<big>Click on your avatar disc at any DK5 page to get your personal dropdown menu including ACTIVITY STREAM</big> h/t Angelea Marx
For brevity purposes, the process of migrating Daily Kos to a new platform (WordPress) is abbreviated “DK6”.
Groups & persons are alphabetical by first word other than “the” or “an”. If more should be added, kosmail to diarist.
Bold print indicates groups & kosaks recently or currently active, i.e., posting at least once since August 2024). Pale print indicates inactivity ditto. If correction is needed, kosmail to diarist.
Some inactive community groups may be reactivate-able if they have an admin still active onsite who’s interested: message to them individually — kosmails to groups do NOT put a message alert at ANYONE’S mail icon or anyway else and may just sit unnoticed forever.
Some groups are staff only; their disposition is staff only as well.
<big>You’ll find a FOLLOW button at each group’s or person’s homepage to get all their posts automatically delivered to your Activity Stream.</big>
For times the site seems down or glitchy, you might want to bookmark this in your browser: <big>Daily Kos Status page.</big>
GROUPS:
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▓ Community Contributors Team ◼ diary list ◼ homepage
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▓ Connect! Unite! Act! <small>(formerly NEW DAY Team</small> ◼ diary list ◼ homepage
founded 2012 by Neeta Lind — Our mission is to maintain the list of Daily Kos In-Real-Life events around the nation and to encourage IRL groups to form for camaraderie, precinct organizing and political action in each Congressional District. If you want to put the Connect! Unite! Act! series into your personal diary stream, click our heart icon [<small>FOLLOW</button> at homepage] to follow us.
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▓ Courtesy Kos ◼ diary list ◼ homepage
founded 2012 by rexymeteorite ... dedicated to courtesy, civility, politeness and positivity. Our group motto -- "Killing the Meta Wars - With Kindness"
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founded 2011 by Angela Marx ... for Kossacks who thought DK4 was scary or weird or hard to figure out. With the launch of DK5, we're gonna hold hands, help each other out, ask dumb questions, laugh ourselves silly, and make DK5 work for us as well. Follow the group or the #CrankyUsers tag.
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founded 2011 — The Front[main] Page, managed by Daily Kos editorial staff.
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▓ Daily Kos Announcements ◼ diary list ◼ homepage (staff)
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founded 2019 by elfling — Official Blog of Meta Stuff You Might Want To Know About Happenings At Daily Kos. Infrequent but important postings.,,
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▓ Daily Kos Site Support ■ Diary List ■ Homepage ■ (staff) <small>founding diary “Daily Kos Site Support: Getting Started”, opening paragraph:</small>
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founded August 2021 by peregrine kate Behind the scenes at Daily Kos, staff in multiple departments (Product, Tech, Community, and Trending to name a few) strive to make it as easy as possible for site members to take full advantage of the site’s features. The main repository for the tools and resources we provide is the Help Desk, hosted on a new platform since early 2021.
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▓ Daily Kos Staff Favorites ◼ homepage ◼ diary list (staff)
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2019 by elfling — Stories of the day found to be especially readworthy by members of the Daily Kos Staff.
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▓ dk diaries that are helpful to make it work ◼ homepage ◼ diary list
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▓ DK Equity Council Hangout ■ Diary List ■ homepage (staff)
founded Sept 15. 2021 by QAMichelle — Latest news and information from and relevant to the DK Equity Council.
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▓ The DK Group FOR Groups: How to find daily kos groups of every kind ■ Diary list ■ homepage
founded March 2025 by mettle fatigue — Daily Kos has at least 2500 groups of countless kinds. This one is the 'bookshelf' where group indexes are.
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founded March 2021 by mettle fatigue ...for reblogging and conserving community diaries about system flaws and problems, working in tandem with the community problem-solving groups such as DK5 Workarounds and the site tech staff groups such as Daily Kos Announcments - all those groups are listed above. Click on admin mettle fatigue at our group members/descrip page to request an invitation to join. Virtually all new members will be promoted from contributor rank to editor so they can freely reblog to the group.
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▓ DK5 Workarounds ■ Diary List ■ homepage
founded Dec 10, 2015 by by 2thanks — We explore the tools of DK5, find workarounds, share, discuss, demonstrate, learn, practice, and make mistakes. We empower members of the community to connect, unite, and act. Current project: Exploration of Sig Lines: Concepts, design, storage, and placement.
