Perry Bacon Jr.’s notably mediocre article on the netroots in Time.com contains what I believe to be the first traditional media reference to the Roots Project.
What’s more, the Netroots are, paradoxically, attempting to maximize their effectiveness by going off-line. MoveOn is organizing its members to make a combined 5 million phone calls before Election Day, […]

Matt and I help produce the weekly podcast for the Roots Project. Today we are remembering 9/11 with pieces by bloggers and commenters, including Pachacutec, Taylor Marsh, TRex and yours truly.
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For those of you who missed it yesterday, I wrote this post for FireDogLake’s weekly book salon. I thought I’d reproduce it here for Emboldened’s readers who may have missed it. Here’s a link to the discussion of this post and 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the Right on FireDogLake.

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The democracy of France, hampered in its course or abandoned to its lawless passions, has overthrown whatever crossed its path and has shaken all that it has not destroyed. Its empire has not been gradually introduced or peaceably established, but it has constantly advanced in the midst of the disorders and the agitations of a […]

I will be guest posting at FireDogLake this afternoon and prompting the discussion for the FDL Book Salon. We’ll be talking about 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Fight The Right. The discussion will focus on why we fight for our progressive values and what we can do on our own to influence change. […]

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Yesterday Roots Project members, along with readers of FireDogLake, MyDD, and Crooks & Liars swung […]

“Little” Larry Stillings is running for Texas state legislature (122nd District - I have no clue where that is) and has a blog that a Roots Project member referred me to early today. This passage, written by Comm-D, one of Stillings’ bloggers, is a tremendously powerful look at what traditional values make marriage important.
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One of the traits shared by many causes is the uphill struggle that they face. Change in a country defined by its inertia is difficult and often requires years and years of work. No one understands this better than Al Gore, and no one has captured the man’s personal crusade better than Billmon. […]

If you’re reading this you are literate. You can call me Captain Obvious.
No, if you’re reading this you’re probably someone who reads progressive writing because it resonates with you. You probably react to much of the traditional media’s output with a sneer of disgust and then return happily to your amateur blogger rantings […]

David Grossman of PoliticsTV has banged out a great, funny video of our action in DC yesterday. Let’s just say I seem to have added the comic relief yesterday, which proves that on a long enough time span, with enough video footage of me, I can be comic relief. Sort of.We also learned that my […]