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Don't Bother Waiting for Bloggers to Get Credit for the Public Option

Peter Daou | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Netroots, Obama, Public Option, Bloggers Public Option, Left Public Option, Netroots Public Option, Politics News
Peter Daou

The credit will go to liberal-leaning legislators and will reference "public support," neglecting the fact that it took bloggers to draw attention to the polling that showed a majority favored the public option.

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A Tech-Powered Gay Rights Movement

Pam Spaulding | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology

Read More: Netroots, Lgbt, National Equality March, Aol, Gay Rights, Grassroots Activism, Prop 8, Gay Marriage, Technology News
Pam Spaulding

With web sites, blogs, and social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, the online LGBT community has emerged as an example of both leadership and rabble-rousing success.

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From ACORN to Van Jones, the Online Rightroots Flexes Its Muscles

Matt Lewis | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology

Read More: Twitter, Van Jones, Acorn, Green Jobs, Ron Paul, Townhall.com, Hugh Hewitt, Howard Dean, Joe Wilson, Rush Limbaugh, Facebook, Barack Obama, Conservative Talk Radio, Netroots, South Carolina, Gop, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, John McCain, Technology News
Matt Lewis

Online success has more to do with passion and intensity than with technological sophistication. And in politics, the outsiders -- not the establishment -- own passion.

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Congressman Joe Sestak Liveblogging RIGHT NOW at Senate Guru

Senate Guru | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Netroots, Pa-Sen, 2010 Senate, Liveblog, Pennsylvania, Joe Sestak, Senate Guru, Politics News
Senate Guru

ight now, beginning at 5pm Eastern Time, Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak will hold a liveblog session for about an hour at Senate Guru.

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Ohio's And Kentucky's Democratic Senate Candidates Appeal to the Progressive Netroots

Senate Guru | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dan Mongiardo, Lee Fisher, 2010 Senate, Ohio, Netroots, Jack Conway, Kentucky, Ky-Sen, Jennifer Brunner, Oh-Sen, Politics News
Senate Guru

With the 2010 Senate races in Ohio and Kentucky featuring two of the most competitive Democratic primaries of the cycle, I asked them why the progressive netroots should support their campaigns.

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Netroots Nation Frustration and the Impediments to Progressive Change

David Roberts | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Nelson, Netroots Nation, Grassroots, Waxman-Markey, Netroots, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Aces, Health Care, Astroturf, Blue Dog Democrats, Climate Bill, Politics News
David Roberts

It's become clear that structural features of American politics make it so change averse that virtually no progressive electoral sweep is enough to do the job.

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More than a Date to the Prom

Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Netroots, Blogosphere, Joe Sestak Specter, Progress, Netroots Nation, Joe Sestak, Politics News
Rep. Joe Sestak

Too many politicians get to Washington and turn their backs on those who got them there. I'm looking for a progressive partner in the blogosphere both during and after the campaign.

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Why Blogging Local Government Matters

Paul Hogarth | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Local Blogs, Netroots, Gavin Newsom, Netroots Nation, San Francisco, State and Local Government, Politics News
Paul Hogarth

Local government has a bigger impact on our lives than most of us realize, and bloggers play a crucial role, not only mobilizing activists around a common issue, but spreading information about local government.

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Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail?

Jeff Cohen | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Netroots, Single Payer, Democrats, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jeff Cohen

As things stand now, a weak public option would institutionalize a two-tiered system. Newt Gingrich couldn't dream up a better scenario to discredit a government role in health care.

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Sam Stein

Obama Calls On Bloggers To Keep Health Care Pressure On Congress (AUDIO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Netroots, Health Care, Politics News

In a reflection of a legislative strategy that has left no stone unturned, President Barack Obama on Monday called on like-minded bloggers to help his...

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Facebook's Digital Rascals and the Iran Election

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Palo Alto, Iran Election, Netroots, Edinburgh, Democracy, Iran, Tehran, Shaquille O'Neal, Clay Shirky, Facebook, Barack Obama, Media News
Pablo Manriquez

What was once a hopeful demand becomes a site-busting tsunami, a brute digital force veiled in Mousavi green.

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Behind the NRDC's Social Media Strategy

Eric Kuhn | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Blogs, Natural Resources Defense Council, Twitter, Social Networks, Nrdc, Netroots, NRDC Action Fund, Viral, Facebook, Obama-Environemntal-Policy, Global Warming, Green News
Eric Kuhn

hen the Natural Resources Defense Council needs to generate attention for environmental issues, one of the people they turn to is Apollo Gonzales, the Netroots campaign manager.

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E-Democracy Also Threatens Conservative Rule in Washington D.C.

Bob Fertik | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Netroots, Iraq War Funding, Iran Election, Internet Policy, Participatory Democracy, Iran Riot, Obama Internet, Iran, Single Payer Healthcare, World News
Bob Fertik

The Iranian rebellion is visible to the world through digital photos and videos uploaded and forwarded through Facebook, Twitter, and other global networks.

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Accidental Empire: The Rise of the Liberal Blogosphere

Eric Boehlert | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Netroots, Accidental Empire, Liberal Blogosphere, Progressive Media, Web Journalism, Progressive Bloggers, Progressives, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The liberal blogosphere, at least at its inception, represented perhaps the most unplanned, un-thought-through media and political movement in modern America. It really was an accidental empire.

