Mimi Kennedy

Elizabeth Edwards has passed. She wrote, in her book Saving Graces of having witnessed a ceremony, in Japan, in which candles were floated offshore, out into the water. She had the vision that the bobbing, twinkling, moving lights were souls dying at the same time, passing together from this world...

Maxine Waters, a champion of progressive politics, minority equal opportunity and peace politics (a member of the Triad, with Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey, that bravely opposed Bush's war and occupation of Irag at the height of his power, against the wishes of Speaker Pelosi) is under investigation for violating...

OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDIA from Mimi Kennedy, National Advisory Board Chair, Progressive Democrats of America

Most people know the fundamental questions of good reporting: Who, What, When, Where and Why. A fifth question, an "H", is sometimes taught: How?

We, the election protection community in the United States, challenge...

Mr. Daschle, you are now exactly the wrong man for health care reform.

It is clear you will work for a solution that is a political compromise -- and now, any compromise you might attain will be lethally vulnerable. From all sides, your compromise will be attacked as the...

I heard something on NPR this morning that I'd rather not believe. But I'd better believe it.

I find it hard to listen to Morning Edition these days. It's so full of hints, audible to me as an actress, that the correspondents feel sorry for the Republican...

Hearty congratulations to everyone who voted, who got out the vote, who educated themselves and others on the issues and candidates, who gave money, who worked to protect the vote. That last step was a crucial one this time around. And it worked. Election Defense Alliance statisticians, based on their...

Dear Senator Lieberman,

The dwindling residue of your political leadership is unworthy of you.

I hope you can return to private life with a wisdom that I suspect is yours, but which has been achingly unapparent in your last years under this Administration.
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On June 6, the first federal election regulated by HAVA - the Help America Vote Act - was held in San Diego, CA between Francine Busby (D) and Brian Bilbray(R) to decide which would take convicted Randy "Duke" Cunningham's (R) House seat in CA-50. The election drew nationwide scrutiny as...