| Dear nancy, Good Morning!
Wow ! Watch parties, wine and cheese events and sign up for the bus trip to DC for the 'One Nation ' event. Lot's going on.
Be watching later this week for a little mini fundraiser raffle email. Times are tough for lots of groups and I just want to make sure we keep our own funding in the black! Thanks to candidates, Lingenfelder and Durrance for being sponsors! We sure could use more sponsors.
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
Email /Webpage /Facebook /Twitter /Newsletetter archive | | Watch Party for Organizing Rally with President Obama | |  Don't miss the watch party in Dallas this Tuesday -- it'll be a fun gathering with other OFA supporters, all watching the President's speech from Madison together and getting fired up about the last 35 days of the Vote 2010 campaign.
It starts at 5:30 pm -- can you make it?
Here are the details: What: Watch Party for Organizing Rally with President Obama
Where: SMU /6425 Boaz Lane /Dallas, TX 75205
When: Tuesday, September 28th 5:30 pm
| | Register to vote TODAY!! | | 
Register and Mail in Your Form Today
From Rock the Vote : The mail-in voter registration deadline for Texas is October 4th. Be sure you've registered to vote and mailed in your form by October 4th so you can vote in upcoming elections.
Remember, if you have changed your address or moved since you last registered, you need to re-register by October 4th as well.
If you have already registered to vote, then please forward this notice to all your friends.
Check your registration ( Texas Secretary of State's Office ) here Click here to find your local League of Women Voters Chapter http://www.tarrantcounty.com/evote/site/default.asp | | Go Burleson ! Bus trip to One Nation Rally and they want you to come along to DC!!! | |  If anyone is interested in attending the One Nation rally and needs a ride, there is a bus leaving from Burleson, Texas.
Bus trip to One Nation Rally (Bus Rides to the 10-2-10 rally in DC)
Bus will leave Burleson area at 10AM on Friday Oct 1, arriving D.C. on Sat morning, Oct 2. Bus will take you from rally to Dulles Worldgate Marriot. The evening will be yours. We will leave at 9 AM Sunday morning Oct 3, and arrive back in Burleson around 6 AM Monday morning Oct 4. The price for this will be $275 double occupancy and $321 single. Coolers are allowed on the bus but NO GLASS. gordie6221@gmail or 817-832-5931
Contact Gordie for payment info.
Time Thursday, September 30, 2010 CDT
Host Gordie Twerberg Contact Phone817-832-5931
Location Burleson, TX (Burleson, TX) Burleson, TX 76097
Bus or Car Rides to Washington, DC for the 10-2-10 Rally Please be sure to CALL the trip organizer to make sure they know you are coming and are reserving a seat for you. | | Democracy Now | |  Paul Mason on Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global
The Census Bureau's latest report shows that the numbers of Americans living in poverty and without health insurance have skyrocketed. 43.6 million people-about one in seven-lived below the poverty level of $22,000 for a family of four in 2009, pushing the national poverty rate to a fifteen-year high of 14.3 percent. We speak with British journalist Paul Mason about his new book, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global.
Listen/Watch/Read
Glenn Greenwald on Iran, Tea Party Candidates, Jon Stewart and Obama's Assassination Policy
We speak with Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and the political and legal blogger for Salon.com. Greenwald discusses White House rhetoric toward Iran; Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's planned rallies in Washington, DC; the Obama administration's assassination policy that includes targeting US citizens; tea party candidates in the November midterm elections; and much more.
Listen/Watch/Read
Legendary British Author John le Carré on Why He Won't Be Reading Tony Blair's Iraq War-Defending Memoir
David Cornwell, the legendary British novelist who writes under the name John le Carré, joins us in London. A former British spy, his books include The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, and The Constant Gardener. On the heels of the publication of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Iraq war-defending memoir A Journey, le Carré explains why he refused to interview Blair and why he won't be reading his memoir.
Listen/Watch/Read
John le Carré: "The United States of America Has Gone Mad"
While John le Carré is famous for his spy novels, he wrote a widely read antiwar essay in 2003 titled "The United States of America Has Gone Mad." He reads an excerpt.
Listen/Watch/Read
| | Wine and Cheese House Party for U.S. Congressional District 26 Candidate Neil Durrance | | 
Long-time friends and Democrats Martha Sutton and Anne Oakley invite you to a house party benefiting Democratic candidate, Neil Durrance. Neil would like to take this opportunity to answer your questions concerning important issues. Please join us!
