A DK vet in trouble and this is an emergency. Remember the vet who went and rescued my vet?
This to me may be the second most important diary I have written. The first one was back in 2012 when my Vet had a PTSD break and was stranded … Read More
Category: Courage
Elizabeth Warren's Statement On Impeachment Is Guaranteed To P***s Off Establishment.
God bless Elizabeth Warren because the Democratic establishment will surely damn her to hell. Elizabeth Warren: Congress ‘Is Complicit’ for Failing to Impeach Trump After the Mueller report, Congress had … Read More
Tea Party Trash IS running the country. They evolved into Mainstream Republicans.
I was angry when President Obama did not see that the Tea Party was rooting deep in this country’s governing ability. Many did not think that Don’t tread on Me meant … Read More
Chairman Nadler – Listen to Rep. Jackie Speier. Hold Lewandowski in Contempt and Fine Him!
So, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler is “considering” holding Corey Lewandowski in contempt after his contemptible stonewalling yesterday during Nadler’s committee hearing into Trump’s obstruction of Justice. Outside Counsel Barry Berke salvage at least … Read More
Doesn't He Have a Blue Suit? Sean Spicer Cements His Legacy on “Dancing With The Stars”.
Sean Spicer’s tenure as W.H. Press Secretary got off to a rocky start, lying for his lying master about the size of his inaugural crowd. True to his nature Spicer’s … Read More
GOP congressional candidate once called Trump an unworthy 'a**hole'; now she loves him
At some point we have to start checking their basements for pods, right? Can they really be this empty and soulless? Republicans who were once on the right side of … Read More
How about Vaping the Guns?
I am not a smoker, nor have I ever tried the newest fad of hipster cool, vaping. The President of the United States has done something I approve. He took … Read More
Confirmed: Trump lies to reporters more often than he lies to any other group
Press advocates scored an important legal victory this week when a U.S. District Court judge ordered the White House to reinstate media credentials to reporter Brian Karem, whose access had been … Read More
Confirmed: Trump lies to reporters more often than he lies to any other group
Press advocates scored an important legal victory this week when a U.S. District Court judge ordered the White House to reinstate media credentials to reporter Brian Karem, whose access had been … Read More
Hurricane Season Is Coming
photo: Hurricane Harvey, the costliest in the history of the United States Image captured by NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite • Public Domain For a greener tomorrow, Debra Schrishuhn for Alan, Mike … Read More
Tom Steyer, Tulsi Gabbard and Marianne Williamson Presidential Campaigns Join Open Letter to DNC Demanding Climate Debate
Contacts:Alan Minsky, PDA Executive Director – 818-749-9497 / alan@pdamerica.orgRussell Greene, PDA Senior Strategic Advisor – 310-722-6108 / rsgreene@earthlink.net With the World on Fire, Why Is the Democratic Party Refusing to … Read More
IA-Sen: Greenfield (D) Pressures Ernst (R) & Moscow Mitch To Do Something About Mass Shootings
Received this e-mail today from Theresa Greenfield’s (D. IA) U.S. Senate campaign: Theresa Greenfield (D. IA) Joni Ernst has voted against bipartisan efforts to expand background checks, and now she's … Read More
The El Paso massacre couldn’t stop this Texas church from becoming a sanctuary for immigrants
Less than four days after the anti-immigrant El Paso Texas massacre, a church in a very conservative Texas town made themselves a sanctuary for immigrants. And they are ready for … Read More
Thank God The Major Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Not Listening To The Cowards.
A bit of hope after such an god awful weekend of carnage — the major Democratic presidential candidates are calling out Trump’s racism and blaming him for those deaths. This is … Read More
IA-04: PCCC Helps J. D. Scholten (D) Get Ready To Defeat Trump's Favorite White Supremacist
Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) & J. D. Scholten (D. IA-04) I'm traveling to Iowa today. Here's why… Today's NY Times: … Read More
Warren Is On A Mission To Take Away Moscow Mitch's Filibuster Power & Win A Senate Majority
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren (D. MA): Yesterday, we woke up to the second mass shooting in just as many days. I’m heartbroken … Read More
Did You Watch The Debates?
In Solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan Minsky, Mike Fox, Kimberly and Bryan Buchan, Dr. Bill Honigman, Dan O’Neal, Janis Kay, Shayna Stevens, and Deb Schrishuhn—Your Progressive Democrats of America National … Read More
Why the D.C. press isn't equipped to handle Trump's racist re-election crusade
Doubling and tripling down on his bigoted commentary and racist tweets, Donald Trump is all but boasting that his re-election run will be fueled by hate speech and hardcore white … Read More
Support “The Squad”
Support “The Squad” Today! In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F, Janis, Dan, Shayna, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, Deb, and Bryan—your PDA National Team Support Congress Members Who Defy Trump … Read More
Watch Mike Pence's spine dissolve in real time as he tries to defend Trump's racism
I love my wife, but I’d never be this milquetoast-y in my defense of her. And she really is the least racist person you’ll ever meet. Hoo-boy! This video is … Read More
The Gang of Hate
Not only has the Republican Party allowed Donald John Trump to operate above the law, but they have also sanctioned his acts beyond humanity. In 2013 eight Senators, 4 Democrats … Read More
Micro-aggressions, Pelosi and Dailykos
There is currently a diary on top of the dailykos that I find troublesome. I worry it is one of the issues,if allowed to fester, that may keep Trump in office … Read More
Micro-aggressions, Pelosi and Dailykos
There is currently a diary on top of the dailykos that I find troublesome. I worry it is one of the issues,if allowed to fester, that may keep Trump in office … Read More
Who will arise as the leader of human rights? We have a blueprint, We need a builder.
What individual will walk the walk and inspire with hundreds of thousands following in a movement to restore this country to some sort of civility? I am not talking politics … Read More
GOPers are Thanking Justin Amash for Taking on Trump – But Only in Private
Newly Independent Congressman Justin Amash (I-MI) went on CNN’s State of the Union this morning: Justin Amash on what his GOP colleagues say behind closed doors, telling “CNN that high-level … Read More
Biden Does Not Know When To Stop Digging.
You all are going to hear about this from plenty of other diarists, but Joltin Joe Biden just can’t quit digging his own grave on misreading the political times. Biden … Read More
Conservative columnist insists Trump's July 4 speech made his critics look 'small'
It’s been noted ad nauseam that the bar has been lowered so far and so frequently for Donald J. Trump that some pundits will insist he looks “presidential” — no, they … Read More
ICE Detention Center: We're not responsible for staff sexually abusing migrants
Monsters. From two senior staff attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union: ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees Although the employee pled guilty … Read More
'Highlights for Children' becomes the enemy of the people
Et tu, Highlights? Et tu? This pretty much leaves Guns & Ammo, Boys’ Life, InfoWars, and Fox News all alone in the “patriot” camp. x At Highlights, our core belief … Read More
What Happened to Outrage?
This essay is not about political rights and wrongs or choosing up sides between Donkeys vs. Elephants. We all should have awakened this morning and become outraged once we saw … Read More
GA-Sen: “I told them they could kiss my ass if they thought I would stand down for this.”
Since I’m waiting for my flight back to Los Angeles, I wanted to say I had a terrific time in Atlanta, Georgia. This was my first time in the city … Read More
She Persists: Building Power Through Shared Humanity
photo: Donna Smith and Senator Elizabeth Warren By Donna Smith – former Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America and currently a Medicare for All campaign surrogate for U.S. Sen. … Read More
Time to sh*t or get off the pot.
I hope I find it as easy to wear off of Robert Mueller as I did with beer. It shouldn’t be hard, I’ve had more than my fill, and it’s … Read More
He is not just obstructing justice..He is making all of us look irrelevant .
