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• Volunteers made 7 million phone calls, organized 7,500
house parties, and launched 6,000 in-district events. More
people volunteered in 2006 than in 2004.
• We raised and spent $27 million in this two-year election
cycle. We spent $25 million on taking back the House. Over
250,000 members contributed $3.6 million to individual House candidates and over $2.8 million to fund MoveOn TV
ads in targeted districts.
• Our “Caught Red-Handed” TV ads demonstrated early that
Democrats could win a majority in Congress by taking on
Republicans others thought couldn’t be defeated. Of
the nine long-shot races we targeted with these ads,
Democrats won at least five.
Changing the national political landscape is a tall order. But if we build on the enormous grassroots energy
we saw over the past six months, we know it’s possible. For us, for our families, for our children, for our
country, the stakes could hardly be higher.
-Adam and Justin Ruben, January 18, 2005, in an email proposing
a Take Back the House campaign to MoveOn members
TAKING BACK THE HOUSE
• On-the-ground action by members helped ensure that
Republicans who supported the Bush fiasco in Iraq would
pay the price at the polls.
• We funded strong progressive candidates like Jerry McNerney
(OH) and Bruce Braley (IA) in their campaigns to win House
seats, and Sherrod Brown (OH) and John Tester (MT) in theirtough Senate battles.
• Our membership grew by 450,000.
“I used to think my one signature or call didn’t
matter. But then I got an email from MoveOn and I
learned I can make a difference. MoveOn makes
democracy work.” -Helen S., Phoenix, Arizona, MoveOn member
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Independent Ope ra ti on E xpendi tu res M arg in o f Vic to ry
Ta rget District C andidate De mo cracy* + Co ntributions on 11/ 8/06 C alls to Voters
THE VICTORY IN NUMBERS:WHAT OUR MEMBERS ACCOMPLISHED
SENATE
MO Claire McCaskill $ 399,388.20 41,969 230,808
MT Jon Tester 352,274.96 1,739 73,843
OH Sherrod Brown 331,049.54 451,564 1,009,103
PA Bob Casey 188,907.80 683,584 808,170
RI Sheldon Whitehouse 3,516.59 26,726 87,003VA Jim Webb 17,156.00 7,236 503,181
HOUSEAZ (5) Harry Mitchell 146,645.72 5,955 51,162
AZ (8) Gabrielle Giffords 6,919.83 25,159 24,894
CA (11) Jerry McNerney 53,043.62 9,355 46,261
C0 (7) Ed Perlmutter 7,230.37 22,999 41,866
CT (2) Joe Courtney 113,157.99 170 103,862
CT (5) Chris Murphy 502,997.60 26,219 100,013
FL (16) Timothy Mahoney 159,580.97 4,519 53,927
FL (22) Ron Klein 756.88 8,713 95,899
IA (1) Bruce Braley 87,004.67 24,312 81,876
IA (2) Dave Loebsack 0.00 5,711 32,912
IN (2) Joe Donnelly 378,950.54 15,145 67,871
IN (8) Brad Ellsworth 10,823.76 46,494 91,380
IN (9) Baron Hill 11,711.72 6,576 92,915
KY (3) John Yarmuth 3,297.95 5,890 48,530
MN (1) Tim Walz 103,438.05 13,886 74,597
NC (11) Heath Shuler 1,425.02 17,639 111,494
NH (2) Paul Hodes 150,017.00 14,620 65,429NY (19) John Hall 1,391.03 3,528 68,552
NY (20) Kirsten Gillibrand 148,812.62 13,028 74,437NY (24) Michael Arcuri 183,495.05 15,340 85,374
OH (18) Zack Space 170,158.40 48,543 92,408
PA (4) Jason Altmire 447,939.94 10,109 39,795PA (7) Joe Sestak 6,306.59 32,081 83,042
PA (8) Patrick Murphy 91,284.24 1,521 102,691
PA (10) Christoph er Carney 168,107.14 12,454 74,042
TX (22) Nicholas Lampson 168,200.01 14,930 68,589
WI (8) Steve Kagen 11,846.4 6,608 38,901
= ”Red-Handed” TV Ad
* Operation Democracy is MoveOn’s off-line field network.
