[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Here's another great video needling Republican legislators for their vote to prevent the closure of what Speaker Fabian Nunez calls the "sloophole," better known as the yacht tax loophole.

The Campaign is trying to raise funds to put it on the air. You can contribute at Act Blue.

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Our friends at the Courage Campaign just released a new ad highlighting the priorities of the California Republican Party, aka "Yacht Party". The ad is below and an e-mail from Rick Jacobs of the Courage Campaign is over the flip...

by PeteB2 [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

[crossposted at Daily Kos]

The Courage Campaign and the Democratic party establishment are pushing back against the Dirty Tricks Initiative.

What can we as individuals do to help fight this campaign and hopefully prevent it from getting on the ballot?

Let me make a few suggestions:

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Fresh off its crusade to censure Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Courage Campaign appears to be keeping up the pressure on the California Democratic Party. Here's the email:

You changed the conversation. Now it's time to change the Democratic Party.

Two weeks ago, we asked you what to do about Senator Dianne Feinstein's troubling pattern of failing us on civil liberties and civil rights. You told us to support grassroots action within the party process.

And that's exactly what we did, starting last Tuesday. 

Five days of non-stop online and offline activism. 34,466 people signing on and spreading the word. 40 Democratic Clubs and progressive organizations organizing virtually overnight to try to pass the resolution to censure the Senator.

Your actions helped the Courage Campaign, MoveOn, and Progressive Democrats of America begin the process of holding Sen. Feinstein accountable for her pivotal Judiciary Committee votes to confirm Judges Michael Mukasey and Leslie Southwick -- and her potential future vote to give immunity to telecom companies for warrantless wiretapping.

There's more...

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Dear Readers,

My name is Bradley Whitford and I am an actor.

OK, if you want to stop reading now, I won't blame you...

Still here? Thanks. I totally understand your skepticism. I usually cringe when heady celebrities open their big mouths to pontificate about politics. While I may have portrayed political operative "Josh Lyman" on The West Wing, my political experience is probably a lot like yours.

That didn't stop me, of course, from recording a few YouTube videos about a month ago for the Courage Campaign, bluntly talking about the Electoral College dirty trick the Republicans were devising to steal the White House in 2008.

Well, now that the dirty trick ballot initiative is back from the dead (didn't hear the news? yep, some out-of-state fat cats are funding it), Courage is unearthing my second YouTube video. Never seen before. And on Halloween, no less.

You can click here to watch my my new YouTube about the dirty trick to steal the White House. 

But don't just watch the video. Take a second to support the Courage Campaign as well. Rick Jacobs and my good friends at Courage are doing amazing work right now to kill the dirty trick (again) AND block Blackwater's base on the California border.