After losing the Democratic nomination in 2016, Bernie Sanders started Our Revolution, an organization devoted to grassroots organizing and raising the profiles of progressive candidates. However, today's POLITICO article by Edward-Isaac Dovere paints a bleak picture of an ...read more
When you're safe from the social and economic depredations of Trump and the GOP, you're free to wallow in privilege and ignorance. Tough luck for everyone else, though, right? It's been over a year since Donald Trump was sworn in as president. Since then, he has done more to ...read more
This last year has been hard for anyone with a working brain, given how every day under our Russian stooge of a President and the hypocrites in his party produces some new nightmare. But hope is not lost, as several organizations have risen to prominence to help us take back ...read more
There are many ways to look at what happened in the special election for a Georgia house seat on Tuesday night. Republican Karen Handel beat her Democrat opponent Jon Ossof in the traditionally red district for the seat vacated by current Health and Human Services Secretary Tom ...read more
A matter of hours after we published a follow-up on reporter James Risen and the Obama administration's record on press freedom, Attorney General Eric Holder appeared at the Washington Ideas Forum on Wednesday and was asked by moderator Jonathan Capehart whether the U.S. ...read more
Democrats and the activist left have managed to achieve several victories in the last several weeks -- while almost entirely ignoring the issue itself. Concurrent with a resurgence of interest in Edward Snowden and NSA surveillance, given the premiere of Laura Poitras's ...read more
Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker is one step closer to being the next senator from the Garden State. He won the Democratic primary on Tuesday by a significant margin over his rivals, Rep. Frank Pallone, Assembly Speaker Shiela Oliver and Rep. Rush Holt. Historically ...read more
For the first part of New Year's Day, I thought the far-left "Obama caved" crowd would take the prize for the most insane political faction of the day considering how, as soon as a deal was reached, they accused the president of capitulating to the Republicans, even though the ...read more
By Bob Cesca: There's been an understandable amount of discussion since Tuesday night about how the Republicans failed and what they can do to improve. I love a good concern-trolling post as much as anyone, especially in the wake of such an exhilarating victory. Let's face ...read more
By Bob Cesca: It's difficult to make it through a day of political reading without stumbling onto another progressive screed in a long syllabus of screeds about how President Obama is worse than George W. Bush. I'm sure you're familiar with the rogue's gallery of writers and ...read more
By Ted Lieverman: I get uneasy when I see liberals and progressives complaining so vigorously about President Barack Obama’s lack of accomplishments. Sure, the last four years have seen many mistakes and disappointments by the White House. But when I think about the realistic ...read more
By Bob Cesca: Over the weekend, actor and activist John Cusack posted an interview he conducted with George Washington University constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley. You might recall seeing Turley on Countdown with Keith Olbermann over the years, and you probably ...read more
Signs of hope and change in America. Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority’s cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan ...read more
In an interview with the London Times, political consultant and apparent snake oil salesman Dave "Mudcat" Saunders says the following: “The Democrats talk of tolerance, but in reality the only tolerance they ever exhibit is for their own intellectual arrogance — and they don't ...read more
Progressives beat back Ward Connerly's anti-civil rights bill designed to turn up conservative votes in Missouri. ...read more
Shorter Matt Stoller: Quit acting like babies. Waaaaaaaaaaaah. The world is ending because Sen. Obama doesn't personally read every blog and conduct online polls asking the "netroots" what color underwear he should wear. Do these guys know that a presidential election isn't ...read more
A few months ago I wrote about how I really really want the president of the United States to be someone who is the national leader of the country and not just a party chairman. I feel the need to point this out again in the middle of some of the typical blogosphere whining ...read more
She's standing on a platform of Jello. Via MSNBC's Verdict with Dan Abrams here is Sen. Clinton slamming MoveOn (and by extension everyone who's ever had the desire to be a progressive/Democratic activist) and here is Sen. Clinton just a year ago saying what great work she thinks ...read more
At Shakesville, writing about Obama and abortion Kate Harding writes this intriguing bit Progressives? Do not respect the anti-choice position. Really? This is the road we're going to go down now? I think being pro-choice is a necessity for a Democratic candidate. It's a ...read more
Hillary Clinton and her surrogates sure feel a strong need to echo right-wing attacks versus Sen. Obama. And that's fine with me. At the end of the day this will teach us that no matter what the Clintons cannot be trusted anywhere near the leadership of the Democratic party in ...read more
