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Welcome To Obama Action Week!
Folks, we’ve got one week until the Pennsylvania primary. Time to hunker down and do all we can to help Obama close that gap.All week, several Kossacks and I will post these action diaries to remind...
View ArticleKossacks Under 35 : Open Thread
Greetings, folks. No diary tonight -- we're in need of contributors to keep the series going.Got something on your mind? Please proffer it as a future diary topic. We're up every Thursday from now...
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Obama "Call" to Action -- With PA Celebrities!
This is the last weekend to help Obama in Pennsylvania! We’ve all seen the great photo diaries from last night’s 40,000+ supporter rally in Philly. Obama’s leading the news across the Keystone...
View ArticleTop Comments 4.20.08 : Why Bother?
"Why bother?"This is the question Michael Pollan poses in the New York Times Magazine today, wondering why Americans make the effort to reduce our carbon footprint and do right by the planet when so...
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Top Comments 4.27.08 : Made in the Shade Edition
While we at DailyKos tend to fixate on Presidential and Congressional races and issues, it’s worth pausing from time to time to look at local races and think about how they can have much more of an...
View ArticleObama Leads All Categories of Elected Supers
With yesterday’s endorsements by Congresspeople Bruce Braley (IA), Baron Hill (IN), and Lois Capps (CA), Barack Obama now moves into the lead of superdelegate endorsements by Governors, Senators, and...
View ArticleThis Money Is For Beating McCain.
We’ve know it for some time now, but at long last the media is finally catching on: Barack Obama will be the 2008 Democratic Candidate for President. From today forward, we’ve got our sights set on...
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They Won't Vote for Barack Obama...
...if they're NOT REGISTERED TO VOTE!!This weekend marks the kick-off of the Obama campaign's Vote for Change 50 State Voter Registration Drive. Have you signed up in your community? There are hundreds...
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Photoblog: Obama Voter Registration in Austin!
Today was a great day for Barack Obama, and an even better day for the hundreds and thousands of new voters registered today across the United States. Here in Austin we ran a voter registration drive...
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Top Comments 5/12/08 : Of Monks and Mandalas
We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos. Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain. We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...
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Top Comments 5.18.08 – Tonsillitis Edition
We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos. Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain. We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...
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Top Comments 5.27.08 : Caption This Photo! Edition v.2
We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos. Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain. We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be the...
View ArticleKossacks Under 35 : Going Carless
I'm a rarity in modern society: I’ve never owned a car.I grew up in New Jersey, but we didn’t get our drivers licenses until age 17, at which point I was done with my junior year of high school. I knew...
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Get With the PARTY!!!
Obama supporters, tomorrow night we celebrate the final two contests of this long primary campaign. Could it be that five months ago to the day we were watching in exuberant surprise as Obama ran away...
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NETROOTS NATION: Welcome to Austin! Food Edition
WELCOME TO AUSTIN!So I hear y’all are coming down to Austin in a few weeks for the Netroots Nation convention, and I reckon you might wondering what there is to eat, drink, see and do while you’re...
View ArticleObama Will Staff Up in Every State!
I just received an email (as most of you probably did!) from Steve Hildebrand, deputy campaign manager for Obama, as follows:Today, I am proud to announce that our presidential campaign will be the...
View ArticleYou Are Falling for the Right Wing's Trap.
Yes, the FISA bill stinks. No, we shouldn't protect corporations. I agree. Yes, it's not a "compromise" at all -- I agree, it's a capitulation to the White House and the Right Wing.Of course it is. The...
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Unite For Change: Austin Field Report
Today Americans came together across the nation to talk about Barack Obama at a Unite for Change event. I hosted two such events here in Austin, TX, where people showed up to learn how we’re going to...
View ArticleObama Down Only 9% in Texas -- How YOU Can Help!
The new Rasmussen poll shows what I've been feeling for a long time now -- the race in Texas between Barack Obama and John McCain is tightening. McCain can't assume that the Lone Star State will love...
View ArticlePeople Power Will Donate $2,300 Instead, Markos (Update VI)
Markos, you wrote last week that you were withholding $2,300 from the Obama campaign, claiming that your individual donation didn’t matter. As if you aren’t the proprietor of an influential blog...
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Netroots Nation: Welcome to Austin!
Hey, y’all. Netroots Nation is upon us, and I wanted to offer an early welcome to Austin, the Democratic capital of Texas. We’re so excited to have you all coming down to convene in this crucial...
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Netroots Nation: Keep Turning Texas Blue!
Thank you, Netroots Nation!Thank you so much for coming down to Austin for Netroots Nation and taking the time to visit our community and meet our local activists. As someone who is both a blogger and...
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How To Run a Voter Registration Drive
This is a diary about how to run a voter registration drive. Specifically, it’s about how I run the all-volunteer voter registration drive for the Travis County Democratic Party’s Coordinated Campaign....
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Top Comments 7.27.08 – Glenn Nye 24-Hour Fundraiser Edition
Starting tomorrow at noon Eastern time right here on DailyKos, a group of bloggers, grassroots organizers, campaign volunteers, and the candidate himself will take part in a 24-Hour Fundraiser for...
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Glenn Nye 24-Hour Fundraiser Part I
Welcome to the start of our 24-hour fundraiser for Glenn Nye, Democratic candidate for Congress in VA-02! Over the next 24 hours, bloggers, campaign volunteers and people who know Glenn will tell us...
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Photoblog: Obama Summerfest in NYC!
