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As part of our efforts to elect pro-peace candidates to Congress, we have two of our experienced organizers working around the clock contacting voters for candidates we’ve endorsed in some of the [...]

By now, you have all heard about the massive leak of documents chronicling the Iraq war by online whistleblower organization Wikileaks—more than 390,000 documents revealing the daily grind of the [...]

Raul Grijalva has fought for us in Congress as a reliable progressive voice. Will we fight for him? Raul is in for a major fight as he faces attacks from the tea party extremists who back his [...]

In a tough election year for Democrats, Suzan DelBene is going on the offensive. Republican Dave Reichert has managed to cling to a district where President Obama won by 14 points, but Suzan [...]

Political science professor Robert Pape, well known for his research on suicide terrorism, has released a new study linking suicide terrorism to military occupation: Pape and his team of [...]

One reason arguing for smart diplomatic engagement with Iran is challenging in this country is the excessive hyperventilating about the threat from Iran. I saw the epitome of this in a meeting [...]

Together we’re doing amazing work. Along with volunteers from Bill Hedrick’s campaign, we’ve talked to 8,540 voters and gotten 1,109 people to pledge to mail in their ballots for Bill this [...]

Together, we did great work this week in our phone blast to help elect Bill Hedrick in California’s 44th district.  Between Peace Action West supporters and the Hedrick campaign, more than 200 [...]

The deficit hawks roaming the halls of Congress seem to have no problem reaching into our pockets to fund a war that is now the longest in U.S. history and shows no prospect of success.  [...]

The California Democratic Party became the first state party to go on record in favor of ending the war in Afghanistan in November of 2009. Almost a year later, the war in Afghanistan is now the [...]