The Supreme Court has gutted more than one hundred years of campaign finance laws and given corporations and the rich even more power over our government -- with the outrageous rationale that limiting spending on elections limits speech. If our democratic system of representative government is to survive, these deeply damaging rulings must be overturned. SB 1272 will put a proposition on this November's ballot that will let California voters demand that Congress create a constitutional amendment to do so. Tell the California Senate to pass it now!

Massachusetts coastal beaches have been available for recreational metal detecting for as long as I can remember. Recently I was approached by a DCR Ranger and advised that metal detecting will no longer be allowed on State Beaches and come July 1, 2014 citizens will start being ticketed if found to be metal detecting on a Massachusetts State Beach. I do not see why this form of recreation should be taken away from the citizens that enjoy metal detecting. There are thousands of us that enjoy the hobby and follow strict guidelines and a code of conduct when it comes to metal detecting. We remove any trash that we find on the beaches and we conduct ourselves in a respectable manner. In fact there have been sponsored events conducted by metal detecting vendors on Massachusetts beaches that have been enjoyed by many children and adults of this state. I personally don't know of any incident involving a metal detectorist that would give cause to ban detecting from beaches. As a matter of fact, I only know of metal detectorists helping others by returning lost jewelry and other items that they have found while detecting. We urge you to continue to allow the popular recreational activity of metal detecting on Massachusetts State Beaches.

.We find the actions of Ms. Carole Morris discriminatory in nature based on a personal political agenda and do not believe she would have overturned the decision of a predominately Caucasian school board majority

Senator Reid has neglected the State of Nevada's interests and led an ineffective, do-nothing Senate. His statements and votes are contrary to the people of Nevada's wishes and he must be removed from office before doing more harm as one of our elected Senators.

What's worse: that the NSA knew about a massive bug that could be catastrophic for Americans and did nothing, or that our supposed top spy agency had no clue about a gaping hole in our security for two years?

Over the past century, the federal government has pumped more than $470 billion into the gas and oil industry in the form of exorbitant, never-expiring tax breaks.

Voter lines in Florida were so bad in 2012, some people stayed in line for six hours just to cast their ballot. In heavily Democratic Miami-Dade County, it's about to get a lot worse — they won't even be able to use the bathroom.

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has dubbed herself the most transparent governor in state history. Yet newly released secret recordings reveal her advisers joking about the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women, a constitutionally-mandated advisory council which saw its funding gutted by Martinez. In the recordings, current New Mexico Human Services Department spokesman Matt Kennicott jokes another male adviser of Martinez direct the commission so he may "study more women." An expose by Mother Jones points to Martinez and her inner circle's attitude toward women, shows her laughing while discussing ways to cut teacher salaries, and even calling an elder legislator a "retard." These are not values any elected official should have.

NJ Citizen Action is launching this petition to demand that Governor Christie stop wasting taxpayer dollars to promote his political ambitions. Some of Gov Christie's most egregious tax-wasting hits include: 1. Spending over $1 million in legal fees, paid for by us, the New Jersey taxpayers, on an internal "investigation" exonerating him of all wrong doing in the Bridgegate scandal. 2. Mis-using 25 million in taxpayer dollars to fund the "Stronger than the Storm " ad campaign, featuring Gov Christie and his family, during an election year, when a bid from another firm which would not have featured Christie or his family, came in several million dollars cheaper. 3. Needlessly wasting 12 million in taxpayer dollars to fund a Special Senate Election, scheduled less than three weeks before the regularly scheduled November election, guaranteeing Governor Christie top billing on the November ballot.

It is egregious that our tax dollars support the killing of wildlife by the federal agency Wildlife Services. In 2012 they killed over 306,000 redwinged blackbirds, 400 river otters, 12,500 black tailed prairie dogs and much more. It is paramount that we stop slaughtering wildlife. This is the new century and we have new and better ways to sustain our ecosystems than by promoting killing.

The sooner the better for Congressional Term Limits. This would help stem campaign finance, bought-off representatives are not working for all of us, just their "sponsors" ( i.e. corporations, lobbyists, etc.).

We've barely recovered from McCutcheon vs. FEC. We're still fighting Citizens United. And now we have a new enemy: President Obama just signed a ban on the public funding of presidential conventions. If you were looking for a way to increase the dependency of crooked politicians on mega-rich donors, you just got your wish. Obama's law just dismantled what was left of an alternative public financing model set up after Watergate specifically to combat the rich drowning out the poor, allowing taxpayers to chip in a bit each year to balance corporate spending. If we let this go without a fight, we might as well give up the battle to reclaim our democracy now. Please, join us in calling on Congress to repeal this order, and stop the wholesale dismantling of campaign finance reform in the US!