FDL Right Now: Help Push Back Rahm Emanuel's Support of Anti-Immigrant Policy

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Saturday November 10, 2007 · 12:06 PM PST

2007/11/10 · 12:06

Right now at Firedoglake, we have a chat with Josh Hoyt, a constituent of Rahm Emnanuel's, who heads up the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Markos wrote about this horrible Shuler Tancredo bill the other day.

We're raising money to do some pressure advertising in Rahm's district through our Blue America PAC, working in tandem with local activists.

We could use your help!

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Wednesday March 28, 2007 · 6:25 AM PDT

2007/03/28 · 06:25

Many people in the DailyKos community will vaguely remember when a bunch of grass roots activists got together to buy a copy of Crashing the Gate for every Democrat in Congress last Spring. That effort took root and took off as part of the Roots Project. Now, we're working to build a kind of progressive MySpace or Facebook to provide the infrastructure for so much more local action and organizing, allowing simultaneous networking and best practice sharing with like minded groups anywhere in the country. Sound Interesting? Read on, because you can help make it happen.

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Monday August 07, 2006 · 8:07 AM PDT

2006/08/07 · 08:07

(Cross posted at Firedoglake)

Many of you may know we are close to completion of our Roots Project beta site. This Drupal site will provide a social networking and organizing infrastructure for progressives all over the country. Whether people want to create groups based on their local communities, based on issues of interest or even based on lifestyle interests and hobbies, our site will provide the infrastructure for common people to gather together for the common good. Read More

Roots Project Orientation: Notes from Conference Call

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Friday April 21, 2006 · 9:58 AM PDT

2006/04/21 · 09:58

This diary is really just a way for me to create a publicly accessible orientation to the Roots Project for my future use. Feel free to ignore it.

The Roots Project was begun by http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/, www.Firedoglake.com and www.CrooksandLiars.com and is growing. Updates are posted by me at Firedoglake.

This week we had an influx of volunteers, and I held a conference call to orient them to the Project, its purpose, goals, organization and history. Below the fold, I'm posting my notes (typos intact!) from that conference call, as originally sent afterward to our Roots Project members.

To join the Roots Project send me an email at stateproject at gmail dot com. Include your home state in your subject line, with no other text. Please include in the body of your email your kos user name and how you learned of the Roots Project. Read More

DeLay Messaging: Sopranos with Better Suits

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Tuesday April 04, 2006 · 8:41 AM PDT

2006/04/04 · 08:41

First question, who is our target audience?

Answer, the broad, often disengaged American public.

What then do we want them to know?

Republicanism is bad and has betrayed their interests.

First rule of rhetoric: it's easier to go wide in your rhetorical indictment, then whittle it down with examples, rather than start with the particular and try to build it up. That's why starting the conversation about "Delay," or about "K Street," or whatever else is short of the whole Republican/conservative movement, represents a lost opportunity. The generally disengaged American public needs to hear the bottom line first. Hence:

"The Republican Party is a criminal enterprise that has betrayed the American people and the well intentioned people who voted for it. It's time to restore sanity and fairness to Washington, to clean up the disastrous mess Republicans have made at home and abroad."

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Puckett Fans Will Troll Rate Me For This

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Monday March 06, 2006 · 8:20 PM PST

2006/03/06 · 20:20

Let me stipulate that Kirby Puckett was a great baseball player.

He was electric. I loved watching him.

But his life was marred by allegations of violence against women.

Fans don't want to talk about that. They want to wait to talk about that. But it should be talked about.

Right fucking now.

Why?

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Activists' Notebook: Overcoming Resistance to Change

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Thursday March 02, 2006 · 9:15 AM PST

2006/03/02 · 09:15

After reading Crashing the Gate I've been inspired to republish here some popular things I've written elsewhere.

The following article, "Ton Ten Reasons People Resist Change," has been very popular among my clients and newsletter subscribers, and has been reprinted in publications around the country.

I thought it would be useful to local grassroots activists who seek to inflitrate local and state parties, in order to build a vibrant, aggressive progressive movement, as outlined in CtG.

