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Howard Dean Endorses Lori Saldaña in Must-Watch Congressional Race

Taylor Leake | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: DCCC Red to Blue Program, Pccc, Dccc, National Organization for Women, Howard Dean, Lori SaldañA, Dfa, Lori Saldana, Moveon, Now, Democracy for America, Brian Bilbray, Politics News

Governor Howard Dean, former Presidential candidate and past head of the Democratic National Committee, was in San Diego this past Tuesday to throw hi...

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Influential Progressive Group Announces Top 10 House Candidates

HuffingtonPost.com | Mollie Reilly | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: House of Representatives, Video, Congress, Dfa, 2012 Election, Tammy Baldwin, Progressives, Elections 2012, Howard Dean, Alan Grayson, Democracy for America, Democrats, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democracy for America, the grassroots group founded by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, has named its top 10 progressive candidates in t...

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The Rapture Make a Comeback, Play SPIN Headquarters

Taryn Haight | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Gabriel Andruzzi, Dance Music, In the Grace of Your Love, Luke Jenner, Vito Roccoforte, The Rapture, Concert Review, Dfa, Electronic Music, Spin, Live Music, Spin Magazine, Slidepollajax, Culture News

The Rapture are back and sounding exactly as I remember them -- a flawless rock/pop/dance melange, distinguished by their reliable drums, unmistakeable vocals and one hell of a steady cowbell.

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I Love DFA and ActBlue: Why I'm Not Sending a Donation to Help Run the Ad in Wisconsin

Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Actblue, Change, Centrists, Hope, Progressives, Dfa, Audacity, Blue Dogs, Republicans, Barack Obama, Wisconsin Protests, Politics News

I've just received an email solicitation from Charles Chamberlain at DFA, asking that I contribute to help keep the ActBlue ad running in Wisconsin. ...

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Progressive Duo Goes After Grassley For Eccentric, Inane Remarks

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pccc Dga Grassley Ad, Chuck Grassley, Pccc, Grassley Senate Race, Dfa, Roxanne Conlin, Iowa Senate, Iowa Progressives, Conlin Senate Race, Video, Politics News

In a symbolic move heading into the final days of the election, a duo of progressive organizations is taking out a statewide ad on behalf of a Senate ...

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Lunchtime with the DFA.

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joe the Nerd, Sestak, Trivedi, Lentz, Murphy, Dfa, Joe Sestak, Politics News

I was invited to lunch this week (this is a significant first for a pimple-on-the-rump blogger). Jim Dean, who runs DFA (Democracy For America), was ...

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Alan Grayson: 'You Can't Beat A Republican By Being One'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alan Grayson, Democracy for America, Dfa, Rep. Alan Grayson, 2010 Elections, Democrats 2010 Elections, Joe Sestak, Elections 2010, Politics News

Florida's Alan Grayson is one of a handful of House Democrats representing swing districts who is flouting the conventional wisdom that the way to win...

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Sign Up To Cover Concerts This Week: Arcade Fire, Spoon, Metric, Hot Chip, Cut Copy, The XX

Monica Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hercules and Love Affair, Nycbeat, Celebrate Brooklyn, Metric, Dfa, Central Park, Holly Miranda, Hot Chip, Joan as Police Woman, Arcade Fire the Suburbs, Prospect Park Bandshell, Cut Copy, Arcade Fire, Summerstage, Concerts This Week, Holy Ghost!, Spoon, Madison Square Garden, New York News

Huffington Post continues its local coverage with the help of our Citizen Journalism Unit. To join the local reporting team and receive advance as...

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Sign Up To Cover Concerts This Week: Cyndi Lauper, Bear Hands

Monica Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Best Boast, Nycbeat, Midnight Juggernauts, La Secta Allstar, New York, Darlings, Dfa, Robert Francis, Nycjelly, Katy Perry, Brooklyn, Free Energy, Bomba Estereo, Henry Wolf, Pool Party, Cyndi Lauper, Cap'n Jazz, No Age, Rita Indiana, Bear Hands, Bethany Cosentino, P.S. 1, South Street Seaport, Brooklyn Bowl, The Whitney, Loose Limbs, Prospect Park, Lightning Bolt, The Death Set, New York News

Robert Francis with Henry Wolf NPR called Robert Francis "A young man with an old soul," referring to his singing-songwriting. At just 19, his emoti...

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Accountability Recruits First Candidate for 2010: Bill Halter

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blanche Lincoln, Color of Change, Steelworkers, Arkansas, Dfa, Bill Halter, Accountability Now, Moveon, Daily Kos, Firedoglake, Seiu, Blogpac, Politics News

Some will try to paint our push for candidates like Bill Halter as a "purge" of "moderates" from the Democratic party. It's not. Blanche Lincoln is a radical corporatist. That's not the "center" of anything.

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Triggering a Democratic Civil War

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Howard Dean, Progressive Movement, Public Option, Democratic Party, Progressive Blogopshere, Dfa, Olympia Snowe, Politics News

By winning Olympia Snowe over on health care, the White House is risking something far more politically dangerous: an ugly fight within the Democratic Party and further erosion of Obama's standing with his base.

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White House Has Not Told Progressive Groups To Stop Targeting Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Ben Nelson Pccc, Dem Senators, Pccc, White House Progressive Groups, Dfa, White House Ads, Politics News

Despite telling Democratic senators that he didn't approve of the ads being run by left-wing groups against members of their own party, Barack Obama h...

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Norm Coleman Raises $140,000 for Progressives -- Time for a Knock-Out Punch?

Adam Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minnesota, Democracy for America, Pccc, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Dfa, Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Normdollar, Recommended, Politics News

Either we lay the pressure on thick now and get Coleman to concede when the next ruling comes, or he appeals again -- keeping Al Franken out of the Senate for potentially months more.

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