Current State and Local Issues
South Dakota Healthy Families
www.sdhealthyfamilies.orgSouth Dakota Grandmothers Speak: Rebutting the South Dakota Task Force to Study Abortion
www.sdakgrandmothersspeak.blogspot.comSouth Dakotans Against Discrimination
www.againstdiscrimination.orgSouth Dakotans for Safe Access
www.sodaksafeaccess.orgTrack Current Issues
PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every day, reporters and researchers from the Times and CQ will analyze the candidates' speeches, TV ads and interviews and determine whether the claims are accurate. Its Browse the Truth-O-Meter can be searched by candidate, by attacker, by subject, by political party, by where they said it. www.politifact.com
www.accuracy.org
AlterNet's aim is to inspire citizen action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues.
www.alternet.org
Common Dreams Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
www.commondreams.org
Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
www.factcheck.org
People for the American Way Right Wing Watch monitors the power of right-wing think tanks, legal groups, local and national lobbying organizations, foundations and media forums, documenting their connections, funding, and reporting on their political influence. www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3147
www.vote-smart.org/index.htm
SourceWatch's primary focus is on documenting public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. www.sourcewatch.org
National Activist Groups
Alecwatch monitors American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
www.aclu.org
Common Cause is a nonpartisan nonprofit advocacy organization as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard and to hold their elected leaders accountable. www.commoncause.org
http://www.now.org/organization/info.html
Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality
Media Transparency tracks money behind right wing groups.
The mission of Progressive Legislative Action Network (PLAN) is to pass progressive legislation in all fifty states by providing coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to forward-thinking state legislators. It offers a balance for American Legislative Exchange Council
www.progressivestates.org
