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FYI on MoveOn.org

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Dear MoveOn member,

On Monday, President Bush buckled under pressure from the radical right and nominated the extreme right wing Judge Samuel Alito. MoveOn members leapt into action, blowing away our original goal and gathering more than 350,000 signatures in just over 24 hours—a new MoveOn record.

So today we're aiming to boost the total to half a million signatures, and do it by tomorrow. If we can get there, we'll run an ad in Roll Call, the newspaper that Congress reads, to show them the new total.

To reach our national goal, we need just 3,402 more signatures from New Jersey.

Please sign today, if you haven't already, and remember to forward this note on to friends.

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Tomorrow's an especially important deadline, because the so-called "Gang of 14"—a group of centrist Senators from both parties—will be meeting to discuss the possibility of a filibuster, and whether or not they'll honor their agreement to keep the "nuclear option" off the table.2 We need to make sure those Senators, and all of Congress, understand that the public is fully engaged and prepared to defend our basic rights.

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