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PA-Sen: Netroots Overwhelmingly Support a Draft Sestak Effort

Senate Guru | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Pa-Sen, Politics, Actblue, Democratic Primary, Netroots, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Joe Sestak, 2010 Senate Races, Politics News
Senate Guru

85% of Pennsylvanian respondents and 86% of respondents nationally want Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak to challenge Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democratic Senate primary.

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Specter Faces Price of Betrayal: Angry Dems, Workers, Primary Challenge

Art Levine | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Netroots, Afl-Cio, Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News
Art Levine

Specter now stands alone. Stripped of his rank by Democrats. Scorned by Republicans. Specter's flash of strength has turned to weakness.

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The Banking Crisis, S&Ls, Virginia and McAuliffe

Mike Stark | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terry McAuliffe, Banking Crisis, S&L, Netroots, Dccc, Savings and Loan Industry, Financial Crisis, Mcauliffe Virginia, Savings and Loan Scandal, Politics News
Mike Stark

Everything that was bad about democratic politics at the national level in the '80s and '90s was exemplified by Terry McAuliffe's leadership.

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Power to the People: Rebooting Conventional Diplomacy

Cheryl Benard and Edward O'Connell | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Netroots, Netroots Activism, Bosnia, Egypt, Trans-National Activism, Grassroots, RAND Corportation, World News
Cheryl Benard and Edward O'Connell

Identifying, promoting, and networking a transnational network of countervailing voices will require some of America's best diplomats: citizen diplomats from the ranks of the US public.

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Another Point of View: The Internet is Neither Friend nor Foe of Participatory Democracy

Eric K. Clemons | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Web, 2008 Election Internet, Netroots, The Internet, Internet, Media, Media Election 2008 Obama, Media News
Eric K. Clemons

The internet simply moves the war of the parties and their funding machines, not just the battle of ideas, to a new domain.

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Where the Devil is Dr. Dean?

Pia Sawhney | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Health, Recession 2008, U.S. Economy, Small Business, Economic Downturn, Economic Stimulus Package, Job Cuts, President Obama, Economic Crisis, Recession Fears, Howard Dean, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Washington DC, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics, Netroots, Breaking Politics News, Paul Krugman, Presidential Election, Tom Daschle Hhs, Tom Daschle Health Care, Senate, Tom Daschle, Tom Daschle Health and Human Services, Financial Crisis, Obama Cabinet, Rahm Emanuel, Oregon, Politics News
Pia Sawhney

After learning more about Daschle's decision to pull out, I posted an OpEd, published weeks earlier in The Nation, to my Facebook page. It was titled, "Missing Howard Dean."

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The 2008 Google Docs Campaign

Eric Kuhn | Posted 03.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Linkedin, John McCain, Twitter, Mccain, Clinton, Washington D.C., Obama, Facebook, Dailykos, Barack Obama, Netroots Nation, Inaugural Ball, Washington, Netroots, Youtube, Gop, Hillary Clinton, D, Al Gore, Technology, Massachusetts, Media News
Eric Kuhn

Google Docs is the single platform that enabled Obama's effective organization an historic fundraising success.

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Real 100 Days: Preserve Bipartisanship With Issue-Oriented, New Media Focus

Maegan Carberry and Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Rightroots, Real 100 Days, Internet Politics, Obama First 100 Days, 100 Days, Netroots, New Media, Republican Party, Media News
Maegan Carberry and Elizabeth Blackney

The Obama campaign and the newly emerging rightroots movement are grounded in the egalitarian principles of new media. This new media can reverse the course of business as usual.

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Media Change We Can Believe In

Rory O'Connor | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Politics, Mccain, Obama, Media, Pbs, Van Jones, Rovian Political Partisanship, Media Deregulation, Cpb, Bush Administration Media, Shock Jocks, Npr, Bush Administration, Media Consolidation, Fcc, Netroots, Radio Hate Speech, Media Politics, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Media News
Rory O'Connor

The Bush Administration's default approach toward journalists has been to use them when necessary and bypass them when not.

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From This Democrat, Thank You

Peter Daou | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Netroots, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Election Day, Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, Election Reaction, Barack Obama Presidency, Politics News
Peter Daou

I couldn't possibly know the stamina and dedication of his strategists, staff, volunteers, donors and supporters, who are poised to finally slay the dragons that defeated Gore and Kerry.

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Debbie Cook and Larry Kissell: Two Progressive Democrats for Congress

Erik Ose | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cafta, Jack Abramoff, Congress, Right Wing Republicans, Debbie Cook, Huntington Beach, ’08 Congressional Races, General Election, Online Fundraising, Offshore Oil Drilling, California, Blue America PAC, Dccc, Larry Kissell, 2008, Democratic National Convention Denver, Big Oil, Ca-46, Plant Closings, Donna Edwards, U.S. House of Representatives, Global Warming, North Carolina, Democratic Convention, Robin Hayes, Progressive Democrats, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Torture, Democratic National Convention, Sustainable Energy, Democrats, Al Wynn, Manufacturing Job Losses, Education, House Challengers, U.S. House, Orange County, Netroots, Republicans, Nc-08, Politics News
Erik Ose

These contests will help determine whether the party can hold off Republicans' attempts to seize back control of Congress, or add seats to the Democratic majority they gained in 2006.

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