels. Despite this, the administration raised tuition by 3.9 percent...
Nevada has the potential to create tens of thousands of jobs through clean energy projects - but we need the right public policy.
Clean energy or dirty coal?
Tell your representative to stand with Washington families, not special interests
Close the Loopholes, Cut the Federal Purse Strings
Support A Better Michigan Future
We need to come together and focus on practical, progressive solutions that close our immediate budget shortfall and reform our state's backwards tax system.
We need to come together and focus on practical, progressive solutions that close our immediate budget shortfall and reform our state's backwards tax system.
We need to come together and focus on practical, progressive solutions that close our immediate budget shortfall and reform our state's backwards tax system.
We need to come together and focus on practical, progressive solutions that close our immediate budget shortfall and reform our state's backwards tax system.
Congressman Fred Upton Represents Big Oil, Not Michigan
Consumers Ask Congressmen Bill Johnson To Side With Hard-Working Families, Not Big Insurance Companies
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Contact your state leaders
We think it's pretty simple for the Government Accountability Board: "Count It and Call It." Sign our petition demanding that once it's clear enough legal signatures have been verified, the recall election date should be set.
Nevada is not a spreadsheet. Nevada is not a bunch of numbers. Nevada is full of real people who depend on basic services like education and medical care to survive and prosper.
Contact your state legislator
Again and again the court records document specific allegations of domestic abuse against David Vanderleest. Sign our letter today, demanding Walker and the GOP denounce Vanderleest and his conduct.
Demand accountability from Las Vegas Review-Journal. Nevadans deserve an objective source of information.
One Wisconsin Now exposed a voter caging scheme involving the Republican Party of Wisconsin, Americans for Prosperity and the Tea Party coalition in Wisconsin. Demand WI Attorney General JB Van Hollen investigate the plot immediately.
Will you join the nurses in demanding that Congressmen Dave Camp and Fred Upton hold town halls and listen to the people of Michigan?
Did Fred Upton forget who he works for?
The MI Department of Natural Resources and Environment denied a permit to expand the James DeYoung coal plant in Holland. It's a common sense decision the public utility couldn't demonstrate a need for the costly expansion of the status-quo coal plant.
Sen. Haridopolos received an unprecedented $152k in taxpayer money for completing manuscript that was never printed. It's only sold 70 copies, earning $487.90 for Brevard Community College. Petition Dirty Hari to return his $152k salary.
Please sign our letter, "I Stand with Justice Ann Walsh Bradley," and continue to stand against the physical attack committed by Justice Prosser.
Please sign our letter, "I Stand with Justice Ann Walsh Bradley," and continue to stand against the physical attack committed by Justice Prosser.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Write a letter to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) urging them to deny Florida's waiver to privatize our Medicaid program. Medicaid exists to provide health care to many of Florida's most vulnerable, not to subsidize HMO profits.
Don't Let Mitch Lyons Sack Domestic Partner Benefits at MSU!
Don't Sacrifice Michigan's Health for Partisan Politics
Tell Congress to protect Medicare and Medicaid
State Rep. Mike Turzai continues to push House Bill 11, a scheme to dismantle the PLCB that raises taxes; puts 5,000 of our fellow citizens out of work; and jeopardizes public safety in every community in our state.
I Oppose Making It Harder To Vote in Virginia.
Tell Rob McKenna to Drop His Lawsuit
Electric cars are the future of the automobile industry and a key to innovation and leadership in technology and manufacturing in the 21st Century. Our state pioneered the auto industry and now we are at the vanguard of its future.
Electric cars are the future of the automobile industry and a key to innovation and leadership in technology and manufacturing in the 21st Century. Our state pioneered the auto industry and now we are at the vanguard of its future.
Electric cars are the future of the automobile industry and a key to innovation and leadership in technology and manufacturing in the 21st Century. Our state pioneered the auto industry and now we are at the vanguard of its future.
We urge Governor Snyder and the Michigan legislature to act now to delay all new natural gas exploration and extraction that utilizes hydraulic fracturing until requirements have been put in place to protect Michigan's water from overuse and chemical...
Our national debt is rapidly approaching $14 trillion. Facing such a steep climb back to fiscal solvency, we think giving a $700 billion tax cut to millionaires and billionaires is downright irresponsible.
