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Voter ID Laws Could Hurt Obama

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012

* In Florida, a court challenge over voters' rights * Groups say registering voters more difficult now * Obama, aided by...

Should This Blogger Stop Writing About CO Secretary of State's Misinformation and Innuendo?

Jason Salzman | Posted 04.16.2012

Jason Salzman

What about our basic trust in government, which rests to some degree on faith in elections? How seriously should take it, or should we ignore it, when our Secretary of State is on the radio making accusations of very recent election fraud?

Hey, Etch A Sketch Conservatives: Time to Resurrect Some Honesty

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.09.2012

Leo W. Gerard

A spring awash with Etch A Sketch conservatives, camera-wielding GOP con men and a bogus deficit reduction budget from House Republicans shows that for the right, wrong is justified when it achieves the desired results.

Andrew Breitbart: The Extended GQ Interview

Death Race | Posted 05.02.2012

Death Race

On February 3, 2011, right-wing firebrand Andrew Breitbart, who died early Thursday morning in Los Angeles at the age of 43, gave GQ an extended interview on the eve of the publication of his book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!

Democrats Hitting Back Against GOP Voting Measures

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 01.31.2012

WASHINGTON — Democrats said Thursday they are planning a major effort to protect voting rights in the 2012 election after several states passed ...

O'Keefe Group Facing Major Difficulties As Conservative Activist Misses Targets

Politico | Ken Vogel | Posted 11.17.2011

After pulling off the brazen hidden camera sting credited with bringing down the liberal organizing group ACORN, James O'Keefe dreamt up an even bolde...

Michael McAuliff

Darrell Issa Seeks Probe Of New York Group Tied To Defunct ACORN

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.07.2012

WASHINGTON -- Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is pushing for a federal probe of a New York City community organization based ...

Occupy Wall Street at 6AM Sunday

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 12.19.2011

The Relentless Conservative

I woke up very early on Sunday morning and thought the Relentless Conservative (RC) should head on down to see what Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was all about.

Michael McAuliff

Dems Fear Voter Suppression Could Cost Them 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.05.2011

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats alarmed by reports that new voter laws could bar some five million people from the polls are launching an ambitious onl...

80 Million Disenfranchised and Disinterested Americans Didn't Vote In '08. What Portends for 2012?

Pearl Korn | Posted 11.19.2011

Pearl Korn

As the 2012 Presidential campaign heads into high gear, we must engage eligible non-voters who are young, uneducated and economically deprived.

Dear Mr. President Obama: Five Ideas for Winning the Latino Vote

Maria Teresa Kumar | Posted 10.10.2011

Maria Teresa Kumar

It's well known inside the Beltway that the Latino vote could make or break President Obama's re-election, and soon it'll be national news. By then, it may just be too late for the president to win back Latinos.

Bertha Lewis: From ACORN To The Black Institute

Posted 10.04.2011

From NPR: In this week's "Wisdom Watch" segment, host Michel Martin speaks with Bertha Lewis, former CEO of the Association for Community Organizat...

Amanda Terkel

ACORN Comeback? Conservatives Fear Resurgence Of 'Nutty' Liberal Fringe

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.07.2011

WASHINGTON -- The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) spent years being a conservative villain and was finally felled in Nov...

Supreme Court Won't Hear ACORN's Appeal To Overturn Funding Ban

AP | Posted 08.20.2011

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from ACORN, the activist group driven to ruin by scandal and financial woes, over being banned fr...

Tea Party Minority Outreach Gets Help From Unlikely Individual

Roll Call | Posted 07.25.2011

The mostly white crowd that turns up for weekly meetings at King Street Patriots is becoming a problem for tea party leaders....

Budget Deficit Fixed: The GOP Slashes NPR

Michael B. Keegan | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael B. Keegan

Any budget process that focuses on ACORN, NPR and family planning isn't really about fixing the federal budget. Republicans in Congress have decided to use the budget process as another platform for picking political fights.

NPR, the Rest of the Federal Budget & a Large Hairy Dog

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Sally Kohn

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Don't Sleep Through Assault on Workers

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Rev. Jesse Jackson

The wealthiest one percent of Americans control more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. The question now is whether we can rebuild a strong middle class, or whether the budget crisis will be used to reduce it further.

O'Keefe vs. NPR: Round One Goes to the Kid

Brian Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Brian Palmer

A video filmed by right-wing activists that apparently shows NPR's chief fundraiser disparaging conservatives was just the latest in a series of dishonestly edited 'stings' by muckraker James O'Keefe.

What Kind Of Journalist Is This?

The Wrap | Tim Kenneally & Daniel Frankel | Posted 05.25.2011

James O'Keefe, the man who slew ACORN and on Wednesday toppled the CEO of NPR, is some new kind of journalist - Johnny Knoxville meets Glenn Beck in M...

Why Conservatives Targeted Unions, ACORN & Planned Parenthood

The Nation | Ilyse Hogue | Posted 05.25.2011

For the past two weeks, all eyes have been glued to Madison, Wisconsin. The collective and joyful resistance to Governor Scott Walker's power-grabbing...

Think Again: The Contours and Context of the Conservative Class War in Wisconsin

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Eric Alterman

When Ian Murphy of the online newspaper Buffalo Beast prank-called Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, he was, as he admitted, "wildly unprepared." But it di...

The Republican War Against Women

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Bob Cesca

Instead of big government policies to ban abortions, how about big government policies aimed at preventing abortions? How about endorsing and releasing federal spending to increase childcare services for adoption?

Pimps and Prostitutes... Again?

Peter Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Peter Hart

Will mainstream media outlets learn to treat right-wing hidden camera exploits more skeptically -- or maybe decide that they're not news at all? The NYT today hints that they have already forgotten what they learned last time.

IndictBreitbart.org Launches Campaign Against Right Wing Activists, Breitbart, O'Keefe, and Giles

John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011

John Atlas

IndictBreitbart.org claims that when James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles secretly recorded Maryland ACORN's employees after entering their office they broke Maryland's Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act.