Net Neutrality is fueling The Resistance. And, these 23 Senators are fighting to protect it.

Net Neutrality is fueling The Resistance. And, these 23 Senators are fighting to protect it.
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Net Neutrality is fueling the resistance. Our fights on health care and taxes massively benefited from a free, open internet. And, given the recent news of Republicans passing their awful sham of a tax bill this morning, it's mandatory for us to protect the internet -- and not allow one of our key organizing tools to be chopped.

Our activism as progressives has depended on being able to quickly communicate, share new information, and organize through the internet.

Trump's Federal Communications Commission voted last week to end the free and open internet as we know it. But this won’t be the end of the story. Congress can overturn the FCC's decision. -- and there’s a special rule in Congress that Democrats can use to force a vote on Net Neutrality.

Senator Ed Markey (MA) announced that he will soon introduce a resolution to reverse the FCC's horrendous decision. Instantly, 22 other senators signed on to Markey's call -- including Elizabeth Warren (MA), Bernie Sanders (VT), Ron Wyden (OR), Maria Cantwell (WA), Brian Schatz (HI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Jeff Merkley (OR-Sen), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Martin Heinrich (NM), Maggie Hassan (NH), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Gary Peters (MI), Debbie Stabenow (MI), Patrick Leahy (VT), Sherrod Brown (OH), Jack Reed (RI), Dick Durbin (IL), Chuck Schumer (NY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), and Michael Bennet (CO-Sen).

We need to show Democrats the public is energized and supports them pulling out all the stops to save the Internet.

Progressive Change Campaign Committee members are stepping up, and rewarding the Senators who’ve pledged to fight for Net Neutrality alongside Ed Markey -- and hope that our dollars will incentivize other Senators to join the fight to protect the free, open internet.

It's despicable that Trump's FCC has turned on the American people, and sided with massive telecommunications companies after Obama's FCC enshrined Net Neutrality into law just two years ago.

The industry wants Net Neutrality repealed because it allows them to sell Internet speed and content to the highest bidder -- and control what we see online.

It also means the next YouTube or Netflix or independent media site may not ever get off the ground because it's slow website cannot compete with fast websites of older corporations who can pay for it.

We can win this fight if Democrats force a vote. Republican Senator Susan Collins already called for the FCC's decision to be overturned, saying it "would cause immediate harm to the innovation economy." With Doug Jones coming to the Senate, if Democrats are unified we just need one more Republican vote.

With all the issues out there, senators need to see the public is paying attention and demands action to save the Internet.

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