We demand that President Barack Obama establish a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington.
Knowledge is power. For Michigan's working women, that power is compromised when they don't have access to the information that will tell them whether or not they're being fairly compensated for their work.
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Sign our petition and let Mitch McConnell, Pete Hoekstra, Clark Durant, and Republicans in Congress know you support President Obama's decision to appoint Richard Cordray as the first director of the CFPB.
Fire Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell
Student loan debt is now higher than credit card debt in the US. Call on Congress to forgive student loans to relieve financial pressure on American families and stimulate the economy.
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Repealing health care reform would be disastrous for the up to 129 million Americans who are living with what insurance companies call "pre-existing conditions"
Don't Privatize Medicare - Launch action
We need consitutents to ask their legislators about their involvement with ALEC.
We've tried and tried to set up meetings and town halls with Rep. Akin, but he's steadfastly refused to defend his radical positions face-to-face with constituents. Now, he says he won't schedule a town hall because he's worried about turnout.
Ninety years ago, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women like me the right to vote. But the fight for real equality isn't over because of people like Rocky Raczkowski.
Send the Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative a message that No means NO!
Earlier this year, Susana Martinez repeatedly stated on the record that she supports school vouchers as she played to the conservative base of her party and campaigned for the Republican nomination for Governor of New Mexico. Now she's changed her tune
Thanks for calling your senator about a progressive budget! Let us know how it went!
Thanks for calling your senator about a progressive budget! Let us know how it went!
Thanks to health care reform, more American's will receive access to the care they need
Congress is the People's House!
Support Marriage Equality in Pennsylvania - PA Senate
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Invest in Kids, Not Corporations
Sign our petition to the Attorney General's Office of Inspector General calling for an investigation of Pam Bondi's firing of two leading attorneys investigating foreclosure fraud.
Ask the Department of Natural Resources to investigate SSA Marine's coal project.
Recklessly threatening to wreck our economy is no way to lead. Write your your Senators and Congressmen now: It's time to put our economic security before party ideologies.
Recklessly threatening to wreck our economy is no way to lead. Write your your Senators and Congressmen now: It's time to put our economic security before party ideologies.
Joe, It's Time for You to Go
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Judge Rules Holland Residents Should Pay For Unnecessary Coal Plant!
Sign the petition and call on Supreme Court Justice David Prosser to resign.
Sign the petition and call on Supreme Court Justice David Prosser to resign.
Keep the Earned Income Tax Credit!
You may not have noticed, but Michigan's lawmakers have been on vacation for the last eight weeks. That's the good news. Unfortunately they're back today, and they didn't waste a second coming up with new ways to roll back protections...
Make DREAM Act Come True Today
Snyder Calley petition
Meet the Gang of Five: John Pastor, Tonya Schuitmaker, Dave Robertson, Dave Hildebrand and Goeff Hansen. As Lansing politicians in the state House, they repeatedly voted for tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas.
Romney Should Follow Example Set by Father, the former Michigan Governor
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No Budget, No Pay
With the Center for Media and Democracy's ALEC Exposed website, Missourians can see exactly how secret corporate working groups are writing our laws.
Stop Hershey's exploitation of student workers. Tell them to create living wage jobs for Pennsylvanians.
Tell your legislators to close the budget gap by ending unfair tax breaks for special interests.
Tens of thousands of people have already participated in Occupy events across the United States, but we are being dismissed as a fringe movement. Tell Congress and the President that they can't ignore us. We are the 99%!
Want to help support the Occupy Wall Street protesters?
Gov. Walker has kept the People's House under tight security since Wisconsin working families stood up, spoke out and showed up during the contentious battle over Walker's attacks on our rights.
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Tax corporations before you cut social programs
Gov. Walker has kept the People's House under tight security since Wisconsin working families stood up, spoke out and showed up during the contentious battle over Walker's attacks on our rights.
Gov. Walker has kept the People's House under tight security since Wisconsin working families stood up, spoke out and showed up during the contentious battle over Walker's attacks on our rights.
Tell your senator to oppose the SB-3, but to support amendments that uphold Federal law and protect women's health
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We're finally turning the tables on an unfair tax system designed to benefit millionaires and investment bankers. But it's going to take all of us working together to overcome their high-priced lobbyists and big campaign contributions.
