i received this email today from blogpac written by iraq vet and former ohio congressional candidate paul hackett. eighty years ago today the great world war came to an end on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. a few years later we began celebrating armistice day which for the last 55 years has been expanded to be known as veterans day. this is the day i celebrate ......
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what david sirota calls the halliburtonization of the u.s. bailout is helping banks buy up banks in americas casino capitalism and now russia is bailing out billionaires many of whom got rich in the mafia capitalism that followed the collapse of the soviet union. all that sugar for hoi oligoi . for us peasants the story is not so sweet even less so for the inhabitants of the wor......
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al giordano has a remarkable screed up where he describes the lefts current relationship to barack obama as follows lefties who criticize obama like open left are a bunch of ineffective privileged fauxprogressive centrists who are part of a political lineage that has failed to stop a series of rightwing power grabs since 1968. barack obama and the people who defend hi......
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nobodyll be surprised to hear that sen. jay rockefeller house majority leader steny hoyer and coconspirators are once again working their tails off to hand bush cart blanche to spy on american citizens immunize the telecoms for their illegal participation in same and generally put our civil rights in the same league as those in zimbabwe . regarding the telecoms wasnr......
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one of the guys hoping to primary shelly silver paul newell received the first ever endorsement of blogpac . blogpac reminds me of defoley8 the first internet political campaign whose goal was to defeat incumbent house speaker thomas foley . they raised like 30000 online and foley lost in the 94 general election. whether it goes anywhere remains to be seen but it is worth ......
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heres that announcement i was talking about. paul newell has received the endorsement of blogpacs new blue to bluer program. blue to bluer taking on sheldon silver today blogpac is thrilled to announce our first endorsement in the blue to bluer campaign paul newell for new york state assembly. newell is running against new york state assembly speaker sheldon ......
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today blogpac is thrilled to announce our first endorsement in the blue to bluer campaign paul newell for new york state assembly. newell is running against new york state assembly speaker sheldon silver in the democratic primary which will take place on september so we will have a lot of time to grow familiar with paul and work on this campaign. you can......
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...tising revenues generated by bleeding heartland will be donated to blogpac a political action committee run by the bloggers matt stoller chris bowers mike stark and natasha chart httpwww .blogpac.c omcore blogpac funds progressive leadership and experiments with injecting new voices in the political process using internet activism. we give grants no strings attached to activists on the inte...
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ill be on a panel on wednesday evening in new york on the internet shift in progressive politics sponsored by moveon.org. this nation event will convene progressive leaders and writers for a lively discussion of how the netroots are changing progressive politics. participants will include katrina vanden heuvel publisher and editor of the nation zephyr teachout assistant prof......
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last night cnns john king had the following to say about media reports of delegate counts i think the best thing for us to do as analysts going forward is take the super delegates out of the equation for a moment. they might matter hugely at the end. but over the next several days and weeks just look at pledged delegates because that is what the elder statesmen of the democratic......
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so i sent a blogpac email out on donna edwards with a couple key points. one no sitting congressperson no one from the progressive caucus or anyone else endorsed donna but steny hoyer and nancy pelosi among others went with wynn. and two we won this without their help and their legitimacy is now somewhat in question because of the magnitude of the shellackin g.xd......
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ill have a lot more tomorrow on this race its implications and why we won. there was a lot of innovation around independent groups blogging and progressive movement building and hopefully a good amount of it can be documented. but for now i must avoid pneumonia five hours in freezing rain and no sleep will do that to you so here are some pictures to tide you ove......
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