Saturday, September 25 /7-9 p.m. /3205 Blue Jay Dr. /Corinth, Tx. 76210
Please RSVP at 940-395-1361 or 940-390-6245. | | Jobs for Justice local events | |  At 11 AM on Friday, October 1st, a press conference is scheduled in the Flag Room at the Dallas City Hall. Progressive activists from an ever-broadening coalition will give their view of the crisis and its solutions.
Rally from 1 to 3 PM on Saturday, October 2, after the morning's GOTV effort. Meet at St. Luke Community United Methodist Church, 5710 East R.L. Thornton, Dallas.
Civil rights, peace, retiree, and union organizations are asking their members to participate. The United Auto Workers union writes: "Join us in the fight to create millions of new jobs, a fair banking system and an economy that works for all! It's time we all work together to say, 'Enough is enough!' Our UAW regions and local unions are working together
The Dallas AFL-CIO is organizing phone banking Monday-Thursday and door-knocking every Saturday morning. Volunteer at 214-826-4808 or http://act.aflcio.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=642
Texans in other counties can also volunteer to work with the labor movement: http://www.texasaflcio.org/. Not a union member but want to be? Join Working America http://www.workingamerica.org.
| | Lingenfelder for Congress: Be among the very first to wish Sam Johnson a happy retirement! | | 
I am proud to introduce my campaign's new program to highlight the failures of my opponent for about every cross section of families in Texas. Today we roll out our www.RetireSam.com program where we will be hand delivering all of the happy retirement cards with your well wishes to him directly.
I need your help to make sure we send him thousands of cards, so here are a few things you can do to ask your friends to send a card of their own.
1. Forward this email to everyone in your email contacts
2. Post Join me in wishing a happy retirement for Sam Johnson TX - 03 at www.RetireSam.com to your Facebook and Twitter pages.
3. Make a donation of $7.93 to help us reach 100 people on Facebook to ask them to sign the card - Link to Donate Page.
Keep checking back at our new site www.JohnForTexas.com for new updates on how you can help retire Sam Johnson. | | North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | |
 Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
By Arianna Huffington
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It's not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player. That the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation.
The evidence is all around us:
Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the kind of jobs that have formed the backbone of our economy for more than a century; our education system is in shambles, making it harder for tomorrow's workforce to acquire the information and training it needs to land good twenty-first century jobs; our infrastructure-our roads, our bridges, our sewage and water, our transportation and electrical systems-is crumbling; our economic system has been reduced to recurring episodes of Corporations Gone Wild; our political system is broken, in thrall to a small financial elite using the power of the checkbook to control both parties.
And America's middle class, the driver of so much of our economic success and political stability, is rapidly disappearing, forcing us to confront the fear that we are slipping as a nation - that our children and grandchildren will enjoy fewer opportunities and face a lower standard of living than we did.
It's the dark flipside of the American Dream - an American Nightmare of our own making.
Arianna Huffington, who, with the must-read Huffington Post, has her finger on the pulse of America, unflinchingly tracks the gradual demise of America as an industrial, political, and economic leader. In the vein of her fiery bestseller Pigs at the Trough, Third World America points fingers, names names, and details who's killing the American Dream.
| | North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | |  Texas Democratic Women of Collin County
Monday -September 27, 2010 General Meeting, 6:45pm at the Preston Ridge Campus of Collin College, 9700 Wade Blvd Frisco, Texas, Founders Hall, Shawnee Room F148.
Members Alicia Bergeld and Amy Lawrence will be our highlighted speakers. We look forward to hearing about their personal experiences living and working abroad.
Alicia Bergfeld attended graduate school for International Relations at Webster University in Geneva. The fall of 2006 was an exciting time to be abroad because of the impact of the 2006 midterm elections. She interned at the International Council of Nurses, an international NGO, and attended numerous conferences at the UN and throughout the city. One of her most lasting impressions was how much more closely people followed US politics compared to American citizens.
The Democratic Party of Collin County Is On the Move!
Collin County MegaWalk Saturday, October 2nd -9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Have You Had Enough of the Incumbents? Be a Part of the Effort To Turn Out Democratic Voters for a Change To Restore Integrity All the Way From the Governor's Mansion to Collin County Government!
Come join your fellow Democratic volunteers and Precinct Chairs, along with candidates, for a Collin County "MegaWalk." This coordinated effort will take place a couple of weeks before Early Voting Starts, and one month before Election Day. The election is nearly upon us!
We will be conducting voter surveys with Democratic voters in three specifically targeted precincts in the county, to be announced. The MegaWalk will start at 9 a.m. with a general training and distribution of walk lists, scripts, and literature. Each walk list will be easy to complete and you will only be knocking on doors of voters with a Democratic voting history. The Saturday morning meeting location will be announced soon. Your participation can make a difference!
