Morning Digest: How a long-ago Harlem Democrat might save a Florida...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: North Carolina GOP appears resigned to having a re-run...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleDemocrats call for closing of Tornillo prison camp: 'It is a child prison. It...
Campaign ActionTop congressional Democrats visited Tornillo, Texas, this past weekend to call for the end of the Trump administration’s prison camp for migrant children. Tornillo initially held 400...
View ArticleOR-Sen: Jeff Merkley (D) Keeps Up The Fight To Shut Down Trump's Child Prisons
Playing some catch up here today. Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’’s (D. OR) re-election campaign:Over 15,000 immigrant children are locked up in prisons across America thanks to...
View ArticleSenator Jeff Merkley slaps down Jon Karl's Republican meme on ABC's 'This Week'
This morning on ABC’s ‘This Week’ Jon Karl pitched Trump’s acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney this softball question with a nice Freedumb Caucus Republican spin, as if it was an irrefutable fact:'This...
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"It's not a Wall" -- it's a 'big beautiful Box' of Political Promises,...
—Sometimes the simplest solution is not the best. Sometimes different jobs require different tools. Sometimes every problem is not a nail; nor every solution a huge hammer.[...]"To be honest, it’s...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Long Island Democrat's anti-Pelosi activism may earn her a...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel...
View ArticleHouse Democrats begin wielding new powers, calling on Nielsen to testify and...
Campaign ActionHouse Democrats are wasting no time in using their new powers to investigate abuses under Donald Trump’s racist agenda, including announcing an inspection of the border facility where an...
View ArticleFollowing border visit, Democrats vow to continue probe into child's death...
Campaign ActionCongressional Democrats visiting a border facility where an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy was held before his death under federal immigration custody said that the Trump administration...
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OR-Sen: Jeff Merkley (D) Keeps Up The Call To Fire Homeland Security...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D. OR) re-election campaign:Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR)Tonight, I went on MSNBC to share a bombshell revelation: a leaked memo proving that...
View ArticleProgressives united on climate action, zero emissions... but divided on how...
Heading into the 2020 presidential primary, there is virtual complete unity on the need to desist from generating power using fossil fuels and bring about a zero carbon emissions reality in the very...
View ArticleSen. Merkley calls on FBI to open perjury investigation into DHS Sec. Nielsen...
Liar and Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen has not been held accountable for her role in the state-sanctioned kidnapping of vulnerable children at the southern border, but that...
View ArticleHey, I Just Noticed Something (Please Be Kind)
Longtime Democrat. First-time diarist. Please be kind.Also about me: Jewish, New Englander and one-time Midwesterner. Educator. And, full disclosure, big Bernie supporter. I realize that might make me...
View ArticleSenate Democrat invites family separated at southern border as State of the...
A mother and child who were torn apart under the Trump administration’s barbaric “zero tolerance” policy will be in the same room as the president who ordered their separation. Sen. Jeff Merkley of...
View ArticleAsylum-seeker and daughter invited to State of the Union want Trump to know...
Asylum-seeker Albertina Contreras Teletor and her 12-year-old daughter Yakelin are excited to be Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley’s guests at Tuesday evening’s State of the Union address in the nation’s...
View ArticleDemocrats on Trump's 'national emergency': 'Plainly a power grab by a...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer pushed back hard against Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to grab money for his border wall. “The President’s unlawful...
View ArticleSenate Democrats introduce McConnell's 2011 debt ceiling idea to prevent...
With chaos and brinksmanship the chosen governing strategy of the Russian asset in the White House, everything is at stake, including the global economy. Within a few weeks, the nation is going to hit...
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AL-Sen: Sherrod Brown (D. OH) & Jeff Merkley (D. OR) Go All In To Help...
Received two e-mails in support of U.S. Senator Doug Jones’ (D. AL) re-election campaign from two of my favorite Democratic Senators. The first one is from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D. OH):Sen. Doug...
View ArticleWhy is Sen. Feinstein offering a competing Climate Change proposal when GND...
Senate Resolution 59 is the Green New Deal. It currently has 12 Senate co-sponsors (that’s over 25% of the Democratic Senate Caucus). The co-sponsors include Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,...
View ArticleDemocratic Primary "World Cup", Match 9
Welcome to week three of the the Democratic Primary “World Cup”. Friday, Pete Buttigieg faced John Delaney. Despite a complete domination of the pitch, Buttigieg could not break through Delaney’s GK...
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