Waiting for the person who went out for a pack of cigarettes and you holding supper is what this is like. The person left and now here it is a … Read More
TX-Sen: NYT, “The Woman You Missed While You Were Paying Attention to Beto”
The New York Times has a great piece out from Mimi Swartz profiling Veteran, former Congressional candidate and current U.S. Senate candidate, MJ Hegar (D. TX). With Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) … Read More
MoveOn’s First Endorsement of 2020 Cycle: Ilhan Omar for Congress
The results are in: With 77% of votes cast in favor, MoveOn members in Minnesota’s 5th District have voted overwhelmingly to endorse Ilhan Omar for re-election to Congress! Representative Ilhan … Read More
MD-05: Steny Hoyer's (D) Primary Challenger Rips Him A New One On Twitter For His Cowardly Remarks
Sorry I haven’t written anything in a while. I’ve been pretty busy. Anyway, you all know this happened today: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday that nothing he saw in … Read More
Persuadable Voters Reached Through FOX?
Bernie and others are saying that there are persuadable voters who can be reached through Democrats appearing on FOX or Trump TV and making arguments for progressive policies (part of … Read More
NM & TX-Sen: “There are only 4 Latino senators. Will more be joining them after 2020?”
We received some very big news in New Mexico yesterday: Rep. Ben Ray Luján plans to run for the Senate in New Mexico and is set to officially announce his candidacy Monday, … Read More
TX-Sen: Joaquin Castro (D) Already Has John Cornyn (R) Running Scared
While Beto O’Rourke is passing on another U.S. Senate run, you should still be super excited about this U.S. Senate race because we are going to be landing one Hell … Read More
Support Tomorrow’s Climate Strike Mobilization
Photo: Alexandria Villaseñor, a 13 year old climate justice activist and aCo-Founder/Co-Director U.S. Youth Climate Strike (youthclimatestrikeus.org) With gratitude in my heart and the future in mind, Russell Greene, PDA … Read More
I’m a billionaire and I’m running for president
As prepared for delivery on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019 at the annual combined meeting of the American Beverage Association and the Nuclear Energy Institute. Thank you for allowing me this opportunity … Read More
Dispatches from The National Emergency. The Horror. The Horror.
x Dearest Emily,The sadness in the woman's eyes beggared the imagination. With desperate heart, I seized her hand. “Do not despair, friend! For we shall outlive these horrors!”“Sir,” she responded … Read More
So Legislative “Genius” Mitch McConnell Has This Plan…
As the details come in, it appears that neither Trump’s “compromise” with all of its poison pills nor a clean CR will pass a Senate cloture vote. Democrats will not … Read More
Steve King broke the first rule of White Club
When Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King lamented that language like “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization” had “become offensive,” GOP leaders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader … Read More
Retired top general: Trump is 'dishonest,' 'immoral'
Trump loves him some generals. They allow him to look tough in a vicarious sort of way. Since Trump has no discipline, brains, courage, heart, willpower, probity, honor, impulse control, … Read More
Coward Trump Can't Tell Mattis 'You're fired!'… Makes Pompeo Do It.
Big executive boss man didn’t have the courage to fire SecDef General Mattis to his face, so, in typical Trumpian fashion he had somebody else do it. Sec. of State … Read More
So What's Going On With Nancy Pelosi & The Green New Deal?
First off, Happy Holidays to all my fellow Kossacks. Apologies for not being as prolific as I normally am with my diaries. Once the New Year begins, you can sure … Read More
Joins Activists Demanding A Green New Deal
photo: Activists Demanding a Green New Deal Now! In solidarity, Russell Greene for Alan, Mike H., Mike F., Janis, Deb, Dan, Dr. Bill, Kim, Bryan, and Shayna—your PDA National Team … Read More
The times, they are a-changin'
There is an ill wind blowing in Washington DC right now, and the staff in the west wing had better make sure that all of the windows are closed, or … Read More
