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Simple: When We Don't Support Progressives, We Wind Up With Corrupt Conservatives Running The Show
Katie Porter has been a solid progressive since getting into Congress and has done yeoman’s work in her area of expertise, far more so...

Howie Klein
Apr 13, 20243 min read


Democratic Party Politics In New York's North Country— A Chance To Hold Elise Stefanik Accountable
Fear and Loathing in NY In Spring 2023, the Democratic Party held their annual Rural Caucus meeting in Saratoga Springs, NY. The theme of...

Howie Klein
Mar 4, 20244 min read


Democratic Progressives Are Charlie Brown And The Party Is Lucy
-by Patrick Toomey Occasionally, one cartoon can summarize a long history of events. This Peanuts classic sums up, once again, how the...

Patrick Toomey
Jun 6, 20233 min read


Conservative Billionaires Corrupt The System-- & Are No Friends Of Progressives; Take Reid Hoffman
As promised earlier, there’s more from Theodore Schleifer today, although only tangentially connected to the FTX case. The connection...

Howie Klein
Mar 22, 20233 min read


NY Is Stuck With Kathy Hochul, Thanks To Andrew Cuomo, But Fortunately Not All Her Bad Decisions
Ever since New York’s Senate Judiciary Committee, rejected Hector LaSalle, the anti-Choice/anti-union conservative who Kathy Hochul and...

Howie Klein
Feb 18, 20232 min read


Corruption Is A Way Of Life In Congress-- It Is Bipartisan... And Progressives Do Not Fit In
Reactionary Centrism In the House last night there was a long series of votes on amendments to a Republican messaging bill to limit the...

Howie Klein
Jan 27, 20235 min read


Is There Something Progressives In Congress Could Learn From The Fascists?
How About Winning Tactics? A frequent and gratuitously negative DWT commenter noted yesterday that he’s “more worried that the democrap...

Howie Klein
Jan 8, 20237 min read


The Lesser Of 2 Evils & Top Down Politics Of The Democratic Establishment Offers False Hope
Let's Start On Long Island-- And End In Arizona The congressman from NY-03, Tom Suozzi, decided to run for governor against a meh...

Howie Klein
Dec 19, 20227 min read


Sean Patrick Maloney Is Still Running His Mouth, Further Demonstrating Why The Voters Rejected Him
The Democratic Party establishment is celebrating how well they did— except for the Democratic Party establishment that is blaming their...

Howie Klein
Nov 17, 20226 min read


Would You Clam On A Member Of Congress If There Was A Good Reason To?
New rule: any member of Congress who votes for the Manchin-Schumer deal to increase global warming can’t ever call themselves a...

Howie Klein
Sep 10, 20224 min read


Chuck Schumer’s Got His Head Up Joe Manchin’s Ass
Which House Dems Will Stand Firm Against Climate Catastrophe? Do “progressives” have the guts to block Joe Manchin’s proposal to make it...

Howie Klein
Sep 8, 20222 min read


Rachel Ventura: Tonight We Lit A Candle Of Hope!
A summary of Rachel Ventura’s upset victory in Illinois’ 43rd State Senate race and lessons learned for other grassroots candidates...

Howie Klein
Aug 28, 202215 min read


Both Parties Are Very Sick— Just Listen To Adam Kinzinger And Bernie Sanders
Adam Kinzinger was Jonathan Karl’s guest on This Week yesterday. The conservative Illinois Republican has so broken with his party that...

Howie Klein
Jul 25, 20225 min read


The Democratic Party Will Be Even Worse Off When It's Rid Of Biden
The word I kept hearing on the radio every time there was an item about Biden’s too-little-too-late half-assed attempt to pretend he kind...

Howie Klein
Jul 10, 20225 min read


It's Fine That The Conservative Dems Are Vanishing-- But They're Wrecking the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party Is Self-Destructing At The Worst Possible Time Yesterday, if you got past my reminiscences about my early...

Howie Klein
Jul 5, 20227 min read


Republicans Haven't Been Able To Shut Down The Progressive Movement-- Can Hakeem Jeffries & AIPAC?
Punchbowl’s Heather Caygle gave Hakeem Jeffries a free ad this morning. I’ll get to it in a moment. But first let me say it made me...

Howie Klein
Jul 1, 20225 min read


Hakeem Jeffries' War Against Progressives And Progressivism
I want you to look at this little box directly below from ProgressivePunch. It shows the two members of Congress who have the most...

Howie Klein
Jun 5, 20222 min read


I Don't Care About The GOP But Primary Campaign Financing Is Perverting The Democratic Party
Is The End Of Progressives In Government Nigh? Every electoral cycle has it's top sewer money villains-- dozens of single-purpose...

Howie Klein
Jun 3, 20228 min read


Pelosi's Putrid Hypocrisy & Opportunism Are On Display In South Texas
We still don't know who won the two progressive vs reactionary south Texas races-- TX-28 between reformist challenger Jessica Cisneros...

Howie Klein
May 31, 20226 min read


There's Something Seriously Wrong With Congressional Democratic Leadership
Tuesday's TX-28 primary runoff is far from over. There are still votes to be counted (and recounted, considering the mind-boggling degree...

Howie Klein
May 26, 20225 min read
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