[FDL is pleased to welcome Tom Matzzie of MoveOn.org to chat with us about the work that MoveOn.org is doing with Americans United For Change to force elected officials to listen to the will of the majority of their constituents who want out of Iraq -- or go on record as supporting George Bush over the people [...]

(Beautiful spring blooms in Atlanta, via TranceMist.  Some gorgeous shots here for the flower lovers in the audience.) [Bumping this up so everyone sees it:  Howie Klein has some news:  "Today Blue America is going off schedule to accomodate Congressman Jerry Nadler. As much as I hate changing times– we'll have him at 8am PT/11am [...]

  Shorter me:  here's the beta for the Roots Project we've already built with volunteer effort.  It's not debugged, fully functional or ready for prime time, but I'm showing it to you anyway, so you can get a loose idea of what we're after:  a social networking site for people with progressive values, allowing them [...]

I have some news on a couple of fronts, and I want to ask you readers to help with your actions: First, I want to applaud John Edwards' call yesterday for people to push their members of Congress to just say "no" to Bush's escalation in Iraq, and even more, against Iran and Syria. Senator [...]

  When we watch the election results on Tuesday, understand that we are watching three political machines at war with each other.    People commonly believe we have a basic two-party system, but we really have a three party system.  Each party machine has its own core constituency, its own philosophy of government and its [...]

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 [...]

George Stern, organizer of Do More Than Vote  This is the young organizer who's been running circles around more established hands when it comes to building new infrastructure to help people at the grassroots of progressive America get active and make a difference together.  In a moment, I'm going to let Drinking Liberally co-founder Justin [...]

The opinion polls say we have an advantage, but none of it is real unless we close the deal.  With just 26 days til the election, it's time to act.  There's no turning back. In a minute, I'd like you to hear from FDL community member and regular commenter, Nefarious Leslie, on her experiences with [...]

(Welcome to our new weekly feature at this time on Thursday afternoons, between now and the election:  Blue Army.) I see Christy wrote a very nice post this morning sweetly suggesting you help get out the vote this Fall.  Christy is your blog Mom and she loves you.  She makes muffins and plants flowers and [...]

This is what Republican "values" look like:  torture and sexual perversion.  Digby has a great post up (how often have I typed those words?) about the necessary maturation of the netroots into a ideological movement, overcoming its sometime conceit that we have no political ideology beyond winning and throwing Republicans out. The fight this past [...]