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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 11:30 AM PDT

2008/10/01 · 11:30

Yesterday I received a threat in the mail. It came from the "Americans for Limited Government Foundation", from its Chairman Howard Rich. Here’s how it starts out:

Recently a new left-wing organization announced that it would be targeting donors to conservative, free-market organizations. The major press announcement stated that the organization intended to engage in such activities as "public exposure," having "watchdog groups digging through the lives" of these individuals, and "possible legal trouble."

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 10:26 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 10:26

She passed the test.

Sarah Palin – whose name instantly became a household word (clever move by McCain) – passed the test. With flying colors. Hit it out of the park. Nailed it. It was electrifying. The only problem is, it was the wrong test.

There can be no doubt she did an amazing job of delivering a hard hitting speech someone else wrote for her. She and it were sarcastic, nasty, undermining and disrespectful. It was also clever, as the Right is wont to be. Maybe it was even masterful. But delivering a speech – even masterfully - is not the same as qualifying to be vice president.

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Thursday June 19, 2008 · 2:24 PM PDT

2008/06/19 · 14:24

This afternoon, Donna Edwards was sworn in as the Congresswoman from Maryland's 4th District. She is the first African-American woman to be elected from Maryland. She was fantastic!

When we got there around 1:00, Chris Van Hollen (MD-08) was speaking to only a handful of people about a bill having something to do with benefits for federal employees. Then the debate went on for a little while between Darrell Issa (R) of California and Carolyn Maloney of New York. Then in came Donna, with Steny Hoyer, who is both House Majority Leader and Congressman from the 5th District in Maryland. Donna's entrance coincided with the arrival of many House members to vote on the bill about benefits.

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Friday July 27, 2007 · 2:24 PM PDT

2007/07/27 · 14:24

Jeffrey Feldman of Frameshop asked us to send him questions for the Democratic presidential candidates participating in the YearlyKos panel in a few days. Well, I have a question – and I think it’s a hard one. Here it is:

What plans do you have to raise the level of discourse in the political community and in the national political conversation so that we can have a productive exchange of ideas and work together for the common good of our people and of the country?

In October 2004, a month before the presidential election, one of our Maryland state politicians put together a "Progressive Summit," billed as a way to "energize the base." Held on a Saturday at a hotel in Columbia, Maryland, it was a gathering of Democrats and progressives to hear speeches and get some training about hot political issues and what we could do about them.

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Wednesday June 27, 2007 · 8:07 PM PDT

2007/06/27 · 20:07

I went to a fundraiser - I expect most there contributed way more than I - in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just a few blocks from the DC line. I wanted to see if I liked him enough to feel he is definitively my candidate. I am still looking for a candidate to make me feel the way Howard Dean made me feel in 2003 - like he was the one I'd been waiting for.

Well, I don't know if I'm there, but then, times have changed. Howard Dean was a lone voice when he spoke up, and we were SO glad to hear it. Nowadays, following Dean's lead, walking through the door he opened, we have more than one good candidate. In a way, it's harder to choose from among them; sometimes their differences seem so small.

So that's why I went. So far I've liked Obama best, but Edwards is good too, and I was impressed by Richardson when I saw him a few weeks ago. Even Hillary, whose politics I don't like and whom I cannot trust as authentic, has said some good stuff.

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Tuesday June 12, 2007 · 10:52 AM PDT

2007/06/12 · 10:52

We’re having a PARTY!

The only good thing that has come of George Bush’s presidency ("presidency") is that he got the progressive left off its ass. Since he took office, showing us on Day One that "compassionate" to these guys meant cutting off health care for desperately poor people around the world, we have awoken, formed activist communities, put our heads together, shared the work, and started to retake our country from the corrupt and evil scoundrels now running the place (into the ground). And, in that vein, WE’RE HAVING A PARTY!

Live in the greater DC area? Coming in for Take Back America? Get started early at a low-dollar fundraiser for the August YearlyKos Convention! Sunday afternoon, 5-7 pm, just down the street from the Hilton where Take Back America starts the next morning, we’re having music, food, networking, and DOOR PRIZES!

And let me add that this will be special food and special door prizes.

