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With less than a month until the Midterm Elections, Jeanne Hendricks looks ahead with confidence given the impressive list of endorsements at her back. While these endorsements vary widely in nature, they all have one thing in common: Supporting Jeanne...
by hendricks2022
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on Thu Oct 20, 2022 at 07:01 AM PDT
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“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex” (Equal Rights Amendment). I have waited my whole life, 34 turns around this sun, for fair and equal rights and protection under...
by eadevi
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on Tue Feb 09, 2021 at 02:19 AM PST
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Might something akin to this acronymic approach be useful?
by artofhelp
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on Fri Jun 12, 2020 at 04:57 PM PDT
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The process of ending racism can include increasing awareness of encoding. Racism and sexism have been encoded into meanings of common words. Sufficient understanding removes not only any latent, unknown, word-meaning-ick (in a post-semiotic sense), it...
by artofhelp
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on Fri Jun 12, 2020 at 01:59 PM PDT
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I know this won’t be popular. I know what Joe Biden faces in these times. I know all the excuses that can be made for not stepping up and out right now. Fact is, just a week or so again, Joe was talking about how great it is to go “vote out loud” IOW,...
by StellaRay
89 comments
on Wed Apr 08, 2020 at 09:54 PM PDT
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Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread. This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by way of many different traditions, and of no...
by LamontCranston
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on Sun Mar 22, 2020 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Bernie’s GOTV plans after Vice President Joe Biden’s landslide victories on Super Tuesday seem focused. But not focused on the Democratic Party’s base of support. He skipped the Selma “Bloody Sunday” commemoration, bailed on Mississippi, bailed on his...
by DigitusImpudicus
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on Sat Mar 07, 2020 at 07:49 AM PST
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Chutzpah… someone making their candidacy about buying an election against a candidate whose actual campaign slogan is Not me. Us. No one candidate is capable of taking on Donald Trump and the billionaire class alone. There is only one way we win — and...
by wade norris
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on Tue Feb 18, 2020 at 11:41 AM PST
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If you’re a progressive woman aiming to make a difference in public service, there are a lot of other women willing to help you out. The 2018 midterm election saw a record number of women run for ...
by Sher Watts Spooner
30 comments
on Sun Dec 01, 2019 at 07:30 AM PST
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Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread.
This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come ...
by LamontCranston
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on Sat Oct 12, 2019 at 09:46 PM PDT
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The script of Star Wars was influenced by writer, mythologist, Joseph Campbell. One of the tenements ascribed to Campbell’s philosophy is; life is myth, myth is life.
The hero in our story is the American People, US. Our, “Obi-Wan Kenobi, ”is...
by middleoftheroadDem
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on Wed May 29, 2019 at 04:54 PM PDT
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I am very angry. Most people who try to abide by the rule of law should be outraged. Those in the republican party who stand behind what has happened and been happening in this country since 2016 should be confronted by the only party who is being...
by Vetwife
36 comments
on Wed May 01, 2019 at 05:42 PM PDT
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There are 2 resolutions to impeach Trump in the House.
One is from Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA-30].
It was co-signed by Rep. Alexander N. Green [D-TX-9]. This resolution was referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and...
by Colonel Rainsborough
15 comments
on Thu Apr 18, 2019 at 04:16 PM PDT
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The weather here has been very cold, windy, snowy and down right nasty …but I could look forward to a new post from Ursula each time I checked into Dkos, and that was comforting. She has a way ...
by thebarrel7
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on Tue Mar 05, 2019 at 08:00 AM PST
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Good morning! Welcome to the DKos Sangha weekly open thread.
This is an open thread for members of the DKos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by way of many different traditions, and of no...
by LamontCranston
10 comments
on Sun Sep 02, 2018 at 07:06 AM PDT
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I think what discourages Democrats most is that the majority of Americans don’t learn from history. As a result, the majority of Americans continue to vote against their own interests.
It’s frustrating, to say the least.
Something that easily...
by Gary McKechnie
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on Mon Jul 23, 2018 at 09:47 AM PDT
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All this rending of garments and gnashing of teeth over the latest outrage at the border is useless. Open your eyes — all the Dem Establishment really cares about is MONEY. Immigrants, working poor and children don’t have any, so why should they care?...
by AverageJoe42
120 comments
on Sat Jun 16, 2018 at 04:16 PM PDT
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Re-litigation of anything is a tricky business, as it attempts to re-wind, re-phrase, review things that really are lost in the fog of then, vs. now. Dueling links and arguing “facts” about what was only increase the fog machine. Even history does not...
by StellaRay
81 comments
on Sat Jan 27, 2018 at 07:13 PM PST
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Any American who believed the Trump White House was finished ravaging women’s healthcare after past two weeks was tragically mistaken. It seemed impossible the evangelicals running Trump’s America could get any worse after the Health and Human...
by Rmuse
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on Tue Oct 24, 2017 at 12:14 PM PDT
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I just finished watching Megyn Kelly on her new NBC show, “Megyn Kelly Today". (Monday, Oct 23, 2017)
Since moving from Faux News, she has had a hard time finding her forte, her niche, her voice. I have been critical of her stumbling. I expected...
by macguru
24 comments
on Mon Oct 23, 2017 at 04:18 PM PDT
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