Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) has the top progressive score in the Senate for...
www.progressivepunch.org/…Don’t be surprised when his credentials are touted by my side of the party in the next few years. After all he paid his dues for many years in the US House of...
View ArticleJohn Delaney announces bid for president (yes, seriously), opening up his...
Ah, just what Democrats have been clamoring for: a rich moderate former banker who likes to punch at the left is running for president! All the luck in the world to Rep. John Delaney. Later,...
View ArticleUnions band together with investors to buy the Chicago Sun-Times
A couple of months ago, media publishing company Tronc announced its plans to buy the Chicago Sun-Times from the Wrapports. This announcement in the middle of May led the antitrust division of the DOJ...
View ArticleA day for Unity in Baltimore County
Nearly a year ago, I stood with 10,000 others at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and, like all of us, was mesmerized and moved by the passionate words of Mr. Khizr Khan. He stood up,...
View ArticleMD-Gov: Ben Jealous (D) Calls For The Removal Of Pro-Confederate Statue Of...
Received this e-mail today from former NAACP Chairman Ben Jealous’ (D. MD) gubernatorial campaign:This morning I stood in front of a statue I walk past with my daughter every weekend on the way home...
View ArticleBaltimore City Council just adopted a resolution to destroy all Confederate...
While Mayor Catherine Pugh is trying to figure out how to remove all of the Confederate monuments around Baltimore, Councilman Brandon Scott and his fellow councilmembers want these monuments to be...
View ArticleBaltimore removed Confederate statues tonight.
xConfederate Monuments coming down tonight; right now. Lee Jackson has caution tape around it. Police here pic.twitter.com/GlJmlucRgK— brandon soderberg (@notrivia) August 16, 2017 xBREAKING:...
View ArticleBaltimore responds decisively, swiftly
After long discussion, Baltimore City was prompted to take swift action when I and about a thousand of my newest friends responded to the deadly hate seen in Charlottesville this weekend.Our activism...
View ArticleBaltimore schools have been giving out free eyeglasses to students and the...
In March, Baltimore City announced that they had just delivered the thousandth free pair of eyeglasses to students in their public school system. This was done through the “Vision for Baltimore”...
View ArticleWidespread opposition isn't slowing down the Republican push to kick millions...
Congressional Republicans are determined to pass their latest healthcare repeal bill despite widespread opposition and the fact that they know the bill is a load of garbage. The very same senators who...
View ArticleState Climate Alliance, Now 12 States & PR: Maryland Must Join
Last week I wrote a diary about the need to pressure Maryland’s Republican governor, Larry Hogan:Calling Marylanders!We need to start pressuring our Republican governor to join with the governors of...
View ArticleSix Degrees of Separation in Fairfax
A few weeks ago, I read this diary on Daily Kos. Karen Keys Gamarra, who is running for school board in Fairfax, Virginia explains that this special election is being deliberately orchestrated by the...
View ArticleConfederate "Monument" down: U MD band removes secessionist "Maryland, My...
One more confederate “monument” down.dKos user arodb recently reminded us that the lyrics to Maryland, My Maryland, the state song of my home from age 3 to 17, are rabidly secessionist. I realized...
View ArticleMichelle Obama advisor takes on Hogan
To paraphrase WaPo’s article: Krishanti Vignarajah, policy director for Michelle Obama, announced Wednesday that she plans to pry Hogan’s rotting carcass out of the Statehouse and deposit it into the...
View ArticleI stood with Charlottesville in Baltimore
I took a walk around the old neighborhood, this evening. When I first moved to Baltimore in 1982 (from Chicago), one of the first things that greeted me was a row house with a Confederate flag...
View ArticleNew poll finds GOP Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan popular yet vulnerable when...
Is Republican Gov. Larry Hogan headed for a comfortable re-election victory or in for a close race next year in dark-blue Maryland? Mason-Dixon's latest poll does little to resolve that tricky...
View ArticleMD-Gov: 350.org Co-Founder Bill McKibben Endorses Climate Hawk Ben Jealous (D)
Received this e-mail today from 350.org co-founder, Bill McKibben, in support of former NAACP Chairman, Ben Jealous’ (D. MD) gubernatorial campaign:As wildfires ravage the West Coast, tropical storms...
View ArticleMD-Gov: Sen. Cory Booker (D. NJ) Endorses Ben Jealous (D) For Governor
Another Cory Booker related diary:Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, has endorsed former NAACP head Ben Jealous’s campaign to be Maryland’s next governor,...
View ArticleAL-Sen: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) Gives Doug Jones (D) A Boost In...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) in support of Doug Jones’ (D. AL) U.S. Senate campaign: x YouTube VideoAfter right-wing extremist Roy Moore's surprising win in...
View ArticleMD-Gov: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) Endorses Prince George's County Executive...
Received this e-mail today from Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III’s (D. MD) gubernatorial campaign: Rushern L. Baker III (D. MD) I'm proud to announce I’ve received the...
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