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▓ DKG Solidarity ■ Diary List ■ homepage (staff writers’ guild)
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founded Sept 2017 by TrueBlueMajority — a glossary of catchphrases, abbreviations, slang and other frequently used terms at DK and throughout Left Blogistan (look that up in the DKtionary!)
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▓ A Guide to Community Moderation ■ Diary List ■ homepage
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▓ KosBusters ■ Diary List ■ homepage
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founded 2011 by N in Seattle — The KosBusters! group was formed by a collection of intrepid participants in DK4 beta-testing. We will continue squashing bugs at DK4.
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▓ Meta Groupies ■ diary list ■ homepage
founded March 2011 by Limelite — Where Group Founders and Administrators meet to discuss issues of group management, share tips, policies, organizational choices and the like. Here is where you'll find DK4 Updates pertaining specifically to group features. While intended for group executives, Editors and Contributors are invited. Our mission is to make groups function better, improve ease of use for Followers, Contributors, and Editors and provide a meeting place where all who are involved in creating, running, and providing content to groups on a regular basis can communicate with each other regarding their group's issues, concerns, and ideas for improving the DK4 group format.
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▓ Monday Morning Meta ■ diary list ■ homepage
founded April 2014 by rexymeteorite — Discussing meta in the wee hours of monday morning. We believe in a better discourse and a better kos.
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▓ More Better Bettas ■ diary list ■ homepage (staff)
founded Jul 2020 by peregrine kate — Fun with websites. A group for betta beta testers to do awesome betta beta testing including testing that all of this text is going to show on the show page. Pay no attention to the woman with all the cats behind the curtain.
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founded Dec 2011 by nomandates — The New Diarists group republishes some (non-troll) first diaries and also posts tutorials about how to post diaries. One important New Diarists tutorial: Formatting, tagging, publishing, editing: https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/09/1482008/-New-Diarists-tutorial-for-formatting-drafts-adding-tags-publishing-options-and-editing
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▓ New DK groups (diary series) ■ tag
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▓ Partners & Mentors ■ diary list ■ homepage (staff)
This group is/was not for publishing, but rather to comment basic site information to first-time diarists and first-time commenters.
founded March 2013 by Neeta Lind — Our group's mission is to welcome and to provide orientation to new users at Daily Kos.
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▓ Pie and Meta Lovers Anonymous ■ diary list ■ homepage
founded July 2014 by siab — A separate "room", so to speak, for my diaries on Daily Kos statistics , etc.
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▓ PostHuffPost: Connection-Conversation-Community homepage & diary list
founded 2014 by murphthesurf3 & mopshell & 47songs.— dedicated to serving former Huffington Post Bloggers as a resource in navigating Daily Kos... providing information, assistance and … for those who want to share their experiences as bloggers at HP, DK and elsewhere. We [invite] those who made connections that led to friendships at HP to reconnect here ... and stay connected if they wish... Welcome to all. Enjoy your time at The Daily Kos, a vibrant blogging community. Please see our Group Dairy "Learning the Ropes" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/24/1308724/-Learning-the-Ropes-at-Daily-Kos-A-Guide-for-New-Members?detail=hide for an easy to use step-by-step set of sources that will help new members to navigate the waters at Daily Kos.
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▓ Search City ■ homepage ■ diary list
founded April 2011 by jotter — Apropos The Daily Kos Search Engine and User Interface.
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▓ Search City ■
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▓ Tag Librarians ■ homepage ■ diary list
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▓ Thursday Worst Diary Competition ■ homepage ■ diary list
founded 2011 by Unit Zero — A group dedicated to the recognition, promotion and promulgation of the Best of the Worst
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founded 2010 by sardonyx — The Top Comments diary series was begun on June 14, 2006. It published daily until January 2021 and now runs at 7pm Pacific time as often as we can make possible, generally Monday thru Friday. We aim to publish pointers to the best comments from the previous 24 hours, and also note which comments receive the most recs from users in that period. Please send your pointers to our "TopComments" gmail address (no space) or our internal dkosmail before 9:30pm eastern time daily.
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▓ Trolls ■ homepage ■ diary list
founded 2011 by opendna — Troll diaries are great fun and do a great service to our community. The best should be preserved and the latest promoted for the greater lolz, TROLL HUNTERS WANTED: please message for membership.
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▓ Troolz ■ homepage ■ diary list
founded 2011 by aoeu [RIP] — [Miscellaneous meta including on site roolz, owner/staff statements, internet hazards...]
