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• DeLay taking on new identity as Internet blogger

  - 2006-12-12

  WASHINGTON -- Former House majority leader Tom DeLay is re-entering the political fray, this time as an Internet commentator and community organizer. DeLay, whose outspoken conservatism and take-no-prisoners legislative style made him a favorite target of Democrats before he resigned from the House in June, launched himself in the blogosphere...

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• Which democratic party?

  - 2006-11-01

  Sherrod Brown, the progressive Democrat running against incumbent Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, has become a lightning rod in the contentious 2006 midterm elections. Brown's outspoken opposition to the Iraq War, his votes against the free trade agreements NAFTA and CAFTA, and his critique of corporations' corrupting influence on...

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• Can liberal bloggers and Democrats get along?

  - 2006-06-12

  Until this last weekend, liberal bloggers were widely dismissed as ranting geeks with no clout, as a bunch of deluded loons who somehow believe they can parlay Internet activism into real power within the Democratic Party. Yet here in Vegas, a place where the lowliest dreamers sometimes get lucky, the...

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• The new kids on Dem block

  - 2006-04-24

  MEET THE NEW kids who want to get elected to Democratic City Committee - they're young, progressive, passionate and know how to build a Web site. Depending on whom you talk to, they're either going to invigorate the creaking party machine or jam up the works. "There are...

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• Kos world: the power, glory, and weakness of the bloggy left

  - 2006-04-24

  MARKOS MOULITSAS is describing a frustrating period in his life. It was 2002, George W. Bush was in the White House, and in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks no one in Washington--Democrats included--seemed willing to criticize the president. Moulitsas, a passionate liberal, couldn't believe what he was...

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• Kos call: for America's number one liberal blogger, politics is like sports: it's all about winning

  - 2006-01-01

  "I hate Washington," says Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Many people, of course, say that they hate Washington. Jay Leno says so. So do Rush Limbaugh and Monica Lewinsky. But Moulitsas, who is the world's biggest political blogger, says it differently, with a freshly arrived-at and deeply felt zeal, as if he...

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• A blogger who is a fan of Ralph Nader went through the FEC records, looking for the political contributions of journalists

  - 2004-08-09

  * A blogger who is a fan of Ralph Nader went through the FEC records, looking for the political contributions of journalists. Out of more than 100 journalists at 50 publications, one at Time gave to Nader; two (one from Forbes, one from the Washington Times) gave to the RNC;...

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