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DEFINING HOUSE REPUBLICANS:WRONG ON THE ISSUES
SOCIAL SECURITY
I see Bush’s proposal as the “ Stock Brokers Full
Employment Act” of 2005. It is an attempt both to
start in motion the dismantling of the small security
some already have, and to loot public assets for the
use of the wealthiest and strongest amongst us.
-Robert C., Cincinnati, Ohio, MoveOn member
I’m a 67 year old retired life-long Republican and I’m
embarrassed and angered by the Bush administra-
tion’s approach to Social Security …
-Seabury L., Bethel, Maryland, MoveOn member
In February 2005, Republicans went home to host hundreds of
town hall meetings to sell Social Security privatization. They
were met by resistant constituents with what Rep. DeborahPryce (R-OH) described as, “everything but eggs to throw at
us.” In a rapid mobilization, hundreds of MoveOn members
signed up to ask tough questions at these meetings.
By the time they returned to Washington, the Republicans
were on the defensive, and distancing themselves from the
president on Social Security. USA Today reported with a head-
line, “GOP boards up the ‘town hall.”
Our members were just getting started.
The Social Security battle embodied our
for 2005: block the Republicans’ right-wi
agenda through real, local, in-district act
We called the program Operation Democr
OPERATION DEMOCRACY
Operation Democracy got me starte
the political process. I don’t think
have gotten involved in this electio
the political process if a MoveOn o
er hadn’t asked me. I’d still be sitt
home waiting on the election to ha
With Operation Democracy, I’ve delivered petiti
and held house parties to engage people in my
munity and change the direction of this countr
-Marlynn N., Lakewood, Colorado, MoveOn
We expected 2005 to be a tough year. The Republican
claimed a broad mandate and pressed forward with th
ical agenda. It was a “man the barricades” moment.
IN 2: Chris Chocola vs. Joe Donnelly
In 2005, no one except his eventual opponent andMoveOn thought Rep. Chocola was vulnerable to a
Democratic challenge. But Chocola was one of the knational proponents of Social Security privatization, so he became an early target for us.
In this district, we mobilized members and later, ran oseries of three “Caught Red-Handed” ads. The ads h
lighted the congressman’s support of Republican-ledislative efforts to protect special interests over his costituents. These ads drove down his approval ratings10 points early in the election cycle and alertedDemocratic donors and activists to the possibility t ha
could have a “change election.”
Calls to voters: 60,935
Margin of victory: 15,145
Independent Expenditures + Contributions: $378,9
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OUR ONLY HOPE
In the dark days after the 2004 election, taking back the
House in 2006 seemed l ike a stretch. President Bush was
treating his slim majority as a broad mandate for conservative
policy. With Democrats in disarray, it seemed that the presi-
dent would be able to use his “War on Terror” rhetoric to build
public support for the endless occupation of Iraq, and to win
key domestic battles like privatizing Social Securi ty.
For MoveOn’s members—many of whom were new to
political action in 2004—taking back the House seemed
like the only hope. There was no way that this Congress and
this president were going to pass the broad reforms required
to put our nation back on its path. We needed new leader-ship. And so, trusting in the wisdom of crowds, we set our
sight on the House for 2006.
We’ve always believed that the issues that concern and ani-
mate our members are the issues that move America. We let
our members’ passion be our guide. That trust was borne out:
Iraq became the issue that drove most Americans to the
polls. Nearly as motivating was the big-business vote-buying
that produced high drug prices, an unsustainable energy pol-
icy, and the Abramoff-DeLay corruption of Congress.
Neighbor-to-Neighbor
When Adam and Justin asked in January 2005 if we wanted
to build “a national, volunteer-powered grassroots campaign
to win back the House,” the answer was an emphatic “yes.”
And so we began our two-year journey together. It’s worth
recalling the promises we made then, because, as happens so
rarely in life and politics, we actually accomplished them:
With thousands of teams around the country, we’ll run a mas-
sive, grassroots, neighbor-to-neighbor drive to mobilize opposi-
tion to the Republican leadership’s conservative policies and
promote progressive candidates. We’ll reach millions of people
at their homes and many more through the media.
In key swing districts where conservative incumbents are vul-
nerable, we’ll publicly hold them accountable for each and
every vote they cast against the public interest. … Instead of
launching a field campaign three months before the election,
we’ll start NOW to recruit leaders, persuade voters, and build a
grassroots base for victory. Best of all, our efforts to mobilize
voters will have an even larger impact in a lower-turnout con-
gressional election than they did in the presidential election.
