IA-04: Beto O'Rourke (D. TX) Helps JD Scholten (D) Defeat Trump's Favorite White Nationalist

Received this e-mail from former Congressman, U.S. Senate candidate and Presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), in support of JD Scholten’s (D. IA-04) congressional campaign: JD Scholten (D. IA-04) Steve King is Congress’ … Read More

NC-09: VoteVets Helps Dan McCready (D) Cross The Finish Line In Defeating Trump's GOPer

Received this e-mail from VoteVets in support of Dan McCready’s (D. NC-09) campaign: Republicans have already committed $4 million in outside spending to take on progressive Marine veteran Dan McCready in the quickly-approaching NC-9 special … Read More

Chuck Todd dismissing journalist's statement on Trump shows the media complicity

Joshua Johnson, of PBS 1A fame, appeared on Meet The Press with Chuck Todd. He is the kind of guy that should be running a show like MTP. Todd's reaction to … Read More

What Price Progress?

photo: Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Pocan Addresses PDA Activists In solidarity,  Mike Hersh for Alan, Shayna, Deb, Kimberly, Bryan, Mike F., Dr. Bill, Dan, and Janis—your PDA national team. Sustain … Read More

Progressive Democrats of America Invites 23 Democratic Presidential Candidates to Sign Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez Demanding Climate Debate

Progressive Democrats of America | Press Release For Immediate Release August 19, 2019 Democratic Party Platform Asserts We’re in a Climate Emergency. What Guides the Party? Its Platform or Fossil … Read More

The Daily Bucket–The Tadpoles of August

In August, many tadpoles in my hand-dug backyard ponds change into small chorus frogs.  For several years now, the frogs have returned to my backyard in March, bred in the … Read More

'Nation' reporter slaps Newt Gingrich silly over history of slavery

First of all, Daily Kos’ Denise Oliver Velez has a great rundown of The New York Times’ 1619 Project right here. So go read that after your eyes are done … Read More

Three years ago today: Trump promised “I will always tell you the truth”

Presidential candidate Donald Trump made a lot of promises on his way to the White House. Most ranged from the outright laughable to the literally impossible. Predictably, very few of … Read More

Fox News host: 'Donald Trump can outwork anyone'

Do NOT sip coffee before reading this. You’ve been warned. Rachel Campos-Duffy was on the weekend version of Fox & Friends yesterday (which is just as dumb as the regular … Read More

D.C. media's dirty little secret: It has no idea what's happening inside Trump's White House

Donald Trump's new White House press secretary hasn't given a single press briefing since she was appointed in June, and the odds are she never will. No briefing has been … Read More

Call it Donations in ” Memory of”. A way to protest opposition with a dollar for Dem candidates.

We have very good candidates running down ballot in places like Virginia and Mississippi.  These candidates need money unfortunately because it takes money to run and grassroot efforts are pinched … Read More

The Mooch drags Trump *hard* in new interview: 'Oh my god, this jack*ss'

Okay, he’s a fraud and a loudmouth and a total douche-canoe frigate. I get that. But the enemy of my enemy is, well, still maybe my enemy — but definitely … Read More