The battle to preserve the rights of minority political factions – and the public interests those factions represent – is about to be fully joined. Here are the simple steps you need to take to gear up for the fight to save the filibuster:

  1. Sign up for text message alerts on your cell phone with People for the American Way. This way, you’ll know instantly when we need to take action and what you need to do.
  2. Regionalization is becoming increasingly important – elected officials always respond more eagerly to their constituents, and good local media coverage is key. BlogPAC is helping to organize state-by-state efforts, so if you haven’t yet signed up there, do so by clicking here. If you have a blog of your own, be sure to input that in the appropriate field. (Non-bloggers should sign up as well.)
  3. MoveOn PAC is organizing citizen filibusters – along the lines of the tremendously successful Princeton filibuster – tomorrow at noon. Click on over to their site to find a location near you. If you go, be sure to take a digital camera or a camcorder and post pics or videos online when you get home. Thanks to inflation, pictures are worth even more than 1,000 words these days.
  4. When things really, finally go down, everyone needs to be able to contact as many people as fast as possible. We need people to hear our unfiltered message from friends and family and co-workers and neighbors before they hear the sterile and misleading he-said/she-said version on the news. So people need to pull together email addresses for everyone they know before it happens so that our message can immediately spread virally.

We don’t know exactly when Frist will try to go nuclear, but people need to plan to drop everything and get in front of a computer. The process of breaking the rules to end the filibuster won’t take that much time. We need instant mobilization and widespread distribution. With everyone’s help, we can win this in the Senate – and on the local level.

All hands on deck!

(Originally posted at DailyKos and the Swing State Project.)

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