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SUBJECT: Please support national popular vote for president I think that the electoral college, as it stands now, is an outdated system. There is no reason we shouldn’t be electing our Presidents by a nationwide popular vote. The candidate with the...
by myra baum
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on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 09:17 PM PDT
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Ok, this is just my rant about human rights, liberty and the whole structure of our country and society. We are faced with folks on one side that want to deny equal rights to pretty much anybody but themselves. That applies to minorities (believe it or...
by jwgarman
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on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
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Here is a worthwhile viewing for fans of history, political science and democracy. Tyranny of the Minority: How American Democracy Came to the Breaking Point Presented by Steven Levitsky of Harvard University at the Watson Institute for International...
by greenandblue
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on Sat May 27, 2023 at 11:14 AM PDT
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The turmoil in the House, and the inability to govern begs the question. Also Santos's pathology, Hunter Biden and the latest on Ukraine, as Markos joins for the first Thursday Kos of 2023! Subscribe to Make It Plain, and download the full episode.
by Make It Plain
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on Thu Jan 19, 2023 at 10:59 AM PST
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Across the country, there is a belief that the Democratic party has forgotten about voters in the heartland. In 2004, Democrats held 6 out of 8 Senate seats in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and ...
by Bengs for Senate
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on Wed Oct 19, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The original designers of the US government had some good ideas. (NO, NOT SLAVERY! SHEESH!) Many of them involved putting safeguards on government power, the “checks and balances” concept.| Thus we have a federal government with power divided between...
by DBowman
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on Sat Sep 10, 2022 at 02:31 PM PDT
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One Kossack speculated that we could be in the middle of a political realignment as the GOP and extreme SCOTUS overreach. Last week, I shared a link to a Politico article titled “The Dog that Caught the Car,” which speculated that the end of Roe was...
by Truffle2022
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on Thu Jun 30, 2022 at 02:33 PM PDT
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Anyone else sick of this bullshit? I don’t know about anyone else, and maybe it’s my own “privilege” talking, but I consider the GOP’s “threat” to “push through legislation on their own when they are in the majority” to be a hollow one. Seriously, what...
by GrafZeppelin127
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on Wed Jan 19, 2022 at 03:39 PM PST
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The twice-impeached, disgraced former president has endorsed the opponent of Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). With friends like these, who needs enemies: Trump backed Kelly Tshibaka, former commissioner of the Alaska Department of Administration, and...
by EagleOfFreedom
16 comments
on Fri Jun 18, 2021 at 12:38 PM PDT
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I have been following the farcical saga of the Biden administration’s attempt to find bipartisan compromise in crafting an infrastructure bill.� I want sparkle ponies too.� I do, I do, I do.� I ...
by nmprogressive
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on Fri May 28, 2021 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The house passed it last session and Mitch sat on it. Lets make this happen!
by jibjoob
21 comments
on Tue Jan 05, 2021 at 09:45 PM PST
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Below are links to the two very important Congressional Senate run-off elections in Georgia on Jan 5th, 2021. Winning BOTH of these seats would give the Democrats 50 Senate seats (includes the 2 Independents who caucus with the Dems),...
by JackME
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on Fri Nov 13, 2020 at 07:54 AM PST
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Let Georgia Howl with a Southern Accent We (I would say Democrats, but sane people is a more accurate term) can win control of the Senate in January. Georgia will hold a runoff election for two Senate seats. Both Republican candidates are flawed and...
by Grey Panther
22 comments
on Fri Nov 06, 2020 at 04:36 AM PST
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I have found people surprisingly welcoming of the selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate and heir-apparent should the ticket win in November (and also beat back the authoritarian attempts to undo the results). Yes,...
by EagleOfFreedom
106 comments
on Fri Aug 14, 2020 at 09:47 AM PDT
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Data for Progress has just released polling results for Arizona, Iowa, Maine and North Carolina. In all 4, they have Democrats in the lead. The surveys from Data for Progress show Democrat Mark Kelly leading GOP Sen. Martha McSally, 47% to 38%, in...
by IowaNiceinDC
6 comments
on Thu Aug 06, 2020 at 05:38 AM PDT
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Curious on your thoughts. If we get to the convention and Bernie has a plurality of the vote, but not a majority, and the other delegate-awarded candidates decide between themselves to throw all ...
by Tomsank
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on Sun Mar 01, 2020 at 11:18 AM PST
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I know that some people really enjoy Twain, others do not. But he has said, what I think, are some valuable quotes. In fact one of his lesser quoted quotes is one in which I think we all should live by: Being gay and Jewish I do not often find myself...
by BFSkinner
168 comments
on Fri Aug 16, 2019 at 06:25 PM PDT
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Trump’s associations have included many mob bosses. And like a Don, Trump obtains protection from his followers and dispenses indulgences to his favorites. Devin Nunes Admits Protecting Trump Is the Goal On Wednesday night, Rachel Maddow of...
by bmethven
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on Sat Aug 11, 2018 at 06:32 PM PDT
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This is a picture of me and my classmates from grade school in the early 80’s in Iran right after the revolution. A lot of us in this pic somehow escaped and eventually migrated to the US as refugees. America welcomed us with open arms then. What we...
by Democracy Rising
70 comments
on Sat Aug 04, 2018 at 02:38 PM PDT
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Is the 70% USA diverse MAJORITY being UNWILLINGLY dragged into an ALTERNATE truth & REALITY- kicking, screaming, hollering even at the top of their lungs, “NO!” “This is NOT us!” “WE do NOT want this!” “WE are NOT like this!” “THIS IS NOT WHO WE...
by Shortmd
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on Fri Jul 06, 2018 at 10:26 AM PDT
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