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I like this a lot more than having to debate the dissemblers of the status quo on teevee: hanging out and meeting the amazing volunteers who make up the political revolution. I had that great privilege yesterday morning in Ely, Nevada. A short report from the ground before I depart this morning to my next […]

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I ran into a well-known super-delegate a few days ago as we crossed paths doing some media stuff (I’m only leaving her name out of this for now because it’s not the point of the story). We chit-chatted and I raised the issue of the potential undemocratic nature of super-delegates undercutting the actual vote of […]

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To me this was a defining moment. Bernie Sanders firmly, clearly, rejected the idea that Henry Kissinger is anyone he would look to for foreign policy advice. Kissinger is a war criminal. He should have been indicted and imprisoned for breaking the law and directing the secret bombing of Cambodia. More, and, yes, this is […]

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It’s not accurate to refer to the Clintons as one-percenters. Actually, they are in the fraction of one percenters who are far wealthier than just a person who makes into the one-percent. And now we learn that since 2001, the Clintons have been paid $153 million–$153 MILLION in speaking fees—including $2.225 million from Goldman Sachs […]

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For a long time, I have said that as progressives (and, by the way, I know what my definition of a progressive is), we should ***defend*** the status quo candidate about the nonsense about her emails. I said this before Bernie made his epic “Enough with the damn emails” statement during the Democratic debate because, […]

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Day two on the voyage is Martin Luther King’s  Birthday. It’s actually, traditionally, been a service day in Iowa when people go to churches, community centers and the like to volunteer—but campaign events per se are light. Bernie arrives tomorrow in the state for a series of rallies starting in Fort Dodge. I’ll be there. […]

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begin today a three-week road trip for Bernie speaking for him in Iowa, then, Nevada for a few days in the rural areas around Reno, back to Iowa for the final week, then, the day after the Iowa caucuses headed to New Hampshire. I’m hoping to do at least one report per day but, you […]

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Forget what you read from this day on about the polls and the pundits and the status quo rhetoric. It’s over in Iowa and New Hampshire…and the status quo knows it. The Moveon endorsement—which VL Baker write about here—coupled with the enthusiasm we’ve already seen on the ground in Iowa for many weeks, which I […]

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I’m putting this story up from The New York Times because it reflects what I hear and see on the ground, as I begin a three-week trip on the campaign trail to speak for Bernie (today I’m heading to New Hampshire through Saturday, then, Iowa right to caucus day, and then, Feb 2nd back to […]

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Along the long list of claims obscured by magic dust the status quo candidate regularly sprays around—the you-have-to-be-drunk-to-believe her sudden opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (a trade deal she once called the “gold standard” which, I wager, would be a “gold standard” again at the appropriate time, with a change of 10 words and […]

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