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Continuing the revolution: House Republicans on the floor

The House Republicans continued their self-proclaimed revolution today. (If you haven't heard about it yet, check out posts here and here.) They say they're going to be at it all week--all month even. Nothing more "real world" than that.

House members today continue to give speeches as bloggers and Twitter-ers cover the events at a frenetic pace. The hub of the activity is DontGo.us, a handy way of compiling the tweets of everyone paying attention to the event. Since the revoluton isn't being televised, the internet is the only way the word is getting out.

But the most important part of this story is that the revolution would not be possible without the hundreds of people across the country pushing it forward. The mainstream media really isn't pushing it. Politicians have limited ways of pushing it since they're cut off from video, audio, and photos on the House floor. So it's the people typing away on their computers or furiously checking their Crackberries/PDAs that are making this happen.

We need to keep it going.

Follow the Twitter feeds. Call Nancy Pelosi (202-225-0100) and ask for a vote on energy legislation. But more than that, tell your friends and family what is happening in Washington DC.

Just because the revolution isn't being televised doesn't mean it won't be heard.

Live from Austin

I'm lucky enough to be at RightOnline, the first web conference just for Republican activists. It's in Austin, Texas--hence my desperately clever post title.

I'll be blogging about the conference here and at TechRepublican, so please check it out. But I'd also recommend checking out my Twitter feed and the conference Twitter stream: it's live-blogging 140 characters at a time.

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