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Join us this coming Friday, April 17, at 4:00 PM Pacific/7:00 PM Eastern LIVE for a virtual Daily Kos community event via Zoom! Bill in Portland Maine, author of our long-running Cheers & Jeers series, will connect with Daily Kos staff and...

Join us this coming Friday, April 17, at 4:00 PM Pacific/7:00 PM Eastern LIVE for a virtual Daily Kos community event via Zoom! Bill in Portland Maine, author of our long-running Cheers & Jeers series, will connect with Daily Kos staff and...

On March 2, the United States reached 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Three weeks later, the country had 34,000 cases, over 400 deaths, and was rocketing toward a massive, uncontrolled epidemic that has, so far, taken the lives of over 16,000...

Living during a pandemic, with all that entails, including self-quarantining and maintaining social distancing, is emotionally draining enough. Literally watching every day as our president and his administration repeatedly lie, fail to protect the...

Hey, everybody! Ben Hardin here — Marie Newman’s campaign manager in Illinois’ Third Congressional District. Three weeks ago, we defeated Dan Lipinski in the Illinois Democratic Primary by a 2.5% margin. Our coalition overcame 30+ years of opposition...

The US Census is a forgotten casualty of the current federal war on state, county and municipal government, and in fact on community. The census count will determine the shape of Congress, and thus the federal budget for a decade from 2021 through...

A couple of weeks ago I argued that the real question we should be asking is how are we going to pay for NOT having universal healthcare? Thanks to those who recommended the diary in which I discussed starting a new job and being without health...

New Mexico is ten days into an economic shut-down ordered by our Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham. I work in Rio Arriba County, where under normal circumstances I oversee provision of Intensive Case Management for individuals suffering from substance...

Both the Republican State Leadership Committee and Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, an industry group that regularly supports conservative judicial candidates, went up with ads last week falsely attacking progressive Judge Jill Karofsky over a...

In a time that we are being asked to limit our contact with others we natural history types have an advantage. We can bird watch, photograph birds and plants, draw landscapes and trees, and generally have a good time by ourselves. I often feel some...