2010: A progressive strategy to win
11-18-2009 – 12:50 pm | Comments

By Brent Budowsky | The Hill
Progressives throughout the nation should rally around a strategy that could bring a surprise victory in the 2010 elections with a clear electoral plan and a program that is patriotic, …

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A Campaign Proposal for Progressives
7-10-2009 – 4:20 pm | Comments
A Campaign Proposal for Progressives

A Campaign Proposal for Progressives
Two Ways to Pay As You Go
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/44308
By David Swanson
The day after ramming through nearly $100 billion more for wars and $100 billion in loans to European banks through the IMF, the …

The Walled Garden: Fading away at the CDP
4-14-2009 – 7:00 am | Comments

The Walled Garden: fading away at the CDP
By Brad Parker | PDA Blog Contributor
April 2009
Like Dorothy and her intrepid trio of lovable dreamers arriving at Oz, the Progressive Movement barreled into the Democratic Party in …

300+ Young Democrats Attend the Kentucky YD Convention
3-31-2009 – 1:16 pm | Comments

By Hailey Snow | YDA
Over 300 young people participated in the Kentucky Young Democrats (KYD) annual convention this past weekend, March 27-28 in Lexington. Representing nearly 50 cities across the state, convention participants heard …

Congress: Tell Them in Person April 4 – 19
3-25-2009 – 7:07 pm | Comments

By David Swanson
It’s just spring, when the world is puddle-wonderful, and your representative and your two senators pack up their lingerie and come dancing from hop-scotch and toy soldiers to make the trek outside the …

Radical Change for a Moderate Bastion
3-24-2009 – 12:33 pm | Comments

By Chris Cillizza
Monday, March 23, 2009; A03
From the Washington Post
The recent retirement of Democratic Leadership Council chief executive Al From and the decoupling of the DLC and the Progressive Policy Institute, its longtime think tank, …

Blue Dog Democrats and Republican Triangulation
3-17-2009 – 8:20 am | Comments

By Joseph A. Palermo
Author/Associate Professor of History
Published by The Huffington Post.
Senator John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, has served up a devastating critique of the direction the Republican Party has taken recently. “If figureheads like …

Buchanan and Trippi dissect Cheney’s CNN interview
3-17-2009 – 8:13 am | Comments

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Renegade For Peace and Justice
2-25-2009 – 9:30 pm | Comments

Interview: Barbara Lee with Rhone Fraser about 'Renegade For Peace and Justice'