This is an extremely important moment not only in the fight to preserve the social safety net, but for the future of the country. Nancy and Eric are both critical figures in this fight, and have bravely led it in the face of incredible opposition, at tremendous personal sacrifice. I cannot say enough good things about them, their courage and their moral integrity.

If you’re an FDL member, you should have received an email invitation to the webinar. If you didn’t, contact Ryan Cook at (202) 506-3907 and he will make sure you get one.

If you’re not a member and would like to become one, you can join here for as little as $45/year and we’ll send you an invitation.

More than 60 members of Firedoglake met for a webinar on May 11, 2011 to discuss what FDL should do for the 2011 election. The lively event showed the true depth of both the views of FDL’s members, as well as the great ideas for how we should proceed from both an organizing and journalism perspective for the election.

You can watch a replay of the member presentation in the above video. We want to show what it means to be an FDL Member, and invite you to join as a member to participate in our coming discussions. (Future recordings of webinars will be available to members only.)

All right, as you may have noticed we are in the midst of a membership drive. By clicking on this link (or calling 202-506-3907), you can become a member of this organization and have the benefits of membership. Lots of people have joined but we need lots more.

FDL has an amazing community, a giving community! Not only are readers signing up as members to participate more fully in webinars, online planning and events, but they are also giving Friend memberships.

Here’s a little extra incentive for joining today: Click the link, join at any level, post in comments that you’ve joined, and you’ll get a little bonus.

Aside from knowing that you’re supporting independent media and hard-hitting, effective journalism, I’ll mail you a DVD of one of the films FDL has featured on Movie Night.

So come on, jump into the ‘lake, the water’s pure and unadulterated by corporate BS and lickspittle politics.

Have you joined FDL? It’s easy and costs less than–depending on the membership level you choose–a pint of ice cream a month. I joined. And I love ice cream. My now-leaner thighs thank Firedoglake.com.

I’m asking you to become a member of FDL, so we can keep the lights on. So this place can keep doing what it does best, push back against the lies and organize activism. What we do here matters, won’t you become a member?

Hi. I’m a pastor, and I’m asking for your money.

Seriously.

I’m no televangelist, though, just a humble blogger with a religious bent and political awareness, who recognizes that there are costs to running a blog that must be met.

Jane is trying to move FDL from a hand-to-mouth existence to a more stable platform, but she can’t do that herself. Only you can do that, and it starts right here with your commitment to become a regular financial supporter of FDL. If you prefer to speak directly with one of us about the membership program instead of clicking a link, call us anytime at 202-709-7498.

Maybe you can’t today, and that’s OK. But . . . if you can afford to support FDL, if you think what we do is worthwhile, and if you’d like to see it strengthened and improved, now’s the time to step up.

It’s time to return the favor, and by “return the favor” I mean that I would like to ask you all pitch in to help keep FDL (and myself) on the intertubes for a good long time. And even if that Rapture thing happens this weekend, hey, it’s not like you can take it with you. So just click on the little “Become A Member” above.

What’s it going to take? Paper megaphones? A presidential run? A phone call? No phone call?

My singing?

Tell me what it will take, and I’ll see what I can do.

What can you do?
Join the FDL Membership Program today.