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Meet Run Warren Run's "Team Iowa"
Have you ever wondered why you hear so much about Iowa during presidential election season? The answer is simple: Iowa is the first state to weigh in on the presidential election every four years in...
View ArticleICYMI: Lawrence Lessig Endorses Elizabeth Warren to a Packed House
Last week, I had the pleasure of being one of the more than 200 attendees of the “Lessig for Warren” event at Civic Hall in NYC. The evening was a powerful one which included progressive champions...
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MUST SEE: MoveOn and Robert Reich Launch New Media Project "The Big Picture:...
Dear MoveOn member, A decent nation pays people a living wage. A strong nation makes sure people can earn a living and still take care of their families. If you agree, then I need your help. Today...
View Article10 Ideas to Save the Economy: Expand Social Security
Dear fellow MoveOn member, Flat wages and the end of pensions have left millions of Americans facing a retirement crisis. Already, nearly half of our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents would...
View ArticleMUST SEE: Ten Ideas to Save the Economy: Tame Wall Street
Dear fellow MoveOn member, There is only one way to truly tame Wall Street, so that everyday Americans like you and me don’t end up losing our jobs or our savings or our homes. You won’t see this...
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MUST SEE: Ten Ideas to Save the Economy: "Reinvent Education"
Dear fellow MoveOn member, Elementary school students waking at 2 a.m. with nightmares about high-stakes tests. Middle schoolers stuck in crowded classrooms in underfunded schools. College grads whose...
View ArticleMUST SEE: "10 Ideas to Save the Economy: End Corporate Welfare"
Dear fellow MoveOn member, More money out of your pocket. Less money for our communities. All so big corporations can pad their bottom lines. Most Americans believe it’s time to end corporate welfare....
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The Big Picture: We Must Strengthen Labor Unions
Dear fellow MoveOn member, There is one solution to skyrocketing inequality that most of the TV talking heads love to ignore: Unions! It’s no surprise. Without unions, big companies like Walmart or...
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10 #FastTrackFacts
For the past two weeks, we’ve been running a daily Twitter campaign to convince the last handful of undecided House Democrats to commit to saying “#NoFastTrack” for the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a...
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The Big Picture: Estate Tax
Dear fellow MoveOn member, To prevent the rise of a new aristocracy, we need to raise the estate tax—a tax on inherited wealth. And we need to do it now. The richest 1 percent of Americans hold 42...
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Want to Save the Economy? Well Then it's Time We "Make Polluters Pay"
Dear fellow MoveOn member, Here’s a big-picture idea: instead of investing in dirty fuels, let’s start charging polluters for poisoning our skies and then invest the revenue so that it benefits...
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No, YOU Need a History Lesson: The Confederate Flag Is a Symbol of Hate.
I was a very poor 16-year-old so, as you can imagine, having a car was out of the question. Wherever I needed to go, I walked—which was not always pleasant on a Florida summer day. It was on one of...
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VICTORY: The Confederate Flag comes down from the South Carolina statehouse
On Wednesday June 19, nine Black South Carolinians were gunned down after welcoming a man into their Bible study. Their deaths were a direct result of hatred and racism. The next day, as South...
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Of course #AllLivesMatter, But Here’s Why You Need To Stop Saying It To Me
By now you’ve probably seen the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Created by three Black women in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin—and now the subsequent high-profile killings of other unarmed Black...
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The O’Keefe Brief: S**t Republicans Say About The Iran Deal
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could avoid a war with Iran? Yeah, I think so too! That’s why I made this week’s video, “S**t Republicans Say About The Iran Deal,” calling B.S. on the lies that war hawks...
View ArticleCall now: Stop the execution of an innocent man
Oklahoma plans to execute an innocent man this Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.1 Governor Mary Fallin has the power to stop this deadly mistake by issuing a 60-day stay of execution—but we need to act fast to...
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The O'Keefe Brief: Guns DO Kill People
There are some people who say that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Those people would be wrong. Ok, they aren’t all wrong. People do kill people—but often times they do it with GUNS....
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An Innocent Man is About to Be Put to Death
I have long abhorred the death penalty. The thought of killing someone for the crime of killing someone else seems so cruelly ironic. My abhorrence only intensified when I learned of a study that...
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The O'Keefe Brief: Not Another Government Shutdown
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...
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Remembering Activist Grace Lee Boggs
“The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.” —Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) Yesterday, the world lost one of the greatest activists of our time. For the past seven decades, Grace...
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