On the flip, an analysis of reason for resistance to change with tips on how to overcome them. Read More

Advanced Plamology: Proof V. Novak is a Red Herring?

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Wednesday December 07, 2005 · 7:26 PM PST

2005/12/07 · 19:26

Should we ascribe any significance to the fact that the Observer article reports that Viveca will be interviewed by Fitzy but will NOT go before the grand jury?

Good question.

I'm going to take my layman's stab at this, and why it means Rove is in deep shit.

The story says this interview will be an on the record deposition. Since we can probably assume that Viveca is not a hostile witness or a target, it's also probably true that Fitzy has already had a conversation with her, or at least with her attorney, wherein he has determined what her testimony will be. So this deposition is to get it on the record.

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Action Alert: Stop the Torture Tax

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Wednesday November 02, 2005 · 6:42 AM PST

2005/11/02 · 06:42

This will be short and sweet:

It's Time for progressive tax revolt: Stop the Torture Tax.

Progressives should incite tax revolt: deduct one cent from their taxes due in protest.

It will cost the IRS more to go after protesters than it will cost the protesters.

Or, we should start a web campaign with ads to publicize the No Torture Tax issue:

Our objection is: we do not want our tax dollars funding torture. Period.

Anyone want to take off with this campaign? Any ideas to refine it? I think the Torture Tax frame could have legs.

Miller in the Clear? WaPo Reporter on Countdown

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Wednesday October 12, 2005 · 5:34 PM PDT

2005/10/12 · 17:34

This will be very short.

The reporter from the Washington Post (Jim Vandehei I think) just reported on Countdown that Judy Miller appears to be out of legal jeopardy after her grand jury testimony today.

Any speculation about what that means? My guess: she was in real jeopardy, in danger of perjury or conspiracy charges, decided to sing every song she ever learned, and got herself out of trouble by screwing every source she ever had related to any question Fitzgerald asked her.

That First Amendment Martyr thing? Not so much. . .

Harriet Miers: Creationist (What Does Dobson Know?)

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Friday October 07, 2005 · 10:09 AM PDT

2005/10/07 · 10:09

James Dobson is on board.

James Dobson has been given "confidential" inside information he does not feel at liberty to share. Certainly not with Senators, who, you know, have a consititional responsibility to provide advice and consent on Meirs nomination.

So what might Mullah Dobson be hearing?

An overheard cell phone conversation in a DC cab might provide some insight.

Fitzgerald Gearing Up to Flip More Witnesses UPDATE: ROVE!!

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 11:39 AM PDT

2005/10/06 · 11:39

Like pancakes, my children.

Rumors of up to 22 indictments in the offing? How convEEEEEEnient. Nothing like a pending indictment to focus the mind.

At the Huffington Post, Lawrence O'Donnell, who first fingered Rove as Matt Cooper's source on Plame, has some informed speculation. Talk Left offers further insight.

UPDATE: The AP reports Rove is cooperating. And please don't forget, now that Fitzy is turning the screws, Rove is the only one we currently know about who wants to sing sweet melodies to the prosecutor. Who else is creeping out from under the rocks to croon? The legal and strategic analysis in the sources I quote is worth a thorough reading, to get a sense of what's going on. This could conceivably tie in to the Abramoff investigation, too - see the comment way downthread.

FDL Right Now: Help Push Back Rahm Emanuel's Support of Anti-Immigrant Policy

Re-Introducing the Roots Project

Help Wanted: Programmers for the Common Good

Roots Project Orientation: Notes from Conference Call

DeLay Messaging: Sopranos with Better Suits

Puckett Fans Will Troll Rate Me For This

Activists' Notebook: Overcoming Resistance to Change

Advanced Plamology: Proof V. Novak is a Red Herring?

Action Alert: Stop the Torture Tax

Miller in the Clear? WaPo Reporter on Countdown

Harriet Miers: Creationist (What Does Dobson Know?)

Fitzgerald Gearing Up to Flip More Witnesses UPDATE: ROVE!!