Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was fined $ 299, 500 ; the League of Conservation Voters was fined $ 180, 000 ; MoveOn. org was fined $ 150, 000.

MoveOn. org Civic Action is a 501 ( c )( 4 ) nonprofit corporation, and was formerly known as MoveOn. org.

MoveOn. org Political Action is a federal political action committee, and was formerly known as MoveOn PAC.

MoveOn, like many other political organizations which sought to influence the 2004 election, was able to circumvent this legislation using a 527 group, which became inactive in 2005 and closed in 2008.

MoveOn was criticized by 31 Republican senators and one independent senator for running a print ad in The New York Times that questioned the personal integrity of General David Petraeus, with headlines such as " General Petraeus or General Betray Us?

The New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt later stated in an op-ed that MoveOn was mistakenly charged US $ 77, 000 less for the ad than it should have been under Times policies, and MoveOn announced that it would pay The New York Times the difference in price.

Gun received the Sam Adams Award for 2003 and was supported in her case by the UK human rights pressure group Liberty and the international pressure group MoveOn. org.

Prior to the broadcast, CBS rejected the MoveOn. org Super Bowl ad Bush in 30 Seconds because it was deemed too controversial.

The MoveOn. org domain name was registered on September 18, 1998 by computer entrepreneurs Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the married cofounders of Berkeley Systems, an entertainment software company known for the flying toaster screen saver and the popular video game series You Don ’ t Know Jack.

The MoveOn website was launched initially to oppose the Republican-led effort to impeach Clinton.

The $ 2 million that MoveOn raised, however, was substantially less than the $ 13 million that its members had pledged they would give to defeat Republicans when passions were running high over the Clinton impeachment.

A winner was then selected by a panel of celebrities, which MoveOn promised to broadcast.

" Bush in 30 Seconds ", which was created by MoveOn Cultural Director Laura Dawn, techno artist Moby, and MoveOn PAC Executive Director Eli Pariser, came under attack from Republicans who complained that two of the ads submitted ( neither of which became a finalist ) had compared Bush to Adolf Hitler, a comparison that conservatives described as " political hate speech.

" MoveOn. org attempted to place the winning ad, " Child's Pay ," as an advertisement during the 2004 Super Bowl, but CBS rejected the ad, along with one from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, for being " controversial ", drawing criticism for what critics alleged was censorship.

The documentary was not released theatrically, but rather was distributed in DVD format by the Political action committee MoveOn. org, and sold online through Internet retailers such as Amazon. com, where it was a top-seller in July 2004.

The environmental impact caused by oil sand extraction is frequently criticized by environmental groups such as Greenpeace, Climate Reality Project, 350. org, MoveOn, League of Conservation Voters, Patagonia, Sierra Club, and Energy Action Coalition.

Although she was one of forty-four Democrats in the House who voted to condemn the MoveOn. org group for their controversial " General Betray-us " ad in 2007, he criticized her for accepting over $ 80, 000 in campaign donations from them three years earlier .< ref >

The MoveOn board is co-chaired by Joan Blades and Wes Boyd.

MoveOn started in 1998 as an e-mail group, MoveOn. org, created by software entrepreneurs Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the married cofounders of Berkeley Systems.

In November 2007, a drive spearheaded by MoveOn caused Facebook to change its controversial new " Beacon " program, which notified Facebook users about purchases by people on their friends list.

As part of the Call for Change effort, registered voters in key voting districts were contacted by MoveOn members, who placed over 7 million phone calls as part of the effort.

For instance, highly partisan ads were placed in the 2004 U. S. presidential election by allegedly independent bodies like MoveOn. org and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

According to Mike Fraioli, a Washington-based fundraiser for Democratic candidates, MoveOn missed an opportunity by waiting until the impeachment hearings were over before it began trying to collect campaign contributions.

In March 2001, MoveOn joined forces with the nonprofit advocacy site Generation Net, an online advocacy organization headed by Peter Schurman.

Issues prioritized by MoveOn in 2001 included support for the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform bill, environmental protection and opposition to the Bush administration's proposal to abolish estate taxes for the wealthy.

MoveOn also responded to electrical blackouts and skyrocketing energing costs in California by calling for cost controls on electricity utility companies, organizing a nationwide " roll your own energy blackout "-a voluntary, three-hour electricity-free evening on June 21, in which more than 10, 000 participants turned out lights and unplugged TVs and other appliances to protest Bush's energy plan.

... A week after its TV ad first appeared on the news, MoveOn. org reported that its membership had grown by 100, 000.

MoveOn called the Gephardt charge " absurd ," stating that Dean, Kerry and Kucinich " were chosen by MoveOn members " and that their candidate emails included " links to the sites of ALL the other 6 candidates.

Attendees listened via Internet hookup and participated via a live online map-based town hall application in a 30-minute talk by Moore and MoveOn organizers, and then signed up to participate in voter-registration drives and other activities aimed at unseating Bush and other Republicans in the November 2004 U. S. elections.

In November 2007, a drive spearheaded by MoveOn caused Facebook to change its controversial new " Beacon " program, which notified Facebook users about purchases by people on their friends list.

The Media Fund is one of several 527 groups which supported Kerry ; others include America Coming Together and MoveOn. org.

On June 17, 2008, MoveOn emailed its members stating that it had produced " the most effective TV ad we've ever created.

In June 2003, two months after the Pentagon declared an end to " major combat operations in Iraq ," MoveOn teamed up again with Win Without War to purchase a full-page ad in the New York Times that labeled Bush a misleader and demanded an independent commission to determine the truth about US intelligence on Iraq, declaring, " It would be a tragedy if young men and women were sent to die for a lie.

The Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest was created by MoveOn. org Executive Director Eli Pariser, MoveOn. org Cultural Director Laura Dawn, and multi-platinum selling pop star Moby.

MoveOn is an American non-profit, progressive or liberal public policy advocacy group and political action committee, which has raised millions of dollars for candidates it identifies as " progressives " in the United States.

In addition to communicating via the Internet, MoveOn advertises using traditional print and broadcast media, as well as billboards, bus signs, and bumper stickers, digital versions of which are downloadable from its web site.

* June 24 – Liberal advocacy website MoveOn holds the first ever online Democratic " primary ," which lasts just over 48 hours.

In the meantime, however, it became an important vehicle through which MoveOn received advice and suggestions from its own members.

MoveOn also joined with 14 other organization to form the Win Without War coalition, which also included the National Council of Churches, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the National Organization for Women.

In April 2004, MoveOn organized a “ Take Back the White House " campaign, which included 1, 100 bake sales across the U. S., rallied 500, 000 volunteers, and raised $ 750, 000 for ads targeting Bush ’ s military record.

He also became a prominent opponent of the SCHIP expansion, a stance for which he earned significant animosity from various groups including MoveOn, the Service Employees International Union, and even former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

MoveOn gathered more than 250, 000 comments, many of which were included in the advertisement.