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Sorry To Report But It Was Mostly Bad News In Yesterday's Primaries
AIPAC defeated Both Susheela Jayapal And Jamie McLeod-Skinner There were primaries in 4 states yesterday— Georgia, Kentucky, Idaho and...
Howie Klein
May 22, 20246 min read
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Economic Inequality In The United States: Not Just A Growing Divide— An Increasingly Dangerous One
Sometimes I just feel like remembering why I blog at DWT. And in the end, it always comes down to economic inequality and how it’s one of...
Howie Klein
May 19, 20246 min read
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The DCCC Has A Reminder For Progressives: "We Hate You And Want Your Candidates To Lose"
Battleground: Oregon I enjoy reading Max Cohen’s morning political reports in PunchBowl when I wake up most days. But yesterday, he wrote...
Howie Klein
May 14, 20244 min read
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AIPAC, At War Against Progressives, Is Focusing On Maryland And Oregon Right Now
Earlier today, we asked how we can know if a member of Congress is too corrupt to vote for and used their relationship with crypto as a...
Howie Klein
May 11, 20244 min read
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AIPAC Invades Oregon With Its Dirty Blood Money
Should Progressives Stop Contributing To Candidates Who Take AIPAC Money? The people who run AIPAC aren’t dummies and they’re well aware...
Howie Klein
May 5, 20247 min read
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Congressional Insider Trading: Bipartisan, Very Prevalent, Rarely Prosecuted, Almost Never Punished
And Certainly NOT An Urban Legend After reading Judd Legum’s essay, Congress' stock trading addiction, I got into a discussion with a...
Howie Klein
Mar 20, 20247 min read
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GOP Leaders Like Elise Stefanik Are Encouraging Anti-Choice Candidates To Commit Political Suicide
Republicans Never Learn Voters Want Them To Butt Out Of Women's Healthcare House Republican Conference chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), a...
Howie Klein
Mar 17, 20245 min read
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Trump & Putin-- The Giant Albatross Around The Necks Of Republican Congressional Candidates
On Sunday, Russ Baker wrote that he never thought he’d see the day when the American Right bedded down with a murderous Moscow-based...
Howie Klein
Feb 20, 20246 min read
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Oregon: An Unseen Bonanza Awaits Progressives, If We Make It So— Guest Post By Jonathan Tasini
A Case For 3 Outstanding Progressives In Oregon Raise your hand if you’d buy into this deal: two new solid progressive voices in Congress...
Howie Klein
Feb 6, 20243 min read
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The DCCC Celebrates It's Inability Or Unwillingness To Distinguish Between Shit And Shinola
The New Red To Blue List Is Mostly Shit Late last week, the Washington Post ran a pointless puff piece on the latest DCCC chair, Suzan...
Howie Klein
Jan 30, 20245 min read
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Republicans Still Want To Subjugate Women As Though It Were The Middle Ages
When It Comes To Women's Equality, There Are No Moderate Republicans Left Idaho bans all abortions and last year the fascists who control...
Howie Klein
Jan 28, 20242 min read
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Want To See Biden Vanquish Trump And The Democrats Take Back The House? There's A Weapon...
I can’t imagine that there are any DWT readers who would disagree with Patriotic Millionaires' assertion that Biden and congressional...
Howie Klein
Jan 12, 20246 min read
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Many Republicans Celebrate A Do-Nothing Congress, Chaos And Dysfunction
“Censure. Expulsion. Impeachment. Resignation. These are the only things MAGA Republicans seem to care about, anything but delivering on...
Howie Klein
Dec 24, 20234 min read
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A Pair Of Louisiana Reactionaries Are Steering The Country Towards A Government Shutdown Next Week
MAGA Mike & Scalise Are In Safe Gerrymandered Districts This Bloomberg headline yesterday was, in part, misleading: House Speaker Johnson...
Howie Klein
Nov 10, 20236 min read
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They Claim To Be “Mainstream” But Maria Salazar & Mike Lawler Helped Elect A Christofascist Speaker
And So Did Ken Calvert, John James, Anthony D’Esposito, Mike Garcia, David Schweikert, Michelle Steel… Wednesday, after his Inland Empire...
Howie Klein
Oct 27, 20238 min read
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Forget About The Republicans For A Moment-- Is The Democratic Party A Credible Entity?
Even If They Wanted To, Could The Democrats Engage In Class Politics? Ali Velshi had Bernie on MSNBC with him on Labor Day and Bernie...
Howie Klein
Oct 23, 20237 min read
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Which GOP Candidates Are MAGAty (And Transactional) Enough To Earn The Trump Seal Of Approval?
I had a chat with the progressive Democrat running for a central Oregon congressional seat, Jamie McLeod-Skinner. We were wondering if...
Howie Klein
Aug 20, 20233 min read
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Biden May Be Reelected Because Young Voters Care More About Policy Than Voters Before Them Ever Did
Many years ago, one of my colleagues at Blue America insisted we poll a primary we were involved in. Our candidate was a Black...
Howie Klein
Jul 20, 20237 min read
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4 New Democratic Candidates Launched Campaigns For Congress In Texas, Michigan, Oregon & Wisconsin
Quite a few candidates from both parties officially launched their campaigns over the weekend. There were 2 House announcements and 2...
Howie Klein
Jul 11, 20236 min read
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Good Riddance To Wall Street Shill Sean Patrick Maloney!
He Tried Blaming His Own Failures On AOC The Democrats have the slimmest possible chance to hold the House by one vote. It’s not likely...
Howie Klein
Nov 11, 20223 min read
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