Here’s how our story unfolded.
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EXPANDING THE BATTLEFIELD:THE “CAUGHT RED-HANDED” CAMPAIGN
Right wing electoral successes … have led to predictable hubris and overreach. With the unraveling of
American policy in Iraq, weak economic results, ethics scandals and frightening forays into theocracy
Schiavo), the Right is setting itself up for a historic change election. Our strategy in the past nine mo
has been to fight key fights—like Social Security—to rebuild progressive confidence. We believe there
an opportunity for Democrats and progressives to pivot to an offensive posture and that MoveOn.org
Political Action can play an important catalytic role.
-Eli Pariser, September 22, 2005, in an email proposing
expand the electoral battlefield in the 2006 congressional
GOING ON THE OFFENSIVE
WITH A WINNING MESSAGE
By early 2006, we sensed that change was in the air. Most
Americans had become fed up with the Bush administration’s
disastrous Iraq policy and with the Republican Congress’ tilt
toward their pharmaceutical and oil industry patrons. To
make this a “change” election and win back a majority in
the House, Democrats would have to expand the electoral
battlefield. They would have to compete in at least 40 dis-
tricts to pick up the 15 seats they needed.
We searched for a way to make our case and decided that the
most persuasive thing to do would be to identify some seats
Our pollster, Stan Greenberg, observed that whenever
Democrats raised the issue of Iraq, they gained support.
Candidates would only strengthen their position with vot-
ers if they were clear about their opposition to the con-
tinuing occupation.
Overall, we helped shape the Democratic message and set the
stage for a large group of Democrats to join Rep. John
Murtha’s call for an exit timetable.
• Members hosted more than 3,000 solemn vigils attended by
hundreds of thousands of people to honor U.S. soldiers killed
and wounded in Iraq and to demand an end to the military
occupation.
• In November, 2005, we ran TV ads in 8 districts defending
Rep. John Murtha against Republican attacks on his call for
a responsible end to the U.S. occupation.
• In December, members held 283 press conferences, o
by veterans, to keep up the pressure to set a timetab
ending the occupation.
• By August 2006, our TV ad holding the Republican C
accountable for failing to exercise its oversight role o
president’s disastrous Iraq policies became the main
Democratic message.
• In October, we hosted 1,343 house parties to watch
movie Iraq for Sale and make get-out-the-vote phone
to voters.
• In late August, members held press conferences in 2
releasing the local cost of the Iraq War. These events
that Iraq was in the news heading into the last 8 we
before the election.
“MoveOn kept pushing on Iraq when our leaders w-Thomas L., Miami, Florida, MoveOn
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The success of our work on Social Security proved that wehad the grassroots strength to fight back effectively.
Through Operation Democracy, we aimed to bring together
the best of online organizing with an on-the-ground net-
work of active members. The vision: folks working together
in communities around the country to confront Republican
congressmen bent on privatizing Social Security or white-
washing Tom DeLay’s corruption or continuing the military
occupation of Iraq.
Grassroots Pressure
We also realized we couldn’t just start organizing six weeks
before the next big election—we needed to be working
together locally, on an ongoing basis, to lay the groundwork
for change. So, MoveOn members formed thousands of neigh-
borhood teams and city-wide Coordinating Councils in 200
cities and nearly 100 congressional districts. To make it hap-
pen, we worked with our close partner, Grassroots Campaigns,
to hire regional organizers who trained and developed our
volunteer leaders. We focused in places where we thought
Republican incumbents were vulnerable to grassroots pressure
on the issues in 2005—and to an electoral challenge the fol-
lowing year.
MoveOn members held 5,700 actions in these districts over
the next 18 months.
Together, working with allies, we helped stop Social Security
privatization cold. We pressed Congress to c ensure Tom DeLay
for his money-laundering in Texas, and helped create an
atmosphere in which he was forced to resign. And we blocked
some of the worst cuts in George Bush’s 2005 budget.
IRAQ
On September 11, 2001, I called my commanding offi-
cer and said, ‘Wherever this came from, send me.’ But
that’s not where they sent me. They sent me to Iraq. If
they get away with it this time, they’ll do it again.
But if it costs them their power, we send a message.
-Ginmar, Private, United States Army, MoveOn member
We also played a special role, over the two-year period, in
the opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
In 2005, when Democrats were divided over how to deal
with the issue of Iraq, our members’ views were clear.
