Rep. Donna Edwards, PDA Endorsed Candidate

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Friday December 09, 2011 · 10:09 AM PST

2011/12/09 · 10:09

Rep. Donna Edwards represents Maryland’s Fourth Congressional District. She is the first African American woman from Maryland to serve in Congress. Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) supported her bids to unseat the incumbent in 2006 and 2008—the former a narrow-loss, the latter a resounding victory—and in her 2010 re-election campaign. She is a member of the PDA Advisory Board, and a leader on several progressive issues. Rep. Edwards sponsored a Constitutional Amendment to roll back corporate power. Daily Kos has also supported Rep. Edwards' campaigns, along with the National Organization for Women, MoveOn, Democracy for America, SEIU, and several other organizations and unions.

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Tuesday July 12, 2011 · 9:12 AM PDT

2011/07/12 · 09:12

Republicans hate earmarks, but they love loopholes. Even though loopholes are earmarks on steroids, Republicans and loopholes go together like big contributions and special favors in return for big contributions. Take former Republican Senate Leader and GOP 1996 Presidential Nominee Bob Dole. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, Dole repeatedly rigged the tax code to benefit his benefactors:

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Monday June 27, 2011 · 8:47 PM PDT

2011/06/27 · 20:47

Please join our call for equality!

United for Equality coalition members will be lobbying in the Senate Wednesday and Thursday this week. We need your support! Your calls will help raise awareness for the visits. Click here to make your calls (between 9 AM and 5 PM). See below for background information, and tips for a successful call, or read the helpful information at the link.

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Saturday June 25, 2011 · 1:35 PM PDT

2011/06/25 · 13:35

PDA National Board member, Tom Hayden writes:

The Kerry letter is an important step toward recognizing the importance of PDA and peace voters in general. I can’t think of a comparable letter from a leading Senator to such a peace group. PDA can and should open up a process of back-and-forth with the Kerry office and other Democratic officials. Kerry should be requested to broaden the invitations to testify to peace advocates who are experts on Afghanistan.... It would be impossible to turn around Afghanistan policy without John Kerry, the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee and former Vietnam veteran peace activist. The Fulbright hearings were the same opening during the midpoint of the Vietnam war. Read more and comment on PDA's blog.

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Should PDA and other progressives engage with Democrats like John Kerry?

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Should PDA and other progressives engage with Democrats like John Kerry?

Yes, Tom Hayden is right. We need them to end the war.

10 votes

Yes, might as well, but I don't expect much to happen.

6 votes

No, it's a complete waste of time.

1 vote

No, just thinking about Democrats makes me angry.

1 vote

Not sure / Don't know

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Senator Kerry Responds to PDA Letter Demanding Withdrawal from Afghanistan

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Thursday June 23, 2011 · 11:46 AM PDT

2011/06/23 · 11:46

After Progressive Democrats of America delivered more than 25,000 signatures to Senator John Kerry asking for a significant withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan beginning in July, the senator sent us the following email:

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How soon should the US begin a significant withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan?

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How soon should the US begin a significant withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan?

NOW! We never should have gone in!

25 votes

ASAP! The mission was accomplished.

13 votes

Rapidly starting in July.

14 votes

Slowly starting in July.

4 votes

Only after Afghanistan has a stable government.

1 vote

Not for a few years. There's an important military mission.

0 votes

Never. There's no need to leave.

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Sign the Letter for Healthcare NOT Warfare--Deadline 5 PM ET

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Monday June 20, 2011 · 12:02 PM PDT

2011/06/20 · 12:02

Sign the Letter for Healthcare NOT Warfare—Deadline 5 PM ET

If you have already signed the letter, thank you. Please ask your like-minded friends and family members to sign it, too. If you haven't signed it yet, please sign here:
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Share this info. with everyone you know who cares about Healthcare and Peace! Here's the link you need to share: http://bit.ly/...

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Tuesday June 14, 2011 · 6:43 PM PDT

2011/06/14 · 18:43

Bay State Democrats Approve all Four Resolutions Proposed by Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)

Nothing changes a baseball game like a Grand Slam. With one mighty swing, a batter drives in four big runs. They were in Lowell's Tsongas Arena--not Fenway Park--and they weren't wearing Red Sox uniforms. Even so, PDA National Director Tim Carpenter and Mass. PDA members did their best David "Big Papi" Ortiz impression as they hit a walk off Grand Slam, dramatically changing the Massachusetts Democratic Convention.

