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Ever Think About Why A Conservative Decides To Identify As A Democrat?
Kinzinger's Been Voting Blue... Will He Join The Party? Should Dems Welcome Him? Starting with FDR’s presidency one would describe the...
Howie Klein
Jan 55 min read
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Being A Fence Jumper Is Far From Tulsi Gabbard's Biggest Roadblock To Senate Confirmation
The most right-wing House Democrats founded the Blue Dogs in 1995. Many of them eventually jumped the fence and joined the GOP, including...
Howie Klein
Dec 7, 20245 min read
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The Big Realignment: How Many Core Values Are The Democratic Party Establishment Willing To Give Up?
Is Lesser Of Two Evils Good Enough For You? The DCCC has gotten behind some really horrible characters this cycle— in some cases even...
Howie Klein
Oct 17, 20243 min read
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The Sad Cowardice Of Republican Elected Officials Claiming In Public They're Going To Vote For Trump
MAGA Over America? On Monday, longtime Wisconsin GOP propagandist, Charlie Sykes, today a NeverTrumper, wrote a column for MSNBC about...
Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20244 min read
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Scott Perry Might Be The Only GOP Nazi Who Can Be Defeated— But The DCCC Is Running A Republican
Stelson Switched Registration At The Same Time She Declared Her Candidacy Scott Perry behaves— on the floor and off— as though he were in...
Howie Klein
Oct 9, 20243 min read
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Vibes Are Good, But Sometimes It Also Takes Doing The Hard Grunt Work To Win Elections
And Vibes Won't Win Florida For Kamala In 2008, Florida was a key in the Obama victory strategy. His people had made up their minds to...
Howie Klein
Sep 30, 20247 min read
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July's Lesser Of 2 Evils Election Landslide In The U.K. Is Already Giving Britons Second Thoughts
Everyone Hates Sir Keir— Including England's Kyrsten Sinema, Who Just Quit Labour I was happy to see the Conservatives get their heads...
Howie Klein
Sep 29, 20244 min read
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And You Thought Jared Golden Was The Only MAGA-Democrat? What 'Til You Get A Load Of Gloria Romero
Anti-Union Charter School Shill Jumps The Fence Gloria Romero was a California state Senator from 2001 to 2010 when the San Gabriel...
Howie Klein
Sep 6, 20243 min read
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Some People Just Do Not Care That History Will Supposedly Remember...
And History Doesn't Really Much More Than The Headlines Anyway There are two kinds of Republicans— the ones who stand with Trump and the...
Howie Klein
Aug 26, 20249 min read
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Always Happy To See Conservatives Turn Against Trump— But Doesn't Make Them Democratic Party Leaders
It doesn’t matter to me if they’re Republicans or Democrats, I have— and have always had— a great deal of animus towards conservatives....
Howie Klein
Aug 24, 20244 min read
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John Giles: “The Republican Party Has Been Taken Over By Extremists” David French: “Fuck Shit Piss”
NY Times columnist David French is a right-wing religious fanatic and an anti-Choice, homophobic nut from Alabama who was also one of...
Howie Klein
Aug 12, 20244 min read
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California Democrats Are Better Off Without Conservative State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil
The California legislature has Democratic super majorities in both Houses but progressives have it difficult to mass significant...
Howie Klein
Aug 9, 20243 min read
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There Are Reasons That Conservatives Call Themselves "Moderates" Instead Of What They Really Are
In The Long Run, Blue Dogs And New Dems Can Be Worse Than Republicans When conservatives are allowed to appropriate the word “moderate”...
Howie Klein
Jun 13, 20248 min read
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It's Fine That Conservatives Switch Party Registrations Because of Trump...
But That Doesn't Mean They Should Get Leadership Roles In The Democratic Party If you’ve been following our coverage of the flippable...
Howie Klein
May 25, 20244 min read
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New Congressional Candidate In Ohio-- Meet Jerrad Christian
OH-12 was drawn to elect Republicans. The partisan lean is R+34 and the incumbent, Troy Balderson, is the definition of a bland,...
Howie Klein
Nov 21, 20233 min read
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Anti-Fascist Conservative Republicans Are Flocking To The Democrats. Are They Bringing Conservatism?
And Economic Progressive Blue Collar Dems Are Going Over To the GOP I always get a good feeling when Obama’s former Solicitor General...
Howie Klein
Sep 22, 202320 min read
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Right-Wing Musical Chairs In The California Legislature... Focus On Contra Costa County
Suburban Contra Costa County sends two of the worst Democrats in the state to the legislature, state Sen. Steve Glazer and Assemblyman...
Howie Klein
Aug 19, 20232 min read
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How The Republicans Flipped A Blue Charlotte Seat To Win Complete Control Of The State Legislature
Was It Long-Covid Brain Malfunction? Sex? Tricia Cotham comes from an influential Democratic political family and got her start in...
Howie Klein
Jul 31, 20234 min read
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Another Pretend-Democrat Announces He's Running For Congress-- This One In Riverside County, CA
Riverside County— the 10th most populous county in the U.S.— is also one of the fastest-growing. There are 6 members of Congress who...
Howie Klein
May 12, 20234 min read
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A Look At The Comparative Psychology Of Progressive And Conservative Politicians
The Louisiana legislature isn’t exactly an hotbed of progressivism. The state Senate has just 12 Democrats and 27 Republicans (a red...
Howie Klein
Apr 12, 20236 min read
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