After weeks of wearied debate, hand-wringing and general confusion over the debt ceiling, a deal has finally been announced by President Obama and legislative leaders, and the “no-new-taxes/shrink-government” folks have won.

We, as progressive Americans, must take the stand our President can’t or won’t take – Tell your representative to vote NO! We won’t have our jobs, our healthcare, and our future held hostage to an extreme agenda of the tea party activists and their corporate funders.

Urge your representative to reject this destructive debt deal and to support the president in invoking the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to avoid default.