The Kansas Democratic Party Practices Sophistry to Refute Me. Let me Retort.
A few days ago, I wrote a diary noting that the Kansas Democratic Party had driven itself to near extinction. This diary ended up getting quite a bit of attention around Kansas - leading numerous...
View ArticleKansas C!U!A! Event: Your County Party. Organizing Kansas
The question I've been asked after my dressing down of what went wrong in Kansas is how do we really fix this? How do we build a party that makes people want to invest time and effort into it? How do...
View ArticleHow Climate Hawks Vote lost, and won, in Michigan.
Climate Hawks Vote launched in June 2014 with the goal of electing candidates who grasp the magnitude of the climate crisis. The fall 2014 elections would be our first test of an explicitly political...
View ArticleHow We Lost the Minnesota House
I was a 3rd tier candidate in an R+8 district, a pawn recruited by the majority leader to keep a republican incumbent busy and blowing money instead of helping his fellow republican state house...
View ArticlePost-election observations Minnesota-centric
This is largely Minnesota-centric, since that's where I helped with campaigns and I'm a local Democratic Party chair, but I know there are politics geeks who like getting into how things work in other...
View ArticleWhy Minnesota Did Better and Why National Democrats Lost
If you look at Yougov survey of state rankings, then you will see that Minnesota is ranked 18th in scoring on progressive issues. Minnesota was behind Wisconsin and Michigan. Yet Minnesota is doing...
View ArticleDiary of a City Council Candidate #16 - I won!
Me voting! (photo by daughter on her iPhone) Running a campaign is hard. Being the candidate is even harder. This diary is a summary of the final days before the election, election night, and my final...
View ArticleElectoral Fraud in Maine Today: Ballotgate II (UPDATE)
First a little history: back in '92, the year Clinton was first elected, there was a scandal in Augusta, Maine on election night when an aide to Democratic Speaker of the House, John Martin, was caught...
View ArticleBallotgate II: What Happened When the Ballots Were in State Police Custody?
This is a follow up diary to one I wrote 3 days ago about what has all the appearances of a blatant case of ballot box stuffing by one or more GOP operatives in Maine last month. Please read that diary...
View ArticleBallotgate II: It's Worse Than We Thought
Hello again, this is the third installment of my chronicling of the events surrounding both criminal ballot tampering that was revealed in a recount of Maine's District 25 Senate race last month, and...
View ArticleWant to send a Message to Sellout Democrats? There's only One Way.
I first became politically active here in my "red" mountain North Carolina County in 1990 (the first Harvey Gantt vs Jesse Helms race). At that time, the local Democratic and Republican parties were in...
View ArticleDKos community can be proud of its many progressive achievements in 2014
The triumphant smiles of Doug, Jesse & Catherine Snodgrass at Jesse's high school graduation While reading dsnodgrass's recent diary thanking the Daily Kos community for helping his family, it...
View ArticleAsked to run for office...
In a turn of events that I never would have expected, my local Democratic Party county chair has asked me to consider running for town council. There are very few elected Democrats in our area, so...
View ArticleThe Mechanism from which "more and better Democrats" will Rise
I was prompted to write this diary by a certain beloved Dailykos muckitty-muck, after I wrote to him to inform him of this news. And that news is...drumroll please: I ran for, and won, a position on...
View ArticleKansas Democrats Find Their Chair
There are very few jobs in a party that take more punches to the gut with less reward than the position of Kansas State Democratic Party Chair. It's an unpaid position that requires the person that...
View ArticleBrownback's Budget Moves - 4AM Vote Passes With Minimum
At 4:05AM, after a suspension of the rules, the Kansas House finally cast the deciding vote on a bill that Governor Brownback had begged them to pass. The bill, which the house had noted fell...
View ArticleThe amazing story of how the Daily Kos community helped me win a state...
Hi everyone, I’m Leanne Krueger-Braneky, a proud progressive Democrat. On August 4th, I was elected to represent the 161st Legislative District in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.First, I want to thank...
View ArticleKansas Democratic Party Chair Resigns as Democratic Gathering Begins in Wichita
Kansas Democratic Party Chairman Larry Meeker has resigned, according to party sources. Meeker, a former Mayor of Lake Quivira was named party chair at the yearly Washington Days organizing event in...
View ArticleIt's Time for Some Real Talk. How Republicans Grab Statehouses.
Today, many Democrats are focused on the happenings in Virginia, Houston & Kentucky. For those that receive DCCC emails, you have of course already received the messages of "We are losers"...
View ArticleGet Thee to a Campaign Training. I did. Michigan Open Thread.
Campaigning for Democrats, not just knocking on doors. Last weekend I attended a Train To Win event for candidates and campaign managers sponsored by the local county Democratic Party , and I learned...
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