This is the best news I’ve heard in a long time:

Dear Myfanwy,

This is just a quick “thank you” note, in case you haven’t already seen the good news. Late last night, the House of Representatives dropped plans to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

TrueMajority members sent 40,000 messages to Congress over the weekend, insisting that at least this one last wild place be saved for purposes other than filling gas tanks. Despite heavy pressure from deep-pocketed industry lobbyists, your voices were heard. The provision to sink wells into the wildlife refuge has been stripped from the budget bill. Here are a couple of news items with the details: “House Drops ANWR From Budget.” Anchorage Daily News, 11/10/2005; “Alaska Drilling Plan Shelved.” CBS News, 11/10/2005. There is a chance this bad idea will rise from the grave one more time; if it does, we’ll let you know so you can quickly act.

And this is just the latest piece of positive news. As you already know, last month after TrueMajority members urged the Senate to support an amendment banning the use of torture by American forces, that body passed the torture ban by a huge 90-9 margin. We still need to repeat that victory in the House to make the amendment law, and we know you’ll be ready when that time comes.

The best thing we can do to ensure more victories is to bring more friends into the fold. To celebrate saving the refuge, send this link to 5 people you know who also care about America’s future — it invites them to sign up for action alerts, so next time we’ll be even stronger.

http://action.truemajority.org/TrueMajority/join.tcl

Watching Washington for you,
Darcy Scott Martin

p.s. — a special thanks to you folks in Montana, New Mexico, Hawaii, Washington and Oregon — those states had the highest percentage of TrueMajority members who sent message to defend the wildlife refuge!