In The Long Run, Blue Dogs And New Dems Can Be Worse Than Republicans When conservatives are allowed to appropriate the word “moderate”...

Bonus: The American Housing Crisis Yesterday, Gallup’s Justin McCarthy reported that Americans— especially Democrats— have gotten more...

If you’re old like me, you may recall Newt Gingrich's 1996 GOPAC memo, “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.” Ring a bell?It was...

The any-blue-will-do drumbeat has begun— from the DCCC and from the DCCC-minded. Most of the candidates in the DCCC’s Red to Blue program...

But People Are Freaking Out That The City Has Turned Right I washed up in San Francisco after a few years of living in a van, driving...

I’ve been speaking with dedicated West Virginia progressive, Zach Shrewsbury— politically a Bernie kind of guy, not a Joe Manchin kind of...

She Helped Refocus The Democratic Party Establishment I’ve followed Dianne Feinstein’s career since she was a member of the San Francisco...

When the 1930 elections came around, the Republicans were still in control of both chambers. The effects of the Great Depression that...

Earlier today, we looked at David Graham’s assertion that the Democratic Party is now the conservative party. He didn’t talk about the...

The other day, when I was researching some background for the post on Oklahoma Superintendent of Schools, Ryan Walters, a neo-Nazi...

Sure, McCarthy And Ricchetti Are Pieces Of Shit, But Biden's The Caitiff Default countdown— 8 days? Biden seems fine with caving to GOP...

The Louisiana legislature isn’t exactly an hotbed of progressivism. The state Senate has just 12 Democrats and 27 Republicans (a red...

This morning, conservative types who still bother reading the Wall Street Journal were jabbering about there editorial on the GOP’s...

The Battle Over Judge Hector LaSalle The New York Times has continued shilling for Gov. Kathy Hochul and her choice of conservative...

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...

The most evil of the Republican PACs is AIPAC’s United Democracy Project (plus their associated Democratic Majority for Israel), not just...

The Democratic Party Is Self-Destructing At The Worst Possible Time Yesterday, if you got past my reminiscences about my early...

When I first heard of AIPAC, in the late 1960s, it was a non-partisan group that seemed to lean heavily towards the Democrats. A lot has...

When the Democrats in the New York state legislature made their ridiculous gerrymander blunder, on of their stupidest moves was to turn...

There will be plenty of entertaining primaries to watch tomorrow-- the 3-way shit show among Republicans vying to go up against John...