Tell your legislators that Washington needs jobs, not cuts!
On Saturday, December 3, we're showing up at the Capitol in Olympia to tell legislators we need jobs, not cuts.
With more money in the pockets of middle-class Americans, businesses will have more customers, and will then be able to hire more workers. We need strong action from our leaders in order to prevent the economy from falling into another recession.
Pass Reforms that Support our Communities
Pass Reforms that Support our Communities
Pass This Jobs Bill Now
Pass This Jobs Bill Now
Warren Buffet and other millionaires are asking us to raise their taxes to help provide services and balance the budget. Tell Congress to support "The Buffett Rule."
Tell Rick Perry to pay back the $2.7 million he owes our state.
Gov. Corbett has a new solution for PA's education woes. Let our universities drill for new money. The frack, you say!
Tell Minnesota Republicans that it's time to focus on jobs, and not more attacks on working families and pushing divisive social issues.
Poll: McKenna or Inslee for Governor?
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Protect Delaware Seniors- Stop Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid
Protect Seniors- Stop Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid
Protect Michigan's Item Pricing Law
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Protect West Virginia Seniors- Stop Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid
Michigan is the only state with two legislators on the so-called "Super Committee" that is tasked with coming up with a federal deficit-reduction plan by Nov. 23.
Protect our right to vote- Stop HB 934
Put an end to ALEC in Virginia!
Sen. Mike Bishop: Stem Cell Job Killer
Raise your taxes to pay for oil company giveaways?
Rally Against Right Wing Attack Group "Americans for Prosperity"
Rally to close tax loopholes and make banks like Wells Fargo pay their fair share.
Rally to close tax loopholes and make banks like Wells Fargo pay their fair share.
Reinvention. For months it's been a political buzzword. Now, it's up to Gov. Rick Snyder and his administration to make it a reality.
Even the local media are wondering why Rep. Shuster won't meet with his constituents. Tell him to meet with us now! We need to fix this economy!
Stand with the 99 percent and demand that Rep. Dave Camp hold a town hall in his district to listen to his constituents' voices.
Ask lawmakers to fix the negative consequences of budgets cut to education as they promised.
Rick Snyder Should Stop Ducking and Debate
Emergency Managers. New taxes on pensions. Raiding the education fund. A $1.8 billion tax cut for CEOs. Sometimes it feels like Michigan's Republican lawmakers are trying to harm the state. But wait until you hear what their latest plan is.
"You have a president that seems to be, um ... well ... I don't know if he even has been born in the United States, but ... until I see a birth certificate." Andrew "Rocky" Raczkowski
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Save Medicare
Keep the Earned Income Tax Credit!
Wisconsin needs jobs. Building the high-speed rail line in Wisconsin will create 13,000 jobs and spur billions of dollars in economic development, but Governor-elect Scott Walker wants to stop the project. Speak out now and tell Walker to save the train!
School's Out For ... Another Month?
We need your help now to tell Scott Tipton to stop using his office to enrich family members, not to make false promises to our most vulnerable senior citizens, and begin to take seriously the needs of his constituents.
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Send Your Lawmaker A Message About Ohio Health Care Implementation
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Tell your legislators to do the right thing - take a balanced approach toward solving Nevada's budget shortfall.
For Teacher Appreciation Week this year, we need to share our stories about the impact teachers have made on all of our lives to counter the constant the mudslinging going on in St. Paul and across the country.
Share the pain!
Sign our open letter to Gov. Scott demanding he answer this simple question: "Gov. Scott, how can you justify having taxpayers pay for your health care while you oppose the same type of coverage for them?"
Sign our open letter to Attorney General Bondi asking her to take a stand on a proposed multistate foreclosure settlement that would give banks a get out of jail free card. Does she stand with the big banks or with Florida homeowners?
Sign our petition to Florida State University President Eric Barron don't let Florida State University become an incubator of propaganda for influential right-wing radical Charles Koch.
Sign the petition to the Florida legislature and urge them to stop Gov. Scott's proposed cuts to children's health care. Tell them to fight for a fair budget that makes the rich pay their fair share.
Stop Scott's plan to divert tax dollars from our already underfunded public school system into unaccountable private schools.
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Email your Representative today to express your outrage that they have placed six of these anti-choice bills on the agenda for the Florida House of Representatives.
