Howie Klein

Today in the FDL discussion of the victory in Mississippi yesterday, people were wondering about the progressive commitment not just to "more Democrats" but to "more and better Democrats." One might ask, better than what, of course, but one thing liberals know we want are more Democrats like Donna Edwards, genuine and energized progressive leaders. Can reactionary Republicans (basically all of them) and reactionary Democrats be held accountable for the Iraq catastrophe and for the de-funding and the disabling of the federal regulatory agencies?

I have a dream. It isn't as worthy or as grand as someone else's but it's my dream. It's based on the 1936 congressional elections. The reactionary, obstructionist Republicans were reduced to 16 seats in the U.S. Senate. And in the House the reactionary, obstructionist Republicans were reduced to 88 seats (which was 20%).

Live interview with Congressional candidate Ed Fallon of Iowa

Live interview with Debbie Cook, Mayor of Huntington Beach, who is challenging incumbent Dana Rohrabacher this fall in California's 46th District.

No guest today-- and no Blue America endorsement. Or, let's put it another way. Both candidates running in the Oregon Democratic primary are so excellent-- and so much better than the rubber stamp incumbent-- that Blue America is eager to get behind either one. We're happy to leave that up to Oregon Democrats to decide.

Live interview with Congressional candidate Larry Joe Doherty of Texas

Live interview with Congressional candidate Joe Garcia of Florida.

It would be hard to imagine anything more politically satisfying than seeing Bush's #1 Senate obstructionist, Mitch McConnell, defeated in his re-election bid this November. Live interview with Democratic challenger Greg Fischer.

I had hoped to introduce Martin Heinrich as our newest Blue America candidate last Saturday but, fortunately, he was busy winning the New Mexico Democratic Pre-Primary convention. Among the five hopefuls running for the seat (NM-01) being abandoned by corrupt Bush rubber stamp Heather Wilson, Martin got 56.4% of the vote....

Artwork by Adam Fox for Blue America.Yesterday we celebrated that the Democratic leadership in the House was able to hold nearly the whole caucus together to pass an updated FISA law stripping out Bush's absurd and venal demands for retroactive immunity. And they managed to do that even after nearly two dozen of them had written a letter to the Speaker telling her that they demanded the opportunity to go on