Corporations are spending investors’ money and retirement accounts -- maybe even YOURS -- to influence elections and lawmakers. But if we speak out right now we can enlist one of the biggest mutual funds in the country to put a stop to secret influence-trading. Shockingly, most corporate political spending is hidden to even their stockholders. But any publicly traded company has to disclose all of its political spending if enough of its shareholders ask. Here’s the problem: on their own, individual stockholders don’t control enough stock to win majority support for a pro-disclosure shareholder resolution. Most stock is held by institutional investors like mutual funds, who tend let the corporation’s executives call the shots. So even when a majority of people who own stock want disclosure, they can’t get it done without institutional investors. That’s why we’re calling on Vanguard, the largest mutual fund in the nation, to vote FOR disclosure whenever a resolution comes up.

For months, Donald Trump has been making up his own "facts" about Mexican Immigrants. Now, Donald Trump is using a heavily doctored video to back up his outrageous claims and the Iowa media is letting him get away with it. It was recently discovered that Donald Trump's campaign manipulated and doctored video footage from an Italian television network to portray Mexican immigrants running across the United State's southern border. In the ad, which is currently airing across Iowa television stations, a narrator says Trump will "stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for." However, PolitiFact traced the footage back to the Italian television network RepubblicaTV from 2014. They discovered that the video wasn't from the US border at all, but from Morocco, a country in northern Africa. PolitiFact also discovered that Trump’s video editors removed both RepubblicaTV’s logo and the 2014 timestamp from the original footage before using it in their commercial. This intentional misrepresentation and manipulation is unacceptable and media outlets across Iowa should refuse to air the ad. If we can demonstrate a strong public response to the fake footage, we can put an end -- at least for now -- to his anti-immigrant fear mongering message. Please join with us in demanding that Iowa media outlets pull Donald Trump's racist and misleading television advertisement.

An energy company from Oklahoma wants to frack near Rio Rancho in a residential area. Fracking can contaminate drinking water, can cause earthquakes and decreases property values. This dangerous, industrial practice should NOT be allowed near our homes. The Sandoval County Planning & Zoning Commission and the County Commission are considering this proposal — we MUST make it clear that this permit should not be approved.

As a personal investor in Star Trek: Axanar, an independent film project which has demonstrated superior writing, direction, filmography, and casting, is now threatened by a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Paramount Pictures and CBS. I am petitioning that CBS and Paramount lift their lawsuit and let this crowdfunded project move forward. This project is exactly what fans have wanted for the Star Trek universe for years, but CBS/Paramount has failed to deliver on it.

ABC, NBC, CBS & CNN are engaged in rigging the Democratic primaries in favor of Hillary Clinton and obstructing Bernie Sanders. Limiting coverage of Bernie Sanders and the grassroots movement of millions of supporters is violation of "Equal Time Rule", "Public Need to Know" and "Censorship of the People". The pattern to ignore, downplay and mis-characterize Sanders' positions is an attempt to manipulate pubic opinion with intent to subvert the Democratic process. As American citizens, we have the right to a fair election process and for our voices, which number in millions, to be heard.

A new CNN poll showed that Sanders had gained 4% since CNN's last poll in November, and Clinton had lost 8%. That totals up to a 12% swing in Sanders' favor, with last night's poll having Clinton up 16% total, 50% to 34% for Bernie Sanders. On CNN's website and television network, they have been hiding the actual poll data by showing "interview results" that have Clinton gaining support after the debate. When CNN got a poll result that showed Bernie Sanders had almost cut Clinton's lead in half, they used data that wasn't even a part of the poll to spin it as great news for Hillary Clinton. Their headline for the poll's article on their website is "CNN poll: Post-debate, voters move to Clinton", their news ticker on TV is only mentioning the "interview results" and not the actual poll results. For more information, you can read this article: http://progressorperil.com/2015/12/24/blatant-clinton-propaganda-from-cnn/

