Elections

For Immediate Release: December 3, 2009
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Three progressive Democrats who are running in primaries for Congress today declared their support for Jobs Not Wars.

The candidates are Jonathan Tasini, who is challenging appointed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY); Regina Thomas, who is re-challenging BlueDog John Barrow (GA-12); and Marcy Winograd, who is re-challenging BlueDog Jane Harman (CA-36). They wrote:

"After 8 years, nearly 5,300 U.S. lives, and read more

By David Swanson

Congratulations are in order for Congressman and senate-candidate Mike Capuano of Massachusetts for openly acknowledging that Dick Cheney should be prosecuted for his crimes.

Calling Dick Cheney a vampire recently helped Congressman Alan Grayson raise over 1/2 million dollars in a day. But for Capuano to light the sort of fire needed for him to win (or for Grayson to continue exciting people, for that matter) is going to require actions as well as words.

Here’s the action read more

Diebold/Premier’s Equipment and Software Must Be Immediately and Permanently Decertified and a Criminal Investigation Launched

As A Result Of The California Secretary Of State’s Findings and Diebold/Premier’s Own Admissions That Its Voting Systems Do Not Meet Federal Standards, Velvet Revolution Calls on the Company to Return the Well Over $100 Million in Taxpayer Funds Spent by Californians on Failed, Faulty Voting System Hardware and Software. 

Learn more and take action: read more

By David Swanson

Former governor of Alabama and political prisoner Don Siegelman has filed a motion ( read more

By David Swanson

Let’s elect someone to the U.S. Senate from New York. Just that would be progress. But let’s elect someone who is not a servant to any party boss or any corporate agenda. Let’s elect a leading voice against corporate power.

Let’s elect someone who goes on cable news business shows all the time even though the hosts and rightwingers eat up two-thirds of the minutes, and who speaks truth to nonsense so powerfully that even I can almost stand to watch the read more

By David Swanson

I ran into Creigh Deeds, candidate for Virginia Governor, at the farmer’s market in Charlottesville on Saturday. He’d been trailing in the polls for a long time while the two men ahead of him, Brian Moran and Terry McAuliffe beat up on each other. Now Deeds is leading, but only just barely. Essentially it’s a three-way tie for the Democratic nomination in the Tuesday, June 9th, primary, with virtually nobody planning to vote and the outcome entirely dependent read more

Here’s what Norman Solomon says about Marcy, about Jane “cover up Bush’s spying” Harman, and about challenging incumbents. Every incumbent should be challenged from the left in this country every time. Waiting for a candidate as awful as Harman is pretty low standards. If we’re going to bomb people around the world in the name of democracy, the least we could do would be to have one!

Norman Solomon:

There are many reasons why progressives will mobilize behind the read more

They’re the new Democratic nominees for Charlottesville, Va., City Council!