You Set the Agenda at Netroots Nation
Each year, Netroots Nation gathers the progressive movement. We learn from each other, influence each other, share our victories and failures. And in ...
Each year, Netroots Nation gathers the progressive movement. We learn from each other, influence each other, share our victories and failures. And in ...
Art Brodsky | Posted 08.23.2011
What happens when unions, or otherwise well-meaning progressive groups, fall in with the corporations, out of naivete or other reasons?
Mandy Jenkins | Posted 08.21.2011
Over the course of four days in the nexus of Netroots Nation and RightOnline, one Huffington Post employee spent more time with the conservatives -- and nothing bad happened.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 08.20.2011
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Barack Obama’s approval rating among self-identified liberal Democrats consistently hovers in the 90-percent range, but those ...
Sally Kohn | Posted 08.20.2011
Should the "professional left" aggressively push the Obama administration to do more for working families? Hell yeah! Yet the tone of the questioning was infinitely more critical than friendly.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.19.2011
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Wisconsin was a central theme at the dueling conservative and progressive conferences for online activists here, with both sides...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.18.2011
MINNEAPOLIS -- Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain defended his statements on Muslims in a meeting with bloggers Saturday, saying he would a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.18.2011
MINNEAPOLIS -- Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) seems to have few Democratic allies in Congress interested in rejecting corporate dollars and undisc...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.18.2011
MINNEAPOLIS -- Fifteen individuals and groups will be awarded $5,000 cash prizes at progressive conference Netroots Nation on Saturday evening, praisi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.17.2011
MINNEAPOLIS -- Fresh off of the June 13 GOP debate, presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann said she was confident in her chances of winning the White H...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.17.2011
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart made an appearance at Netroots Nation on Friday, showing up at the progressive activism co...
Ari Melber | Posted 08.17.2011
Stories recounting liberals' "frustration" and disappointment with Obama are dominating coverage of this year's Netroots Nation. But these stories miss the mark, fitting into a precooked narrative about "Progressives vs. Obama."
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 08.17.2011
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Netroots Nation and RightOnline held competing conferences in Minneapolis this week, generating an unusual amount of ideological...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.17.2011
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer found himself in the often uncomfortable position of defending President Obama'...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.16.2011
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Former Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold issued Democrats a dire warning at the annual Netroots Nation conference here on Thursday...
Ari Melber | Posted 08.16.2011
Liberal activists rallied in Minneapolis on Thursday for Netroots Nation, a blogger conference that is now one of the largest gatherings in progressive politics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.16.2011
MINNEAPOLIS -- President Barack Obama is decidedly "not [the left's] boyfriend anymore," progressive supporters of gay- and immigrant-rights said on T...
Posted 08.16.2011
Roughly 2,000 liberal bloggers, blog readers and political operatives are gathering in Minneapolis, Minnesota this week for the 2011 Netroots Nation c...
Paul Hogarth | Posted 08.15.2011
Even if the President whom we all worked hard for cares more about the deficit than jobs, caves to the Senate Republican minority on the Bush tax cuts, and proposes draconian budget cuts for the poor, now is not the time to just give up.
Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011
If Robert Gibbs had walked around Las Vegas last week talking to the professional left, he would have learned what I did: that progressives, liberals, and Democrats are as diverse as the day is long.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, this column took a week off, due to an extended trip into the desert for the Netroots Nation convention. But now, we turn our sights back ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
There's only one problem with the argument that Social Security spending "drives out" education and other budget items: Those aging people have paid into a self-sustaining program for their entire working lives.
Progressive Ideas Network | Posted 05.25.2011
At this year's Netroots Nation convention in Las Vegas, I moderated a panel called "Think Tanks and Netroots: Best Practices for Working Together."
Wendy Carrillo | Posted 05.25.2011
Four adamant supporters of the federal DREAM Act courageously stood before Harry Reid in full cap and gowns at a Netroots Nation luncheon in Las Vegas to protest his lack of conviction.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011
a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=324031097"> TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on y...
Raven Brooks | Posted 03.13.2012