Month: July 2005

The Top Two primary was just struck down by Zilly. Below is something I had in draft about the arguments the parties were making, I wanted to point out that the parties themselves, how connected they are to the people that are politically close to them, make their own nominations mean something, not a rule…

Some people don’t get something that is going on right in front of them until it does something for them. John Carlson, KVI 570 host and no new gas tax fan and contributor, finally gets that grassroots activism is helped, yes indeed, helped by the internet. That revelation came to John after No New Roads…

This isn’t meant to be expert opinion or anything, just reflections on some reading I’ve been doing. I recently finished Noah Feldman’s After Jihad. A great book, especially for me, since I hardly ever pick up books like that (the last book I read about “foreign policy” was We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow…

Our new page is here. Our new email list is here. I also posted the first email to our list this morning, and its here. Pretty sweet, kudos go to to Christi McGinley with the Thurston County Democrats! Also, next month’s meetup: Framing Healthcare!

Andrew’s post on the puzzling demise of Columbian Watch, in which he references the “True Blue” version of the Pacific Northwest Portal got me thinking about activities by great Democrats in Montana. Matt Singer and his good friends in the Big Sky state are putting together an online community, which up until recently was called…

Jan Frel has a great post on the new democrats.org, in which she shares my early pessimism: …I can’t find much here that’s different from the old Democrats.org, except that there’s the Democracy Bond — (read here monthly political subscriptions), but that isn’t great web design, just a marketing concept. While the world waits for…