“Mayor Pete” for President?

Why not? To say there’s a crowded Democratic presidential field is putting it mildly. There’s are least fifteen announced Democratic presidential candidates – and that’s a number that doesn’t include former Vice President Joe Biden, who’s rumored to be considering a run in 2020. In such a crowded field, it…

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What Will It Take To Get Comprehensive Gun Control Laws in the US?

Some mentally adolescent white American male shooting up the NRA convention with an AR-15?

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Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution: The Bolsheviks vs. the Mensheviks?

I haven’t seen the official coverage for Senator Bernie Sanders’ new group, Our Revolution. It was supposed to launch today. But from this article in Politico from yesterday it looks like internally there is a struggle over control and direction: The revolution is already tearing itself apart. Less than a…

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VIDEO: Superdelegate David Bowen explains his support for Bernie Sanders

Watch as Democratic State Rep. David Bowen explains why he’s chosen to give his superdelegate vote to Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination. I appreciate David Bowen’s stated intention to support the will of the Democratic voters of the state of Wisconsin, who gave Sen. Sanders a convincing…

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Watch: Bernie Sanders’ speech after Iowa caucus results

On Monday Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave what at least one report has categorized as a speech that was given with little advance notice due to a Clinton campaign “meltdown” over the Democratic Iowa caucus results. Shortly after Clinton’s speech, her lone rival Bernie Sanders took to the stage…

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Video: Bernie Sanders takes Tough Question(s) at Liberty University

Yesterday Sen. Bernie Sanders gave a speech and then sat down to answer questions – some of them pretty tough – from students at conservative Liberty University. Here’s some video of Sen. Sanders’ speech, as well as the question and answer session that followed. The question and answer session begins…

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One photo sums up how Democrats feel about Bernie Sanders for president

So this happened today in Madison. The fact that 10,000 people showed up at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders tells me that his populist progressive message is resonating with folks who are tired of centrist corporate Democrats.

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VIDEO: In 180 seconds you will be voting for Bernie Sanders

I’ll admit it – Bernie’s my guy. While pundits and prognosticators may say Bernie Sanders has no chance of defeating Hillary Clinton in the 2015 Democratic presidential primary, I think his message of universal healthcare, a livable minimum wage, correcting income inequality, and protecting our public education system is one…

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VIDEO: Bernie Sanders explains why “socialist” isn’t a dirty word

During a recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Democratic (Socialist) presidential candidate Bernie Sanders explained why democratic socialism isn’t the eeeevvil awful thing so many conservatives have made it out to be.

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It’s time to move forward

This weekend Democrats elected Martha Laning as the new Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. As has been noted here and elsewhere, the race to succeed former Chair Mike Tate was not without negative and attacks, with yours truly having been at the center of some of those attacks….

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