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Monday, October 6, 2008
Announcing the Election Protection Wiki
The new Election Protection Wiki is at epwiki.org. Please come and help enter information.

Saturday, September 20, 2008
THROW Them Out Don't Bail Them Out
(4 comments) Everything I have read about this massive bailout proposal sounds like they're going to try to treat the symptoms of a sick and failed system instead of the causes and instead of reforming or replacing the failed system itself. Nothing I have heard addresses the CAUSES of the problems! I say THROW the system out and start building one that WORKS for US, don't bail the failed, corrupt system out.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Republicans Just Lie -- It's What They DO
(3 comments) Never mind the consequences: war, ten trillion dollars in debt, the financial system breaking down, the ice caps melting, people losing pensions and health care and houses and jobs... Look away! Never mind that! Obama tried to force kindergartners to take sex education --- even if he didn't.

Sunday, August 3, 2008
McCain's Ad Says Obama Anti-Christ?
(8 comments) SOME parts of the religious right are serious about this idea that Obama is the "anti-Christ." McCain's new ad reinforces this. Is it intnetional?

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Why Conservative Policies Dominate
(5 comments) Why does the public flock to conservative / corporate policies that generally run against their own interests? Take tax cuts for the rich, or the current offshore-drilling campaign as examples.

Monday, July 21, 2008
"Who Sent You?" -- The Coming Attack on Obama
(7 comments) A new smear attack is bubbling up on the right in ways reminiscent of the Swift Boat attack on Kerry.

Monday, July 7, 2008
The Spying Started Before September 11 -- That's The Whole Point
(4 comments) In response to LA Times article, "A Good-Enough Spy Law," and its claim that telecom aided surveillance was in response to the aftermath of Sept. 11, writer Dave Johnson reminds us that this spying started shortly after Bush took office. A fact that the MSM can't seem to grasp.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Watching Freedom's Watch: A Classic Front Group
(1 comments) Just as John O'Neill received $50,000 in August 2004 from the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth and Admiral Roy Hoffman's foundation received $100,000 in early 2005, the people working for Freedom's Watch are not tireless grassroots advocates, they are paid professionals.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Such Is The Power of Propaganda
Something that "everyone knows" is also called "conventional wisdom." Once something becomes "conventional wisdom" it is extraordinarily difficult to shake people from believing it, true or not.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Is Your Money Safe?
(2 comments) Pay attention to this: The "mortgage meltdown" and "credit crunch" could mean that you can not get your money out of money-market funds. It already means that for some.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Is The Constitution Worth It?
(2 comments) Last week I asked Speaker Pelosi "what Congress is prepared to do to re-assert the rule of law..."

Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Last Week's Take Back America Conference - Building Bridges
(2 comments) Last week's Take Back America conference built important bridges between the "netroots" and the Washington liberal establishment.

Sunday, June 24, 2007
Tell Me What You Think Of John Kerry
(13 comments) Should John Kerry run again - or should we support the new primary challenger?

Friday, June 22, 2007
Centrist Dem Reaction To 'Sicko' Movie: Appease The Corporations
(2 comments) Moore's "Sicko" is scaring the health insurance companies. So the Washington consultants/appeasers are at it again.

Monday, June 4, 2007
Messiah-Candidate Thinking
(2 comments) No one candidate is going to lead us out of the wilderness. We still have a lot of work to do.

Thursday, May 31, 2007
As Al Gore's Book Hits Number One, ExxonMobil's Front Group Attacks
(3 comments) Gore's great book hits number one and another Exxon-funded front group smears him.

Thursday, May 17, 2007
Al Gore Stands Up. Time Cover Story On "The Assault On Reason" Is Out.
(2 comments) Time magazine's Cover Story on Al Gore and his new book is out. Right wing attacks are sure to follow.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007
We Guarantee Al Gore Will Be Attacked Next Week. We Absolutely Guarantee It.
(4 comments) Al Gore has a new book coming out. He will be smeared. We know this. Let's get ahead of the smear machine this time.

