Today is Accountability Now! day, and you can click on the link at right to make your donation. I’ve stolen Stoller’s post on the subject:

One of the most significant opportunities we have over the next few years is fixing the broken market for Democratic primaries, where incumbents can take primary voters for granted because there is no way for primary challengers to get a foothold in competing with them, even if those incumbents are out of step with the district. This has produced a culture of sludge-like caution and utterly disgusting unaccountability on Capitol Hill among party elites on both sides. Walmart is now giving more to Democrats than Republicans. Walmart.

The disgusting cretins in DC are the ones who are going to block Obama’s most progressive reforms, they are the ones who threw Wes Clark under the bus for speaking the truth, they are the ones who backed Nikki Tinker’s antisemitic bullshit, they are the ones who insist on boring milquetoast corporate-friendly ads, and the ones that preach caution when Alan Grayson says we need to throw war profiteers in jail. They are the ones who are targeted with this effort, through the most democratic means possible, helping primary challenges and advertising to soften up corrupt incumbents like Steny Hoyer, the architect of much of the nonsense on Capitol Hill. Some of you reading right now are going to work on these primary campaigns, and some of you will even run, and win. We are building a different kind of politics, where there’s real accountability in the political system, which there hasn’t been for decades. It’s time to end this charade.

Just for today, we’ve added Accountability Now to the Better Democrats Actblue page.
Accountability Now is Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher’s new organization designed to undermine the Beltway consensus for attacks on our civil liberties and reckless adventures abroad. They have set up a moneybomb with 3400 pledges to support the effort, which is really a continuation of the FISA campaign.

When you give, you should go through the Better Democrats page in case their page is getting hammered. And every little bit helps, so even if you just throw $5 in there, it’s going to be put to good use.