Conservatives Begin $1 Million Campaign Against Obamacare. But Not Without A...
In case you haven't read it today in the New York Times, conservatives are about to begin, THIS WEEK, their smear campaign against Obamacare. Not that we didn't know it was coming. The usual suspects,...
View ArticleOH SNAP! The Smackdown Will Commence Shortly
So in case you haven't heard there are 21 states that are rejecting the Medicaid expansion. Nearly 6 million Americans who COULD be eligible for free health care will not be able to get it because...
View ArticleTreasury Department Launches Mortgage Reduction Program
I posted this on my Facebook page yesterday and a friend I know pretty well messaged me to ask if my account was hacked. The headline looks like spam, but it's not. The treasury department has funded a...
View ArticleTrickle Down Doesn't Work in Economics. Doesn't Work in Politics. (Series...
Bottom-up politics is the only thing that works. It worked for the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2012, starting with small house parties and people-to-people contact and it's worked for the GOP over the...
View ArticleThis week in State and Local Matters: Montana Abortion Clinic Vandalized
This week I got news from an activist friend in Montana that the abortion and family services clinic in Kalispell, Montana has been brutally vandalized by anti-choice extremists. Susan Cahill, who runs...
View ArticleFaux Dems Exposed and Expelled
Last week we learned that there were as many as nine tea partiers in Montana who's switched to the Democratic party in hopes of entering our primaries. Well...they're OUT now and here's what happened.
View ArticleI'm "tired" of obnoxious liberals. A Rant. (Updated with Fighting Donkeys).
So...the comment started like this: "Sometimes liberals can be very obnoxious and this causes people to hate liberalism." Besides the numerous obvious fallacies in this ridiculous statement - fallacies...
View ArticleAfter the SCOTUS Ruling: A Plan To Ensure Secular Government
The day after the SCOTUS ruling, I think the best headline I read was by Andy Borowitz. It read: "In landmark decision, Supreme Court strikes down main reason the country was started." Painfully...
View ArticleThe Southern Liberal Resurgence That Has the GOP Scared
When you think of red states and red districts, especially in the south, the “conventional wisdom” has been that competing there is a lost cause; that the GOP's stronghold there is impermeable. But a...
View ArticleYou only have one job.
The GOP is down. It may not always seem like it, but they are fast becoming a rump party led by the now no-longer-concealed outright hatred and hysteria revealed everyday by their base. They are...
View ArticleThis one thing will get more Dems elected in 2014 than anything else we could do
A "Nationwide Call Bank Army" for state and local Democratic candidates and progressive causes.
View ArticleIt's Time for ACTION in #Ferguson
Crossposted to Bold Blue MagazineI stand aghast at the ever-mounting atrocities taking place in Ferguson, Missouri. I'm outraged out. Or rather, I'm ready to release my outrage from my head and heart...
View ArticleA blindsided GOP is the GOP for me!
Y'all know how I feel about the republican party. I'm mad. I'm tired and I'm ready to deliver a 1000 surprise pies to the faces of the GOP.
View ArticleI'm frustrated
My phone rings again. On the other end of the line is a candidate. She sounds tired and defeated and angry and hurt all the same time. She sounds like she's at her wits end because the election is only...
View ArticleThank You Daily Kos. You've Started a Movement.
I've been around here since 2007. I don't really blog anywhere else. This is my family. And when I came to you in spring of 2013 with this insane idea about how we could come together to make an impact...
View ArticleWe have a 1% problem. And it's not what you're thinking. A Rant.
Election 2014: 6,048 legislative seats and 2,161 school board seats. But who cares, right? Those numbers doesn't include the thousands of city and county commission/council elections that happened...
View ArticleWe still have the power to change everything.
Well, the verdict is in. The DNC officially recognizes the need for aggressive state and local organizing and action. Of course, for those who have been paying attention, this is not a shock. But it's...
View ArticleSo we did this thing where we filed a Title VI complaint to stop Rick Synder
It's been a couple of decades of Republican fuckery in Michigan education, and specifically in Detroit. Well, we got sick of it and worked together with the Detroit School Board to file a Title VI...
View ArticleGod Speaks to Another GOPer. This Time: Michigan
When I set out to write this post, I decided that it was so absurd that I probably needed to preface it with a disclaimer. So, in the interest of ensuring that you are aware that this is an actual...
View ArticleRepublicans Are Killing Americans And It's Time to Put A Stop To It
They are the party of death. Despite their faux-embrace of "pro-life" rhetoric, they are the party of death. There. I said it. I'm tired of mincing words.This week, I received yet more notices of yet...
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