Recent Event Highlights: A Libertarian Republican Runs to Pelosi's Left on War, Civil Liberties, The Breakdown: Will 'Citizens United' Change Our Democracy?, Working Families Party: Still Fighting for Working People , At Claremont Institute, Christine O'Donnell Was Taught ABCs of Homophobia, Election Choice: Nazi Re-enactor (Republican) v. Sponsor of the WW II Memorial (Democrat), Video: John Nichols on Russ Feingold's Future, and 15 more...
Created by TheNation on Aug 23, 2010
Last updated: 10/28/10 at 02:15 PM
There may not be a more important contest to farmers and food activists than the election for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155631/francis-thicke-iowa-secretary-agriculture
Republican John Dennis has attracted some progressive support for his challenge to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. His run suggests what GOP could do to compete in urban and college-town districts.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155577/libertarian-republican-runs-pelosis-left-war-civil-liberties
There's one thing Matt Damon wants New Yorkers to give him for his 40th birthday: a vote on November 2 on the Working Families Party line.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155586/matt-damons-birthday-wish
Furious with shadowy spending by out-of-state corporate interests to defeat him, Oregon Congressman Peter De Fazio raises the prospect of impeachment action against the justice who managed a rewrite of the Constitution with the Citizens United ruling.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155545/congressman-considers-move-impeach-chief-justice-john-roberts
Lawrence Lessig joins Chris Hayes to explain what Democrats and progressives can do to combat the destructive effects of corporate money in elections unleashed by the Supreme Court ruling.
http://www.thenation.com/audio/155524/breakdown-will-citizens-united-change-our-democracy
Don't write the political obituary for Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold quite yet.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155472/feingold-battles-back
This election season, we are witnessing an assault on democracy by multinational corporations that, freed by the Citizens United ruling, are out to get the best government money can buy.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155404/democracy-sale
The Working Families Party faces down the corporate backlash.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155383/whos-afraid-progressive-power
California's problems are well beyond the curative powers of any one governor. If Jerry Brown wins in November, there's no need to nourish foolish hopes.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155398/last-call-jerry-brown
Support the Working Families Party—a real progressive alternative.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155390/working-families-party-still-fighting-working-people
The real story of Christine O'Donnell's time at the Claremont Institute is how thoroughly she absorbed its viciously antigay politics.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155335/claremont-institute-christine-odonnell-was-taught-abcs-homophobia
Talk about irony: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur has devoted her career to celebrating the World War II heroes who fought the Nazis. Her opponent dresses in Waffen-SS drag.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155309/election-choice-nazi-re-enactor-republican-v-sponsor-ww-ii-memorial-democrat
Democrats and Republicans are trying to outdo each other by blaming China for America's decline.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155317/china-bashing-2010-election-echoes-cold-war
The US Chamber of Commerce is flooding Senate races across the country with attack ads paid for by multinational corporations. President Obama is objecting. Russ Feingold is punching back.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155269/multinational-corporations-try-buy-election
Russ Feingold has been one of the few consistently progressive Senators in Washington, so it's no surprise that he's now a prime target for conservatives.
http://www.thenation.com/video/155282/commentary-john-nichols-russ-feingolds-future
View a slideshow of The Nation's 15 hottest races.
http://www.thenation.com/slideshow/155250/slide-show-november-races-progressives-watch
American conservatism is poised to come to (legislative) power, just as it runs itself off the rails.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155222/barbarians-gate
Can Governor Rick Perry hold off a stronger than expected challenger and take a shot at 2012?
http://www.thenation.com/article/155232/texas-tea
Betsy Reed and Rebecca Traister talk about the rise of conservative women in the 2010 elections.
http://www.thenation.com/audio/155186/talking-tea-party-feminism-brian-lehrer-show
Could O’Donnell’s sexual Puritanism actually be a misinterpretation of the Bible specifically geared towards garnering votes?
