Action Archive

When the 2010 budget was moving through Congress, conservatives, while refusing to support the budget out of a misguided sense of "fiscal responsibility", inserted an amendment into the budget that would cut the estate tax for the richest 5,854 multimillionaire families in America, while costing the government over $300 billion in lost revenue over the next 10 years. Just when it looked like this wildly irresponsible and regressive measure was going to find safe harbor in the budget, we responded by asking progressives to make their voices heard. more »

After the success of passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Obama's next big priority was to pass the fiscal 2010 federal budget resolutions. Once again, the conservative opposition mounted a fierce campaign to embrace the failures of Herbert Hoover and the Bush presidency, and even supported an alternative budget which called for more Bush-style tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy as a way to get us out of the recession those same policies helped create. Once again, we called on the progressive community to fight for real solutions from Congress. more »

As one of President Obama's first acts of office he called on Congress to pass his American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Conservatives responded with their typical obstruction and failed ideas, and when anti-investment pressure was mounting on Congress from the Right, we asked our supporters to step in and tell Congress that Americans demand economic recovery for Main Street, not the alternative do-nothing plan. more »

During one weekend in January, CNN turned over a total of four hours of programming to the financial backers and stars of the anti-investment documentary “I.O.U.S.A." We demanded that CNN give equal time to public investment strategies that will put our economy back on a sound footing. more »

When the Bush administration sent a request to Congress for a $700 billion blank check for Wall Street Campaign for America's Future jumped into action, and so did progressives all across the country. Within days, progressives sent over 80,000 emails to members of Congress demanding that any bailout measure passed through Congress must contain strict oversight, new regulations, and help for Main Street, not just Wall Street. more »

The Campaign for America's Future delivered 85 pages of signatures from people across the country demanding the resignation of the acting chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Nancy Nord. The organization also produced a controversial YouTube video to highlight the failures of the CPSC and the conservative ideology governing the agency.

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We empowered our supporters to send a message of their choice to Wal-Mart -- through a prominent billboard that we reserved less than one mile from Wal-Mart's Bentonville, Ark., World Headquarters. We received thousands of excellent slogan submissions, and narrowed the field to ten finalists. more »

The campaign to expose the truth about Wal-Mart began with the promotion of the Robert Greenwald documentary, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price." Working with Brave New Films, Campaign for America's Future joined a coalition that sponsored over 7,000 citizen screening parties, giving the documentary a true people's premiere. more »