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Can There Be Transparency in Politics? Jefferson Smith Runs for Mayor of Portland

Toni Nagy | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Government, Transparency, Politics, Msnbc, Grassroots Activism, Civic Engagement, Grassroots Organizing, Laws, Elections 2012, Portland Oregon, Grassroots Campaign, Jefferson Smith, Portland Mayor, Portland, Politics News

Recently I was introduced to Jefferson Smith, an inspired, young elected official, who's now running for mayor of Portland, Ore., and aims to embody the future of what politics should be.

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Elizabeth Warren's Money Bomb Haul

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Elizabeth Warren Senate, Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Video, Money Bomb, Grassroots Campaign, Elizabeth Warren 2012, Scott Brown Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Senate Race, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Warren's money bomb has pulled in pledges of more than $100,000 in the course of a weekend, according to the campaign, with fo...

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The Story We Need to Tell Ourselves: Bending the Arc of History Is the Work of Ordinary People (And We Are Those People)

David Levitus | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Social Justice, American Jews, Jewish Voters, Rebuild the Dream, Los Angeles, California, Community Organizing, Grassroots Progressive Movements, Progressive Movements, Grassroots Organizing, Political Activism, Grassroots Campaign, Grassroots Movements, Social Activism, Impact News

Across the board, we are beginning to see progressive organizations working to scale up the size and sophistication of their efforts. Groups that have previously focused on their own particular issues and communities are banding together.

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Asking and Telling Since 1975

Kevin Cathcart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LGBT Rights, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Lgbt, Doma, Dadt, Enda, Joseph Steffan, Copy Berg, Gay Rights, Dusty Pruitt, Margarethe Cammermeyer, Grassroots Campaign, Politics News

Today, we feel stronger and more hopeful because of DADT's repeal. But we still have work to do. For as progress is made, the remaining inequalities seem all the more indefensible.

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START-ing the "Countdown to Zero"

Andrea Jimenez Rael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aspen Ideas Festival, Cia, World Security Institute, Nuclear Weapons, Valerie Plame Wilson, Aspen Institute, Start Treaty, An Inconvenient Truth, Grassroots Campaign, Nuclear Terrorism, Cold War, Non-Partisan, Global Zero, Countdown to Zero, Video, Impact News

Ever since the world first witnessed the blossoming of the mushroom cloud we've been living a constant nightmare of international terrorism. Demonstra...

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Memo to the Media: Forget Your Focus on Politicians

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tedx, Nile Rodgers, We Are Family Foundation, Acorn, Grassroots Campaign, Fela Kuti, New York News

Fela is no period piece, and in fact points to how social change does not just come out of the barrel of bombast from either the White House or the Congress.

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To Repower America With Clean Energy, Meet Me at The Wall

David Boundy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Repower America, Grassroots, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Grassroots Campaign, Take Action, Alliance for Climate Protection, Green News

There are too many urgent reasons to tackle this challenge of a generation, and there is nothing more compelling than hearing them straight from the people who care the most.

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Women And The 2008 Election: A New Majority

Julie Menin | Posted 05.25.2011

While some celebrated that New Hampshire just became the first state to have a majority of women legislators in one of their chambers, the question to ask is, why are they the only ones?

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Obama and His Field Force: How California Roared

Jamie Alter Lynton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Calls, Barack Obama California, Grassroots Campaign, Grassroots Obama, Grassroots, Obama Campaign, Barack Obama, California, Politics News

There's a good chance that the role California played in Obama's victory will go unnoticed. However, the California team actually pulled off what can only be called a field operation coup.

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Obama Campaign Uses Little Steps To Make Big Movement

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, Canvassers, Campaign Tactics, Politics Local, Volunteers, Obama Biden, Grassroots Campaign, Obama Volunteers, Snohomish County, Campaign 2008, Precinct Meeting, Politics, Washington, Seattle, Election 2008, Home News

What Obama's campaign does that is different is to ask canvassers and callers to personally take a stake in making a difference in the leanings of voters. Quite simply it is predicated on the very questionable statistical significance of one human influencing another.

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RED ALERT: Big Oil Money vs. You

Rep. Chris Van Hollen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: DCCC Red to Blue Program, Red Alert, Grassroots Campaign, Larry Kissell, Chris Van Hollen, Big Oil, Dccc, Politics News

Larry Kissell is real grassroots success story, which is why he needs your urgent help. Robin Hayes just reached deeper into Big Oil's pocket to try and hold off Larry's surging momentum.

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Meanwhile In McCainland... A Whole Lot Of Nothing

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, 2008, Election, President, Barack Obama, Mccain Campaign Headquarters, Grassroots Campaign, McCain Campaign, Ground Campaign, Obama Mccain Arizona, Michelle Obama Arizona, McCain Website, Obama Grassroots Campaign, Mccain Campaign Arizona, Obama Campaign Arizona, McCain Arizona, Mccain Headquarters Virginia, Home News

We're talking McCain's home state of 30 years-- there must be events, I thought, a troupe of highly motivated supporters making battle plans? But No, McCain HQ in Virginia told me there was absolutely nothing happening in Arizona.

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