The Blue America PAC hasn't officially endorsed any candidates this year. We have a whole bunch we want to endorse but we're concentrating on Maine's No on 1 campaign for now. As of last night,...

If you follow my seriousish blog at DownWithTyranny with any regularity you probably also know that as a hobby I run a fun travel blog on the side. I ran away from home when I was 13 -- hitchhiked to Florida (though I only got as far as...

Late yesterday President Obama met with a gaggle of legislators -- most of them clueless pro-war types -- to tell them he has no intention of ending the disastrous and pointless occupation of Afghanistan. No one watching the cable news shows afterwards would ever have guessed that Ike Skelton,...

Today the Senate "debated" the Department of Defense appropriations bill passed by the House (H.R. 3326) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010. Republicans added frivolous amendments all day, that were defeated one after the other. The amendment du jour, however, came from Al Franken D-MN.

And...

I know the difference between angry and mad. And when it comes to outspoken Orlando freshman Alan Grayson, Republicans are both. He's been the bane of their -- and their big donors'-- existence on the House Financial Services Committee, where he's been working effectively to put a crimp in a...

Like I said after a screening on Wednesday here in L.A., Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story is awesome and I want to recommend it (again) to everyone-- except for one part. As soon as Moore dealt with Chris Dodd I turned to my friends...

On my first day of college freshman orientation I met the president of the student body, Sandy Pearlman. He had long hair and I figured I could get pot from him. He turned out to be virtually the only non-pot smoker that I ever met at college. But he taught...

One week ago we started a Netroots-wide action at Blue America, inspired by Darcy Burner's closing keynote speech at Netroots Nation, thanking the 65 stalwart progressives who have promised...

We have quite a few progressives in Congress supporting the same efforts that we're supporting: getting real health care reform for ordinary working families. George Lakoff put it succinctly and elegantly yesterday:

The narrative is simple: Insurance company plans have failed to care for our people. They profit from...

Yesterday we launched a campaign to thank the 65 Democrats who are standing up for working families -- standing up despite Big Insurance's big bucks; standing up despite a campaign of Republican lies and thuggery; standing up even despite corporate shills in their own party,...

Last night Rachel Maddow kicked off her show with a talk about the collapse of ambition -- the Obama Administration and corporate Democrats throwing in the towel on health care reform. The video -- after the first minute or so -- is incredibly compelling and...

You may remember a clueless reactionary by the name of Ken Blackwell. He was the Secretary of State in Ohio during the 2004 election, meaning that much like his more infamous Florida counterpart, Katherine Harris, he was a corrupt partisan in control of the voting process during a national election.

Early on August 5th, as the corporate-funded, Limbaugh/Beck incited violence was just starting to roll, John McCain sent out a tweet: "Town hall meetings are an American tradition -- we should allow everyone to express their views without disruption -- even if we disagree!" He led; few in his...

The Republican playbook on disinformation, obstruction and disruption hasn't been working. In fact, the newest biannual national-wide, state by state polling data from Gallup, shows it's been backfiring. I wonder if the Republicans will change their strategy from "stand up and shout to rattle the Democrat whose town hall meeting...

Do you know who pays for the racist campaign against Obama? GEICO, NutriSystems, Proctor & Gamble, and... United Postal Service. Yep, those are the advertisers who pay for the TV...

The DCCC sent out a really exceptionally well done clip today pointing to the difference between Obama's vision of hope and the Republican vision of failure. Please watch it below. There's no doubt that the Republicans are on a mission to not just obstruct, but to undermine -- everything, from...

I had never been to the relatively new (December, 2008) Grammy Museum in Downtown L.A. until Monday night. I went to see Nanci Griffith speak about the making of her new...

The American record industry allowed itself to be bamboozled into giving WalMart and similar operations a near monopoly over their music. It was a catastrophe for them and their artists,...

Matthew Grimm and the Red Smear are releasing their second album, The Ghost of Rock'n'Roll. It's gritty and tough and filled with perceptive social criticism with a compelling beat. They're starting a tour tonight -- at Rock Island Live, a new venue in Wichita. Other announced tour dates:

May...