Netroots

Netroots Nation 2008: Caucus Refugee

Katie Halper | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics


Katie Halper

Watch me desperately search for my caucus, for my voice, for my representation. Why are the Netroots excluding me? Why are they so hateful towards me and my people?

Media Darlings: The Maverick or The Chosen One?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics


Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Do reporters like John McCain better? Can Captain Straight Talk Express even complain? And should Obama sidestep his rep as the Anointed One?

HuffPost And GQ Throw Party At Netroots Nation (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post, GQ | Katharine Zaleski/Dan Duray | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics


Last Friday night HuffPost and GQ got together to provide some social lubrication outside the Austin convention center for all the bloggers, journalis...

Gore Proves Global Warming by Sweating Profusely, and Nine Other Things I Learned at the Netroots Nation/KKK Gathering

Katie Halper | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics


Katie Halper

Contrary to popular belief, bloggers do have a sense of humor. The Netroots Nation gift bags included condoms.

Coverage of 'Netroots' Confab Draws Protest

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media


Greg Mitchell

It started innocently enough, with me huddled over a newspaper. A little more than a day later, the front-page article I was getting worked up about, would be pulled from the paper's Web site after a storm of protest. And I had at least a little something to do with it.

Nancy Pelosi: "I'm Not Taking Up Any Climate Change Until We Have A Democratic President"

Grist | Kate Sheppard and David Roberts | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green


grist.org For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), any action on climate change hinges on Barack Obama winning the White House this fall. Only the ...

Al Gore "Crashes" Netroots

Jack Hidary | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green


Jack Hidary

Pelosi's decision to share the stage with Gore is an interesting one. She clearly knew he was coming. But can Gore manage to stay out of the political arena as he skirts so close to it?

Paul Krugman: Obama WILL Win -- and Then Media Will Crucify Him

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

Krugman predicte that "within three months of taking office, no, less than three months" the media would be out to get Obama, as much as they had at the high point of anti-Bill Clinton bashing.

It's Time For America To Get Smart About Energy

Debbie Cook | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green


Debbie Cook

More people are now moving past the denial stage and are beginning to consider intelligent responses to the env=ergy problems we will face in the coming decades.

Netroots Summit Grapples with Bipartisan Attacks on Rule of Law

Ari Melber | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics


Ari Melber

Attendees and bloggers at Netroots are disappointed with the emerging, bipartisan consensus in Washington that the lawlessness of the Bush era can largely go unpunished.

Netroots Nation and My Campaign

Sherrie Matula | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics


Sherrie Matula

The netroots connections in Texas have elevated awareness of our campaign as one of the races to take back the Texas Legislature.

MoveOn At Ten

The Nation | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics


Five years to the day after American forces began their campaign of "shock and awe" in Iraq, opponents of the war gathered in Washington. While some c...

The United States of Money -- Tell Us What You Think

Alex Gibney | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment


Alex Gibney

The story of Jack Abramoff is an intriguing, stranger-than-fiction tale of Washington, D.C.'s tight knit world of members of Congress and the lobbyists who vie for their favor.

Netroots Should Tend To The Net's Roots

Art Brodsky | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media


Art Brodsky

No discussion of the Internet should be complete without a discussion of preserving and protecting the online environment. The big telecom and cable companies want to control which data goes faster.

Back-Talking Barack: The Influence of MyBO FISA Group & Netroots Nation

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics


Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

In this week's Wilshire & Washington show, Dr. Karen North stops by to talk about online engagement and how the user-made anti-FISA group on My.BarackObama.com is the way of the future.

Are Progressives Making Too Big A Deal Out Of FISA?

Matthew Yglesias | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics


Scott wonders if people are making too big a deal out of FISA: While I understand there are dozens of real policy difference to disagree with Pre...

Obama Web Site Protest Grows

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics


Bob Ostertag

Online protest has continued to grow against Obama's decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecom companies that cooperated with the Bush's program of wiretapping without warrants.

Surveillance Protest Group Now Tops Obama Website

Ari Melber | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics


Ari Melber

In many Democratic presidential campaigns, this is precisely the time when the base is ignored. Obama's base activists, however, are still getting heard.

Obama Needs to Play Offense on the Supreme Court

Doug Kendall | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics


Doug Kendall

The Obama campaign has promised to play offense this fall. On the Supreme Court, they need to step up to the plate.

Barack Obama's Vice President Will Be...

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Obama just needs a running mate who's old, Hispanic, southern, female and enjoys state-sponsored violence, especially war.

Jason Linkins

Website Allows Obama Supporters To Set Agenda

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics


In the June 2008 Atlantic, Marc Ambinder, touching on the remarkable success the Obama campaign has had leveraging the power of online social networki...

Who Will be Thrown Under the Clinton Bus Next?

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics


Eric Schmeltzer

Without Move On, she would not be Senator Clinton. She would be the wife of disgraced-and-removed former President Clinton. It's a pattern, of tossing aside key supporters, when she believes the political situation calls for it.

Obama v. Clinton: Who The Hell Cares?

David Goldstein | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics


David Goldstein

Obama and Clinton are not, and never have been our candidates; they are merely the last two standing.

Nader Runs, Nation Ralphs

David Goldstein | Posted 02.24.2008 | Politics


David Goldstein

That Nader can't see the slow motion political revolution unfolding before his eyes reveals him to be as much a part of the ossified political establishment as the politicians he reviles.

Will MoveOn Pick Obama or Clinton Today?

Ari Melber | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics


Ari Melber

MoveOn could blunt lingering Democratic concerns that Obama's post-partisanship is too nice for the inevitable battles ahead, or validate Clinton's argument that she is the toughest Democrat in the race.


 

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