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We asked you what they’d tell President Obama to do to fix our democracy — and now we’ve shared your responses with the White House

Last weekend, I went on C-SPAN to talk about our efforts to encourage President Obama and his associates to pursue a reform agenda through Organizing For Action, their new political advocacy group.

Even as they acknowledge and lament the public’s perception that theirs is the  party of “stuffy old men,” Republican leaders looked this week to give stuffy old men – or at least those with a lot of money — a larger and louder voice in their party and in American politics. The GOP’s “Growth and [...]

The news that Organizing for Action, President Obama’s new lobbying organization, plans to arrange meetings with the President for its top donors, is generating calls for some serious reforms in the organization.

This morning, I appeared on Democracy Now! to talk about President Obama’s new grassroots advocacy group, Organizing for Action, and its worrying promise of face-to-face meetings with the president for big donors and bundlers. I also spoke about our work to protect voting rights from partisan attacks, our lawsuit against the unconstitutional filibuster, and more: President Obama [...]