Please RSVP to the GOTV (Get Out the Vote) Committee via email to gotv@collindems.us.
Richardson/North Dallas Democrats
Tuesday, September 28:
7 PM, Wizards, 747 North Central Expressway | | Texas Young Democrats to create one of the largest virtual phonebanks | | 
Sept 28th - Oct. 3rd: Help us reach out to young voters in the state!
In 2008, young voters across the nation came out in record numbers to elect the President, many of them for the first time. We opened a new door for our generation to get involved with our country, yet historically, young people tend to shut the door during midterm elections. With all we worked for in 08, we cannot afford to let that happen.
During September 28th through October 3rd, Young and College Democrats are coming together to create one of the largest virtual phonebanks in the state to reach out to 1st time Young voters. We need to make sure that their voices and vote will help elect candidates locally. Candidates like Bill White, Linda Chavez-Thompson, and local Congressional and State Representatives who will end the rising costs of tuition, increase protections as we enter the workplace, end bad practices from credit card companies, and ensure that our generation will be able to achieve the same and even better dream that our parents hoped for.
In order to accomplish this, we need you to come out and help again! When you sign up to help, you will have to attend a quick webinar to go over the script, processes, and which targeted races you can call into.Click here to sign up to help: HERE | | Bring Our War $$ Home Rally - Dallas Oct 2 | | 
When: Saturday, October 2, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Where: St. Luke "Community" UMC, 5710 East R.L. Thornton Frwy., Dallas
On October 2nd we will support the One Nation Working Together rally in Washington DC.with a lcall rally at St Luke Community United Methodist Church. One of the largest coalitions of progressive organizations in our lifetime has come together to demand a people's agenda from our government. This gathering on 10.2.10 provides an important opportunity for peace and anti-war activists to work closely with and support other activists across the progressive political spectrum, to spread our message and voice our demands:
Jobs and economic recovery /Cuts in military spending to fund human needs /Peace abroad and renewable energy at home /Bring the troops and War dollars home now
We must create a people's movement for peace and justice that will transcend the October 2nd event so that a united voice of concerns from our local communities is heard and appropriate actions are taken by our Government officials.
It was the people united that moved the Civil Rights Bill into law. It was people protesting in millions across the United States in 1969 that brought the Vietnam War to an end, and in the 1920's the passage of the 19th Amendment for woman's rights. Every human rights law written in the United State of America is as a direct result of people standing in solidarity and demanding justice.
Join us on October 2! MAP | | Health Reform Hits Main Street | | 
Confused about how the new health reform law really works? This short, animated movie -- featuring the "YouToons" -- explains the problems with the current health care system, the changes that are happening now, and the big changes coming in 2014.
Watch here
Written and produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation | | | | | We Haven't Hit Bottom Yet By BOB HERBERT NY Times | | Marcus Vogt is 20 years old and homeless. Or, as he puts it, "I'm going through a couch-surfing phase."
Mr. Vogt is a Wal-Mart employee but he was injured in a car accident and was unable to work for a couple of months. With no income and no health insurance, he quickly found himself unable to pay the rent. Even meals were hard to come by.
(His situation is quite a statement about real life in the United States in the 21st century. On the same day that I spoke with Mr. Vogt, Forbes magazine came out with its list of the 400 most outrageously rich Americans.)
read on | | 
| | North Texas Progressive Newsletter Nancy Cunningham
Editor
Contact: Nancy This newsletter is a project of the North Texas Progressive , which is an umbrella organization for the Dallas Air America group, which was founded in 2004 to promote and support progressive talk radio and independent media in North Texas. Visit the North Texas Progressive web pages to get more information. Newsletter archive Sponsor the newsletter here ! | | | The Errington Thompson Show | | 
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| | Neil Durrance for Congress | | 
Return Government to the People
26the Congressional District of Texas
-Keep American jobs in America
-Make health care affordable for all U.S. citizens
-Increase Pell Grants and decrease tuition
940.239.0380
www.durranceforcongress.com
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| | John Lingenfelder for Congress | | 
I'm John Lingenfelder and I am proud to be running for the US House of Representatives from Texas 3rd Congressional District. I am a small business owner, a community activist and a lifelong Texan - and I am running for Congress to bring real representation to the 3rd Congressional District
P.O. Box 864305
Plano TX 75086-4305
PHONE: (972) 468-1127
www.lingenfelderforcongress.com/
| | Dallas Drinking Liberally is hitting the streets! | | 
We need volunteers to help plan our first annual pub crawl tentatively set for Saturday, October 16. All DL Members and friends are invited! It will be fun, help publicize Dallas Drinking Liberally and more fun. I'm setting up a planning date now, so call, text or email me if you can help.
