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Meet Richard Watkins, North Carolina Progressive Running In An Open Blue Congressional District
Although North Carolina's congressional map is a mess and far from finalized, Dr. Richard Watkins is running for the seat that David...

Howie Klein
Feb 9, 20226 min read
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Good News For Democrats In The Redistricting Front-- Courts Caught GOP Cheating
Late yesterday, the North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the legislative and congressional maps as an unconstitutional partisan...

Howie Klein
Feb 5, 20226 min read
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It Will Be Fantastic To Have Donna Edwards Back In Congress
Donna Edwards was one of the first candidates Blue America endorsed (2006). She ran against a corrupt conservative-- Al Wynn-- who...

Howie Klein
Feb 3, 20222 min read
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Congressional Endorsement Alert In Georgia: Vincent Fort
Last month Meredith Lee, writing for Politico, tip-toed around the fact that Blue Dog reactionary David Scott is not just on the...

Howie Klein
Feb 3, 20223 min read
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Corporate Knives Are Out For Marie Newman-- The Smear Campaign Has Begun
A conservative smear operation is blasting away at Marie Newman, financed by the same pack of GOP-slimedogs who have financed all the...

Howie Klein
Feb 2, 20222 min read
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Which Democraps Killed Single Payer In California (Besides Newsom)?
Yesterday, there was a clear implication in a post about the death of California's single-payer bill that the mess could be lain at the...

Howie Klein
Feb 2, 20223 min read
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New York's Disgraceful Gerrymander-- Great For Democrats, Terrible For America
There are 8 Republicans in the New York delegation to Congress right now-- Zeldin and Garbarino on Long Island, Malliotakis on Staten...

Howie Klein
Jan 31, 20226 min read
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Blue America Endorsed Kylie Taitano For Congress Today (San Diego)
Inafa’maolek It's our duty to find excellent candidates like Kylie Taitano but it's especially wonderful when we get a really good...

Howie Klein
Jan 30, 20228 min read
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With Katko Retiring, There Are 7 Conservatives Running Against Progressive Steven Holden
I'm reluctant to spend too much time writing about the New York State congressional races because the state legislature is still working...

Howie Klein
Jan 26, 20225 min read
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Will Biden Turn Things Around Before The Democrats Get Their Asses Kicked In November? Doubtful
With the demise of the transformative and extremely popular Build Back Better Act, the Democrats have almost nothing to campaign on but...

Howie Klein
Jan 24, 20224 min read
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Denver Endorsement Alert: Neal Walia For Congress
Colorado's first congressional district-- basically Denver-- is the most progressive in the state-- D+24. The voters there were smart...

Howie Klein
Jan 23, 20227 min read
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Setting The Gay Record Straight-- LGBTQ Caucus Responds To Robert Garcia's Lies
Last week, Blue America endorsed Cristina Garcia for the seat to represent SELA and Long Beach (CA-42). I alerted some of the members of...

Howie Klein
Jan 21, 20226 min read
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And Speaking Of Ratings...
Most Americans are unfamiliar with the big name politicians we discuss daily here at DWT. For example, name recognition for the putative...

Howie Klein
Jan 19, 20222 min read
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Tom Winter On America's Rural Housing Crisis
Tom Winter and I have been discussing the rural housing crisis in western Montana for 3 years, when he was a state legislator trying to...

Howie Klein
Jan 18, 20224 min read
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Any Blue Will Do? No... Especially Not During Primary Season
A case can be made that there are worse Democrats in the House than corrupt Oregon reactionary Kurt Schrader, a prominent Blue Dog. But...

Howie Klein
Jan 17, 20226 min read
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Endorsement Alert: Cristina Garcia-- A Proven Progressive Takes On An Establishment-Backed DINO
With both Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) retiring from safe Blue districts-- Trump lost CA-40 with just 20.6%...

Howie Klein
Jan 16, 20227 min read
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Gerrymandered Ohio Congressional Maps Thrown Out By State Supreme Court
Ohio voters made their voices heard loud and clear in 2018 when they were permitted to vote on the state's notorious gerrymandering and...

Howie Klein
Jan 14, 20223 min read
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McCarthy Promises That If Republicans Win The Majority, He Will Get "Revenge" Against Dems
The most recent YouGov poll for The Economist (last week), showed several things about the political parties that might impact the...

Howie Klein
Jan 11, 20222 min read
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Trouble In Paradise
MAGA World in Alabama and North Carolina are having problems beyond spiking COVID cases in vulnerable communities filled with...

Howie Klein
Jan 10, 20225 min read
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2 Strategies For Winning The Midterms-- Democrats Need BOTH, Not One Or The Others
In his NY Times column today, Ezra Klein used Tufts political scientist Eitan Hersh to define "real political work"-- as opposed to...

Howie Klein
Jan 10, 20226 min read
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