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What happens when thousands of Americans join each other in common purpose?

Some pretty powerful stuff.

Today, Howard Dean is on the covers of Time, Newsweek, and US News & World Report.

On Sunday, the Des Moines Register Poll showed Howard Dean taking the lead in the important state of Iowa.

And as you read this, we are on the air with a new television spot in Texas-- an important primary state--inviting the people of Texas to join our grassroots campaign to defeat George W. Bush.

Never before have so many Americans, from so many different walks of life, come together and changed our political landscape so quickly.

You made this possible.

You spread the word, you asked others to join our cause, and your efforts made our second quarter fundraising report so strong it changed the whole structure of the race for the Democratic Party nomination.

Over a quarter million Americans did what they could afford to do to get us here.  Some contributed hard-earned dollars, some wrote letters to undecided voters in Iowa, others gave what they could in terms of time and volunteered to leaflet or attend an organizing meeting or rally. Each participated in our democracy; each made our campaign stronger.  

Now your support-- when added to the actions and support of thousands and thousands of other Americans-- has caused such a thunderclap across our nation that this week millions of Americans will be reading and learning about Howard Dean and our cause for the first time. 

So this is the week to engage in the great American conversation-- to tell others why you support Howard Dean and ask them to join our campaign. Our goal is to have 450,000 Americans join our campaign by September 30th. We can do it!  Today we have 251,823 supporters nationwide.  We have less than 60 days to nearly double our support-- but what a week to reach out to others and invite them to join our campaign by forwarding this email and this link:

http://www.deanforamerica.com/signup

Bringing more people into the political process is the number one goal of this campaign. While George W. Bush takes off the month of August to vacation in Texas, Howard Dean and over a quarter of a million Americans will be working to grow our campaign and spread our message. To track our progress, we're starting a new campaign on our weblog. For every 5,000 people that you and thousands of other Americans help to bring to the Dean campaign, we'll add an alarm clock to the blog-- because the grassroots never sleeps. You can follow our progress (and download the Texas ad) here:

http://www.blogforamerica.com 

At this Wednesday's Meetup, we'll be writing personal letters to voters in New Hampshire. It was the letters sent from Dean Meetup members to Iowans that helped us take the lead in the Iowa Poll. It is important that you attend this Wednesday's Meetup-- and bring at least one friend with you. Sign up for your Meetup here:

http://www.deanforamerica.com/meetup

And now for one last bit of news. As you know, we raised $508,000 during our recent Dean Team vs Bush-Cheney Challenge. A little over $100,000 of that was used to pay for the ads we are running in Texas. 
  So what are we doing with the rest of it? Well, you are the first to know that thanks to you we will be the first campaign to go on the air in New Hampshire and Boston, starting tomorrow.

The news this week is incredible, and now is the time for us to redouble our efforts to build a campaign of the people, by the people and for the people.  If we reach our goal of 450,000 Americans by September 30th, we will be able to show that the last ten days of June-- 10 days that shook up this race-- were