Friday, April 27, 2007
Candidates All Flubbed The ONLY Question.
(2 comments) None of the candidates understood how the right-wing narrative on "strong defense" works

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
SP Alert: Four Hundred Bucks For A Haircut? WTF?
(1 comments) Why is the Right pushing the John Edwards $400 haircut story?

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Smoking Politics Alert: Mitt Romney Loves That Dirty Money
Mitt Romney has some interesting sources of campaign money.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Introducing Smoking Politics. And Our Mission To End The Right Wing Strategy Of Fear and $mear.
(3 comments) The origins of the conservative strategy of Fear and $mear come out of the golden age of the tobacco companies.

Monday, April 9, 2007
Laurie And Sheryl Didn't Make It Very Far Before Exxon Tried To Slash Tour Bus Tires
(2 comments) Exxon-funded NewsBusters smears Laurie David and Sheryl Crow for launching global warming concert tour.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007
As Surely As Night Follows Day - Smears Follow Bush Criticisms
A Bush strategist "loses faith" in Bush. So the White House - and Bush himself - says he has personal, emotional problems.

Monday, April 2, 2007
YearlyKos In August
(7 comments) The YearlyKos gathering is coming in August, in Chicago. Maybe you want to attend?

Friday, March 30, 2007
Rove Knows That Voters Have Short Memories
(5 comments)

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
The Reach Of Blogs
(2 comments) Progressive blogs reach progressives. Right-wingers are part of a noise machine that reaches the general public.

Monday, February 26, 2007
A Far Too Convenient $mear: Part One
(7 comments) They're smearing Al Gore for using electricity - even though he pays extra for solar and wind energy.

Friday, February 23, 2007
It Really Is This Simple - Bloggers Are About The Real World
(1 comments) It's simple: bloggers write about the real world.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
How the "Pelosi 757" Lie Was Spread
This article researches how - and why - the right spread the lie that Speaker Pelosi "demanded" use of a "luxury jet."

Monday, February 12, 2007
Barack Obama: Don't Be Our Neville Chamberlain
(3 comments) Does Obama really believe the right will work with him?

Friday, February 9, 2007
The Media Does Not Act In The Public Interest
(1 comments) There is a reason the media does not act in the public interest.

Monday, February 5, 2007
Long-Term Strategic Narrative: Liberals Hate Christians
(4 comments) Using a right-wing piece claiming liberals hate Christians as an example, this post discusses how conservatives tie current events into a larger strategic narrative to influence the public. Progressive should learn from this. They should learn to "always add the 'because.'"

Thursday, January 25, 2007
How Long DID The Right Let Us Love Obama?
(7 comments) They destroy our leaders. Barak Obama appeared at the top of a favorability poll. Withing days nasty smears began to circulate.

Monday, January 22, 2007
Hillary's Primary Challenge: Shattering The Prism Of The Right.
(10 comments) Hillary's first obstacle - as any Democratic candidate - is the right-wing $mear machine.

Saturday, January 20, 2007
She's In
(2 comments) Hillary is running. Does she have "baggage?" But remember that Kerry was "electable." By the time of the election we hated him. The right's $mear machine makes us hate our leaders.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Marketing Conservatism and Corporatism
(3 comments) "Conservatives and their ideas are good, liberals and their ideas are bad." You hear the message repeated a thousand different ways, over and over, every day. It is a strategy, an organized marketing campaign to create demand for conservatives, their policies and their candidates. Over time and unanswered, it sinks into the brain.

Friday, January 12, 2007
Funding The Progressive Movement
(1 comments) Sure we won an election. But can we sustain it without a funded infrastructure of supporting organizations - like the Right has?

Thursday, January 11, 2007
The Escalation
(1 comments) Surge is a focus-group word, designed to sell an escalation of the war. It is ALWAYS about appearances and political strategies not reality or the good of the country with this crowd.

Monday, January 8, 2007
UPDATE - WITH WAFFLES AND RADIO: Surge Protection For Our Men And Women In Uniform
Update to last week's Surge Protection post, talk radio interview this evening.

Friday, January 5, 2007
Surge Protection For Our Men And Women In Uniform
(4 comments) This article discusses the Bush "surge" strategy and how it is really a marketing rather than a military strategy. It discusses the traps for Democrats as they try to respond.