John Boehner Belongs On TV
Help us keep Boehner in front of his constituents. No one makes the case better than he does about how ill-suited he is for any kind of political leadership. Yesterday Blue America and the Americans...
View ArticleBoehner Pops His Head Up Again-- Blue America Responds
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View ArticleWhy Bother Dredging Up NAFTA Again?
Everyday, the drunken orange golfer who would be Speaker stumbles around the country braying "Where are the jobs, Mr. President?" The answer should be really clear: "you shipped them overseas, you...
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Virginia Foxx and The "W" Word... Plus Darrell Issa... And Nigeria
Help send her back to North Carolina permanently by clicking on her noseLook at that picture. Think about the outrageous, harmful behavior and extreme positions. I think I've been extraordinarily...
View ArticleTwo Kinds Of Democrats-- The Ones With Courage And Heart And... The Cowardly...
An odd-- only Inside-the-Beltway-- juxtaposition of headlines when we woke up this morning: from Gallup we get Americans OK Allowing Tax Cuts For Wealthy To Expire and from The Hill we get Momentum...
View ArticleBilly Kennedy: Tax Cuts For The Middle Class/Virginia Foxx: Tax Cuts For The...
Earlier today we asked you to consider helping us get our Virginia Foxx ad on TV in northwestern North Carolina. Several people have asked me to contrast Foxx with the Democrat running for the seat she...
View ArticleForeclosure Crisis-- Who's Got Your Back, Alan Grayson Or Taliban Dan Webster?
Last week we learned that, under intense pressure from Congressman Alan Grayson and other determined congressional and executive watchdogs, Bank of America decided to join banksters JPMorgan Chase and...
View ArticleSteve King, An Iowa Republican Hypocrite Sent To Plague America
When Blue America asked our supporters to pick the worst congressman in the country for an ad, loudmouthed Iowa reactionary Steve King was a finalist. In the end Virginia Foxx won and the ad is...
View ArticleHow Will Candidates Spend Last Minute Contributions That Come In Today And...
If you've been pumping iron at a Gold's Gym-- or, for that matter, sleeping at an Omni Hotel-- you've helped pay for thousands and thousands of vicious and distorted attack ads against progressive...
View ArticleBlue America Has A First Congressional Candidate For 2012-- Meet Nicholas...
Although Blue Dog honcho Heath Shuler and ex-Blue Dog DCCC honcho Steve Israel are running around Florida looking for conservative Democrats to run for the GOP-held congressional seats that were lost...
View ArticleCongressman Leonard Lance is Deceiving New Jersey Families-- A Guest Post By...
New Jersey’s Representative Leonard Lance was caught red-handed tricking voters into believing he isn’t taking government healthcare because he opted out of the federal plan, but in fact he is taking...
View ArticleWhy Debra Bowen?
The race for the Democratic nomination to replace Blue Dog warmonger Jane Harman in CA-36 is a very tough one for Blue America. Instead of voters having to pick the lesser of two evils, as in most...
View ArticleDan Lipinski's Reactionary Record Draws Him A Primary Opponent
If you're not from Chicagoland you probably haven't heard of John Atkinson (yet). If you do live around the Windy City there's a chance you remember the full page ad (here) from last year, which ran in...
View ArticleKevin Yoder (R-KS)-- New Heights In Hypocrisy
On February 21 the University Daily Kansan published a q&a by Clayton Ashley with newly famous alum, Congressman Kevin Yoder. Yoder made the jump from state Rep to U.S. Congressman less than a week...
View ArticleMeet Jeff Gardner (D-NJ)
Perhaps you've picked up on some commotion in the zeitgeist over a guy named Jeff Gardner running in a primary in New Jersey against the state Senate Majority Whip. Wondering what all the fuss is about?
View ArticleBlue America Endorses Ed Potosnak for 2012
This afternoon at 2pm (ET) Blue America is hosting a live chat with New Jersey Democratic congressional candidate Ed Potosnak at Crooks and Liars. If you're not raptured by then, please join us for the...
View ArticleSo What's Wrong With Ed Case? Is He Really Worse Than Joe Lieberman? ...Tom...
Thursday, when Hawaii's stellar progressive congresswoman, Mazie Hirono, announced her intention to run for the seat being vacated by her friend and ally Daniel Akaka, we dashed off a quick post that...
View ArticleKrugman Reiterates: Ryan Is A Flimflam Man
Yes, this morning Krugman brought back his classic description of Ryan from August, 2010: The Flimflam Man. Back then he was mortified that Beltway pundits had bought the Wall Street spin that Ryan was...
