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The tl-dr For the headline tl-dr above the fold if skimming this Diary, there’s been a serious and dangerous misunderstanding fuelling the proposed TikTok ban in the House panel (a lot of Dem votes) already costing us dearly, just when we have...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:30 PM PDT
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— — The “reviews” of the State of the Union address are in, from the Corporate Media and the Punditry class, and not one word about “being too old”. The best they got to slam the man, is that he turned the supposedly ‘solemn SOTU event’ into — {OMG!} —...
by jamess
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 06:33 AM PST
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Is there anything more iconic in American politics than the whistle-stop tour? Author Edward Segal joins us on this week's episode of "The Downballot" to discuss his new book unearthing the storied ...
by The Downballot
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on Thu Jan 18, 2024 at 12:17 PM PST
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Thom Hartmann reminds us that speeches, concepts, and slogans are most effective when they incorporate sets of three…. ...[U]sing the rule of threes is the single most powerful way you can instantly improve your communication skills, effectiveness, and...
by chriscol
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on Fri May 12, 2023 at 11:55 AM PDT
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It’s door-knocking season. Campaign volunteers are out in force, knocking on thousands of doors in a vital effort to get out the vote. It works: Direct engagement like this gets voters to the polls and helps win close races. But not every voter can be...
by harrisco99
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on Thu Nov 03, 2022 at 11:04 AM PDT
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Since I turned eighteen I have registered to vote in at least six places. Each time the state asked for my party and I registered as a Democrat. Maybe the state or local party was notified when I registered; maybe not and they would need to regularly...
by Elwood Dowd
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on Sun Oct 23, 2022 at 06:22 PM PDT
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First drop — It all started this past 4th of July. I had gotten postcards to write for the Herb Jones for Congress - District 1 in Virginia and after recent Supreme Court decisions, didn’t feel like celebrating a “normal” 4th of July. I decided to go...
by pattioric
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on Thu Aug 04, 2022 at 07:51 PM PDT
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The New Year has started, and it's a big one. Epitaphs have been written for Democratic control of Congress and for democracy itself. Tired of continuous servings of baloney served up by pundits and the Republican party? This is how we win, make ‘em...
by martin514
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on Fri Jan 07, 2022 at 03:49 PM PST
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Daily Kos Elections said we’ve got work to do with suburbs. I have to believe that they (suburbans) don’t understand the mandates. I will be honest. I absolutely DO NOT understand how any responsible person in the country could vote for a republican...
by Dem
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on Wed Nov 03, 2021 at 07:03 AM PDT
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In late May of 2021 Corrie Cring found herself browsing through her Facebook News Feed when the “People You May Know” section appeared. It suggested she may know an employee, Christopher Wheatley, who sat mere feet from her at work. Out of curiosity...
by raybeam
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on Thu Oct 14, 2021 at 12:50 PM PDT
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You might have heard the name Lauren Boebert recently. She’s the newly elected, gun-loving, Colorado Republican who is suspected in having colluded a little bit with various members of the Jan. 6 insurgency on our Capitol building. She’s a QAnon...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 03, 2021 at 10:19 AM PST
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Hello all. I still see a lot of diaries and comments pushing to donate to candidates up and down the ticket and while I’m certainly all for anything that does some good, I have a genuine question to ask — right now, we’re less than 6 days from...
by Witgren
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on Wed Oct 28, 2020 at 10:45 AM PDT
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As Daily Kos has covered, Black Americans have the police called on them with an entirely disturbing regularity. We’ve covered an instance of a Black man having the cops called on him while simply sitting in a frozen yogurt shop. We saw an...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Thu Oct 22, 2020 at 10:25 AM PDT
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As we enter the election's home stretch, there have been the usual stories fretting about or comparing the relative "ground games" of candidates, the door-knocking and pamphlet-dispensing that puts volunteers for the candidate eye-to-eye with...
by Hunter
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on Sun Sep 27, 2020 at 07:15 AM PDT
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Posted recently in the thread on Bloomberg’s donation to the Florida Biden-Harris effort, but thought it would be good to expand a bit into a full diary. We’re the grunts in the trenches down here and while we’re not up on the policy and strategy...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sun Sep 13, 2020 at 12:29 PM PDT
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Posted by a friend on Facebook, attributed in one Tumblr post to Emily Holmes (the Canadian actor in Snakes on a Plane? Or another?) Anybody know the original source so I can credit it? I don’t want to further the invisibility meme wonderfully embodied...
by raines
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on Mon Feb 24, 2020 at 03:14 AM PST
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Back in October, for pushback against Democratic presidential candidates’ healthcare-for-all campaign planks, the White House issued an executive order expanding “ on Protecting and ...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Dec 14, 2019 at 09:11 AM PST
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Presidential candidates are supposed to be standing at the foot of a mountain called Aspiration, their hands gesturing affirmingly as they express their soaring ideas and respective visions for our country. They passionately implore us, explaining how,...
by ProseAndThorn
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on Fri Aug 09, 2019 at 03:55 PM PDT
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I’ve gone through the news on the recent Democratic debates and it became evident that the candidates are nearly ALL doing it wrong. They ALL want to defeat Trump, and they all say that is the biggest imperative in the 2020 election. But they’re all...
by steve108
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on Fri Aug 02, 2019 at 07:32 PM PDT
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Say: “Move America Forward?”
by Susan C. Strong
In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it ...
by SusanCStrong
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on Tue Jul 09, 2019 at 11:01 AM PDT
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