How cool was that, firedoggies? Wednesday afternoon, Connecticut Senator and presidential candidate Christopher Dodd vlogged at FireDogLake about his Amendment to this summer's Defense Authorization Bill. We had a great dialogue, thanks to your terrific questions, Dodd Squad blogger Matt Browner-Hamlin's excellent reading of our questions, and Senator Dodd's thoughtful and considered responses. For me, [...]

Sincerely. Before you took office, I was consumed by my own short-sighted personal interests and left political activism to others. After all, in the grand scheme of things, my vote and voice meant very little, and besides, I had to "put food on the family". But in the 2000 election the vote was too close [...]

One of the many lessons that we all should learn from the last election cycle is the importance of local involvement in elections.  One of the great ways that this was accomplished outside the regular avenues of state party apparatus and national interest groups is through folks like all of us standing up, individually and [...]

Just a few quick thoughts about the netroots' year in review.  The following ideas are in no particular order, and I make no pretense that this is an exhaustive review.  This is just the stuff off the top of my head.  I'll also try to identify some areas for continuing growth. My point here is [...]

Something has been on my mind since Wednesday, and I can't hold it in any longer.  In the rush of all the credit-grabbing and the scramble to attach another layer of power base to various factions and whatnot, something very important has gotten lost in the shuffle. The Democratic victories last Tuesday were a result [...]

  Lest there be any confusion about where Chuck Schumer stands with regard to you in the grassroots, gentle reader, we have this from Ruppert Murdoch's New York Post to go along with Chuck throwing Howard Dean under the bus on Worst Person in the World Bill O'Reilly's show on Murdoch's Fox News.  If there [...]

Others have weighed in on James Carville's weird, desperate statements regarding Howard Dean, so I might as well.  Carville said: Some big name Democrats want to oust DNC Chairman Howard Dean, arguing that his stubborn commitment to the 50-state strategy and his stinginess with funds for House races cost the Democrats several pickup opportunities. The [...]

(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) You choose:  Change?  Or more of the same unchecked, unaccountable "leadership" from George Bush?  Some actual oversight — or a reward for the Republican party that fired the Inspector General charged with providing oversight for war profiteering in Iraq?  Something better or more of the same?  In my mind, it's a clear [...]

No time for speeches.  No time for analysis.  No time to do anything but execute our agenda on the ground and get voters to the polls next Tuesday.   If you missed all the great discussion and advice from last week's thread, you might want to take a peek.  We have a bunch of awesome people [...]

You can find previous entries from our Blue Army series, our get out the vote, pre-election organizing sprint to the finish line, here.  To help us overcome or at least diminish the Republican advantage in voter organizing, we need your help these next few days, if you can offer it.  It's easy.  My local race [...]