Help us make tomorrow better than today

For years, our community has focused on developing and promoting the ideas, leaders and institutional capacities that would make the 21st century just as much an American century as the century that has just passed.

The opportunity to imagine and proceed down this 21st century path has never been greater, or more important.

That’s why I hope you will consider making a contribution to NDN today.

As you may have noticed, we’ve been just as busy since the election as we were before, holding forums, offering our ideas, appearing in the press, blogging and talking with the leaders and staff of the New Majority. We plan to keep up this relentless pace, as we sense, as I’m sure you do, that we are in a very critical period in American history. Our challenges our great, and after years of disappointing and failed conservative government, progress is not an option.

Your support today will allow us to hit the ground running in early 2007, and play a very strong and assertive role in helping progressives take advantage of this historic opportunity to chart a better course for our nation.

In the coming weeks we will be outlining our initial plans for 2007, and asking for your input on what we should be focusing on. Wherever we end up, be certain that it will include enhanced efforts to ensure that progressives master the new politics of our day, put to bed the era of conservative ascendancy, make globalization work for all Americas, finding a better way forward in the Middle East, pass comprehensive immigration reform, deploy the latest and best tools, raise the minimum wage, take advantage of the new Hispanic opportunity, as outlined in our cutting edge and powerful media campaigns in both English and Spanish, and fight for our modern and far-sighted Agenda, A Commitment to Hope and Progress.

Thank you for all that you’ve done for NDN and for the nation. We have accomplished much, together, over the years. But I feel, as you must too, that this is a very important and serious time, perhaps the most challenging time our nation has faced in generations. With your help, we will ensure that our community is doing everything it can to help our great nation meet the challenges of this century, and lead us all to a better tomorrow.