I'm Finally Hopeful

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By David Swanson

I’m a progressive and you’re a progressive, but I’m starting to find reason to hope as you’re coming off a giant sugar high and plunging into the deep despair of one betrayed and scorned. What gives?

1. I don’t expect much of elections, whereas you imagine each time, contrary to all preceding evidence, that they create transformative change. If you expect elections alone to do much, then you’re guaranteed to be very excited and then very disappointed, read more

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Rep. Betty Sutton Commits to Voting No if No "Robust Public Option"

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By David Swanson

I’m in Congresswoman Betty Sutton’s home town in Ohio and just spoke with her as she got ready to march in a Labor Day parade. She’s got a convertible red thunderbird (new one) full of bubble gum and 20 staffers in Re-Elect Sutton t-shirts to throw the gum to parade watchers (Mardi Gras Ohio style).

Mary Nichols Rhodes of Progressive Democrats of America introduced me to Sutton. I gave her my book “Daybreak.” One of her staffers took a photo of read more

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At the Beck and Call of a Sunshine Patriot

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By David Swanson

Fox News screaming head Glenn Beck now tells President Obama to fire White House employees, and Obama obeys. While Obama presumably believes obedience will cause Beck to like him and begin praising him, Beck is building a list of additional people whose heads he will demand and denouncing Obama as hiding vast secrets by having complied with the demand to fire Van Jones.

If you can’t stand to watch Glenn Beck on television and want some idea of how he persuades a noisy minority read more

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Audio: KPFK Lila Garrett and David Swanson on Healthcare

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Monday morning at 7 AM on Lila Garrett’s CONNECT THE DOTS (KPFK 90.7 FM) or log on to this link:
http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/index.php?shokey=ctd
KPFK 90.7 FM in LA; 98.7 Santa Barbara
Airs Mondays from 7AM to 8AM.
To podcast or download the broadcast use this link:
http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/index.php?shokey=ctd
Each show is on line for three months.

We’ll talk with David Swanson (author of new Amazon best seller DAYBREAK) about the battle between those who favor the read more

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There Are So Many Days That Have Not Yet Broken

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By David Swanson

I got pulled over for speeding in Texas yesterday and the officer looked like the kind of guy who dreamed about using his taser. So when he asked for my license and registration, I slowly got them out and handed them over.

“Do you know why I stopped you?” he asked.

I replied, “I think I do, sir, but I think you may be looking backward a little bit.” Officer Rigveda (that was his name) looked behind him and then looked confused.

I tried to explain: “What read more

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Who Has the Power of War

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“Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union” has spent its first four days in publication ranked in the top 10 politics books on Amazon.com. You can keep it there and in the #1 spot by buying a copy for yourself, one for your congress member, two for your senators, and some for your local libraries: http://tr.im/xBt3

Two great websites plan to publish excerpts of the book. Voters for Peace will be posting an article adapted from a section of the book read more

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