I have asthma and hypothyroidism. I am still young, but I am only able to lead my active lifestyle with careful medical monitoring, which is very expensive. Please expand Medicaid in Virginia!

There's a critical special legislative session happening next week in Richmond that will determine whether nearly 200,000 Virginians gain access to health care. The question is whether Virginia will accept federal Medicaid funds, as Obamacare encourages. 1) Other Republican-led states have done it. 2) Virginia voters strongly support it. And the state Senate just passed it. But right now, some Republicans in the House of Delegates are standing in the way. If they continue to block Medicaid expansion, they'll be catering to an extreme slice of their own base rather than helping get health care to the state's neediest residents. If just a handful of Republican delegates listen to their constituents, then Medicaid expansion can still pass and a government shutdown can be avoided. That's possible. It's worked in other states. And our state delegate—Del. Joseph Yost—could be the key vote in passing Medicaid expansion in Virginia. That's why it's critical that we let Del. Yost know that we support expansion. Expanding Medicaid access to Virginia's poor and disabled is the right thing to do on so many fronts: It will save lives. It will create jobs. And it will save Virginia taxpayers billions of dollars.

I know people whose lives would be greatly improved if the Virginia legislature agreed to expand Medicaid. Please help convince our Delegate by signing this petition.

As a Type 1 diabetic, I know the perils and costs of having a life long disease, as well as being dependent on medical care, and medicine. Every person in Virginia should have fair access to any treatments or care that they may need. We need to stand together to make this happen, and we will.

It's the right thing to do, and financially advantageous for the Commonwealth.

Getting Medicaid coverage for those who fall in the economic cracks. Those who make under $11,400, but more than $7,800 annually, can't get Medicaid.

I have seen Louisiana pass dozens of laws that end in court. The State dedicates already scarce funds to pay for lawyers to defend laws that end up being overturned. In the end, not only do they waste the time of the lawyers, but the State often has to pay damages. Instead of passing laws that promote a religious agenda, and feathering their own political nest, the lawmakers should help the people they represent. Louisiana is 49th in the nation for infant mortality, and 44th in the nation for pregnant women’s mortality. They should put the money they keep spending on settlements where it can make a real difference to the people.

It's time to put the people of Virginia and THEIR needs AHEAD of political posturing once and for all.

Virginia has a vast number of poor and disabled residents who are in dire need of the benefits of Medicaid. It is absolutely foolish not to accept the federal aid that is available to help them.

Last year, Congress passed the so-called Monsanto Protection Act. The bill allowed Monsanto to plant genetically-engineered crops even if a court found they were approved illegally. It protected Monsanto from lawsuits even if those crops turned out to be unsafe, and kept the USDA from having any authority over its effect on the environment or the lives of local farmers. The bill has now expired, but will you sign our petition demanding Monsanto stop buying policy and policymakers and keep this from happening ever again? The only reason the bill passed is because Monsanto recently spent record amounts lobbying our representatives and corrupting our legislative process: More than $6.3 MILLION. The company continues to fight state-led efforts to label GMOs and even lobbied to prohibit such labeling at the federal level. We need your help to stop the madness! Act now to safeguard farmers and the environment from potentially hazardous genetically engineered crops. Our legislation needs to protect the people from corporations -- not the other way around. Don't let the latest biotech industry plot slip under the wire. Please sign our petition to Monsanto now.

A three-judge panel has stuck down “Net Neutrality” – the principle that no corporation or state authority can censor, slow down, block, or privilege certain content on the web. It's the basis for what has made the Internet a place for creativity, free speech, and innovation. Without Net Neutrality, the very startups that make the Internet a force of innovation will be throttled – unable to compete with incumbent businesses that can pay to provide their access faster than any startup could. Carriers can now charge content providers to make sure their content works well – something that privileges companies already dominating the market at the expense of the startups that have made the Internet great. Facebook or Google might be able to afford preferential treatment – but what about the startup that otherwise could replace them? It’s incredibly insidious, and it threatens to take away the level playing field that’s made the Internet such an incredible boon for society. The FCC, however, has the power to protect Net Neutrality – if they classify broadband as a communications service, something we all know it is with all the time we spend communicating with friends and loved ones via e-mail and social media, they’ll have the power to reinstate Net Neutrality rules.

New Jersey just became the third state to ban the innovative car company, Tesla. We can't think of a better example of how money is corrupting politics — and business — on a local level. The New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers (CAR PAC) spent more than $155,000 last year lobbying for a rule that will now make Tesla sales illegal. Why? Because Tesla's model of selling cars directly to consumers threatens the current structure of dealerships and middle-men. Rather than innovate, the CAR PAC has decided it's better off spending its money to influence government. We need to let New Jersey politicians know that a money-driven legislative process is unacceptable. This isn't about whether or not you buy a particular car; it's about special interests taking away the right for you to have that choice. The People should be steering our political process, not special interests. Tell New Jersey that this decision needs to be reversed and that money holds too much power over our democracy.Reverse the anti-competitive ban on Tesla Motors. Campaign contributions should not allow businesses to thwart competition in the state of New Jersey, and even more importantly, should not be the determining factor in how our democracy is run.