Where progressive voices can be heard
“I know Suzan DelBene personally. I put her private sector experience to work for our state as Director of the Department of Revenue. Suzan immediately went to work to help close the state’s budget...
It struck me today that protest is like prayer. Both involve supplication. Both make you feel good. Both are largely ineffective unless someone powerful is listening. But only protests can become violent. A violent...
With a silvery, flowing piano playing in the background, Darcy Burner says, “We should have government of, by and for the people, not government of, bought and paid for by large corporations and the...
As a follow-up to Marriage ceremony of Corporate Person and Angela Vogel, here’s a longer, 31 minute video, including at minute 11:00 the Raging Grannies singing their funny song: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/24060082   “Will she become like...
Thank Sen. Whitehouse and Senate Democrats for fighting to pass the DISCLOSE Act. Some progressive say the Dems are as bad as the Repugs. Though Dems sometimes compromise too much, and though there are...
Thurston County will get to vote to authorize the Public Utility District to expand into electricity in November. It is on the ballot, friends. We did it. No paid signature gatherers, just volunteers knocking...
Below are scanned images of one of the anti-Suzan DelBene fliers sent out by Progress Washington, which, according to this article, was a PAC formed by Laura Ruderman’s mom, Mary Rotchschild. (Ruderman and DelBene...
Washington State is setting up a Facebook voter registration process. Basically this is just an access point provided through the popular Facebook system, leading into the actual Washington State online voter registration system. If...
Washington Post carries story this morning about pressure from both sides to have Romney release more tax returns. I don’t think he is going to do it. I think he is going to try...
Our leaders have undertaken three disastrous, failed wars:Â Busy & Cheney’s war in Iraq;Â Bush, Cheney & Obama’s war in Afghanistan; and the war on drugs. But there’s one war that regressives (aka conservatives)...