They wanted Democratic candidates to criticize the
Republicans in Congress for their blind support of the admin-istration’s failed Iraq policy. And they hoped that Democrats
would demand a timetable for a responsible exit. By the end
of the year, we were able to rally around John Murtha’s
courageous stand.
We commissioned a poll of 60 potential swing House districts
to give Democratic challengers confidence that if they
offered forthright criticism of the war and occupation, and
even called for a timetable to withdraw troops, it would help
them with voters.
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Second Tier to First Tier Polling showed that our ads drove up the negative ratings
for each incumbent by 5 to 10 percentage points. In similar
Congressional districts where we polled at the same time but
ran no ads, there was no change in support for the
Republican incumbent. By mid-September, all four of our
Republican targets were listed as toss-ups for re-election.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Rep. Nancy Johnson
spent more than $100,000 rebutting our commercials, “and
analysts on both sides agree that the online group’s ads
have made her re-election uncertain. Three other House
Republicans targeted by MoveOn—one each in Virginia, Ohio
and Colorado—are also struggling.”
Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner admitted
ruefully that the ads “certainly have had some impact. Rep.
Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee, was understandably more enthusiastic:
“MoveOn ads targeting the members of Congress, Pryce,
Chocola, Drake and Nancy Johnson have effectively made the
case that there is a close relationship between the contribu-
tions they collect and the votes they take in Congress. T
ads have clearly made second-tier races into first-tier co
The New York Times later listed our “Red-Handed” ad a
Rep. Thelma Drake as one of the seven most effective
this election cycle.
When we launched our campaign to take back the hou
January of 2005, the Cook Report listed two Republic
seats as likely toss-ups for the 2006 election. By Octo
2006, that number had jumped to 31. And all four of
targets were on the “toss-up” list.
OPERATION DEMOCRACY BIRD-DOGSMEMBERS OF CONGRESS
“MoveOn gave me and other concerned resident
Virginia’s second district the tools to inform ot
about Drake’s poor voting record. The friendshi
alliances that MoveOn’s “Caught Red-Handed” c
paign enabled us to forge will continue to impa
politics in Virginia—long after the last vote is
ed on November 7th.”
-Kay G., Virginia Beach, Virginia, MoveOn
While the ads were running in June and July, Operati
Democracy organized delegations in over forty congre
districts to confront our representatives when they ca
home during the congressional recess. Armed with gia
hands and signs, MoveOn members followe
representatives to town hall meetings, ap
ances and fundraisers to let fellow voters
how their congressmen’s allegiance to special interest
all of us. The teams also connected with voters throug
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that were thought to be securely in the hands of Republican
incumbents but that we thought could be made competitive.
We wanted to show that “second-tier” races could be
turned into “first-tier” contests because mainstream
America had had enough.
HARD-HITTING TV ADS
With $1.5 million from thousands of us we launched a hard-hitting TV ad campaign in four congressional districts (Chris
Chocola, IN-2, Thelma Drake, VA-2, Nancy Johnson, CT-5, and
Deborah Pryce, OH-15) where voters seemed open to change.
We developed the “red-handed” image and message and
tested our ads for effectiveness before putting them on
the air.
The ads worked not only because the red-handed metaphor
was translated into a vivid and memorable TV image, but also
because the ads expressed what so many voters were angry
about:
• Republicans in Congress took money from the pharmaceutical
industry and then kept drug prices high for senior citizens.
• Republicans in Congress took money from the major oil
companies and then failed to lead toward clean, cheap
energy sources.
• Republicans in Congress took money from defense contrac-
tors in Iraq like Halliburton then voted to protect them from
punishment for defrauding the government while our sol-
diers lacked adequate body armor.
By the summer of ’06, scandals and plummeting pub-
lic support had transformed the Republican machine
from a party of bad ideas to a party of no ideas.
MoveOn members were more than happy to fill the
void. Nearly 10,000 members gathered in over 500
living rooms nationwide to discuss the big positive
changes they’d most like to make to improve
America. Then we asked our entire membership to
vote on the three top priorities for our official
Positive Agenda. They picked: 1) Health care for all;
2) Energy independence from clean renewable
sources; and 3) Democracy restored.
