One of my favorite panels at Netroots Nation was the panel discussion entitled Turning Red Districts Blue: Organizing for Change. Panelists were David Atkins (moderator), Darcy Burner, Adam Lambert, Democracy for America’s Arshad Hasan, Matt Browner Hamlin, and Eden James. Matt Browner Hamlin spoke about his time as Mark Begich’s online communications director in [...]

Hey y’all, Snoskred here. I am reliably informed by the mod team that our favourite Alaskan Ladies arrive home soon – in fact they may already be there. If you would like to welcome them home, the mods have a thread on the forums especially! Click here to visit the thread. Speaking of travelling, at [...]

On my 21st birthday, I woke up in the morning and drove to Dairy Queen.  I got soft serve vanilla ice cream with strawberry topping and I ate it for breakfast.  Why?  When I was a child I asked once if I could have ice cream for breakfast, and my mother said, “You can have [...]

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Tonight Lisa Murkowski will be having a Town Hall meeting on health care.  Mark Begich has already done this.  I attended his meeting before it became all the rage in Republican circles to show up and stop discussion about the most important domestic issue we face.  The audience was overwhelmingly in support of a public [...]

One of the seminars I attended at Netroots Nation was called “Inclusive Footage – How Viral Vdeos are Impacting Progressive Politics” The term “exclusive footage” is a hallmark of mainstream media, dating back to the earliest days of broadcasting.  With the advent of the Internet and YouTube, exclusive footage is rapidly being replaced by inclusive [...]

Chat away! I have cleared previous threads of off-topic comments.  Please remember to keep topics on comment or place in an open thread.  Feel free to post comments here to rekindle other topics.  Thanks!

  Our deepest profound sympathies go out to Ann Strongheart, co-creator of the Anonymous Bloggers blog, and Native activist, on the loss of her husband Segundo Stronheart of Nunam Iqua.  Segundo left this world much too early at the age of 39 because of a massive heart attack this past Tuesday, August 18. Ann, as [...]

Well, we’ve arrived in the Big Apple, and my travel companion, Shannyn Moore will be appearing on Keith Olbermann’s show tonight, live from the NBC studios at 30 Rock.  It was a great train ride from Boston to Penn Station, passing by some beautiful Connecticut coastline, and little harbor towns.  There was tall grass and [...]

We’ve had a fantastic whirlwind stop in Cambridge.  I went to college in this neck of the woods, and it was a real treat being able to walk on the brick paths, and look at the beautiful old ivy covered buildings of the city again.  The oldest building in Anchorage was built, I believe, in [...]

Hey Mudpups, Snoskred here. I’m not sure exactly where in the universe AKMuckraker currently is, and I see over 300 comments on the old open thread, so here is a shiny new one for you to enjoy. I just thought I would also mention while I am here – we have opened a new section [...]

All Anchorage residents, please take a minute to call Mayor Dan Sullivan’s office to voice your support of Ordinance 64, which will add the words “sexual orientation” to the city’s non-discrimination policy. The phone number is 343-7100 and the email is mayor@muni.org. The “red shirts” who are affiliated with the Anchorage Baptist Temple and other [...]

It’s been an amazing weekend here it Pittsburgh.  I have been overwhelmed, and moved, and outraged, and humbled over and over.  The progressive movement has had incredible successes this year, but it now faces challenges that many of us were not expecting.  We wanted to think that the election of Barack Obama meant that a [...]

Getting ready for Mudstock in Pittsburgh!  I’ve been so busy here at Netroots Nation, I have no idea what’s going on in the rest of the world, so feel free to share some links! Enjoy the open thread.

When I heard that President Bill Clinton was going to be speaking at the Netroots Nation conference this year, I was pretty excited.  I noted the irony that I hadn’t ever blogged about Bill Clinton until last week when  I had noted with gratitude the role that he had played in freeing the two journalists being [...]