Insurance companies and their lackeys in Congress claim that if we let Americans choose a public health insurance option, it will cut into their profits. After years of building an American health care system that's like a house on fire, their only strategy is to block the exits when help is near.

The good news is, they might be right. States across the country are already using public plans to drive down costs and expand access to healthcare2. Now, a movement of legislators from these states is mobilizing to tell Congress it's time to unify these local efforts into a national public option.

Ask your state legislators to endorse a public option, and demand health care for all NOW!

The full Pentagon budget hasn't even been drafted yet. But some members of Congress are already trying to slip billions of dollars of pork-barrel weapons projects - including C-17 transport planes the air force doesn't want - into the supplemental budget request for Iraq and Afghanistan.

We kept the extra spending out of the Senate version of the bill, but there's one more vote before Obama can sign off and we need Congress to keep this supplemental clear of pork-barrel spending. Help change America's priorities for good:

Tell Congress to pass the President's Supplemental, and hold the pork.

The industry knows the same thing we do, and they don't like it: the only way to make reform work for patients and payers is to allow the option of a public insurance plan. Obama has committed to that in the past, but insurance companies are trying to talk him out of his pledge with these promises to cut some unspecified costs, some years in the future. We need to have OUR say about that.

While we couldn't get into that room with the health industry lobbyists, we DO have access to the most widely-read public forum: the local newspaper.

Write a letter to your local paper that reminds Congress and the President that health care reform needs to work for us, and demand a public option.

During the last 8 years, terrible crimes were committed in our name. New memos just released by the Obama Administration show that torture and other crimes were not only condoned, but encouraged by key Bush appointees. It's time to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and bring to justice those responsible.

Can you help me ask the Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor?

Some of us wondered if this day would ever come. The Secretary of Defense explained to Congress exactly the points TrueMajority members have been making for years: wasting taxes on weapons which don't work and have no conceivable use against real-world enemies makes us LESS strong as a nation1.

Show Congress we're ready to invest in True Security -- sign the petition.

Victory in Florida We won! You signed our petition calling on Burger King to pay workers just one penny more per pound of tomatoes and our partners at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers delivered over 80,000 petitions directly to Burger King Headquarters in Miami. Now, together with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, we've won a huge victory for workers in the tomato fields of Florida -- and we showed the power of a grassroots effort in winning benefits for workers. Take a look at the New York Times story about our victory: Burger King Grants Raise to Pickers We will continue to follow this issue as the workers continue to expand their victory. Thanks again for all you did to make this victory a reality!

And here's a photo of Lucas Benitez, left, of the CIW and Amy Wagner, Senior Vice President for Global Communications of Burger King, signing the agreement to work together to improve farmworker wages, and working conditions, while Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) looks on.

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