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I am reading a number of stories and comments from people here at Daily Kos about how Joe Biden needs to be stepping down and letting someone else be the Democratic Party standard bearer in 2024. He’s OLD, y’all. Old and, and… and there have been polls...
by Angela Marx
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 10:27 PM PST
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Once again I’m being inundated by text, email and snail mail to support this or another candidate. I’d like to send my minimal contributions (which are a lot to me) to candidates in critical races who stand the greatest chance of winning. I’m referring...
by freemab
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 09:25 AM PST
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Thomas B. Edsall, an American journalist and academic, wrote an outlandish opinion piece in the New York Times that claims small-dollar donations to political candidates are the real problem, not big money in politics. His piece was titled “Small...
by frankfaiola
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT
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This is a letter to Senators and Polar government officials. No word back yet, but going to keep chugging. If you are wanting to get involved with a movement that will have a measurable impact on the climate transition now, one you can see, and to give...
by PowerfulRights
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 12:06 PM PDT
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Why do we select politicians to be presidents? They are not leaders. In the system of government that has evolved in the USA, politicians are compromisers who have risen in the ranks of their political parties by gathering donations, winning campaigns,...
by Publius1966
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on Mon May 15, 2023 at 12:52 PM PDT
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Thanks to Zen Trainer for organizing this 98th Happy Birthday to Dr. Fergie Reid Sr. Here is a personal interview with him…. I got to sit down with Dr. Fergie Reid Sr. at his home in Maryland in the Summer of 2016. A little history of Dr. Reid, he...
by wade norris
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on Sat Mar 18, 2023 at 05:41 PM PDT
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I’m a winner. Okay, technically if you looked at the trajectory my life has taken you’d see that I’m not a winner. By many of the standards set by man I’m really a loser. But, I’m a winner. I can call myself a winner because my favorite team – the...
by RickElia
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on Wed Feb 22, 2023 at 07:30 AM PST
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Anthony King was working in his garden last week in Butler County, Ohio, when his son saw their neighbour repeatedly enter the garden to confront him. All we know of those conversations is that the neighbour was accusing King of being a Democrat. On...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Nov 14, 2022 at 03:11 AM PST
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We’ve come a long way, but we’re not there yet. Our power divined from the right women fought for and gained during the tireless global suffrage movement, i.e., the right to vote, and from the numerous women who stood up for women’s equality in...
by CADemAbroad
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on Sun Oct 23, 2022 at 08:22 AM PDT
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I’m a lifelong Democrat. The first time I ever voted was in 1992 for Bill Clinton, then again in 1996. I wasn’t informed or engaged enough yet to vote in mid-term elections. The first time I really started to get more informed was in 2004 for John...
by Liberal in a Red State
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on Mon Oct 10, 2022 at 01:58 PM PDT
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Let’s do a fantasy sequence and write some commercials for Democrats running for office. Who knows? Maybe we’ll come up with a great idea and some candidate’s producer will see it and use it. This election is so important and yet, I don’t see many...
by JDWolverton
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on Wed Oct 05, 2022 at 10:17 AM PDT
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Let’s look at two examples. In 2000, republican, George W Bush became president. “Bin Laden determined to strike US” was the title of a presidential daily briefing. He like the future republican president wasn’t a big reader. To be fair, it was not...
by Dem
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on Tue Aug 09, 2022 at 02:09 PM PDT
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Daily Kos is a mix of the highly informed and the highly opinionated, with a variable overlap between the two. I keep seeing posts about contesting every election at every level, a goal I agree with. But far too many of them ignore the difficulty of...
by KMc
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on Wed May 10, 2023 at 07:10 AM PDT
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This� is the Colorado State Open Thread. Brought to you by the letters “O”�and “T”, tonight’s edition has a tower in a photograph and I’m wondering if any of you have seen it, visited it ...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Jul 25, 2022 at 06:00 PM PDT
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In the last couple of weeks I spent a fair amount of time campaigning for an attorney general candidate in Maryland, Katie Curran O’Malley. A little back ground. She is the daughter of former Maryland AG Joe Curran and wife of former Baltimore Mayor...
by MDMAN
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on Thu Jul 21, 2022 at 10:33 PM PDT
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This story is to give you some insight about what we are up against here in Wyoming. Good people in Wyoming find it difficult to publicly identify as a Democrat. It’s even difficult to identify as a non-radical Republican. (You’ll recall that Liz...
by ecowyoming
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on Sat Jun 04, 2022 at 06:09 PM PDT
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"But I'm not surprised by Trump's rise, and I think the entire party has only itself to blame," Vance texted, according to his former roommate, state Rep. Josh McLaurin (D-Georgia). "We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income,...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Mon Apr 18, 2022 at 01:02 PM PDT
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Welcome back to the weekly � Nuts & Bolts Guide � to small campaigns. � Over the course of more than a decade, I’ve taken time to speak with campaign managers, field directors, communications ...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sun Mar 27, 2022 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Daily Kos was born on May 26, 2002. That makes 2022 our 20th anniversary year, and just one of the ways w e’re celebrating is by bringing back the Koscars! � One of the things that makes Daily ...
by TrueBlueMajority
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on Tue Mar 22, 2022 at 04:45 AM PDT
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Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. Over the course of more than a decade, I’ve taken time to speak with campaign managers, field directors, communications directors, finance directors, and, of course, been a part of as...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sun Mar 20, 2022 at 04:00 PM PDT
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