BlogPac Hero: The Amanda Marcotte Story You Haven't Heard

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Friday May 18, 2007 · 9:14 AM PDT

2007/05/18 · 09:14

Mike Stark here: This is another of John Javna's Hero series. We awarded $1,000 to Amanda for her courage in the face of an irresponsible media; standing up to Bill Donohue's lackies on the fringe Fox network, and then, soon afterwards, in the more mainstream media took guts.

We'll have another story to tell soon. Please look out for it.

In the meantime, as I said in this diary, it is you and your donations that make it possible for us to make these awards. Please continue supporting your own by donating to BlogPac's ActBlue page.

Now, over to John:

Imagine this: You’re a liberal blogger with a fairly well-known web site. You’re proud of your work online, but of course, you don’t make any money at it. To pay the rent, you work at the University of Texas, in Austin, as a financial aid counselor.

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Monday March 12, 2007 · 7:55 AM PDT

2007/03/12 · 07:55

This is the third in a weekly series of articles, written by John Javna, that will appear on BlogPAC.org, recognizing unsung heroes of the progressive movement — ordinary people who are working tirelessly to make America a better place. If you have suggestions about people who deserve more recognition for their work as progressive activists, please contact us at fighttheright@opendoor.com.

BLOGPAC NETROOTS HERO #3: LANE HUDSON

Ever wish you could single-handedly deliver a knockout blow to the right-wing, like a political Rocky?

For most of us, it’s just a fantasy... but every once in a while, it actually happens. It did to Lane Hudson. Armed with only a computer and a nugget of information, he was able to turn the 2006 elections upside down... and give the Democrats the weapon they needed to take Congress.

His reward? Well unfortunately, as you may have heard, "No good deed goes unpunished."

Here’s the story:

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Thursday March 08, 2007 · 4:42 PM PST

2007/03/08 · 16:42

This is the second in a weekly series of articles, written by John Javna, that will appear on BlogPAC.org, recognizing unsung heroes of the progressive movement — ordinary people who are working tirelessly to make America a better place. If you have suggestions about people who deserve more recognition for their work as progressive activists, please contact us at fighttheright@opendoor.com.

Cliff Schecter
A Progressive Pundit

Think about it: The Right has dozens of hard-ass TV pundits—Buchanan, Coulter, Malkin, and so on. But who do we have? Sure, a few mainstream Democrats show up regularly on talk-TV, but where are the attack-dog progressives—the ones who’ll throw right-wingers’ bullshit right back in their faces? The ones who say what YOU’D want to say?

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Thursday February 22, 2007 · 9:04 AM PST

2007/02/22 · 09:04

This is the first in a weekly series of articles that will appear on BlogPAC.org, recognizing unsung heroes of the progressive movement—ordinary people who are working tirelessly to make America a better place. If you have suggestions about people who deserve more recognition for their work as progressive activists, please contact us at
fighttheright-at-opendoor-dot-com.

In the late 1990s, Raven Brooks was a member of Texas A&M University’s elite Cadet Corps—a four-year military program similar to West Point. "I wasn’t very politically aware at that time in my life," he explains. "I would have said I was a Republican, because growing up in Texas, in a conservative family, that’s all I knew....but I didn’t really agree with my parents—or my classmates—on many topics."

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BlogPac Hero: The Amanda Marcotte Story You Haven't Heard

BlogPac Hero #3: Lane Hudson & the Rest of the Mark Foley Story

BlogPac Netroots Hero #2: Cliff Schecter

ORDINARY HEROES #1: Raven Brooks