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The DCCC Is Getting What It Wants-- A Lesser Of 2 Evils Election Cycle At least in theory, the DCCC is targeting 33 districts, 3 that are...
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Howie Klein
May 226 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
May 144 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
May 57 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
Jan 305 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
Oct 26, 20237 min read
Wondering How Awful The New Speaker Is? DCCC: “Mike Johnson Is Jim Jordan In A Sports Coat”
Johnson Represents A Strain Of An Anti-Democracy Virus That Has Infected The GOP As soon as the votes were counted— 100% unanimity from...
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Howie Klein
Aug 20, 20233 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
Jul 11, 20236 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
Oct 23, 20224 min read
Until Now We Never Voted On Whether We Wanted A Democracy Or Not
This morning, NY Times writer Jonathan Wesiman reported that 71% of all voters believe that democracy is at risk "but only 7 percent...
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Howie Klein
Oct 6, 20223 min read
Candidate Quality Really Does Matter
Yesterday, Gail Collins’ column in the NY Times, Whoops! Behold the Republican Trove of Truly Terrible Candidates, pointed out the...
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Howie Klein
Sep 23, 20223 min read
Conservatives In Congress Want To Take Things Away From People-- Will Voters Take Away Their Jobs?
Oregon Blue Dog Kurt Schrader was the last Democrat in the House to vote against raising the minimum wage and one of the last to oppose...
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Howie Klein
Sep 20, 20226 min read
There's Never Been Anyone Like Trump In U.S. Politics Before-- Hopefully There'll Never Be Another
This morning, Brett Samuels reported that “Republicans are growing more concerned that Trump could be a drag— and not a help— in tight...
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Howie Klein
Sep 5, 20222 min read
The GOP Wanted To Abolish Choice-- Now Voters Want To Abolish Them
That’s Congresswoman-elect Mary Peltola’s first ad for a fill term representing Alaska. She frames the abortion debate perfectly,...
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Howie Klein
Jul 5, 20225 min read
2 Red Hot Must-Win House Races
This morning, The Hill ran a piece by Julia Manchester and Caroline Vakil that attracted my attention: Seven close races that could...
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Howie Klein
Jun 17, 20226 min read
Putting A Few Foot Soldiers In Jail For A Few Months Won't Put A Dent In American Fascism
They Crave Faux Martyrdom-- Trump Coup Plotters Need To Face Biblical Justice Claudia Tenney is one of the most far right members of...
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Howie Klein
Jun 13, 20223 min read
Bitter & Ugly In Defeat, Blue Dog Kurt Schrader Hasn't Joined The GOP... Yet
Defeated Oregon Blue Dog Kurt Schrader is delusional. He was one of only two Democrats to join the Republicans last week to vote against...
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Howie Klein
May 27, 20225 min read
Biden Continues Fumbling-- Everything: Student Loan Forgiveness Debacle, Schrader Endorsement
Biden is incredibly unpopular. Obama (and puppet Jim Clyburn) made a dreadful error when they bailed out his floundering primary...
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Howie Klein
May 20, 20223 min read
The GOP Is All In On Obstructionism-- How Blue America Is Fighting Back
If you think the COVID pandemic is over-- about a third of Americans do-- you're delusional. Yesterday, the U.S. reported 88,149 new...
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Howie Klein
May 16, 20226 min read
For Progressives-- Tomorrow's Most Important Races
There will be plenty of entertaining primaries to watch tomorrow-- the 3-way shit show among Republicans vying to go up against John...
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Howie Klein
May 15, 20224 min read
The Blue Dogs Are Trying To Sell Some Especially Heinous Candidates This Cycle-- Aided By The DCCC
On Friday the Wall Street Journal covered the Oregon congressional primary pitting conservative Blue Dog incumbent Kurt Schrader against...
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