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<p style="text-align: center; "><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Get this book and raise some hell for Medicare for All!</span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Dear Friend,<br />
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<img width="150" height="200" border="0" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="left" alt="" src="http://www3.thedatabank.com/hm/309/image/Roberta/ProgressivesGuide.jpg" />There’s only one force powerful enough to get us the change we want and voted for in 2008: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><strong>populism</strong></span>. <br />
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When 60% of Americans support a public alternative to private health insurance corporations, there is no stopping us.<br />
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My friend Jamie Court has a plan to get us the healthcare we deserve. In his new book, <em><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/publishers-weekly-reviews-the-progressives-guide-to-raising-hell/">The Progressive's Guide to Raising Hell: How to Win Grassroots Campaigns, Pass Ballot Box Laws, and Get the Change We Voted For</a></strong></em>, Jamie reveals the battle-proven tactics behind his consumer group’s victories against the insurance industry that can lead us to Medicare for all.<br />
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<a target="_blank" href="https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/donate.asp?formid=donate"><strong>Contribute $35 or more to PDA and receive Jamie’s book</strong></a>, which details his plan for remaking American healthcare. <br />
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The fact is <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><strong>we can no longer wait</strong></span> for “progressive” leaders to deliver the progress we voted for in 2008. We need to take matters into our own hands.<br />
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3RD0YObHok&feature=player_embedded"><img width="250" height="151" vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www3.thedatabank.com/hm/309/image/Roberta/RaisingHellGuideScreenShot.jpg" /></a>In <em>The Progressive’s Guide To Raising Hell</em>, Jamie points out that the state ballot measure process and online organizing provide a great opportunity to move healthcare reform forward. A veteran of two decades of ballot measure battles, <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><strong>Jamie and his group</strong></span><strong> </strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/"><strong>Consumer Watchdog</strong></a><strong> </strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><strong>believe health reform is ripe for a new voter revolt</strong></span>.<br />
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PDA will be working with Jamie and Consumer Watchdog to take progressive healthcare reform to the voters in ballot measure states like California. Please support PDA today with a contribution of $35 or more, and <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><strong>we’ll send you a free copy</strong></span> of <em>The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell</em> (Chelsea Green). <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/donate.asp?formid=donate">Click here to contribute</a>; insert “Raising Hell” in the special funds drive box.<br />
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Publishers Weekly writes of the book, “With great accessibility and a fired-up attitude, Court brings his <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><strong>lessons in empowerment</strong></span> to the people.” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/donate.asp?formid=donate">Please support PDA now</a>, and receive this important book. <br />
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Happy Holidays,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Michael Lighty<br />
PDA Advisory Board member and California Nurses Association Director of Public Policy</span></span></p>
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