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Monday November 02, 2009 · 2:43 PM PST

2009/11/02 · 14:43

The war to pass clean energy legislation has seen many battles come and go. Lately, our side has been victorious. Sometimes those victories aren't clean cut, and we get bruised along the way, but ever since last January it seems that every passing day we gain momentum in this fight. The last few weeks has seen the biggest push towards victory in this fight that we have yet seen. The first Republican senator--Lindsey Graham--indicated his willing to work towards comprehensive energy reform. Global legislative pre-cursors to Copenhagen have been very successful. China has announced that it will formulate a plan to cut its greenhouse gasses. And just 9 days ago, millions of global citizens united in calling for their leaders to cut the world's atmospheric carbon to 350 parts per million. And that is just the list of accomplishments off the top of my head.

Today Repower America officially launched its biggest weapon yet in the fight to pass clean energy legislation. The Repower America Wall.

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Thursday September 24, 2009 · 7:48 AM PDT

2009/09/24 · 07:48

Richard Lugar

Field Organizers for climate change have been getting warm fuzzies from Richard Lugar these last few weeks. While the senior Senator has never been in the 'yes' column on voting for climate change, we have always been hopeful that if we get Evan Bayh to vote yes, Lugar would become a possibility--and with good reason...

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Wednesday September 23, 2009 · 1:22 PM PDT

2009/09/23 · 13:22

Evan Bayh

I spend a lot of my time with the various grassroots campaigns (Repower America, Environmental Defense Action Fund, INPIRG, and others) pushing for Senators Bayh and Lugar to vote 'yes' on the ACES bill. As we ramp up local pressure on these two gentlemen, I am hoping that pressure from across the nation (like the good people at Daily Kos) can help them see the light on clean energy legislation. For now, though, my efforts are mostly local. Every day I talk to voters about the ACES bill, and every day I'm faced with one very frustrating question: Well why isn't Senator Bayh supporting this bill?

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Tuesday May 19, 2009 · 12:06 PM PDT

2009/05/19 · 12:06

As I'm sure many of you similarly have, I received an email this afternoon from the Courage Campaign asking for voters to decide when they should go back to the ballot to restore marriage equality: 2010 or 2012? Unfortunately after voting they didn't have a running tally so you could see how, others agreed or disagreed, or comments arguing one way or the other. I chose 2012 for the following reasons, but I wanted to know what others thought.

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When should the Courage Campaign put marriage equality back on the ballot in California?

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2012

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Don't care, not my problem

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Gingrich on board with investigating torture authorization

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Friday May 15, 2009 · 12:33 PM PDT

2009/05/15 · 12:33

It looks like Newt Gingrich, and I can only assume all Republicans, are on board with fully investigating the torture authorizations.

Gingrich said Pelosi "lied to the House" when she earlier claimed that the CIA had never briefed her about the Bush administration's use of interrogation methods like waterboarding, which is considered torture by the current administration.

"I think that the House has an absolute obligation to open an inquiry, and I hope there will be a resolution to investigate her. And I think this is a big deal. I don't think the speaker of the House can lie to the country on national security matters," the Republican leader said in an interview with ABC Radio.

Frankly its a breath of fresh air to see the Republicans now fully on board with investigating torture. Since he's so willing to investigate Nancy Pelosi--one of the highest ranking leaders in the nation--surely he's on board with investigating any and all who were involved, no matter what their position was, right? As an upright and honest former leader, surely Gingrich will come out any day now in support of investigating Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, Yoo...

Right?

From Red to Blue, and Back Again.

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Monday February 16, 2009 · 6:36 PM PST

2009/02/16 · 18:36

All my life I've lived in the geographically beautiful, yet politically ugly state of Indiana. If you have never been to Indiana, or have but have only been on the interstates, you are missing some of the most beautiful landscapes on God's green earth. Subtle rolling hills covered with a blanket of red oaks and walnuts, broken by sweeping rivers of corn and soy that disappear again behind the next wooded hillock. (That's southern Indiana, of course. The north is exactly how I just described only opposite in every single way. Avoid it if you can, or just speed quickly onto Chicago). What offset this natural beauty at every turn was the political atmosphere of the Hoosier state.

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