Greetings from New York City! Today casperr and I met up to hang out and help at Obama Summerfest in Central Park. I came north from Austin to visit my old home for a few weeks, and when casperr...
View ArticleTONIGHT: NYC Kossacks Meet-Up. Key Update!
Howdy, Kossacks in the greater New York metropolitan area. Tonight we're having a meet-up in honor of the visits by captainlaser and myself to town. I'm posting this in casperr's stead as she is...
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Happy 73rd Birthday, Social Security!
That's right, 73 years ago today, at 3:30 p.m. EST, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act, perhaps the greatest cornerstone in our government's efforts to provide...
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Liveblog: Camp Obama in Austin, TX (Key Update!)
Welcome back to Austin, TX for the very first Camp Obama of the general election cycle! There are also sessions in Los Angeles today, and in New York City next weekend. The focus of this Camp Obama is...
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Top Comments: Vacation Photos Edition 8.18.08
We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos. Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain. We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be the...
View ArticleJohn McCain : No Choice for Women
On this day in 1920, U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby ratified the 19th Amendment, finally giving American women the right to vote. After years of organizing, women achieved the right to cast...
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We Registered 1107 Voters This Weekend.
Yes, we registered one thousand, one hundred and seven voters this weekend. In one city. In two days. You can do it, too. Here’s how.
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Top Comments 9.9.08 : Caption This Photo! Edition
We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos. Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain. We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be the...
View ArticleTop Comments 9.14.08 – Democrats in the Park Edition
Today across Austin, precinct chairs held house parties and gatherings with neighbors to talk about why this election cycle is so important. I was lucky enough to attend two of them. First, my precinct...
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Registering the Newest Americans to Vote (Photo Blog)
This past Monday, my volunteers and I were privileged to take part in an event that perhaps best symbolizes why voter registration matters so much, and what’s at stake in this coming election. We were...
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We’ve Now Registered 12,814 Voters!
Over the past week, our all-volunteer voter registration drive with the Travis County Democratic Party reached a new milestone – we’ve now collected 12,814 voter registrations!As of next Monday, there...
View ArticleTop Comments 3.29.09 -- There’s Something I Need to Ask You.
Hi there.So, it seems funny that I haven’t posted a diary in almost six months. But, as you can probably guess, I’ve been a little busy. After registering a few voters voters here in Austin, I helped...
View ArticleYes We Did? Why We Blog, Why We Volunteer
At some point, each of us had never written or read a blog post, knocked on a door, phonebanked, or donated. Yet something spurred each of us to take action, and DO SOMETHING to help our chosen...
View ArticleNN LIVEBLOG: Yes We Did? How Blogging Can And Can't Support a Field Campaign
Greetings from Pittsburgh!I'm here at Netroots Nation in Room 301/302 with your fellow Kossacks casperr, femlaw and Populista, along with Sean Quinn of FiveThirtyEight, and Jeremy Bird, Deputy Director...
View ArticleALERT: Bogus Anti-Health Insurance Reform Robocalls
The right-wing is at it again, fighting health-insurance reform with a fake robocall designed to dissuade support for President Obama's plan. Health insurance reform is too important for the American...
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Netroots for Healthcare Rally Report: 14 Days To Go!
There are only fourteen days left until the end of the Congressional district work period, when our Representatives visit with constituents, listen to their concerns, and--as of late--get mobbed by...
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Netroots for Healthcare Rally Report: 12 Days To Go!
With only twelve days left in the Congressional district work period, we all need to stand up and be counted in favor of real health care reform!Every day until September 4, when our Congresspeople...
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Netroots For Healthcare Rally Report: 8 Days To GO!
In eight days the Congressional district working period ends and our representatives head back to DC to determine the fate of health care reform. We need to stand up and be counted, get out there and...
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Two Thousand Texans Stand Up For Health Care Reform (Plus Rally Report!)
As y'all may have heard, we had a bit of a health care rally down here in Austin this past weekend. My most excellent Congressperson, Lloyd Doggett, came out, as did two thousand of our neighbors from...
View ArticleHow One Texas Grad Student Stopped Guns In Schools
This is a story about an ordinary person who did an extraordinary thing: beat back a "Guns in Schools" bill here in Texas that would have allowed people to carry concealed weapons in college...
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Give One Day for Teddy's Seat (Out of State Travel)
Updated 1.18.10 at 10:16 a.m. CSTThe biggest need by the Martha Coakley campaign is in-person volunteers in MA helping to knock on doors and make calls from the office.Right now, we need to put our...
View ArticleKNOCK NOW: Canvassers Needed ASAP in MA
From a friend helping the Coakley campaign, there is an URGENT need for canvassers in MA to flush out those last voters tonight. If you are in or near MA, please get to a staging location listed...
View ArticleTeaching Texans, Or Why I Support our State Board of Education Candidates
This diary is part of a 24-hour blograiser for our Texas State Board of Education Candidates, Judy Jennings and Rebecca Bell-Metereau.Before I worked full-time on campaigns, I taught undergraduates at...
View ArticleRepublican Lynches Empty Chair in Racist Presidential Effigy in Austin...
I hate bringing y'all news that just confirms the worst stereotypes of Texans.Today, Burnt Orange Report received a photo, reproduced below the jump, of an empty chair "lynched" from a tree in a...
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Help Turn Texas Blue, One Blog Post at a Time
Burnt Orange Report Wants You!Do you love progressive politics and want to play a role in promoting efforts to Turn Texas Blue? Do you want to help elect more and better Democrats? Do you love to...
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