OFA could have provided enormous support to Democratic members of Congress that they critically needed in 2009. With 13 million enthusiastic members, they could have launched a fundraising drive right after the election that swelled the coffers of every Democrat in Congress and freed them from their ties to lobbyists.

But those were the ties that Rahm Emanuel was trying to forge not break, so that didn’t happen.

Each of these members of Congress will all receive a $10,000 FDL ActBlue fundraiser, and the FDL community will phone bank into their districts to ID 500 likely voters for GOTV efforts. At that point, we’ll open up the contest for Round 2 and start it again in a contest for 3 more candidates.

Donate and sign up for phone banking now

Vote now for the 2010 FDL Fire Dogs

Today Anthony Weiner moves past Raul Grijalva and challenges Eric Massa for the third spot as a 2010 FDL Fire Dog. With two days left to go, there are only 151 votes separating them.

And the third day totals for the FDL Fire Dogs are:

During a hearing Rep. Dennis Kucinich got a simple but powerful admission from top executives at the largest insurance companies in the country. Kucinich asked, “Do you believe that a health insurers refusal to pay for a patient’s cancer treatment can directly or indirectly cause harm or death to that patient?” In turn each of [...]