Here in the Delany family, we’re generally not ones to think small — and my father is the prime example. An inveterate inventor who couldn’t stop playing with ideas if he tried, he’s come up with some fascinating tools that...
Welcome to DC, Tea Partiers in town for the Glenn Beckathon in the Mall Saturday! DCist prepared the map below to show you where you’ll feel “comfortable” in the area, based on a handy online guide from a Maine TP group. Stick to...
Also published on The Huffington Post Back in the day, a “sit-in” meant just that — taking over a physical space with physical bodies to make a political point. But the visibility of social media means that sit-ins aren’t...
This article originally appeared on September 20th of last year but is even more relevant following today’s announcement that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the doors to direct political contributions by corporations and labor unions. The...
Republican Scott Brown didn’t have much when he started running for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, but he did have himself and the internet: The fundamental dynamic of the race fell in place months ago, when Brown set off in a pickup truck...
Looking for something substantive to read over the three-day weekend? Check out Ari Melber’s new analysis of Organizing For America, the successor to the Obama campaign’s grassroots list, published over at tPrez and produced in...
Earlier in the week, we saw how Charles Lenchner is using the document hosting/distribution site Posterus to help track MoveOn.org emails, and already we get to check out another cool advocacy-related way to put the site to use, in this case by Josh...
Also published on The Huffington Post and techPresident Are Democrats doomed in 2010, with an energized Republican Party capitalizing on a backlash against a young president’s ambitious agenda to seize control of Congress a la 1994? Not likely...
Also published on techPresident Just off a conference call to promote Obama campaign manager David Plouffe’s new (and so-far excellent) book about the 2008 race, which I’m currently about 3/4 of the way through — more about that...
A small example of the extent to which our political rhetoric has become completely unhinged: when my parents were flying to Virginia for my younger brother’s wedding last week, they ended up chatting with one of the flight attendants, a woman...