The invaluable Michael Silence gets the hat tip this morning! He links to a Knoxville News Sentinel story reporting that, effective October 1st, TVA is increasing rates. Remember this post when you vote this November! (more…)

UPDATE: RUSH TALKS ABOUT OUR ARTICLE!

Earlier today the #dontgo Movement joined Americans for Tax Reform and many other organizations in signing a letter to the Gang of Ten with regards to sound energy policy and proposed compromise. (more…)

The #dontgo Action Center is a full scale action suite being enabled by Three Group’s state of the art Mission Control software.

COMING SOON!

The #dontgo Movement would not be where it is today had it not been for the hard working independent online talk show hosts of Blog Talk Radio’s Heading Right Radio.

We’ll soon be adding show lists and host profiles here to help you follow all of the #dontgo talk on Heading Right Radio.

With 2,000 free-market activists and political junkies now signed on, the #dontgo Facebook Group is now a sizable force on Facebook.com.

Please join the #dontgo Facebook Group and invite your network to do the same.

From the Official Facebook Page:

We are forming a truly broadbased movement, and each one of you can do your part to achieve comprehensive energy reform, bring the people back into the House, and hold the Democratic leadership accountable.

Here are three things you can do today to help continue the push for comprehensive energy reform, greater House openness, and true Republican leadership.

1. Call Speaker Pelosi at (202) 225-0100 as well as your US Representative and ask that they return to work and approve the American Energy Act. The American Energy Act is an ?all of the above? solution that not only includes solar, wind and efficiency provisions, but domestic drilling and expanded use of safe and emissions-free nuclear power. You can learn more about the American Energy Act at http://www.gop.gov/energy/americanenergyact

2. Sign up for Twitter and start recieving the Dontgomovement feed. You can sign up for Twitter at www.twitter.com, search for dontgomovement , and click on ‘Follow’ under the pound sign. You’ll be able to recieve updates spam free. There is a thread on the Facebook group for people who wish to answer or ask questions about using Twitter and feeds.

3. Get involved with the effort to attract citizens into the House chamber for the phantom sessions. Americans are upset about Congressional inaction and high gas prices, and we need to make sure they get to the House chamber to interact with members during the sessions. If there is a huge crowd gathering outside the House every day to take part in the phantom session, it will be a news story in itself. Join the conversation on the ?Open House? thread on the Facebook group.

Be sure to follow http://www.dontgomovement.com and Rock the House for continuing developments tomorrow.

Get Involved and Lead
Invite All of Your Friends
Keep the Momentum Going

NB: This group was founded by conservative activists, not by the House GOP. Unless it comes from Rep. Boehner, nothing sent or posted by an admin should be construed to come from GOP leadership.

The #dontgo movement has sparked the Revolution we had been waiting and hoping for. Bloggers are blogging. Citizens are getting engaged. Leaders are emerging. You, me, we, us — have come together to make a difference.

And it’s working.

Signing petitions is one important way to help. Another way is to harness this energy and make a real difference by supporting the #dontgo Movement’s Slatecard of Congressional candidates with a financial contribution. These Republicans are both incumbents and challengers working hard to help lower energy prices in Washington and in their districts. They need the money and are making us proud.

By using Slatecard to make a $1, $2 or even $5 contribution to each candidate on this card we will be able to raise thousands of dollars collectively. (You can even make the donation recur automatically monthly through November.)

Imagine if 30,000 people donate $1 to every candidate on this Slatecard and then gave each candidate the “#dontgo Movement” issue badge. Our message — this Movement — will make a huge impact. The candidates will know EXACTLY why we support them.

But this movement goes beyond this website. You can also spread the word and increase your impact by adding this widget to your website (two different sizes) by grabbing the code. And email your friends — ask them to make a contribution.

The time is now. Please consider making a contribution today.

(About Slatecard)

I co-founded Slatecard with Sendhil Panchadsaram in October 2007 as a utility to support and enhance Republican activism. It is a tool for Republican candidates, causes, and the Slatecard community. Anyone can create a Slatecard of the candidates they support and those donations are tracked in real-time on the site.

Slatecard is the Right’s successful counter to the Left’s ActBlue. In ActBlue’s first election cycle (2004), they raised less than $1 million. We have set a goal to beat that amount and have raised nearly $500,000 to date. To see the buzz about Slatecard, check out our del.icio.us feed of news clips.

Honesty and transparency matter. By making a contribution through Slatecard, 96.05% of your contribution will go directly to the candidate’s campaign committee. Our 3.95% processing fee is the lowest in the market.

Slatecard is a volunteer effort. We rely on donations from the community to pay for software, fees associated with processing, hosting, etc. Thank you for your continued support.

Twitter is where the #dontgo Movement was born, and Twitter still plays a significant role in everything we do here at #dontgo.

Twitter, a micro-blogging/communication platform, is helping connect millions of people both online and offline. It’s free to use, and extremely easy to communicate with.

You can follow all of the #dontgo Twitter conversation on the official #dontgo Twitter Stream. You can also follow the user listed below, who frequently report on #dontgo activity.

Don’t Go Followers
-Allen Fuller
-Eric Odom
-Jenn Sierra
-Rep. John Culberson
-EditoratIP
-Jacob Baime
-Scott White
-DangerGirl6
-Mangopants
-Rob Bluey
-thekytikat
-Jason Carini
-Steve Dalton
-Rep. Dan Burton
-Flap
-Garrett Graff
-Katie Harbarth
-Steve Dogiakos
-Ali Akbar
-WAGOP
-Bill Collier
-Evan Lazer
-David Almacy
-MediaLizzy
-Ethan Demme
-Lennie Jarratt
-Marcus
-Mr Hawk
-Abby Alger
-Lady Logician
-Nikki Star
-cellanjie
-Maggie
-CTGOP
-Adam Schmidt
-BethersJR
-Craig Kuhns
-Flip Pidot
-Ltfngr
-Aaron Marks
-JoitheArtist
-Scott Finnegan
-Slobokan

Should you be on this list? Leave a comment and we’ll add you. (lefties do not apply)

Unlike Digg, Stumble Upon uses common sense in decided what content is hot between its genuine users.

Stumble Upon is very easy to set up, install, and use. Once you have Stumble Upon running on your browser (preferably Firefox), you’ll see a thumbs up and a thumbs down. Simply vote up or down any pages that you like or dislike while surfing the web.

Stumble Upon has a great user community, and the tool can help you find content that is hot to thousands of other users at any given time.

Please help #dontgo by Stumbling any #dontgo related content you come across.

Set up or view your Stumble Upon account here.

The anti-free market crowd controls the content at Digg, so the chances of #dontgo related content hitting the front page of Digg are limited. That being said, it doesn’t hurt to at least submit #dontgo related articles as you come across them while surfing the web.

Digg, for those who are not familiar, is a site that was originally intended to be a “crowd-powered” news site. The idea was that users submit content, and the community decides which stories make it to the homepage. The problem, however, is that Digg has implemented a “bury” feature that essentually allows those who do not want free speech to reign on the Digg pages to shoot down any content they might disagree with, even if the story has plenty of votes to make it to the front page.

That, plus the fact that Digg has admitted to having moderators who manually review a lot of the stories being voted on makes Digg an anti Democratic style news site.

But when a site can send tens of thousands of visitors to any given URL, you simply cannot write it off as irrelevant.

Things to keep in mind when you come across interesting #dontgo stories…

Check out Digg.com and get an account here.