Matt Stoller is a political activist/blogger in DC. Most recently, he came off of the Jon Corzine for Governor in New Jersey, where he blogged for the campaign. Currently, he blogs for MyDD.com and networks other progressive bloggers/internet activists. You can find out more at www.mattstoller.com.

Blog Entries by Matt Stoller

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Van Jones says that stagflation is the key threat to the next President's administration. #

- Matt Stoller, tweeted July 20, 2008

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Raise your hand if you want to know why Gore praises Newt Gingrich, the organizer of drill drill drill. #

- Matt Stoller, tweeted July 19, 2008

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Raise your hand if you want to know why Gore praises Newt Gingrich, the organizer of drill drill drill. Or why he praises Joh ... #

- Matt Stoller, tweeted July 19, 2008

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Pelosi is just talking to the cspan cameras, filibustering. #

- Matt Stoller, tweeted July 19, 2008

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kos makes the important point that Obama went back on his word about FISA #

- Matt Stoller, tweeted July 18, 2008

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watching mark begich, jeff merkley, debbie cook, adam siegel at energize america panel. Wow. #

- Matt Stoller, tweeted July 18, 2008

Want to See Sexism? Try Calling Your Opponent a Ditz and Joking About Clinton's Death

Posted June 2, 2008 | 11:29 PM (EST)


I know there's a good amount of anger at the sexism in the media, and it's pretty raw. But do you want to see sexism, overt sexism, used by the GOP? Check out this ad Congressman Dave Reichert ran against progressive Democrat Darcy Burner in 2006.

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Obama's Consolidation of the Party

Posted May 8, 2008 | 10:39 AM (EST)


This piece relies on rumors going around donor and activist circles. It is cross-posted at OpenLeft.

Brownsox at Dailykos blogs.

Over 1.25 million Indianans voted yesterday for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primary.


Over 1.1 million Indianans voted for Jill Long Thompson...

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And Al Gore Helps John McCain into the White House

Posted April 18, 2008 | 05:58 PM (EST)


So John McCain is moving towards a more moderate position so he can build himself up for the general election. And the way he is doing it is quite fascinating if not surprising.

First, his advisers can...
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Democratic Candidates Offer Their Questions for Petraeus

Posted April 7, 2008 | 06:18 PM (EST)


3500 people and more than 50 Democratic congressional candidates have endorsed a Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, a plan validated by retired Generals, national security experts, and profiled in both the Washington Post and Dailykos (and mentioned on This Week with George Stephanopoulos). This...

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What Corruption Looks Like

Posted January 15, 2008 | 05:38 PM (EST)


What I love about corruption in DC is that it's just so damned tacky.

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Al Wynn is running in Maryland's fourth Congressional district for reelection against progressive challenger Donna Edwards. Wynn sat in Congress for fifteen years with...

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Hillary Clinton's Lobbyist Driven Telecom Plans

Posted January 10, 2008 | 08:06 PM (EST)


Excuse me for a second while I delve into something substantive.  I've written about Obama's transformative proposals on media and contrasted them to Hillary Clinton's 'Connect America' plan to expand broadband access, which is based on a private-public partnership model called Connect Kentucky.  Well, it turns out that...

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Net Neutrality Wins Iowa

Posted January 5, 2008 | 06:18 PM (EST)


Cross-posted on OpenLeft

In mid-November, Barack Obama laid down some truly remarkable and transformative proposals for the internet, including a strong embrace of net neutrality.  Edwards also put out a series of similar policy ideas embracing openness and net neutrality, chiming in during the very imporant

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Time to Dismantle the War and the Constitution of Television

Posted December 6, 2007 | 04:42 PM (EST)


Cross-posted on OpenLeft.

One of Wes Clark's best expressions is 'we can do it because we are doing it'. And after wallowing in some frustration over mistakes progressives have made, I'm coming around to the view that we are working hard to end the war. Whether you are working...

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Waking Up to a Working Republican Majority

Posted August 9, 2007 | 05:08 PM (EST)


This post is cross-posted on OpenLeft, a strategy site for progressives.

I'm beginning to explore an idea that I'm not entirely sold on, which is that in the House, while Democrats are in control, there is effectively a Republican working majority. If true, this has a number of implications,...

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Action Item: Senator Reid, Don't Legitimize Fox News

Posted March 5, 2007 | 05:33 PM (EST)


Over the past week and a half, many of us have been engaged in a very public conversation with the Nevada Democratic Party leadership on their choice to have Fox News host a Presidential forum in August in Nevada. 3500 of you sent emails to Nevada State Party Chair Tom...

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The Progressive Convulsions Start

Posted March 3, 2007 | 01:14 PM (EST)


With the announcement that Lieberman is going to give the Democratic radio response to Bush on Walter Reed, it's pretty well confirmed that progressives are shut out of the Congressional halls of power.  First it was Feingold's defunding proposal being poleaxed, then Hoyer winning the Majority Leader contest, then...

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ACTION: Freeze Out Fox News

Posted February 21, 2007 | 05:43 PM (EST)


This was originally posted by Chris Bowers at MyDD.com.

In response to the growing disgust over their decision to partner with Fox News to host a Democratic presidential debate, the Nevada Democratic Party issued the following statement last night:

"FOX News' viewership in Western states and across the...
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Hillary Clinton: 'WAAAAAAHHHHH'

Posted February 21, 2007 | 11:01 AM (EST)


This is pathetic. Obama supporter David Geffen launches a bevy of insults at Hillary Clinton in Maureen Dowd's column. Some of them are reasonable, some of them are not. But Maureen Dowd? The woman who calls your candidate 'Obambi'?

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton puts out a formal statement from her...

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Hillary Clinton's DLC Problem

Posted January 25, 2007 | 01:08 AM (EST)


From the New York Times, on the escalation in Iraq:

"We know this policy is going forward," said Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York. "We know the troops are moving. We know that we're not likely to stop this escalation. But we are going to do everything...
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