This summer, ACT NOW will be holding a series of phone banks every Wednesday from 6:30-8:00PM where we will be reaching out to first-time Obama voters about the importance of supporting reformer Joe Sestak for Senate.
If you’ve heard enough about projected Democratic losses in the upcoming midterm elections and are ready to stand up and do […]

This July, ACT NOW is staking out the Union Square Farmers Market on Saturday mornings to help spread the word that NYC’s own state Senator, Eric Schneiderman, is running for Attorney General! 
As state Senator, Eric has been a tireless reformer of our notoriously dysfunctional state government. He has sponsored and passed legislation on Wall Street […]

New York State has some of the most lax campaign finance reform laws in the country — allowing corporations and special interests to spend unlimited sums of money on campaigns — and we have had enough. We must begin strengthening our state campaign finance regulations now, before this legislative session ends.
That’s why ACT NOW wrote […]

Thanks for joining ACT NOW, Living Liberally, Democracy for New York City, Democrats.com, Greater NYC for Change, Manhattan Young Democrats, and New York Democratic Lawyers Council for an evening of dynamic debate on money in politics in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision.
Panelists include State Senator Daniel Squadron, outspoken advocate of campaign […]

ACTivists, your involvement is crucial to our success in 2010, and it is shaping up to be a very important and exciting year. In the space below, please share the races and issues that have caught your attention and which you can see yourself working on in the coming months, on a state or federal […]

ACTivists, 2010 promises to be a big year, full of opportunities to make our voices heard on the progressive issues that are most important to us. To that end, we are planning a Strategy Session, like the ones you’ve attended in the past, but reflective of the new questions and challenges we face. Namely, we’ve […]

Do you know people in Connecticut who support health care reform?  Give them a call and urge them to contact Senator Joe Lieberman, who has vowed to filibuster any bill containing a public option.  All they have to do is call a number below (or write a letter, if they’d prefer), indicate their support for […]

ACT NOW has been putting the screws to Joe Lieberman, contacting his constituents and urging them to pressure the intransigent Senator to support real, progressive health care reform. He hasn’t been listening, which is too bad for the country and, ultimately, we believe, too bad for him.
We’ve got more phone banks and actions for health […]

Please take the time to write to your Senators and Congressmen, urging them to pass real health reform with a strong public option.Click here to find and contact your Senator.
Click here to find and contact your Congressperson.
If you are Uninsured…
I’m one of the 46 million Americans in this country without insurance. It’s too expensive to […]

Join us on Wednesdays and Thursdays for the next two weeks at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, to speak face-to-face with constituents of Staten Island Congressman, Michael McMahon. McMahon is reportedly on the fence about health care reform and he needs to hear from his constituents that real reform cannot wait. We’ll be giving them […]