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Monday May 14, 2007 · 7:14 AM PDT

2007/05/14 · 07:14

You may know of Terry Lierman. I first heard of him when he ran for Congress for Maryland's 8th District in 2000 against moderate Republican Connie Morella and garnered 46% of the vote, paving the way for the next candidate, Chris Van Hollen, who defeated Morella in 2002.

Howard Dean, in his fantastic run for the presidency, tapped Terry to be Finance Chair in 2003. We all know what an amazing campaign that was, with support from big donors and many many small donors alike - and how much of a difference Dean's approach, ideas and character made and are still making for us all. Terry was part of that team.

After the 2004 election, the chair of the Maryland Democratic party stepped down, in the middle of his four-year term, to prepare his own run for local office. Terry Lierman sought to replace him and, luckily for all of us, was chosen. Then things began to rock.

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Saturday November 04, 2006 · 8:17 AM PST

2006/11/04 · 08:17

I went to college in the late 60s. It was a time of turmoil: JFK had been murdered, TV news was filled with images of war and death in Vietnam every night, the civil rights struggle was expanding, RFK and then Martin Luther King Jr. were killed, protests against the war and racism increased in size and frequency and then, in 1968, Richard Nixon was somehow elected president. What a mess.

I was a student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison - a hotbed of political activity for sure. We had marches and demonstrations, police and national guard troops - I loved not only the action but the feeling that we students had the power to foment change.

Once during that time, folk and protest singer Phil Ochs came to the campus. http://en.wikipedia.org/... He played at a building at the Ag (Agriculture) School; I think the place was called the Cow Palace or something similar. We sat in the loft, on bales of hay or benches covered with hay and watched him singing below. The air smelled of, well, of cow. Read More

MD-04: The Edwards-Wynn Race is a National One Now

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Monday August 28, 2006 · 9:14 AM PDT

2006/08/28 · 09:14

I've written here recently about the Congressional race between incumbent Albert Wynn and progressive challenger Donna Edwards, in Maryland's 4th Congressional District. Although Wynn is a Democrat, his votes on key issues such as the Iraq War resolution, the Republican bankruptcy bill, the Republican energy bill, repealing estate taxes, the Terry Schiavo government-in-your-private-decisions bill, and gutting the Endangered Species act have all cast serious doubt on his ability to or interest in reflecting the values of his Democratic constituency in Prince George's and Montgomery Counties in Maryland.

He has also been uncommunicative with those he represents such that most of them had no idea how he was voting. Read More

MD - 04: Wynn Campaign Dirty Tricks Part 2: VIOLENCE

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Monday August 21, 2006 · 9:28 AM PDT

2006/08/21 · 09:28

Challenger Donna Edwards must be making an impression on incumbent Albert Wynn as he hopes to hold onto his seat in Congress. Wynn, as you may remember from a recent post, is a Democrat who votes with Republicans on key issues: Iraq, energy, bankruptcy, the environment, personal privacy, as examples. Not only that, but his machine-style campaign involves threats, intimidation and thuggery - such as stealing Edwards signs and pulling off and tearing up Edwards' distributed literature. They even had children covering her signs with Wynn stickers, perhaps after the word got out that they were taking Edwards signs unlawfully.

Last Wednesday brought a new low.
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MD - 04: Well, whaddya know...dirty tricks from the Al Wynn Campaign

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Monday August 07, 2006 · 8:50 AM PDT

2006/08/07 · 08:50

You've read here on Kos before about the contest in Maryland's fourth Congressional District, where incumbent Democrat Albert Wynn is being challenged this year by progressive Democrat Donna Edwards. Donna has impressed voters everywhere she goes, with her thoughtful and intelligent perspective on the people and the issues of our communities, our country and our world. She has also had a major impact on people of the 4th District just by showing them Al Wynn's voting record; Read More

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Saturday June 17, 2006 · 6:10 PM PDT

2006/06/17 · 18:10

We've all heard the complaining and seen the hand ringing about the Democrats not having a message and no one knowing what "they" stand for - often from Democrats themselves. That's all pretty silly, as we Democrats know what we stand for - caring about everyone and not just the wealthy, and all the policies that reflect that outlook.

But thinking about that complaint got me thinking about the Republican "message" - the mantra everyone knows: (1) national security, (2) reduced taxes, (3) less government in our lives. And I thought it was time to take a look at that tidy, easy- to-memorize little message. Read More

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