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155161/christine-odonnells-witchcraft
In 1963, Jackson stood alongside Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. For this weekend's One Nation rally, Jackson traveled to D.C. from Detroit, where the continuing fallout of our devastated economy has created a city in dire need of sustainable jobs and a populace lacking such basic resources as access fresh food.
http://www.thenation.com/video/155190/conversation-rev-jesse-jackson-mending-divided-america
Speaking from the One Nation rally, the longtime representative from Michigan asks why we bailed out a dysfunctional Wall Street but can't put money intro creating jobs for ordinary Americans?
http://www.thenation.com/video/155188/conversation-john-conyers-creating-stimulus-plan-people
Chris Hayes and Wisconsin native John Nichols discuss the grave challenges facing the senator and how Obama and the state's economy affect Feingold's chances this fall.
http://www.thenation.com/audio/155133/breakdown-why-russ-feingold-trouble
Linda McMahon says she is running for the US Senate from Connecticut because she wants to "put people first." Those people clearly don't include the people who made her a billionaire; the wrestlers of World Wrestling Entertainment.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155099/linda-mcmahons-body-count
Predictable Democratic losses in November aren't what we should fear. The real danger is in a political environment unable to build even the most tenuous bridges across partisan divides.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155101/fighting-change-longing-sea
The Republican Party is hard-selling its hot Mama Grizzlies. But it's mostly men—not women—who are buying.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155094/sex-and-gop
The party's reluctance to capitalize on its feminist successes makes it look scared—and weak.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155093/democrats-remember-ladies
With more men than women supporting Sarah Palin, who really benefits from the GOP's 'Year of The Conservative Woman'?
http://www.thenation.com/video/155118/year-conservative-woman-betsy-reed-debates-gops-princella-smith
Grassroots activists and Beltway insiders fight for the soul of Obama's Democratic Party.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155108/herding-donkeys
At the California governor's debate, Democrat Jerry Brown redeemed his flagging campaign by making a clear and convincing case for his candidacy.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155067/brown-back
The Republicans' "Pledge to America," demands dramatic cuts to the federal budget, cuts that can only come from one place: social security.
http://www.thenation.com/video/155062/commentary-john-nichols-gops-pledge-america
Katrina vanden Heuvel argues that though progressives have ample reason to be disappointed, they should resist the temptation to sit out the November elections.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155017/eat-pray%E2%80%94and-vote
Either the House Republicans' "Pledge to America" is an outline for massive new debts and deficits or it is a roadmap to the privatization of Social Secuity, Medicare and Medicaid.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155001/gops-pledge-america-would-end-privatizing-social-security
He's now in the fight of his life.
http://www.thenation.com/article/154989/russ-feingold-senates-true-maverick
The tragic irony of this political moment: the people with the most faith in Obama are the hardest hit by the economic disaster, and this brute fact is driving the enthusiasm gap.
http://www.thenation.com/article/154985/obamas-forgotten-base
In a test case for Democrats, the fiery Florida populist takes on a stiff challenge from the right.
http://www.thenation.com/article/154988/alan-grayson-counter-puncher
Is there a progressive vision for the post-Daley era in Chicago?
http://www.thenation.com/article/154983/end-daley-show
The upstart energy of the Tea Party is beginning to coalesce with the organizing savvy of the religious right—and putting the force of religious zeal behind the Tea Party’s anti-government fanaticism.
http://www.thenation.com/article/154944/tea-party-values
Why the media—and probably more voters than we like to think—find her bewitching.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/154936/could-christine-o%E2%80%99donnell-really-win
A Montana Republican Party platform plank calls for criminalizing homosexuality, a stance that would round up gays and lesbians and incarcerate them. That's bigotry in its crudest form. Shouldn't Republican Party leaders condemn it, as Democratic leaders did the bigoted stances of southern Democratic parties in the 1950s and 1960s?
http://www.thenation.com/blog/154885/michael-steele-republican-leaders-have-duty-condemn-grand-old-bigots
After several big wins for Tea Partisans in Delaware and New York, even Karl Rove sees a blow to GOP prospects for winning the Senate.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/154731/can-grand-old-tea-party-win-november
The scariest Republicans are not necessarily tea-stained—and other lessons to keep in mind as Election 2010 roars in.
http://www.thenation.com/article/154802/think-prey-vote
The Tea Party favorite is in a race to stitch together a statewide Republican coalition.
http://www.thenation.com/article/154605/rand-pauls-kentucky-derby
She's supposed to know something about technology. But millionaire Senate candidate Carly Fiorina seems to be most interested in subdividing the net so that her pals can make money.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/154460/carly-fiorinas-campaign-against-free-and-open-internet
A severe budget crisis has put all state services--from education to eldercare--in jeopardy.
http://www.thenation.com/article/154482/nevada-goes-bust
If Harry Reid loses this fall, he's just getting what he deserves.
http://www.thenation.com/article/154481/right-angle-reid
New York State Senator Eric Schneiderman's commitment to transformational politics and progressive values make him the right choice for State Attorney General.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/154228/schneiderman-attorney-general
The first and most ferocious Mama Grizzly rose up in response to a desire for right-wing female leadership.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/154216/whos-blame-sarah-palin
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