In September we organized the Progressive Vision
speech series to emphasize that a change of leader-
ship in Washington was necessary to achieve our
goals. Ohio Representative and Senate candidate
Sherrod Brown, Senator Barack Obama and Senator
Russ Feingold headlined, drawing large in-person
and online crowds.
POSITIVE AGENDA
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SMALL DONORS MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE:$27 MILLION RAISED
“It is amazing to think that my $15 can make
such a difference.”
-Robert H., Cincinnati, Ohio, MoveOn member
Our members have always believed that the only way to sep-
arate politicians from big-money entanglements is to provide
a base of small-donor support. This cycle we had a chance to
show just how effective small donors can be in winning
highly competitive elections.
OH Senate: Mike DeWine vs. Sherrod Brown
In 2003, Brown read MoveOn members’ statementsagainst the Iraq War on the House floor. Ever since thenmembers have loved him. We were there with earlymoney for what figured to be a tough race against a two-
term opponent in a state where the Republican turnoutmachine made headlines in 2004. Progressives can win in the heart of the country and in a red state like Ohio.
Calls to voters: 1,009,103
Margin of victory: 451,564
Independent Expenditures + Contributions: $331,049
Throughout the election year members responded to o
repeated appeals to help finance the campaigns of ca
dates we supported and the work that MoveOn has do
BY THE NUMBERS
$27,392,712 : total raised
608,727 : number of individual contributions
$45.00 : amount of average contribution
$6,040,420 : amount bundled for 35 House
and Senate candidates
Federal Election Commission data show that MoveO
Political Action was one of the leading sources of f
cial support for Democratic candidates outside of t
Democratic Party’s committees. And we did it all wit
contributions from tens of thousands of members, pro
once again the efficacy of the small donor approach,
offers candidates a way to win without becoming dep
on money from special interests.
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ters to the editor, local radio talk shows, and asking tough
questions at town hall meetings.
• In Indiana, the team released the “Cost of War” report high-
lighting how much Rep. Chocola’s unflagging support for the
war cost South Bend residents in real dollars. Members
released similar reports in 25 Congressional districts.
• In Louisville, KY, 15 folks rallied at a gas station to tell vot-
ers about Rep. Northup’s ties to Big Oil. A week later, the
group held a press conference on Rep. Northup’s cutting vet-
erans' benefits while sending our troops to war.
• In Virginia Beach, our members attended every “Coffee with
Thelma” event that Rep. Drake held. They asked her tough
questions about her allegiance to special interests.
• Armed with flyers on war profiteering and their foam red
hands, MoveOn members in Fayetteville, North Carolina
attended a defense contractor tradeshow that Rep. Robin
Hayes sponsored.
Local media wrote over 2,000 stories about our actions. All
of the congressional districts that turned out to be com-
petitive in 2006 were ones in which Operation Democracy
organizers were on the job helping us mobilize.
MoveOn.org volunteers Don Briggs, of LaPorte,
and Peter Smith and Reynaldo Hernandez, of
South Bend, wave foam hands reading "caught
red-handed" Wednesday in downtown South
Bend. They were among the people who
announced the political group's estimate of the
Iraq war's cost to congressional District 2.
Laurel Ames of South Lake Tahoe holds up a red
foam hand that reads "Caught red-handed" dur-
ing Rep. John Doolittle's speech at the 2006
Lake Tahoe Forum at Sand Harbor Thursday.
The demonstration was the first of four planned
in the next two weeks with a "caught red-hand-
ed" theme to draw attention to Northup's voting
record and campaign fund sources, said Mike
Bailey, a computer technician and volunteer
coordinator for MoveOn.org in Kentucky.
SouthBendTribune.com
courier-journal.comLouisville, Kentucky
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We developed two ways for people to make calls.
Individuals could call from home, using a cut-
ting-edge online tool that walks the user through
the script and records the results one call at a
time. We also launched a weekly series of phone
parties, where members gathered together to
make calls on their cell phones.
To recruit the volunteer army needed to make
it work, we worked with our close partner,
Grassroots Campaigns, to set up campaign
offices in 40 cities. Each night. MoveOn mem-
bers called other members in their region, ask-
ing them to sign up with the campaign. By the
end of the program, MoveOn members recruit-
ed over 17,000 other members to join the volunteer team.
