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Current Actions

  • No Cuts to Food Stamps

    The House Farm Bill would cut $20.5 billion from Food Stamps (aka SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). Rep. Jim McGovern sponsored an amendment to restore the funds, but it failed in committee on a party-line vote. Now, the Farm Bill is headed to the House and Senate for final votes. Tell your Representative and your Senators to vote against any Farm Bill which would cut funds from Food Stamps (SNAP). Use the provided talking points as a guide, but use your own words. Repetitive messages lose credibility. Please share this link. We need a groundswell of grassroots support! 

  • Congressional Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

    Emphasize that the ERA is neither partisan nor issue-driven. It is about fundamental human rights.Read it to them: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Type in your zip code below. Our advocacy tool will generate an email to urge them to take action. Please note their phone number and then call their offices and speak with the staffer for Judiciary/Constitutional issues. If he or she is unavailable, ask to leave a voice mail. Introduce yourself as a constituent, use your own words, and stress that action regarding the ERA means a lot to you and other voters you know. 

  • Support a Financial Transaction Tax
    Tell your Member of Congress to Cosponsor the Inclusive Prosperity Act.

    Everyday Americans have shouldered the burden of the economic collapse brought on by Wall Street’s wild speculation and greed. It's time for Wall Street to settle its debt to Main Street. A Financial Speculation Tax (FST) would levy a small tax (0.5%) on each speculative transaction; average investor and pension funds are exempted.

    Tell your senators and representative to support a financial transaction tax, instead of cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other programs that help the 99%. Please use your own words, adapted from the talking points below. Share this link with your friends to help mobilize the grassroots.

  • Support HR 198 - Repeal Authorization for the Use of Military Force

    Please contact your Representative, and ask him or her to co-sponsor H.R. 198, Congress member Barbara Lee's bill to repeal the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF). For more than 11 years, our government has used the AUMF to justify everything from assassination and indefinite detention of American citizens to ever-expanding drone strikes and secret Special Forces operations in 120 countries. It's time to end this authorization for unjustifiable military force. Please email and call your Congress member, and ask him or her to join Barbara Lee.

  • National Call-In! Support Expanded and Improved Medicare for All

    Tell your Representative to cosponsor H.R. 676.

    Find your Representative and his or her direct phone number here. You can also use the Switchboard (202)-224-3121 and ask to be connected to the office. Once connected, request and note the name of the staffer working on health policy and ask to speak with that person. If he or she isn't available, ask to be connected to voice mail and leave a detailed message. Use the provided talking points as a guide, but use your own words. Repetitive messages lose credibility.

    Please report on your call using our online form--you will end up there after using this action alert to send a follow-up email or you can click here to report on your call.

    Please share this link with your friends. We need a groundswell of grassroots support!

  • Support HR 200 - End the Afghanistan War

    Please e-mail and call your Representative today to ask him or her to co-sponsor H.R. 200. If your Member of Congress was a co-sponsor of H.R. 780 or voted for it as an Amendment in the last Congress, please remind his or her staff that the Congress person already supports this language to end the war, and ask them to reaffirm that commitment. If not, tell them that the time has come to stand with Barbara Lee and end this war. Use the talking points and facts below as a guide, but please use your own words and then call to increase your impact.

  • Tell Presidential Hopefuls to Ban Fracking

    Governor Cuomo in New York. Governor Christie in New Jersey. Governor O'Malley in Maryland. Governor Hickenlooper in Colorado. What do these governors have in common? They're all in states fighting to ban fracking—and they're all planning to run for president in 2016.

    Let's send them a message that fracking isn't worth the risk to the citizens in their states... or to their ambitions.

  • Illinois Leaders, no to austerity, Yes to progressive economic action

     Sign a petition to Governor Quinn and Illinois’ majority and minority legislative leaders who propose to solve the state’s budget crisis through austerity--making huge cuts to the state’s social safety net. We can't cut our way to prosperity. This approach is proving wrong in Europe and it will prove wrong in Illinois.

    Take action and tell your friends to take action here.

Progressive Democrats of America

Progressive Democrats of America was founded in 2004 to transform the Democratic Party and our country. We seek to build a party and government controlled by citizens, not corporate elites-with policies that serve the broad public interest, not just private interests. As a grassroots PAC operating inside the Democratic Party, and outside in movements for peace and justice, PDA played a key role in the stunning electoral victories of November 2006 and 2008. Our inside/outside strategy is guided by the belief that a lasting majority will require a revitalized Democratic Party built on firm progressive principles.

For over two decades, the party declined as its leadership listened more to the voices of corporations than those of Americans. PDA strives to rebuild the Democratic Party from the bottom up-from every congressional district to statewide party structures to the corridors of power in Washington, where we work arm in arm with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. In just a couple of years PDA and its allies have shaken up the political status-quo on issues from ending the Iraq war, voter rights, protecting Social Security, a full employment economy, national healthcare and economic justice.

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