MATCH THIS

Lucas,

I'll keep this short, but I wanted to make sure you saw my earlier email (copied below) announcing our $250,000 matching gift campaign.

Right now, any contribution you make to help Public Citizen continue standing with you against the encroaching specter of unlimited corporate power will be matched dollar-for-dollar by a group of longtime supporters.

Time is already running out on this offer!

Please contribute $20, $50, $100 or whatever you can today so that we can make the most of this incredible opportunity before it passes us by.

In an era when giant corporations benefit from loopholes and lobbyists, tax breaks and regulatory rollbacks, judicial chicanery and congressional lackeydom more than ever before -- while the American people endure conditions not seen since the Great Depression -- Public Citizen stands resolute.

Across the country, Public Citizen activists and members like you are uniting to say "No!" to the false notion that corporate profits are all that matters and "Yes!" to government that works for We, the People.

Donate now so your gift goes twice as far toward supporting all the work we're doing together.

Don't forget about our special DVD bonus!

Donate $40 or more and get a DVD of The Story of Citizens United as our thanks. Donate $100 or more and choose a second DVD from a list of progressive films including The Corporation, An Unreasonable Man and Super Size Me.

Visit our secure online donation page to see the DVD selection and to contribute to our $250,000 matching gift campaign.

Thank you for your support.

Robert

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Lucas,

I need your help.

Public Citizen has a remarkable opportunity to ramp up our work protecting people from corporate greed.

In appreciation of how much we accomplish on a shoestring budget, several longtime friends of Public Citizen will, for a limited time, match every dollar we raise, up to $250,000!

I need your help to capitalize on this extraordinary offer before it's too late.

Please donate $20, $50, $100 or whatever you can right now so that your contribution will be worth twice as much in support of all that you and Public Citizen stand for.

This is when it really matters. I'm counting on you to be as generous as you can.

This is one of the largest match offers in Public Citizen's four decades as the people's representative in Washington, D.C. Give today so that your gift has double the impact on all the critical work we do together.

Don't delay. Don't risk having your contribution come in too late to qualify for the dollar-for-dollar match!

Click here to contribute through our secure online donation page.

Through anonymous political expenditures and shameless lobbying offensives, special interests representing the greediest among us have debased our democracy, corrupted our leaders and put progress in a stranglehold.

Meanwhile, ordinary Americans like you and me are still in a hole. A hole the oligarchs want to dig deeper and deeper:

• With its absurd decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that corporations can spend literally as much money as they want taking over our elections to stack local, state and federal governments with their lackeys.

• Medicare is on the chopping block. Some Republicans in Congress are scheming, in effect, to eliminate one of the most successful, popular and important programs in our nation's history. Many thought this day would never come.

• Congress couldn't manage to stop subsidizing the oil industry, in spite of the fact that Big Oil is raking in profits like never before, gas prices are at record levels, and the public overwhelmingly favors denying the industry further government handouts.

• The modest financial reforms passed last year are under unrelenting attack by Wall Street. The Big Banks, by the way, are doing phenomenally well. But, evidently, phenomenal just doesn't cut it for Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase.

• Multinational corporations and the obscenely wealthy continue to pay far less than their fair share in taxes even as basic health and safety regulations, social programs and environmental protections are flayed, gutted and left for dead.

But Public Citizen -- as we've done for 40 years, side-by-side with hundreds of thousands of members and activists just like you -- is steadfastly challenging the misbegotten belief that profits matter more than people.

That's why this match offer is so exciting and why it is so essential that we work together so that citizen power can overcome corporate contempt.

Contribute $20, $50, $100 or whatever you can today and your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar.

Act now! We have a limited amount of time to take advantage of this opportunity. The stakes are simply too high to leave even one dollar on the table.

Thank you.