The REAL Patriots!!

So much is in the news about the health reform protestors, the teabaggers, the hate government groups, that we never hear that much about the great progressive groups who fought long and hard for reform. Here is a list from MoveOn.org and what they and others like them have accomplished. Makes me proud to support this type of patriotic group!!

• 2,000 rallies and vigils attended by 150,000 people (see great highlights video  here)
  

• Hundreds of face to face meetings with members of Congress
  

• 7,813,682 petition signatures, 595,522 phonecalls, and 948,705 faxes 
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• 150 MoveOn Councils running powerful local campaigns in 44 states
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• 50,000small-business leaders, doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals supporting reform
  

• 1,124,457(!!!) messages in one day during the Virtual March for Real Health Care Reform
  

• $9.4 million raised for our campaign, and $5.6 million more pledged to support progressive primary challengers
  

• Dozens of ads featuring Heather Graham, REM, and MoveOn members like Janet Jacobson and Dawn Smith

• More than 3,000 news stories about your work!
  
  MoveOn wants you to know....This is YOUR VICTORY!!

And it gives all of us together the momentum to keep pushing for other changes America so desperately needs. This isn't just a victory for health care reform- it's a victory for progressives, for people-powered politics, and for the hope of future work to be done.

Feel proud, feel energized, feel your power, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, for all you do!.


 

 

These are the patriots, the lovers of America!