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marcidale

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    Top 50 Bills of the 112th Congress on POPVOX

    With Congress closing up shop for the election, we thought it was a great time to look back on what you had to say since the 112th Congress started back in January 2011. Having the…

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    Comment #4576904

    You can get more information and weigh in with a message to Congress on these bills at: HR 6530: Global Free Internet Act of 2012 https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr6530 HR 6529…

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    Comment #4433724

    That's why we deliver messages via POPVOX electronically.

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    Comment #4433719

    See above. Heritage is using a POPVOX iFrame widget. They have no control over the messages. It all feeds into the POPVOX system and we deliver the messages to Congress. If you wou…

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    Comment #4433714

    Hi all - I'm a former Congressional staffer and a co-founder of POPVOX. We built POPVOX precisely because of the ineffectiveness of so many other methods. Heritage Action is using …

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    Comment #3529673

    At POPVOX, our first investor was Tim O'Reilly. Legislative advocacy is a huge market -- and one in great need of disruption.

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    Comment #3529654

    Here are links to take action on the bills you list. Your message will be sent to the appropriate legislators and aggregated on the public bill report so that you can see how senti…

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    Comment #3529632

    Thanks, David - yes, we would love the input at POPVOX (info@popvox.com) New alerts system is imminent, so please check it out. BTW - we had our own go at crowdfunding for POPVOX. …

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    Comment #3467439

    Thanks for the post, Dev (and for alerting the POPVOX team.) Also, thanks for the links to POPVOX, Tobu. As Tobu mentioned, POPVOX is a starting place for some of what you describe…

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    Protesting SOPA? Turn your site/blog into an action center

    The POPVOX Write Congress widget lets your visitors send a message to Congress without leaving your site. The POPVOX Comment stream widget displays live comments from around the co…

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    Comment #3459053

    You can always add a POPVOX widget to the site, so people can send a message to Congress directly from HN. http://popvoxnation.tumblr.com/post/15753030372/protesting-s...

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    Comment #3420738

    "tocomment" - what do you mean? there's no paywall.

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    What Americans Told Congress in 2011 (Top 50 Bills)

    Some dominated the headlines, some never got a vote. The top 50 bills that moved people to contact Congress in 2011 ranged from jobs to taxes, internet policy to immigration. A Con…