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▓ Welcome New Users ■ diary list ■ homepage
founded 2011 by LaughingPlanet — smileycreek coordinat[ed] this series which publish[ed] diaries answering questions about the site. No question is too basic, no matter how long you've been here. If you submit a question via kosmail (private message), we may publish your question, but we will NOT publish your name. Group membership is for contributing diarists only, but if you'd like to follow our series just click the heart by our name.
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▓ Welcome New Writers ■ (staff group) Diary List ■ homepage:
founded:March 2021 by Jay Cuasay — Welcome New Writers is a project of the Partners & Mentors Team, republishing stories by brand new DK members whose very first comment is a story. Help us discover, support, and encourage these new writers in our community.
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META STAFF, DK6 ADVISORY CREW,
& COMMUNITY MEMBERS
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▓ Allison McHenry user page & USERS PAGE ■ masthead
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▓ Angela Marx ■ DK6 Advisory Committee ■ user page & USERS PAGE
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▓ belinda ridgewood ■ DK6 Advisory Committee ■ user page & USERS PAGE
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▓ brillig ■ DK6 Advisory Committee ■ user page & USERS PAGE
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▓ Denise Oliver Velez ■ DK6 Advisory Committee ■ user page & USERS PAGE
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▓ Dartagnan ■ DK6 Advisory Committee ■ user page & USERS PAGE
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▓ Dopper0189 ■ DK6 Advisory Committee ■ user page & USERS PAGE
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▓ Elfling’s Magical Mystery Tour (former staff) user page ■ USERS PAGE
joined 2004 — Daily Kos Senior Community Experience Engineer, among other things. — Groups: Community Spotlight, Tag Librarians, Kos Katalogue, SFKossacks, Saturday Morning Home Repair, Search City, Education Alternatives, Community Fundraisers, ElectionResults, FAQ & KB Team, elfling's Fabulous Favorites, Daily Kos Tech Team, The Changelog, Daily Kos Correspondents, Daily Kos Announcements, Daily Kos Staff Favorites, More Better Bettas, Daily Kos Site Support
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▓ Jay Cuasay (former staff) user page ■ userspage
joined 2004 — An early user of DailyKos and MeetUp during Dean4America now circling back around for a second look. — Groups: Virginia Kos, DKtionary
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▓ Jessica Sutherland ( former staff) user page ■ userspage ■"Jessica Sutherland staff"
I'm the Director of Community. Find me reading and commenting on Community stories, editing paid Community writers, and doing everything I can to keep our oh-so-special community healthy and growing. — Occupation: Director of Community, Daily Kos —Groups: Daily Kos, Community Spotlight, Pro Choice, Black Kos community, Comics, Daily Kos Social, Community Contributors Team, Daily Kos Correspondents, Picks of the Week, Little Blue Pockets, Prism Reports, Daily Kos Announcements, Regenerative Culture for an Altered Planet, Daily Kos Partners, Daily Kos Virtual Events, Celebrating Black History ... and Black Futures, Daily Kos Emerging Fellows, Daily Kos 20th Anniversary, Daily Kos Activism, Get Out the Vote 2022, Daily Kos Liveblogs
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▓ justiceputnam ■ DK6 Advisory Committee ■ user page & USERS PAGE
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▓ kos (site owner) user page ■ USERS PAGE
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▓ Mother Mags ■ DK6 Advisory Committee ■ user page & USERS PAGE
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▓ peregrine kate (staff) user page & USERS PAGE