Can't volunteer but still wanna come? Fine, just let me know!
Julie :)
214-264-4804
jewelsabby@aol.com
Drinking Liberally endorses drinking responsibly because not drinking responsibly is so not cool. Get a designated driver or call a cab, but take care of yourself and everybody else on the road. We need you.
| | State Fair of Texas admission bargains and help local food banks | | Opening Day September 24: Bring a full 20 oz. Coca-Cola product for donation to the North Texas Food Bank containers at Fair admission gates and enter the State Fair for $4 per donation per person.
Seniors 60 and over: Free every Thursday (Sept. 30, Oct. 7
& Oct. 14)
Participating North Texas Kroger stores: Advance purchase General Admission tickets are $13.50. A Season Pass is $29.95.
Kroger Can Food Drive: Any Wednesday admission is $2 for each visitor bringing 3 cans of food for area food banks.
Any Day: McDonald's offers $4 off General Admission with one of their State Fair coupons (available on tray liner or bag stuffer) any day of the Fair. A free child ticket (with purchase of general admission) coupon is also distributed by McDonald's. Offer may not be combined with any other offer. 
Dr Pepper $3 Tuesdays: Every Tuesday, bring an empty Dr Pepper can and enter for $3. Most rides (excluding the Thrillway and the Texas Star) are 5 coupons.
Dr Pepper $5 after 5: Any day after 5 p.m. Bring an empty Dr Pepper can and enter for $5 after 5 p.m.
Coke $4 Thursday: Bring an empty 20 oz. bottle of a Coca-Cola product and enter the Fair for $4 admission.
Free Thursday admission: Bring a Cinemark Theater ticket stub.
Dickies Day: Thursday, Sept. 30. Anyone wearing a Dickies logo clothing item will receive a free voucher for admission to the Fair on same day. | | Democratic Party Fundraising Reception | | Democratic Party Fundraising Reception
September 29, 2010 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Ghostbar - The W Hotel
2440 Victory Park Lane 33rd Floor
Dallas, TX 75219
You are Invited to Attend a Fundraising Reception Benefiting The Dallas County Democratic Party Media Campaign
Democratic DonkeyHonoring the Dallas County Democratic Judiciary and Democratic Candidates
Hosted by
The Dallas Democratic Lawyers Association Baron & Budd, P.C.Buchanan & Bellan, L.L.P.Waters & Kraus, L.L.P.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Ghostbar
The W Hotel, 2440 Victory Park Lane 33rd Floor
Appetizers · Complimentary Beverages
RSVP Amelia Wilson for more information
214-525-3756 / awilson@baronbudd.com
| | Announcing a new Meetup for The Dallas Alternative Energy Meetup Group! | | What: The Element Hotel,, a LEED certified Tour
When: Thursday, September 30, 2010 6:00 PM
Where: The Element Hotel
3550 Highway 635 The Lobby
Irving, TX 75063 /972-929-9800
Come join us for the first of two meetups this month, this one will be at the Element Hotel which promotes balance through flowing, multi-purpose spaces. Influenced by nature, the smart, environmentally-friendly design maximizes space and enables you to use each area in multiple ways. We will start at 6pm, but those joining late will be able to make it. We recognize that many people coming out of Dallas will be dealing with Rush Hour Traffic. The Element is located at 3550 Highway 635, Irving, Texas 75063. Exit Beltline, hotel is on South West corner. We are meeting in the Lobby. There is no cost involved and we will join the hotel for their evening reception, with fruit, snackies and drinks. The hotel is trying to arrange for the Architect to come speak with us about what went into the construction project to make it LEED Certified. Hopefully, they will also speak about the business decisions involved in being an environmentally friendly company and how they have made it a profitable decision. We will tour the hotel and have a question and answer segment afterwards.
RSVP to this Meetup:here
| | More Than 100,000 RSVP For Stewart, Colbert D.C. Rallies On Facebook | |
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's planned Washington rallies are still more than a month away, but if Facebook is any indication, they can expect a huge turnout -- one that could eclipse "Restoring Honor," Glenn Beck's evangelical gathering that inspired the Comedy Central duo to do their own. More than 100,000 people have RSVP'd for Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" on Facebook -- and another 1,900 say they "might" attend.
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