Phone Parties
For phone parties, members opened their homes and invited
other members in their area to bring their cell phones (and
chargers) and make calls to end one-party Republican rule in
Washington. These parties proved to be a huge success, draw-
ing in thousands of new volunteers and creating a real sense
of local community around the program.
Because the program was based online, we were able to use
“smart targeting” to direct members’ calls to where they would
have the highest impact. So volunteers living in or near com-
petitive districts would automatically be directed to voters in
their area. Volunteers in other parts of the country would be
directed to whichever districts around the co untry needed the
most urgent attention. The “liquid” internet technology we
developed for the phone program made this possible.
We also wanted to make sure we were turning out the right
voters. So we began an ambitious “micro-targeting” program,
applying a grassroots twist to an approach Republican
employed so successfully to get their supporters to th
In late October, the number of competitive races
increased by the day and Call for Change was exactl
tool the moment required. It enabled us to send hun
of thousands of turnout calls into the races where they
needed most as conditions changed. On October 19th,
example we saw a poll showing Tim Walz, the Democra
challenger in Minnesota 1, closing the gap. Within a f
calls were pouring into the district—making it a toss-
When the dust settled, Call for Change involved more
bers in making more calls than even we had dared to
We exceeded all of our targets the night before Electio
Here are some of the final numbers:
7,492 house parties attended by 46,790 pe
51,719 people called from home
7,001,102 total calls made
61 districts targeted
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TIPPING THE BALANCE:CALL FOR CHANGE GETS OUT THE VOTE
PEOPLE-POWERED POLITICS
As the fall homestretch approached it became clear that
most Americans wanted a change of direction in Iraq and
that the Republicans in Congress were being dragged down
by their support for the president’s insistence on staying the
course. Each day, the news from Baghdad made Iraq the
over-arching issue driving voters to the Democrats.
We realized two important things about this election from
the outset.
• First, we were facing a “turnout” rather
than a “persuasion” election—our pri-
mary responsibility was helping to get
voters who wanted change to actually
show up at the polls.
• Second, we were facing a potential
“change election” where a voter revolt
could shake up the playing field and
dramatically alter the political land-
scape in the final months.
Our early TV and grassroots mobilizations were designed to
start that wave; our fall get-out-the-vote campaign had to
be ready to put it over the top.
We also realized that MoveOn’s most powerful asset—our
members—are scattered all over the country, and most of
our densest concentrations were not in contested districts.
We needed a plan to involve everyone, no matter where in
the country they lived.
“Liquid” Phone Bank
I signed up to make calls because as a patriotic
American I know that millions of tiny voices can
drum the big money Republicans right out of
Congress if we all pull together as a team.
-William K., Old Fort, North Carolina, MoveOn member
Call for Change was the answer. The core
idea is fairly simple—a web-based “liq-
uid phone bank” allowing MoveOn mem-
bers to pour calls from wherever they
live into wherever they are needed. We
could then turn to any district in the
country that needed extra attention, and
keep the calls flowing until we reached
all of our target voters.
We tested our program in April in a
California House special election and it worked. A Yale
University study showed that our phone bank was the
most effective volunteer calling program ever studied.
With the theory confirmed, we turned our attention to the
larger 2006 campaign.
Labor Day was Monday, and that means campaign season has officially begun. Getting ahead early in these
races is key to victory. That's why next weekend—September 16th and 17th—we're launching with a big,
nation-wide action to take back Congress.
Control of the House is in reach, but making it happen is going to take a big push. They've got millions of
dollars in corporate money. What we have is people power. So it's going to take every last one of us—work-
ing together—to win.
-Adam Ruben, September 5, 2006, in an email launching
a nation-wide action to take back Congress.
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BUILDING A MORE PROGRESSIVE AMERICA
Two years ago the future looked bleak. President Bush won
re-election and he had a Congress that would rubber-stamp
his radical ideas.
Most MoveOn members are pretty new to politics. I worried
people would get discouraged and quit—but folks didn’t.
MoveOn members knew that the Republican grip on power
was less firm than it appeared. So we rolled up our sleeves
and kept fighting for the things in which we all believe.
All that hard work paid off. Here we are, with an important
victory. It’s not the end of this story. It’s more of a begin-
ning. But in 2005 and 2006, we laid the foundation on which
we can finally begin to build a more progressive America.
Thanks for all you do,
Eli Pariser
SPECIAL THANKSTsan Abramson
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