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Do Progressives Have What It Takes To Win?

Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Darcy Burner, Karl Rove, Netroots Nation, H.L. Mencken, Dick Polman, John Kerry, Rick Perlstein, P.T. Barnum, Dick Durbin, Progressives, Al Gore, Health Care, Dukakis, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Healthcare System, Universal Healthcare, Mencken, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

Conservatives believe -- with justification -- that if they get angry enough and loud enough, liberals will back down from fights like this one.

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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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There Is Always Trauma In The Room

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Community, Healing, Netroots Nation, Ptsd, Trauma, Faith, Compassion, Sharon Salzberg, Living News
Sharon Salzberg

I've done a little bit of work with soldiers returning from Iraq and have worked with domestic violence shelter workers on issues of vicarious trauma. I've also found in teaching the diverse groups who come for meditation guidance that, as someone once said to me, "There is always trauma in the room."

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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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Specter-Sestak Attack Each Other From The Left on Free Trade

Mike Elk | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Sestak, Netroots Nation, Specter, Nafta, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Arlen Specter, Obama and NAFTA, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs, Specter Sestak, Manufacturing Job Losses, Pennsylvania, Congressman-Joe-Sestak, Cafta, International Trade Commission, Pittsburgh, Arlen Specter Democrat, Politics News
Mike Elk

Manufacturing is essential to rebuilding our economy and moving away from the debt-driven boom bust cycles of the past.

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Bloggers Back Obama's Agenda, Not His Strategy (From Netroots Nation)

Ari Melber | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Specter, Valerie Jarrett, Ari Melber, Public Option, Netroots Nation, Clinton Netroots Nation, Clinton Blog, Bill Clinton, Susie Madrak, Sestak, Marcy Wheeler, Grassley, Death Panel, Lane Hudson, Media News
Ari Melber

Netroots Nation also drew a rather unlikely guest: Arlen Specter, the resilient, 79-year-old pol who has now managed to seriously rile the base of both political parties.

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Is Obama Just Another Politician?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Healthcare Industry, Valerie Jarrett, Senate Finance Committee, Netroots Nation, Public Option, New York Times, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Is Obama a Linconesque compromiser or is he just another politician who will sell out any principle just to get re-elected?

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Netroots Nation: Live Video From Pittsburgh

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: nn2009, Netroots Nation, Netroots Nation 2009, Netroots Nation Live Video, nn09, Politics News

Couldn't make it to Pittsburgh for Netroots Nation? Watch live streaming video of convention coverage here. The fourth annual gathering of progres...

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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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The Future of Netroots: GOP Disruptions, DailyKos, and the Role of OfA

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Will Rockafellow, Bill Clinton, Congress, Laura Ling, Blaise Nutter, President Obama, Ted Johnson, Organizing for America, Dailykos, Netroots Nation, Wilshire and Washington, Euna Lee, Current TV, Al Gore, Teresa Valdez Klein, Maegan Carberry, Health Care, North Korea, Media News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

With Netroots Nation coming up next week, we have joining us DailyKos General Manager Will Rockafellow for today's Wilshire & Washington podcast.

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The Netroots Go Deep

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media Summit, Media Matters, Karl Frisch, Netroots Nation, Markos Moulitsas, Nancy Pelosi, Media News
Gerald Sindell

I'm kinda sorta interested in keeping government and corporate power in check, but isn't there a huge other area of our world that needs reporting on?

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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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Kos And Alinsky And Election 2008

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Netroots Nation, Al Giordano, Books, Markos Moulitsas, Markos Moulitsas ZúNiga, Hillar Clinton, Saul Alinsky, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Home News
Stephen C. Rose

Kos may be the digital-era Saul Alinsky, as one reviewer put it, taking local activism online. Obama has updated Alinksy as well, synthesizing a national and local approach.

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More Evidence of a Sustained Progressive Revival

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Conservative Ascendancy, Netroots Nation, Barack Obama Online Organizing, Progressive Infrastructure, Online Organizing, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Obama Campaign, Barack Obama Netroots, Politics News
Simon Rosenberg

This decade is one of extraordinary progressive revival. Dozens of new organizations have been started. Hundreds of new candidates have been elected to office. Millions of Americans awakened politically.

