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Never Volunteered For A Campaign? This Is Certainly The Year To Start
This week, I've had an ongoing e-mail exchange with one of my oldest friends. Like virtually all of my oldest friends, he's retired now,...
Howie Klein
Jan 8, 20223 min read
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Ground Game Texas-- A Guest Post From Julie Oliver And Mike Siegel
We started Ground Game Texas with a simple idea: investing in year-round organizing works. So, our very first initiative in April and May...
Mike Siegel
Dec 17, 20213 min read
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What Do You Think-- Do The Dems' Midterm Problems Go Beyond Messaging?
This morning, Quadricicos Driskell penned a guest column for The Hill, Democrats can win in 2022-- here's how. He thinks the biggest...
Howie Klein
Dec 11, 20218 min read
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The GOP Has 2 Things: Lies & Racism-- Can Democrats Overcome Them?
If they Democrats have nothing to offer but scare tactics-- the GOP's forte-- plus hot air and excuses about why they couldn't get...
Howie Klein
Nov 5, 20216 min read
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America's Screwed... Progressives Care Too Much To Tank Manchin's Build Back Worse Act
Or Even To Fight Schumer & The DCCC Filling Congress With More Sinemas & Manchins When The Nation's headline writer came up with the cute...
Howie Klein
Oct 26, 20217 min read
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Are Democrats Slitting Their Own Throats By Whittling Down Build Back Better?
Do you feel let down by the Democrats' shrinking socio-economic agenda? If you do, you're not alone. According to Nate Cohn's analysis of...
Howie Klein
Oct 23, 20217 min read
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Are Republican Officials Starting To Panic Over Trump's Derangement?
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R) was on Meet the Press yesterday and, unlike most Republican leaders, he was not kissing up to Trump....
Howie Klein
Oct 18, 20217 min read
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Trump's Malignant Narcissism Still Haunts Us-- And The GOP
Like myself, I'm guessing you don't turn to the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal for political advice. This is not a page that...
Howie Klein
Oct 15, 20216 min read
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Conservative Republicans Make Their Bid To Take Over The Democratic Party
While the congressional Democrats continue to hopelessly spin their wheels on the package of campaign promises that handed them the...
Howie Klein
Oct 12, 20219 min read
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Some Voters Don't Like The Whole Idea Of Societal Collapse; Other Do
You may have noticed that lately we've been posting quite a few pieces on societal collapse and national disintegration-- like here and...
Howie Klein
Oct 11, 20215 min read
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Does Sinema Back The Rich Because They Bribe Her? Or Do The Rich Pay Her Off Because She Backs Them?
Does It Matter At All? On Wednesday we took a quick look at the Factory Towns report that examined 11 Great Lakes states, where Democrats...
Howie Klein
Oct 8, 20218 min read
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Meet Getro-- The Progressive Democrat Who Can Win In The Antelope Valley
Getro Elize grew in the Antelope Valley and is running for the state Assembly's 36th district, a blue district represented by a...
Howie Klein
Aug 11, 20213 min read
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Make A Jerk Out Of Yourself On The National Stage And GOP Donors Will Shower You With Money
Axios reporter Lachlan Markay took a look at new campaign finance data which he wrote "underscores a disparity among election objectors....
Howie Klein
Aug 9, 20214 min read
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Are Voters Stupid Enough To Buy The GOP's Latest Bullshit About Trump's Failed Coup?
Wasn't it Putin who first started referring to the people arrested for the 1/6 insurrection as "political prisoners?" GOP spin doctors...
Howie Klein
Jul 31, 20216 min read
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Are The Democrats Getting Ready To Turn Congress Over To QAnon?
This morning, high school dropout and QAnon follower Lauren Boebert (R-CO), asked ABC News' Ben Siegel "Why are so many millions of...
Howie Klein
Jul 29, 20218 min read
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If Democrats Pursue Suburban Voters Too Strenuously They Risk Alienating Their Own Base
In his NY Times piece yesterday, The Big Question of the 2022 Midterms: How Will the Suburbs Swing?, Trip Gabriel made a common error:...
Howie Klein
Jul 11, 20219 min read
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Kinzinger On Republicans Backing Trump's Big Lie: "I think God Probably Wouldn’t Be Cool With It"
Remember when corporate America vowed to stop funding the 147 Republican incumbents who voted against certifying Biden's election,...
Howie Klein
Jul 5, 202110 min read
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Is Trump Enough Of An Albatross To Lose The Midterms For The GOP?
This afternoon, Trump was on the attack again-- not just against Democrats, but also against McConnell and any Republican who doesn't...
Howie Klein
Jun 29, 20215 min read
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Bedraggled Wisconsin GOP Tries For A Comeback-- But Needs Trump To Pipe Down
Derrick Van Orden is a Wisconsin crackpot who ran for Congress against right-wing Democrat Ron Kind in 2020-- a real lesser of two evils...
Howie Klein
Jun 28, 20216 min read
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Trump Will Never Go Away Until He's Dead-- Which Can't Come Too Soon
This morning, Adam Schiff, my own congressman, told me that "QAnon supporters were among the most visible participants during the deadly...
Howie Klein
Jun 16, 20219 min read
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