Organizing for America

As one Organizing for America volunteer said, "During the last campaign, our slogan was 'Yes We Can;' this time it should be 'Yes We Must.'" That's seems to be the attitude prevalent among Michigan Obama supporters.

One year ago today, we were watching Obama sign the Affordable Care Act into law. We were watching a moment centuries in the making -- the moment health care in America became a right for all.

WASHINGTON -- Building on the momentum in Wisconsin, where tens of thousands of protesters have turned out to oppose Republican Gov. Scott Walker's ef...

The DADT vote showed that Democratic activists will not stop fighting after the November elections. We will continue to stand up for President Obama's legislative priorities.

I know we're supposed to be celebrating the Obama Comeback Narrative today, but this piece from Sam Graham-Felsen in today's Washington Post, concerning the outcast state of the volunteer base at Organizing for America, isn't playing along.

The arguments of former loyalists like Graham-Felsen are striking because they not only appeal to the idealism of the Obama campaign, they also press blunt warnings about the president's political survival.

The Blue Dogs are right about campaign strategy in some conservative districts -- but they greatly overstate their case. Granularity is usually lost in our political narrative, and the numbers suggest subtle, diverging politics.

Time for OFA to be scrapped. At least as it currently exists. I can't tell you how disappointed I was after all of our kick-butt, grassroots groups -...

You came, you rallied, you restored sanity -- almost. There's still some crazy out there, and that's why grassroots volunteers with Organizing for America are stepping it up to get voters to the polls in the elections just three days from now.

It's clear that this year Pennsylvania is playing the role of the crucial swing state that was played by Ohio in 2004 and Florida in 2000. The economic case for clean energy is at the top of students' minds.

Amid the campaign frenzy, we need to stop for a moment and quickly note, because it will become hugely more important in the coming weeks and months, that not everyone in the Obama administration is on the same team.

In January, 2011, the Koch Boys and their rightwing ultra-rich comrades will gather for a secret meeting to discuss what to do with the Congress they just purchased. First on the agenda: kill and bury net neutrality.

News coverage of the "Moving America Forward" rally at The Ohio State University this past Sunday has focused on the massive, energized crowd of 35,00...

The insidious and deceptive self-branding that used to be confined to the corporate world is now also used by political message-makers, aiming to create a look and feel that consumers identify with intuitively.

The feeling of "we're all in this together" is what I miss more than anything about the Obama campaign. It was a tall order, the hopes and dreams of a nation, to be placed on one person. That's because it was never really about him.

The past week alone has shown clear signs the enthusiasm-gap theory made popular by the chattering class is overblown.

The talking heads have declared it so. But you know, political pundits and have a lot in common with stock analysts: they're pretty good at explaining the future -- right after it happens.

The enthusiasm gap is real -- but what can Democrats do about it? The President's latest infrastructure and tax-cutting proposals seem...

Now that Labor Day weekend has come and gone, political season is in full swing. With November 2nd less than two months away campaigns are buzzing wit...

As we pause to celebrate the momentous victory of the Voting Rights Act 45 years ago and how far our country has come, we understand that we can always increase voter participation and do more to protect that right.

It is one of the enduring yet neglected mysteries of Obama's first term. Why hasn't the massive, record-breaking volunteer and fundraising apparatus built during the 2008 Obama campaign exerted more influence in Washington?

The shadow elite in America are adept at creating novel alternative structures and new venues of power that suit their agenda, and Organizing for America seems to be a case in point.