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Edwards Affair: A Hard Lesson For the Left Half of the Blogosphere

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 09.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Daily Kos, Lee Stranahan, John Edwards, Netroots Nation, Sex, Affair, Media News
Erin Kotecki Vest

The left needed to be ahead of this story, and had the opportunity to be -- but chose instead to get defensive and nasty (another great blogging trait) to those who dare speak about it's possibility.

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Banning Bloggers -- I've Heard Enough Singing From the NetRoots

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 08.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Daily Kos, Lee Stranahan, Dnc, Queenofspain, Erin Kotecki Vest, Netroots Nation, John Edwards, Media News
Erin Kotecki Vest

The liberal, "censorship sucks" blog, Daily Kos has banned Lee Stranahan. Now I'm convinced they are extremists who are no better than the Neo-Con fundies.

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WATCH>> Bob Barr Doesn't Know Why We Vote On Tuesday

Jacob Soboroff | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Texas, Election Reform, Congress, nn08, Weekend Voting, Netroots Nation, Why Tuesday, Austin, Bob Barr, Home News
Jacob Soboroff

"I'll tell you, we need to do something, and we need to do a lot of different things, and changing the voting day is one of the things we need to do. I would sign such legislation."

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Netroots All-Stars Need YOU: 4 Steps to A Progressive Majority

Christine Pelosi | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Candidates, Dnc, Actblue, Al Gore, Campaign Boot Camp, 2008, Dailykos, Netroots Nation, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

Our Netroots All-Stars have important work in the countdown to Election Day. Americans are hungry for change and eager to be part of something larger than themselves.

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Fighting Smears Begins at Home, Mr. Gore

Nancy Scola | Posted 07.29.2008 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Al Gore, Netroots Nation, Al Gore Global Warming, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore Internet, Media News
Nancy Scola

Al Gore, who's not a candidate for anything this season, needs to be willing to get up on stage and say, "You know what? Damn right. The Internet? All me."

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Pelosi Passes the Buck; Gore Let Off the Hook at Netroots Nation

Paul Hogarth | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Netroots Nation, Pelosi Netroots, Gore Netroots Nation, Politics News
Paul Hogarth

Pelosi kept her grace while saying much of what the bloggers didn't agree with. Whatever you think of her answers, she did not condescend.

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FISA and Corporate Misbehavior

Bernard I. Finel | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Regulation, nn08, Fisa, Netroots Nation, Punitive Awards, Obama FISA, Politics News
Bernard I. Finel

I just returned from the Netroots convention, and needless to say, there is a lot of anger out there about the FISA "compromise." But I'll be blunt -- I find this anger misplaced and frankly naive.

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Netroots Nation Diggs Pelosi, Tubes Obama

Ari Melber | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mybo, Ari Melber, Digg, Get Fisa Right, Nancy Pelosi, Surveillance, Joe Rospars, Spying, Chris Hughes, Social Network Activism, Youtube Politics, Samantha Power, Netroots Nation, Barack Obama, Blog, Mybarackobama, Msm, Wes Clark, Fisa, nn08, Paul Krugman, Sns, Politics News
Ari Melber

Three years ago, web activists were undeniable outcasts in Democratic politics and no bar outside of Berkeley could spell "netroots." Now, the movement has an open line to every player in the party.

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Netroots Nation: Long on Good People, Short on Good Ideas

Justin Hamilton | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Netroots Nation, #nn08, Media News
Justin Hamilton

But less we run the risk of becoming the stale, static pillars of insider political power we seek to change, we must keep our eye on the ball.

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WATCH>> Pelosi, Gore Like Weekend Voting Idea

Jacob Soboroff | Posted 07.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Election Reform, Weekend Voting, Netroots Nation, Lloyd Doggett, Why Tuesday, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, nn08, Home News
Jacob Soboroff

At Netroots Nation, Gore and Pelosi speak out on the Weekend Voting Act.

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Nico Pitney

Gavin Newsom At Netroots Nation: On Gay Marriage, Running For Governor (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gavin Newsom, Video, Netroots Nation, Gavin Newsom Netroots Nation, Politics News

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom arrived in Austin, Texas, on Saturday to address the Netroots Nation conference. Newsom, who launched an exploratory ...

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