joined 2008 — Daily Kos Staff — Proud supporter of Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition and Oil and Water Don't Mix.🌊 — Groups: KosAbility, DK Poli, Kos Katalogue, Readers and Book Lovers, Michigan, My Michigan, Welcome New Users, DAILY KOS UNIVERSITY, Personal Storytellers, Black Kos community, In Communion, In Support of Labor and Unions, Monday Night Cancer Club, House of LIGHTS (Loving Inspiration, Giving Hope To Survivors), Cranky Grammarians, Community Fundraisers, Positive Intention and Lovingkindness, Okiciyap (we help), Connect! Unite! Act!, Climate Change SOS, Chicago Kossacks, Motor City Kossacks, In Memoriam, Kitchen Table Kibitzing, DK VA Hospital Service Project, Backyard Bird Racers, GOTV 2024, UN Climate Summit, Climate Action Hub, SpiritSisters, Nuz Hounds , Antiquities Act Defenders and Supporters, State Open Thread, EPIC Glacier Park Meetup, West Michigan Kos, DK Fans of 90 for 90, Crowdsourcing the 50 State Strategy, MI-GOV Arrest MI Gov on Flint MI Water, People Demanding Action, Moral Movement Forward Together, 2016 DNC DKos, pk hot, Red State Resistance, Democratic Precinct Organizing, DKtionary, University of Michigan Alumni Kos, Neighbors on Call, The Changelog, EV Revolution, Little Blue Pockets, Daily Kos Announcements, Daily Kos Staff Favorites, QA Testing, Daily Kos Virtual Events, More Better Bettas, Michigan Goes Blue 2020 and 2022, DKG Solidarity, ClimateBrief, Daily Kos Site Support, DK Equity Council Hangout, Daily Kos 20th Anniversary, Get Out the Vote 2022
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▓ QAMichelle (former staff) user page & USERS PAGE
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▓ Tara the Antisocial Social Worker ■ DK6 Advisory Committee ■ user page & USERS PAGE
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▓ TrueBlueMajority (former staff) user page ■ USERS PAGE
joined 2004 — Progressive Christian & inclusive justice activist. I love the ocean, autumn, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Stephen Colbert, & Hamilton. — Occupation: inclusive justice ministry — Groups: KosAbility, Pro Choice, IGTNT, Pink Clubhouse, Massachusetts Kosmopolitans, Readers and Book Lovers, Spiritual Organization of Unapologetic Liberals at Daily Kos, The Grieving Room, Welcome New Users, Black Kos community, In Communion, Protest Music, Moose On The Loose, Street Prophets, Progressive Hippie, Kossacks for Bob Massie, CareGiving Kos, Barriers and Bridges, New Diarists, House of LIGHTS (Loving Inspiration, Giving Hope To Survivors), Cranky Grammarians, Theatricals, Courtesy Kos, ObamaNightlyNews, Connect! Unite! Act!, Kossacks for Marriage Equality, New England Kossacks, Star Trek fans, This Week in the War on Women, Support Michelle Obama, People Power National, SpiritSisters, DK Fans of 90 for 90, 50 State Strategy Project, Crowdsourcing the 50 State Strategy, Religious Freedom Day, Women for Bernie, Moral Movement Forward Together, TBM hotlist, Community Transcripts Project, HAMILTON megafans at DK, First People Power, Black Star Resistance, Fighting and Defeating the Neo Nazis, Indivisible, VBDK, DKtionary, The Donkey Messenger, Kamala2020, Daily Kos Virtual Events, DKG Solidarity, DKonversation: Something to Talk About, Blue Majority Message Workshop
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If/when more staff or community communicating tech are learned about, they’ll be added here as time allows.
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SOME TAGS & SERIES USEFUL (or interesting)
TO CLICK OR FOLLOW:
Tag pages have their own FOLLOW buttons.
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DK GROUP INDEXES SO FAR:
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🟦 E PLURIBUS BLUE: where YOUR local Daily Kos groups are:city-state-globally <big>2011-2026</big> (original version: 🔶 Where the DailyKosgroups Are: Links to DK’s 300+ Local & Political Groups by State & Beyond, 2011-2024 )
💙 DAILY KOS Friendly OPEN THREAD GROUPS link list 2011-2026
🔵 DK 2016-2024 Presidential Candidate/Campaign Groups, How to Follow or Blog to Them, etc
💚 DK’s 240+ Health/Med & Related groups & series, e.g., Cause/Movement (e.g., environment, homeless, guns etc), Community/Heritage/Identity etc 2011-2024
📁48+ DK Meta Groups, staff & Advisory Crew + tags for site tech & issues.
📌 DK Feminist & LGBTQi grps and 60+ Women's News & Resource Sites
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<big>and Site search engine, by topic key-word for DK groups</big> — this only works if the key word is part of the group’s original URL, which may differ from the group’s name. If you can’t locate a known group using terms that make sense to you, ask around at friendly open threads groups for advice how to find.
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Some official site pages and resources:
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Basic diaries on posting: golden oldies —
■ A few tips for better blogging on Daily Kos ■ How To Talk to an Anecdote ■ Copyright, Fair Use, and All That ■ Authorial Matters, References, Plagiarism and Copyright.
Linkable ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS ARE WELCOME — please kosmail them to the diary author. Edits will be made as circumstances allow. :)
