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With the final vote on health care reform in the House just days away, the right-wing fear-and-smear blitz is in overdrive.

We cannot let them drown out the progressive majority that demands health care reform.

A final vote is only days away. Click here NOW to tell your House representative: "Get Health Care Done."

Congress is being blitzed with lies in hopes of scaring undecided congresspeople from doing the job they were elected to do.

Corporate lobbies are spending $1 million a day to spread distortions in key congressional districts.

Conservatives are lying about House procedure, claiming Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to pass health care "without a vote" when in fact she is using a procedure regularly used by Republicans to expedite an up-or-down vote.

And Rush Limbaugh - who has pledged to leave the country if health care passes! - has exhorted his rabid teabagger followers to swamp Congress with phone calls. Let's pass the bill and take him up on the offer.

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Congress is on the verge of passing historic health care reform. If Democrats get their act together, they will vote soon on legislation that would provide health coverage to more than 30 million uninsured Americans, and crack down on private insurers that profiteer from jacking up rates while denying people care.

Last week, we asked you to email your Senators and Representatives and demand an up-or-down vote on health reform. Thanks to your pressure, more and more are coming forward to support a simple majority vote that will finish the job.

With Congress so close to succeeding, how are the big corporate lobbies responding? By spending $1 million a day on misleading ads to kill the bill.

We have to counter their millions with organized people power. And we need your help.

Please consider a gift of $10, $25 or $50 to our fight for real reform today.

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The bankster lobby is at it again. This time, they're out to screw America's students.

After the President and the House backed legislation ending the $70 billion scam of subsidizing big banks so they can gouge students on college loans that the government guarantees anyway, the lobbyists are hell-bent on killing student loan reform through reconciliation.

End the $70 billion handout to the big banks. Click here to demand your representative pass and vote for student loan reform through reconciliation. more »

The Washington Post has turned over its news pages to an organization, founded by billionaire austerity activist Pete Peterson, dedicated to undermining Social Security and Medicare, and stifling public investment in America's future. We can't have an informed debate over economic recovery when seemingly objective media violates basic journalism ethics and chooses sides. Tell the Washington Post ombudsman: Sever all ties with Pete Peterson and The Fiscal Times. more »

Conservatives in Congress are pushing a plan to gut Medicare and Social Security benefits--and slash needed public spending--by means of an undemocratic "deficit commission" that would bypass the normal legislative process, strangle a weak economy and shred the retirement safety net.

We at the Campaign for America's Future, working with other groups, have built a coalition of more than 40 organizations around a statement opposing this "Conrad-Gregg deficit commission." One of our partners, The Frances Perkins Center, produced a great action email copied below, right after Fed Chair Ben Bernanke quoted bank robber Willie Sutton, saying we should cut Social Security and Medicare because, "That's where the money is!"

But we know where the real money is: the pockets of the rich who have gotten billions in bailouts and tax cuts. Please sign this petition action, and together we can derail this dangerous, undemocratic commission. more »

The historic passage of health reform in the House last week was severely marred by the inclusion of the anti-reproductive choice Stupak amendment, which would overnight end the routine practice of including abortion in insurance coverage.

But this fight against Stupak is far from over. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has yet to finalize his version of the bill. The Senate floor debate has not begun. The House and Senate have not met to work out legislative differences.

Most importantly, the voices of America's pro-choice majority have not been heard in Congress. At least, not yet. more »

Our stimulus money could end up being used to send green jobs to China. With unemployment in America just having surpassed 10 percent, that is economic malpractice.Tell Energy Secretary Steven Chu: Don't send our Recovery Act tax dollars overseas. American stimulus funds must create American green jobs. more »

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