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There's an important new documentary film coming out soon that we had to tell you about.

Called I Want Your Money, it's a no-holds-barred critique of the over-reaching nature of the federal government under the Obama Administration and the current Congress.

Combining in-depth interviews (there's one with Newt), fiery criticism and politically-charged animated sequences, it tells the story in the plainest terms of the choice between the Obama and the Reagan views of the role of the federal government in our society. It also examines how these big government programs have been tried in the past at great moral and financial cost to the nation.

 
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"What can we do?!"
 
You hear that question a lot these days. It is often a frustrated response to the socialist direction of our federal government...or liberal schemes in a City Hall or Statehouse.
 
Millions of Americans are new to the conservative movement. They have become more intensely concerned about politics because of reckless deficit spending, unemployment, corruption and scandal.
 
We need to turn their frustration into activism.
 
Remember the joke about the teacher asking a student, "Which is worse -- ignorance or apathy?" The student replied, "I don't know and I don't care." It's funny, but it raises a serious point. It's not enough to know that America is heading in the wrong direction. And it's not enough to just care. We need to effectively act.
 
Newt's new book sums up the challenge: "To Save America." And he proposes specific solutions. But we must campaign for solutions at every level - local, state and national.
 
Community organizers have been training liberal activists for years, and they succeeded in electing one of their own as President. We conservatives must do more to beat them at their own game: organizing, protesting, persuading... Complaining isn't enough.
   
How can one citizen make a difference? Here are some of the ways.

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The father of the U.S. Constitution and future President, Virginia's James Madison once said, "The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived."

Many of the Federalist legislators were voted out office in the election of 1800. Despite their losses, they reconvened in a "lame duck" session during the winter for a last-ditch effort to enact partisan legislation. The Federalists, who held the majority in Congress as the Democrats do today, refused to abide by Madison's principle and paid dearly for it.

During the winter lame-duck, John Adams and the Federalists passed the Judiciary Act of 1801. The Judiciary Act more than doubled the number of federal judges, which President Adams promptly filled with his Federalist allies. These appointments were an explicit and ultimately futile attempt to hamstring the newly elected President, Thomas Jefferson, and Congress because the Jeffersonians simply reversed the Act with the Judiciary Act of 1802.

For their arrogance, the Federalists never again regained control of Congress and disappeared completely in the 1820s, all because they tried to overrule the views expressed at the ballot box.
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Is a Lame Duck session of Congress going to happen?  In the likely event their policies are repudiated at the polls this November, would Democrats in Congress really risk damaging their future electoral prospects by subverting the will of the American people and ramming through unpopular bills in a Lame Duck session?

Such has been the topic of considerable debate. 

For an answer, one need to look no further than the very words of five key Democrats.
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On Monday, over 200 candidates and activists attended American Solutions' first training session at St. Anselm's Institute of Politics in Manchester, New Hampshire.  This was the first of many training sessions we will be holding around the country to help candidates and activists prepare for the 2010 elections.

Speaker Gingrich kicked off the training session encouraging the candidates to reach out to every voter and talking about key messages for 2010.

Then American Solutions CEO Joe Gaylord talked about his new campaign manual, Campaign Solutions.  Campaign Solutions has advice for candidates at all levels--from local to Congressional--and we believe it will be the most influential book for any candidate running for office in 2010.  Click here to get your free copy.

Gaylord, who has been training candidates for over 40 years, also discussed how create a campaign strategy and how to be the best possible candidate.  The training session also covered topics like dealing with the media, advertising, building a grassroots organization, and getting out the vote.

Check out our newly launched Solutions Academy for more tips on how to run a successful campaign.  See below for some video highlights from the New Hampshire training session.
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Tonight at 8:00 PM ET, we will be holding a special online townhall with our General Chairman Newt Gingrich about his new book To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular Socialist Machine and the roadmap that the book outlines for American Solutions over the coming months.

This townhall is only for people watching online. You will be able to submit any questions you have about To Save America or any other major issues facing our nation, and Newt Gingrich will be answering these question live on the air.

You can submit your questions either by leaving a comment below, leaving a comment on our Facebook page, sending a reply to @AmSol on Twitter, or in the chat log onto UStream during the broadcast.

We hope you'll join us for this special online townhall at 8:00 PM ET tonight.
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In To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular Socialist Machine, Newt outlines the many lies the Left uses to hide its true, radical nature.

So it is altogether appropriate - and sadly predictable - that the Left's response to Newt's message in To Save America has been to lie about it.

In the book, Newt argues that the alien ideology of the secular-socialist machine is so vastly different than the historic values that have made our country unique that if the Left succeeds in imposing their agenda, our country would cease to be what we understand as America.

Thus, Newt writes, "the secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did."

Of course, the Left - aided by the mainstream media - is outrageously spinning this statement to suggest Newt is calling the President a Nazi. They're doing this deliberately to distract the American people from engaging in precisely the conversation Newt argues we need in To Save America about what has made America historically so successful.

We thought you would enjoy Newt's response yesterday to a reporter who asked Newt to respond to those attacks:

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Earlier this year when ObamaCare was passed into law, several major companies including John Deere, AT&T, and Verizon stated publicly that because this legislation eliminated a company's right to deduct the federal retiree drug-benefit subsidy from their corporate taxes, they... more »

According to a recent Pew Foundation survey, 8 in 10 Americans don't trust the federal government and have little faith in its ability to solve America's problems.

After the growth of government that started under President George W. Bush and has escalated under President Obama, public confidence in Washington is at its lowest level in a half-century. The national debt is approaching $13 trillion, the annual deficit is more than $1.4 trillion, unemployment is at 9.7 percent, and a record number of people lost their homes to foreclosure in the first quarter of this year. It's no wonder that trust in government has frayed.

But there is one movement with the potential to renew the bond of trust between the governed and their government: the tea party.

During the last several months, as the media and the left have portrayed the tea-party movement as an angry, racist mob, we have had a very different experience of it. Our organization, American Solutions, has met with tea-party members throughout the country - from Irvine, Calif., to Canton, Ohio - and we've learned a number of things by listening.
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It's about to be Tax Day 2010. That'll be one year since the first real, nationwide demonstration of the sheer size and scope of the Tea Party movement. So what's changed in a year, and what lies ahead?

Erick Erickson and Melissa Clouthier write about it today, talking about the need for the movement to evolve. They're right. Protests are good and they serve a real and necessary purpose, but now it's time to move from protest to participation.

The good news is that around the country, it is happening. It's happening in different ways for different people. The Red River Tea Party in Louisiana is organizing Constitution classes. In Florida, the Polk City 912 group is learning to govern, as they work with their newly elected city council - made up of their own members. It's all pretty cool to watch.

On April 15, we hope to play a big role in the movement from protest to participation.

We'll be in Austin, TX where, teaming up with the Austin Tea Party Patriots, Speaker Gingrich will help to... more »