Slashing Missourians' Paychecks Won't Help Joplin Recover
Slashing Missourians' Paychecks Won't Help Joplin Recover
Slashing Missourians' Paychecks Won't Help Joplin Recover
URGENT: Judge Rules Holland Residents Should Pay For Unnecessary Coal Plant!
We need to support the strong slate of progressive candidates on the ballot in Spokane.
Stand Strong for Planned Parenthood!
A new expert analysis shows that Rex Sinquefield's proposals to saddle Missourians with huge sales tax schemes would cost the state $2.5 billion in lost general revenues, forcing crippling cuts in education, health, public safety and other basic services.
Stand With the Senate: Support Fair Congressional Redistricting
Stand up against personal attacks on public school teachers
Action Alert to stop PA higher education cuts
We have learned from the BP oil disaster the tragic results of corporations that want to regulate themselves. Unfortunately, here in New Mexico, Helena Chemical Company is another company that is trying to avoid outside scrutiny of its operations.
Stop Right Wing Attempt to Redline HIV Funding in Michigan!
Email your Representative today to express your outrage that they have placed six of these anti-choice bills on the agenda for the Florida House of Representatives.
Stop SB1- No Billion Dollar voucher giveaway
Gov. Walker made the shocking announcement that he plans to use the government to strip away the rights workers in Wisconsin. And he's willing to call out the National Guard to enforce his unprecedented power grab.
Asking the state engineer to reject the SNWA pipeline proposal
Stop the Bleeding!
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Gov. Walker is trying to ram through as many special interest schemes before the end of the year as possible. He has a legislature that refuses to hold him in check. Sign on to the form and add your voice.
Please send a message to the EPA today to stop air toxics like mercury from harming our communities.
Support A Better Michigan Future
Support Marriage Equality in Pennsylvania - PA Senate
We need an economy that works for everyone, not just CEOs and Wall Street companies. Sign our petition calling on Congressional Republicans to put working Michiganders ahead of millionaire tax giveaways by extending the payroll tax cut.
In America, our economy works best when everyone pays their fair share, not when millionaires pay less in taxes than working Americans.
If you burn something that's dirty, does that make it clean?
Our national debt is rapidly approaching $14 trillion. Facing such a steep climb back to fiscal solvency, we think giving a $700 billion tax cut to millionaires and billionaires is downright irresponsible.
Sign our petition telling Dean Cannon to drop the taxpayer-funded lawsuit against the Fair District amendments.
Tell Dean Heller: End Tax Giveaways for Big Oil!
Tell George Allen: Take a Stand Against Ending Medicare As We Know It.
Tell Governor McDonnell: Take a Balanced Approach to Closing Virginia's Budget Deficit
Click here to demand that Joe Coors, Jr. immediately disclose payments made by him and members of his family to right-wing organizations that do their political dirty work--before he runs for Congress!
Tell Lansing: Enough is Enough
Tell Lansing: Enough is Enough
Tell Lt. Governor Kinder: It's Time to Let the Sun Shine In!
Tell Michigan lawmakers to focus on real issues like jobs for Michigan citizens, not decades-old culture wars. [
Mitt Romney says "Don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let the housing market bottom out." Nevada has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. Mitt seems to think all of those families should lose their homes.
Tell Nevada's Congressional Delegation to Fully Fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund
Send a message to your legislator right now stop the attacks on women's health and get to work creating jobs.
Tell PA Politicans to give back Koch money
The tar sands represent a catastrophic threat to our communities, our climate, and our planet.
Tell Rick Snyder to support the Volt!
Tell Scott Tipton: OPPOSE SG Interests' drilling plans in Thompson Divide
Tom Corbett said in a speech that taxing Marcellus Shale drillers is "Un-American"
Scott Walker's latest ad features the Milwaukee County Executive donning boxing gloves and promising to "go the distance" against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who was viciously beaten with a tire iron last summer. Demand Walker pull the ad!
Tell your legislator today not to make the people's court a rubber stamp for Gov. Scott and his right-wing allies.
Pass President Obama's Jobs Bill
We're finally turning the tables on an unfair tax system designed to benefit millionaires and investment bankers. But it's going to take all of us working together to overcome their high-priced lobbyists and big campaign contributions.
