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Amanda Terkel

Obama Staffer Bashes 'Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.17.2011

WASHINGTON -- The Obama campaign's point person in New Mexico recently sent an email to supporters defending the president's position on the debt deal...

Remembering the Grassroots Fight for Health Reform

Ben Brandzel | Posted 05.25.2011

Ben Brandzel

One year ago today, we were watching Obama sign the Affordable Care Act into law. We were watching a moment centuries in the making -- the moment health care in America became a right for all.

Amanda Terkel

DNC Expands Role In Labor Protests To Ohio, Indiana

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Building on the momentum in Wisconsin, where tens of thousands of protesters have turned out to oppose Republican Gov. Scott Walker's ef...

Former Campaign Aide Criticizes Obama on Organizing

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Ari Melber

The arguments of former loyalists like Graham-Felsen are striking because they not only appeal to the idealism of the Obama campaign, they also press blunt warnings about the president's political survival.

It's Time to Unsubscribe: I'm a Fed Up Progressive

Mike Stark | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Stark

We need to let Obama know he needs to change course if he expects a second term. The quickest and most measurable way I know that the base can speak to him is for as many people as possible to unsubscribe from the OFA list.

In Blue Dog Battle, Progressives Are (Half) Right

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Ari Melber

The Blue Dogs are right about campaign strategy in some conservative districts -- but they greatly overstate their case. Granularity is usually lost in our political narrative, and the numbers suggest subtle, diverging politics.

Obama Fix # 2 -- Get Rid of OFA

Linnie Frank Bailey | Posted 05.25.2011

Linnie Frank Bailey

Time for OFA to be scrapped. At least as it currently exists. I can't tell you how disappointed I was after all of our kick-butt, grassroots groups -...

What the San Francisco Giants and My Dad Can Teach Progressives About Overcoming Defeat

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Elk

Like the San Francisco Giants, the progressive movement will someday win if we believe in all of our players and play as hard as we can.

An Open Letter to the Progressive Community from Ohio Democrats

Doug Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Doug Kelly

Dear Friends, We need your help in Ohio right now. If there was ever a time to make a late-game investment, now is the time. And Ohio is the place. ...

Shadow Elite: Truthiness in the Twitter Era

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

Janine R. Wedel

The insidious and deceptive self-branding that used to be confined to the corporate world is now also used by political message-makers, aiming to create a look and feel that consumers identify with intuitively.

Four More Reasons Why Democrats Will Retain Control of House and Senate

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Creamer

If Democrats drive hard to the finish, making this election a choice for voters, and turning out every Democratic vote, then the pundit's script will never make it into the actual annals of American history.

DNC Slams Joe Trippi and TIME Reporter Over Midterms Criticism

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Melber

Organizing for America released a lacing rebuttal to a TIME article reporting that OFA had become a "ghost of its former self." TIME obviously struck a nerve -- OFA rarely publicizes rebuttals to specific articles.

Time for the Pundits to Take a Deep Breath -- Why Democrats Will Not Be Routed In November

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Creamer

In 1994 Democrats were caught flat-footed by the GOP onslaught -- completely unprepared to mount a defense. This year there is a danger that the opposite will be true -- that fear and defeatism turn into self-fulfilling prophesies.

White House to Obama Activists: Let Them Eat (Birthday) Cake

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Ari Melber

It is one of the enduring yet neglected mysteries of Obama's first term. Why hasn't the massive, record-breaking volunteer and fundraising apparatus built during the 2008 Obama campaign exerted more influence in Washington?

Shadow Elite: How "Grassroots" Is Organizing for America?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

Janine R. Wedel

Power brokers on the cutting edge are adept at creating novel alternative structures and new venues to press their agenda -- and Obama's Organizing for America seems to be a case in point.

Shadow Elite: Has the Obama Organizing Machine Staged A Party Takeover?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

Janine R. Wedel

The shadow elite in America are adept at creating novel alternative structures and new venues of power that suit their agenda, and Organizing for America seems to be a case in point.

Extending The Obama Brand In 2010

Tom Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Sullivan

In the 2010 midterms, the DNC will have to convince voters who went to the polls for the first time for Obama to vote for Democratic candidates and incumbents lacking Obama's charisma.

Ryan Grim

Alan Grayson Confronts GOP For Spying On Democratic Gathering (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Conservative media spent much of Friday attacking Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) for breaking up a GOP meeting Thursday evening in his Orlando district. R...

Organizing Our Way to Victory in 2010

Jeremy Bird | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeremy Bird

In the past month, President Obama and Governor Kaine have laid out in great detail the Democratic National Committee's plans for the 2010 midterm ele...

For Obama, Health Care Victory Has 13 Million Fathers

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Ari Melber

In the homestretch of the health care fight, the numbers and coverage suggest that OFA was able to channel grassroots support for the bill in effective and even confrontational ways.

Hope vs Power: The PhRMA Deal That Was and the OFA Campaign That Wasn't

Micah Sifry | Posted 05.25.2011

Micah Sifry

This is just speculation, folks, but imagine if Obama had mobilized Organizing for America from the very beginning as a battering ram to confront PhRMA and its allies in Congress head on?

Obama Online -- Is MYBO Back? (VIDEO)

Linnie Frank Bailey | Posted 05.25.2011

Linnie Frank Bailey

Did I catch a glimpse of MYBO -- the Barack Obama of My.BarackObama.com -- last week? Is he back? Now if he can just figure out how to re-engage all of his friends across the country, the ones who are disgusted with Repubs AND Dems.

Lessons From the Massachusetts Defeat

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Creamer

The Massachusetts Senate race is a watershed event that has enormous implications for this political year. The media is making it a referendum on Obama and health care reform. But that interpretation is just flat wrong.

Insult to Injury to Healing

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.25.2011

Joe The Nerd Ferraro

All we needed from OFA was a blast email saying what we were doing. Nothing radical, nothing off-the-wall, we just wanted an announcement that we were getting together to support President Obama.

Obama Campaign Arm Silent On Maine's Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment

AMERICAblog Gay | Joe Sudbay | Posted 05.25.2011

Funny thing (or not), OFA forgot to tell Mainers what issues are on the ballot and how to vote on those issues. For example, there's no mention of Que...