Elections

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Here’s a little background on who I am, just a few highlights that I know you will be able to appreciate.

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By David Swanson

Progressive organizations set up to promote and fund progressive congressional candidates tend, as a rule, not to do so. Candidates like the Democrats and Greens listed here tend not to get support. Candidates like Joe Sestak and Bill Halter attract the lion’s share of progressive backing, not because they could pass any progressive platform test (they couldn’t), but because of the awfulness of the incumbents they are opposing. Give it read more

By David Swanson

North Carolina house candidate Marcus Brandon defeated a 30-year incumbent tonight, by 60% to 40%, to become the Democratic nominee in an overwhelmingly Democratic district in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Brandon has pledged to introduce a bill to create single-payer healthcare in North Carolina, and now he’ll be able to do it.

Brandon has promised that the first piece of legislation he will introduce will be the “North Carolina Healthcare Act” which will provide read more

Marcy Winograd held a packed and enthusiastic fundraiser tonight at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C., with Progressive Democrats of America. Everybody loved Marcy, and GAVE MONEY.

And she showed this video of the floor fight in which Marcy almost took the California Democratic Party’s endorsement away from incumbent, blue dog, honorary Republican, bribee, and war monger Jane Harman:

Vote for her here:
http://www.primariesmatter.com/elections/california

And call DFA to ask them to endorse her:
802-651-3200

To phonebank for Marcy Email Bill@Winogradforcongress.com.

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I’d love to see this backed up by specifying a single thing Perriello has done (I don’t mean thought in his heart of hearts, but done) that is more liberal than Virginia’s Fifth District.

By David Swanson

Congresswoman Donna Edwards’ bill proposing a Constitutional Amendment to deny corporations the free speech rights of persons in the form of unlimited election bribery spending has now been cosponsored by: John Conyers, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jim McGovern, Keith Ellison, Chellie Pingree, Barbara Lee, Andre Carson, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Betty Sutton, Raul Grijalva and Ed Markey.

With the exception of Carson, these congress members are also all cosponsors of the Fair Elections read more

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As I sit waiting to fly out of LAX, secure in the knowledge that while most of our money is going into the greatest effort the world has ever seen to make most of its people hate a particular nation, everyone around me has had to take off their coats and shoes and display their toothpaste, except for the people living on the streets of Los Angeles who aren’t part of the airport traveling world, and — this ought to help things — Lynn Woolsey came to this city yesterday to support read more

By David Swanson

Several years ago we started a community garden where I live. We worked at it quite energetically. We got more and more people involved. Much of the hardest work involved digging irrigation ditches to bring water to the soil.

We made progress slowly. We brought water to little corners of the garden. But the work was exhausting, and some people burned out and needed to take a break. Usually they’d be back within a year and working shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of read more

On Saturday, Dec 5th, from noon to 2 p.m. ET, Jonathan Tasini will be the featured guest at Firedoglake.com, one of the leading blogs in the country that has been a vocal proponent for real health care reform.  Firedoglake is launching a series of organizing forums to make sure we continue to build a national movement for Medicare For All.  Saturday’s forum will be moderated by progressive political activist David Swanson.

You can take part at http://firedoglake.com

You can go ahead read more