BAT has conspired to sabotage lifesaving laws that threaten its billions of dollars in profits. In a documentary aired by the BBC on November 30, a whistleblower at BAT described how the corporation funded illegal corporate espionage, and how it bribed politicians and policymakers in countries like Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda. Shockingly, evidence suggests some of these illicit activities were even sanctioned and authorized by a regional BAT executive. But the worldwide outrage stirred by this documentary can be a catalyst to curb BAT’s abuses in a big way. The global tobacco treaty gives governments the backing of international law to hold tobacco corporations accountable for just this kind of illicit activity. And governments including the U.K., Kenya, and Uganda have anti-corruption laws that prohibit this kind of bribery outright. This also has implications in the United States. BAT, one of the largest publicly traded tobacco corporations in the world, owns 42 percent of Reynolds American, Inc., a major U.S. tobacco corporation whose subsidiaries distribute BAT’s deadly brands like Lucky Strike and Pall Mall. The U.S. also has anti-corruption laws that protect against foreign bribery by corporations traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Will you join people around the world to demand that BAT pay for sabotaging lifesaving laws? Participating organizations: Corporate Accountability International International Labor Rights Forum Rainforest Action Network RootsAction Watchdog.net Action on Smoking and Health, US Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Framework Convention Alliance Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance

Billionaire GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson's just purchased the Las Vegas Review Journal, taking over the most important newspaper in a critical swing state. Adelson’s ownership is already making an impact: last month, journalists at the RJ were instructed to monitor three Clark County judges, including one presiding over a lawsuit against one of Adelson's own companies! That's straight out of the Fox News playbook -- not how an independent newspaper operates. Adelson has already used his $38 billion dollar fortune to buy massive political influence -- the most recent GOP debate was even at one of his luxury hotels. Now he's set his sights on news outlets Americans depend on to make informed decisions at the polls. First he wants to buy our elections, then he buys our news? This needs to stop. The RJ’s already conservative-leaning editorial page is free to push any viewpoints it wants -- but it's absolutely unconscionable if Sheldon Adelson is telling beat reporters to target his political opponents. It’s clear we need a public editor to discourage any ethically-questionable practices. Most investigative journalism still comes from newspaper newsrooms -- even if it ends up on the evening news or online later. That's why it's critically important that the RJ appoint a public editor, whose job is to independently investigate potential breaches of journalistic ethics like this one. We can’t let news outlets that millions of voters rely on become megaphones or attack dogs for Sheldon Adelson -- or any other billionaire with a political agenda. Join us in calling on the Las Vegas Review Journal to appoint a public editor.

Trump has received 234 total network minutes compared to just 10 network minutes for Sanders. In giving Trump so much free air time, the networks are propping up his campaign and spreading his hate and bigotry.

The news media is completely obsessed with Donald Trump. This obsession is hurting our democracy and is rewarding Trump for extremism and bigotry. ABC, NBC, CBS and all the cable news channels are guilty of this. Consider the following... 1) Network news has covered Donald Trump more than the entire Democratic field combined. Notably, ABC World News devoted 81 minutes of coverage to Donald Trump. By contrast, they have only given about 20 seconds of coverage to Bernie Sanders over the entire year. 2) So far this year, Donald Trump has accounted for 27% of all campaign coverage on the nightly news programs. 3) CNN has mentioned Donald Trump more than the rest of the Republican field combined and about 1.5x more than the Democratic field combined. 4) MSNBC has mentioned Donald Trump 56,748 times. By contrast, MSNBC has mentioned the entire Democratic field combined 34,807 times. 5) Fox News has had Donald Trump on air 1,366 minutes since the beginning of his announcement. That's nearly 2.5 times more airtime than the candidate with the next most airtime. 6) Even worse, the news media goes out of their way to give Trump special privileges. They let him call in to shows at significantly higher rates than other candidates. This matters a lot because it enables Trump's consumption of airtime by allowing him to appear on multiple shows by phone without concern for scheduling conflicts and logistics. Not to mention, the constant breaking in to cover the same old stump speech that Trump has been giving for months. And those are just a few examples that illustrate how out of control this has gotten. This hurts our democracy by crowding out coverage of other important issues and other candidates. And all it really does is reward Donald Trump's extremism and bigotry. Enough is enough. It's time for the news media to stop their obsession with Trump.

El Super managers unsuccessfully encouraged workers to decertify their union in 2014. A year after El Super workers voted to remain united as union members, they still do not have a contract from El Super. Following a federal court injunction—requiring El Super to rehire an unfairly fired union activist—the company promised to return to negotiations, but still has not done so. Members of the community have been boycotting El Super until they agree to negotiate with their employees. El Super’s practices not only hurt the company’s employees and their communities but also the industry. Please demand that El Super negotiate a fair union contract for workers.

Every night's news broadcast leads off with some story about Donald Trump. He gets more free air time than any other candidate of any party. News organizations have an obligation to give fair balanced reporting to all candidates.