Commonwealth Democrats convened this weekend to adopt an "Action Agenda" for 2012. PDA activists guaranteed that agenda will address issues most important to the people of the Bay State. PDA activists put Massachusetts Democrats on record supporting Single payer healthcare, the Congressional Progressive Caucus's People’s Budget, green jobs, clean energy, and a Constitutional Amendment asserting Corporations are not people with First Amendment rights. PDA-backed resolutions also condemned the attack on union collective bargaining rights, and called for phasing out coal use and restrictions on hydraulic fracturing--known as “fracking.”

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Monday November 01, 2010 · 9:38 AM PDT

2010/11/01 · 09:38

Right winger republicans are horrible on national security. The right wingers in Congress blocked and watered down anti-terror legislation in the 90s, then the Bush/Cheney administration ignored several specific warnings about bin Laden and other terrorism. Cheney's office "outted" a CIA agent, undermining our attempts to keep terrorists from obtaining WMDs. Bush announced he wasn't concerned about bin Laden mere months after promising to bring him in "dead or alive." The Bush/Cheney administration screwed up the anthrax attacker investigation, closing the book on the case without ever finding who really killed several people. Right wingers like Sharron Angel, Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Bernard Goldberg and many more promote violence and inspire domestic terrorists, but keep on using violent and incendiary provocation. Right wingers may not hate America, but they sure act like they do.

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Friday October 29, 2010 · 6:40 PM PDT

2010/10/29 · 18:40

Infamously and fatally, between the World Wars, the German far left undermined the Weimar Republic. They knowingly advanced the Nazi putsch, because they counted on taking over after the Nazis, spouting the slogan: "After the Nazis, us!" Sadly the Nazis murdered the leftists, union leaders, millions of minorities (gays, Gypsies, Jews) and other scapegoats, and triggered World War II in Europe.

While the Republican Party in the US is not exactly Nazism, there are scary parallels. Their candidate for Congress who dressed up as an SS officer. Their campaign officials who stomped on a woman. Their campaign officials who handcuffed a reporter. Their operatives who singled out a man in Virginia for arrest and roughing up. Their calls for "Second Amendment remedies" if they come up short at the ballot box Their scapegoating of gays, minorities, and immigrants. Their callous disregard for the suffering of others. Their delusional anti-intellectualism and denial of evolution, global warming and other science. These are frightening facts which everyone should keep in mind in the voting booth.

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Thursday October 28, 2010 · 3:57 PM PDT

2010/10/28 · 15:57

Sadly, some of my friends are saying they'll sit out this election or else vote for a non-viable spoiler in a close contest. They say there's no difference between Democrats and right wing republicans. If that's so, then why are the Chambers of Commerce, the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove's organization pouring so many $millions into the republican campaigns? What differences do they see that justifies their investment in the likes of Sharron Angel and Christine O'Donnell and many other right wing candidates? Those who cannot see any real differences between Democrats and right wing republicans should consider Barbara Boxer as Chair of the Senate Committee on the Environment vs. James Inhofe as chair.

Or take the word of experience: I've worked with several Democrats in Congress, and they are much different. Democrats are trying to do the best thing for people and the planet. Republicans put their narrow partisan special interests above everything else.

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Monday November 09, 2009 · 3:53 PM PST

2009/11/09 · 15:53

Crosspost from BustTheFilibuster.com Washington D.C.–President Barack Obama, frustrated by lack of discipline and cooperation from key lawmakers, called in an expert. With his healthcare and other reforms in jeopardy from filibusters aided and abetted by conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats, the President is turning to Caesar "the Dog Whisperer" Millan for help.

According to Millan’s website, he is "a world-renowned dog behavior specialist, known for his uncanny ability to walk large packs of dogs at a time. Not only that but, from poodles to pit bulls, these now well-behaved canines have each been rehabilitated, rescued from a wide range of extreme behavior issues–anything from insecurity to severe ‘red zone’ aggression!"

The Administration is relying on him to take control of the "blue zone" in Congress.

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Tuesday August 18, 2009 · 6:57 PM PDT

2009/08/18 · 18:57

John Mackey, CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on 8/12/2009 quoting Margaret Thatcher and suggesting that all we have to do to fix the health care crisis is eat healthy and let insurance companies do whatever they want. No health reform needed. From the beginning, Mr. Mackey's Op-Ed was insulting and over-simplistic. It led off with this quotation: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money," attributed to Margaret Thatcher. see : Mackey Op-Ed

This is ironic, because Ms. Thatcher undermined the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom by slashing funding for it. She also sought to impose poll taxes--charging people to vote--to suppress voting by poor and working people! Her misguided rightwing policies were so unpopular, she was about to lose her job as Prime Minister when she stumbled into a conflict with Argentina over some tiny islands and rallied nationalistic fervor.

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