View ArticleBlue America Welcomes Wisconsin Heroes Sandy Pasch & Chris Larson
You'd have to be living under a rock not to know there's a battle in Wisconsin that's crucial for the whole progressive movement and for the future of our country. That's why Blue America started a new...
View ArticleIlya Sheyman For Illinois-- A Green Day Signed Guitar For You?
Looking for the silver lining in the passage of the Boehner debt ceiling bill?There is none.But there are some bright spots we can look to amid the current Tea Party madness. That's what Blue America...
View ArticleJohn Waltz At Blue America Today
You know what I love for Blue America? When we find a perfect candidate and he or she is running against a perfect villain. Michigan's 6th district offers us just that combination this cycle and I want...
View ArticleSneak Attack In Iowa
Our friends in Iowa need help-- and they need it badly. Progressive Kick sounded the alarm today:The Republicans have mounted a sneak attack-- trying to send Iowa down the same terrible road as...
View ArticleChris Donovan Is Doing In Connecticut What We Need Congress To Do In DC
The last paragraph of this post has an opportunity to win a rare, fully autographed Van Halen poster. But first, the important part:As Congress (more on them below) remains stuck in neutral on a jobs...
View ArticleGuest Post From Franke Wilmer (D-MT)
Earlier today at Down With Tyranny, we ran a post about the Montana congressional race. Perhaps looking for an excuse to not spend her entire day doing call time, the progressive candidate in the race,...
View ArticleFred Upton Has To Decide-- Is He More Incompetent Or More Corrupt?
For all I can I can tell, economist and author David Korten may have never heard of Michigan plutocrat Fred Upton. I haven't noticed that he's mentioned Upton in his newest book, Agenda For A New...
View ArticleBlue America Welcomes Back Our Old Friend Ann Kuster
Ann Kuster is running in New Hampshire and her campaign is financed by actual people, not Romney people, not corporate special interests looking for government handouts,
View ArticleEd Potosnak Wants YOU To Pick A Pro-Environment Candidate He Should Give His...
As you may have read by now, New Jersey progressive candidate Ed Potosnak withdrew his challenge to Leonard Lance yesterday to take a job as the executive director of the New Jersey League of...
View ArticlePennsylvania Has A Candidate From The Democratic Wing Of The Democratic...
In the 2010 cycle Blue America backed Sheila Dow-Ford against reactionary Pennsylvania Blue Dog Tim Holden. 2010 was a conservative year and Holden won. Since then, he has voted (on crucial roll calls)...
View ArticleBlue America Welcomes Back An Old Friend: Darcy Burner
At 11am PT today, Darcy will be over at Digby's Hullabaloo to talk with Digby about fixing Congress and answer questions from readers about her run for Congress. Back in 2006, when Blue America was...
View ArticleIn Albuquerque There's Just One Progressive Democrat We Can Count On To Fight...
In the race for Congress in New Mexico’s open blue First CD, only one candidate stands out as a true progressive fighter for the 99%: Eric Griego. That's why he was one of the first candidates anywhere...
View ArticleTom Reed Has Refused To Disassociate Himself From The Vicious Racism Of His...
Do you think racism is only something you find in rural parts of Georgia and Texas? Think again. WYSL (1040 AM) is in the Rochester, NY area and owned by Bob Savage and Judith Day. They run a Hate Talk...
View ArticleMeet Jim Graves, The Democrat Taking On Bachmann
With Bachmann's latest attention seeking stunt and lurch towards pure McCarthyism, people are asking who Jim Graves is, the Democratic nominee for MN-06, the district just north and west of the Twin...
View ArticleAusterity Vs Prosperity
Normally on Tuesdays we introduce a new Blue America candidate. But this week we're concentrating on the responses our candidates have to Austerity. In short, the response is... Prosperity. Like I said...
View ArticleEric Clapton, B.B. King And... Patsy Keever
Get in the mood with this Eric Clapton/B.B. King duet, "Help the Poor" from Riding With the King'cause this is going to take some 'spainin' and I don't have Bill Clinton around to do it. Or just cut...
View ArticleScripted Candidate’s Unscripted Train Wreck-- Must WATCH Video
Toledo Mayoral Candidate and current Lucas County Auditor Anita Lopez works hard to come across as well spoken and educated about her community. She works so hard that she has to have her campaign...
View ArticleAlan Grayson's 4th of July Message To Blue America
Blue America has had a long relationship with Alan Grayson, going back to his very first campaign when all the insiders said he had no chance to win the primary and then, after he won it, no chance to...
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