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Demand CA Republicans shut down their fake, misleading Obamacare website

It's outrageous that Republican legislators in California are using taxpayer dollars to intentionally mislead their constituents, sow fear and confusion, and divert Californians away from CoveredCA.com -- California's health insurance exchange under Obamacare. They must take down the site immediately.

Demand Congress Fund Food Stamps for Needy Kids this Thanksgiving

As the economy continues to struggle, millions of needy families in the U.S. rely on food stamps to survive. Food stamps have already been cut earlier this year and House Republicans want nearly $40 billion in cuts next year! Click here to tell your member of Congress not to make any more cuts to this vital program.

Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel: Take Stronger Action NOW to protect LGBT service members!

6 states -- including Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Texas -- think they are above the law of the land and are refusing to allow same-sex married couples in the National Guard to register for spousal benefits despite a federal mandate. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered “immediate action” for these states to comply with the law, but so far they are not backing down. He's on our side, but now we need to make him finish the job.

Speaker Boehner: Don’t stand in the way of equal employment for LGBT Americans. Allow a vote on ENDA.

Did you know you can still be fired for being gay in 29 states and for being transgender in 33 states? The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace. ENDA just passed the Senate with a bipartisan majority and Speaker Boehner at least needs to allow an up-or-down vote in the House of Representatives, even if he doesn't support the bill himself.

Tell the Dept. of Education: Investigate predatory lending to students & schools

Public universities and community colleges are drowning in debt to Wall Street due to predatory loans, and the schools have responded by passing the cost of these bad loans on to students in the form of HIGHER tuition fees. We need the Dept. of Education to investigate this predatory lending now and you can help make it happen by clicking here!

SAN FRANCISCO PROGRESSIVE VOTER GUIDE

When you vote in the November 5th San Francisco election, will you be ready to vote on all four ballot propositions? There are TWO very important but somewhat tricky propositions this year, but we're here to help! Check out the San Francisco Progressive Voter Guide and see what some of California's most trusted progressive organizations have to say.

Win a new MACBOOK PRO laptop, while supporting the fight for progressive change

All you need to do is make a tax-deductible donation of $10 or more to support our ongoing progressive campaigns, and we'll enter you in the raffle to win a new MacBook Pro. Courage Campaign exists to raise the voices of hundreds of thousands of Americans to affect real, progressive change. We have so much more to do, but in order for us to keep fighting and maintain our independence, we have to have support from individual donors like you.

Mayor Lee: Stop catering to the 1%. Start fighting for an affordable San Francisco

The cost of living in San Francisco has spiraled out of control, but Mayor Lee refuses to act. Big banks and wealthy investors continue to build expensive new developments where only the wealthiest 1% can afford to live, driving up prices and forcing working families out of the city. Mayor Lee must start representing everyone who lives in San Francisco, not just the rich.

The Obamacare Reality Response Team

'Generation Opportunity,' a Koch Brothers funded front group, is using highly polished, deceptive, anti-Obamacare ad campaigns to target college students on campus and young working Americans to get them to opt out of the Affordable Care Act. Join our Obamacare Reality Response Team and help stop the Koch Brothers from using their misleading and lying ads to destroy Obamacare!

VOTE: Should Courage Campaign take on this fight?

We need your input before we gear up to take on the National Organization for Marriage (NOM)’s latest and most regressive attack against our transgender youth in California. They are currently gathering signatures for a 2014 ballot measure. If we’re going to act, we need to act now. As a member-driven organization, Courage Campaign must consult with our members before taking an official position on ballot measures. We need 60% of our members to agree with our staff recommendation.

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Success Stories

Making Mayor Lee Listen

Our petition demanding Mayor Lee take action to address the cost of living in San Francisco got overwhelming media attention thanks in part to a mention of "$4 toast." After the San Francisco Chronicle featured it on its homepage for more than a day, SFist and Curbed(SF) joined in. We clearly got the Mayor's attention, and now we need to make sure he takes meaningful action to help make San Francisco affordable for everyone once again. Click here to join the fight.

Victory on Props B & C

Together with our friends at ACCE, we helped defeat Props B and C in San Francisco thanks to our Progressive Voter Guide! More than 62% of voters rejected a ritzy development on the waterfront that would have only catered to multi-millionaires, while doing little to address San Francisco's affordable housing crisis. Now, Mayor Ed Lee needs to focus on making the city affordable for everyone. Click here to send him a message.

VICTORY: One step away from a major victory against the “War on Drugs”

Because of more than 13,000 Courage Campaign member-activists, the Local Control in Sentencing Act, SB 649, passed the Legislature and is now on Governor Brown’s desk. This historic and bi-partisan drug sentencing reform bill will save taxpayer dollars and reduce overcrowding in our prisons by allowing prosecutors to charge non-violent drug possession as a misdemeanor, rather than as a felony. However, we need your help to push this bill over the finish line.

VICTORY: LIFE ACT passes CA Legislature

Courage Campaign led the fight for gun safety and the Legislature listened. The California Senate and Assembly passed the gun violence prevention package known as the LIFE (Lifesaving Intelligent Firearms Enforcement) Act and now we need to urge Gov. Brown to stand up to the NRA and immediately sign this lifesaving legislation.

PROGRESS: We stopped Gov. Brown's irresponsible prison expansion plan

Thousands of Courage Campaign member-activists and our coalition partners stood up to the most powerful politicians in the state and made it clear that endless expansion of prison capacity for the benefit of private corporations has no place in California. Our tsunami of opposition forced Gov. Brown to agree to a compromise plan that could prevent the state from wasting $715 million of precious taxpayer dollars -- which were promised to restore our schools and vital services under Prop 30 -- and instead open up more opportunities for inmate rehabilitation. It's all up to the court now. We need your help to continue to fight for saner, more fiscally responsible reform of California's vast and deeply corrupt prison-industrial complex.

VICTORY: We saved the LA Times from the Kochs

Because of our YOUR activism, the Koch Brothers dropped their bid for the Los Angeles Times and the rest of the Tribune Company newspapers! Together with our partners, we forced a real public examination of what it would mean for right-wing extremists to push their agenda via ten of the country's biggest, most respected newspapers. Now it’s up to us again to stop David Koch from corrupting the leading PBS station in the country, WGBH.

VICTORY: Sens. Feinstein and Boxer call the GOP's bluff on filibuster

After hearing from more than eleven thousand Courage members, Senators Boxer and Feinstein endorsed the so-called "nuclear option" to change filibuster rules and confirm President Obama's executive branch nominations. Faced with such strength, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell caved. Click here to join us in saying "Thanks!" to CA's Senators!

VICTORY: Prop 8 is gone!

Thanks to our colleagues at the American Foundation for Equal Rights and the work you did to educate the public, build a majority for marriage equality and win more states, the Supreme Court ruled the proponents of Prop 8 do not have standing to defend the initiative in court, which means Judge Walker's ruling becomes final and Prop 8 ends! Marriages will resume late July or early August 2013. Now let's take this national!

VICTORY: DOMA struck down!

Thanks to a brilliant legal team and to the hard work YOU have done to educate the public about what DOMA is and why it must go, the Supreme Court struck down DOMA as unconstitutional! Now we need to make sure it's implemented "with all deliberate speed" by the federal government.

VICTORY: LIFE Act passes California Senate

Thanks to YOUR support of the Lifesaving Intelligent Firearms Enforcement (LIFE) Act, California is now 33% percent of the way toward the safest, smartest gun laws in the country. All eight bills that make up the LIFE Act have passed the State Senate, and one (SB 140) has already been signed into law by Gov. Brown. Next up, the Assembly.