We're finally turning the tables on an unfair tax system designed to benefit millionaires and investment bankers. But it's going to take all of us working together to overcome their high-priced lobbyists and big campaign contributions.
We're finally turning the tables on an unfair tax system designed to benefit millionaires and investment bankers. But it's going to take all of us working together to overcome their high-priced lobbyists and big campaign contributions.
We're finally turning the tables on an unfair tax system designed to benefit millionaires and investment bankers. But it's going to take all of us working together to overcome their high-priced lobbyists and big campaign contributions.
Email the 4 undecided senators and tell them why you personally support marriage equality!
Tell the Board of Health to Support Women's Health Care
Sign the petition to the Florida legislature: Stop the attack on teachers, democracy, and the right to vote.
Workers at Broomall Presbyterian Village in suburban Philadelphia are facing a brutal union busting campaign by a church-related nursing home.
Write the Public Service Commission telling them to defend consumers, not act as a tool for big business.
Tell us what you think! Take our survey
Email your legislators and tell them why you personally support marriage equality!
We're finally turning the tables on an unfair tax system designed to benefit millionaires and investment bankers. But it's going to take all of us working together to overcome their high-priced lobbyists and big campaign contributions.
Texans Value a Balanced Approach
Texans for a Fair Judiciary
Petition for Rick Perry to resign
Thank the Governor for focusing on women's health and safety in his response to the Gosnell tragedy in Philadelphia. I urge him NOT to support Senate Bill 732 and instead focus on more reasonable regulation of abortion providers in Pennsylvania.
Rep. Jay Inslee has declared his support of marriage equality. Add your name to our letter thanking Jay for supporting all Washington families!
The tar sands represent a catastrophic threat to our communities, our climate, and our planet. The Obama Administration has formally blocked plans for this environmental disaster.
The tar sands represent a catastrophic threat to our communities, our climate, and our planet. The Obama Administration has formally blocked plans for this environmental disaster.
The tar sands represent a catastrophic threat to our communities, our climate, and our planet. The Obama Administration has formally blocked plans for this environmental disaster.
Thank the 20 State Representatives who voted with us 100% in 2011.
Stand Strong for Planned Parenthood!
Tony Forlini: Faulty Uses For Your Tax Dollars
Unemployment: Make the Fix!
Sign our petition to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) urging them to reject the unnecessary delay in implementing a strong medical loss ratio.
Sign our petition to the Pinellas Board of County Commissioners urging them to support a countywide curbside recycling program for our community.
Sign our petition to President Obama and urge him to permanently end his push for new offshore drilling.
Sign our petition to Sen. Mike Haridopolos and urge him to release his tax returns.
Gov. Scott Walker's budget is an unprecedented attack on the public education of children across Wisconsin which would dismantle the middle class tool box to enrich the wealthy and corporate America and Wall Street. Take action now to stop Walker's budget
Gov. Scott Walker's budget is an unprecedented attack on the public education of children across Wisconsin which would dismantle the middle class tool box to enrich the wealthy and corporate America and Wall Street. Take action now to stop Walker's budget
It's bad enough Scott Walker has torn Wisconsin apart to serve his corporate donor, but now he's shredding the Constitution.
It's bad enough Scott Walker has torn Wisconsin apart to serve his corporate donor, but now he's shredding the Constitution.
Waukesha voting crime
Waukesha voting crime
Get this bumper sticker to show your support for the Occupy Wall Street movement!
Tens of thousands of people have already participated in Occupy events across the United States, but we are being dismissed as a fringe movement. Tell Congress and the President that they can't ignore us. We are the 99%!
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What Would You Ask Rick Snyder?
Sign the letter to Rick Scott demanding where he stands on a proposed extreme anti-choice amendment.
Concealed carry reciprocity is a threat to PA's safety
Would you drive a 1955 Buick Century to work every day?
Write a letter to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) urging them to deny Florida's waiver to privatize our Medicaid program. Medicaid exists to provide health care to many of Florida's most vulnerable, not to subsidize HMO profits.
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Write a letter to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) urging them to deny Florida's waiver to privatize our Medicaid program. Medicaid exists to provide health care to many of Florida's most vulnerable, not to subsidize HMO profits.
Write your state legislators and urge them to oppose oil drilling in Florida state waters.
Write your state senators today and urge them to reject SB 1972, which would privatize Florida's Medicaid program.
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