Resources for Dems
Last Updated: 10.20.2007
The web has a wealth of resources for Democrats to catch up on the latest from the national campaign trail, or find meetups in your own hometown. Check out the sites below and send us your suggestions for additions to make this list even better!
Sweet Candidate Info Sites:
Vote Gopher
Washington Post
2Decide
CNNPolitics
YouTube
Official Campaign Bizness
Visit www.democrats.org to get involved with Democratic issues and elections nationally, and in your home state.
Our parent organization, the National College Democrats: www.collegedems.com
On the Vermont Democratic Party’s website, www.vtdemocrats.org , you can find out about Democratic events and campaigns going on right here, in our own backyard.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: www.democraticaction.org
Democratic Senate Campaign Committee: www.dscc.org
Interest Groups, PACs, etc.
ACLU: http://www.aclu.org
AFL-CIO: www.afl-cio.org
American Federation of Teachers: www.aft.org
Campaign for America’s Future: www.ourfuture.org
The Children’s Defense Fund: www.childrensdefense.org
Human Rights Campaign: www.hrc.org
League of Conservation Voters: www.lcv.org
The MoveOn Organization: www.moveon.org
NAACP: www.naacp.org
NARAL Pro-Choice America: www.naral.org
National Organization for Women: www.now.org
People for the American Way: www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general
Southern Poverty Law Center: www.splcenter.org
News and Commentary
The New York Times: www.nytimes.com
The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com
The Los Angeles Times: www.latimes.com
The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com
Meet the Press: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608
National Public Radio: www.npr.org
Spinsanity: www.spinsanity.com
For the view from across the pond: the BBC, www.bbc.co.uk
The Economist: www.economist.com
The Hill: www.hillnews.com
Democratic and Progressive Media
Common Dreams: www.commondreams.org
Read Mother Jones, then go “raise hell!” www.motherjones.com
The Nation: www.thenation.com/
The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/.
Salon: www.salon.com is full of thought provoking, and often entertaining, reporting and commentary. (Their movie reviews are also usually pretty good!)
Slate: www.slate.msn.com
“The progressive must-read is a magazine called The Washington Monthly.”—James Carville: www.washingtonmonthly.com
Blogs
Calpundit: www.calpundit.com
daily KOS: www.dailykos.com
The Emerging Democratic Majority—also read the book of the same name—it’s short, and shows why and how the Democratic Party can be the party of the future. www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising
Talking Points Memo: www.talkingpointsmemo.com
General Ridiculousness
Because we love Jon Stewart and fake news, www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart
More fake news at www.theonion.com (one recent headline: “CIA Asks Bush to Discontinue Blog”)
Keep an eye on Fox News: www.foxnews.com
Kerry-Man: www.comedycentral.com/games/gameplayer/play.jhtml?game=/tv_shows/indecision2004/game/Kerry-Man_pre.swf&gametype=GFLASH
It’s addictive. Forget all about that paper you have due in three hours, and pretend you are a lowly campaign intern—play the Staffers Game: www.staffersgame.com
And finally... for some real entertainment go to www.google.com, type in "miserable failure" and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky," which takes you to the best search find for that phrase...
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