John Kerry

Campaign

• JohnKerry.com
• Kerry Activist Communities (From African-Americans to Young Voters, with lots in between)

Independent Pro-Kerry or Anti-Bush Affinity Groups

• Artists for John Kerry
• ChristiansForKerryEdwards.org
• ConservativesforKerry.com
• ExpatsAgainstBush.org
• Greens for Kerry
• Independents for Kerry
• Mothers Opposing Bush
• RepublicansforKerry.org
• RepublicansforKerry04.org
• SouthernersforKerry.com
• Veterans United for Kerry
• Women Against Bush

Grassroots Mobilizations

• 21st Century Democrats: training organizers and helping them find jobs with progressive Democratic campaigns
• ActBlue
• America Coming Together (ACT): hiring organizers for door-to-door voter contact in 17 battleground states
• America Votes: Coalition of progressive groups with 20 million members, working together for voter registration, canvassing, and GOTV
• Change for America: internet-based organizing (Joe Trippi)
• CitizensVote
• Dem Swingers
• Driving Votes
• Environment 2004
• F the Vote
• Grassroots Campaigns: hiring canvassers for door-to-door fundraising for the Democratic National Committee
• Democracy For America: recruiting, training, and supporting progressive candidates for Congress and all levels of government (Howard Dean)
• Impact 2004: law students challenging election fraud
• Kucinich for President: working for a progressive platform at the Democratic convention in Boston
• League of Independent (Pissed Off) Voters
• Moveon: millions of local volunteers working together on voter registration, education, and GOTV
• Music for America
• National Voice
• NEXT
• NOW's  10forChange
• Party for America
• Progressive Vote
• Redefeat Bush: gathering in Democratic cities with cell phones to call unregistered voters in swing states
• Rock the Vote: voter registration
• ReDefeat Bush
• Run Against Bush
• Swing State Summer Break: student volunteers registering voters in battleground states
• Team EMILY
• Voices for Working Families: targeting black, hispanic and women voters in battleground
• We Helped Stop Bush
• Women's Voices. Women Vote. voter registration

Voter Protection

• ActForChange.org: Letter to State Election Officials to Count Every Vote
• BlackBoxVoting.org
• Common Cause Vote 2004 Task Force
• ElectionProtectionVolunteer.org
• Get Every Vote
• Impact 2004
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• People for the American Way
• TechWatch: Work with  VerifiedVoting.org to be an informed observer of pre-election testing and election procedures.
• VotersUnite!
• VoteWatch: Participate in monitoring the election process

Campaign Materials

• Stuff: KerryGear.com (T-shirts, stickers, buttons, etc.)
• Flyer: Who is John Forbes Kerry? (2 pages)
• Flyer: Mothers Opposing Bush/It's Time for a Change
• Flyer: Straight Talk/Let's Give the Right Wing a Reality Check

Educational Resources

• Democrats.com/books
• Democrats.com/films

Kerry's Attackers

1. Ted Sampley created  Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry. He calls Kerry "the radical, hippie-like leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)" and accuses him of betraying American POW's, MIA's, Vietnam Veterans and the military. Is Sampley credible?

• Senator John McCain (R-AZ) calls him "one of the most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter."
• Susan Katz Keating, author of "Prisoners of Hope: Exploiting the POW-MIA Myth in America," exposes how Sampley and his allies abused the hopes of grieving families for fun and profit. Their best-known victim, until now, was Sen. John McCain.

2. The "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" has dominated the news since the publication of "Unfit for Command," written by John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi. Their TV ads were funded by Bob Perry.

• John O'Neill. When John Kerry returned from Vietnam and began speaking out eloquently against the war, Richard Nixon set out to destroy Kerry. Nixon's dirty trickster, Charles Colson, recruited John O'Neill to birddog and debate Kerry, and used the power of the White House to get maximum coverage for O'Neill. O'Neill became a law clerk for William Rehnquist, who was made Chief Justice by George H.W. Bush. In 1990, GHWB considered O'Neill for a federal judgeship.
• Jerome Corsi. Corsi is a regular poster on the far-right FreeRepublic.com, where he posted anti-Catholic ("So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the lawyers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that's probably about it.") and anti-Muslim smears ("Islam is a peaceful religion - just as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered and the infidels are killed.")
• Bob J. Perry, a Houston homebuilder, has donated at least $200,000 to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. He has given millions to Republicans, including $4 million to Texas Republicans alone in 2002. He is a longtime friend and co-conspirator with Karl Rove. He can be reached at   Perry Homes, 800-247-3779.

Exposing the Swift Boat Veterans:

• The New York Times   diagrams the key players
• Swift Boat Liars exposes their lies and flip-flops
• Disinfopedia goes into great detail about the smear campaign
• eRiposte exposes the endless lies point by point

General Rumors/Smears/Disinformation/Lies

• Kerry dBunker
• Kerry Smear Page
• eRiposte media lies about Kerry

Other Specific Lies

• Kerry's '350 Tax Increases' (Washington Post)
• Teresa Heinz Kerry owns Heinz, a company that outsources much of its work abroad (Snopes)
• Internet "Whispering Campaigns" Falsely Accuse Teresa Heinz Kerry (Factcheck.org)