Endorse the Freedom Platform! Contact the Platform Cmte Endorse Now Audit the Fed! Tell Reid to Hold a Vote Call Now Tell Your Representative: End Corporate Welfare Let the PTC Expire Call Now Join FreedomConnector: Find activists in YOUR local area! Get Connected Tell the RNC to Support the Freedom Platform With the Republican National Convention fast approaching, we need to make our voice heard to the Platform Committee to ensure fiscally conservative policies are adopted into the official GOP platform. Tell the Platform Committee: Include the Freedom Platform! This matter is crucial to accountability and putting our ideas into action. The Platform Committee is headed by Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia, Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. They need to hear your support for the Freedom Platform right now. Make your voice heard! Taking FreePAC to Cincinnati, Ohio Our FreePAC event in Dallas was so successful we decided to take it on the road. We are proud to announce FreePAC Bootcamp in Cincinnati, Ohioon September 15th. The event will be similar in structure to our FreePAC event in Dallas, but it will be smaller and more intimate. In the opening session, we’ll be sharing our best practices for Getting Out The Vote. These sessions are really what we’re about at FreedomWorks: empowering you to effect the change you want to see. Join us in Cincinnati to take America back! Hostile Takeover at the State Level CBS News Tea party activists in Georgia helped kill a proposed sales tax increase that would have raised billions of dollars for transportation projects. In Pennsylvania, tea partyers pushed to have taxpayers send public school children to private schools. In Ohio, they drove a referendum to block state health insurance mandates. These and other battles are evidence of the latest phase of the conservative movement, influencing state and local policy, perhaps more effectively than on a national level. Tea party organizers are refocusing, sometimes without the party label, to build broader support for their initiatives. The strategy has produced victories that activists say prove their staying power. Read More In this video seriesFreedomWorks’ Max Pappas talks with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) about his sometimes lonely fight for a balanced budget and why philosophy is so important to restoring fiscal sanity. He also discusses his self-imposed term limits and how they keep him honest. Like what you're reading? Donate to FreedomWorks today to fight for lower taxes, less government and more freedom. Not interested? Click here to change your email preferences.