Author: Howie Klein

Turning the Page On Censorship: The Freedom To Read In New Jersey—Guest Post From Sen Andrew Zwicker

NJ Moves Forward With the Fight Against  Censorship With The Freedom To Read Act

Senator Andrew Zwicker is a physicist and a member of the New Jersey Senate representin...

Bernie: We’ve Got To Find Grassroots Leaders At The Local, State And Federal Levels

A day or two ago, Bernie e-mailed his supporters about how “the most important issue facing the American people and the global community is the rapid rise of oligarchy. Never ...

2024 Was A Very Tough Year

You may have noticed that we sent far fewer e-mails this year than we did any other year. That was because there were very few good candidates— especially after primary season...

CONTEST: Barenaked Ladies Democracy Summer 2024

The official, FEC-madated version of the rules are long and boring but if you're a masochist with no life you can read them here.

Again, this is where you can enter for the r...

Florida Democratic Party— Needs Help Badly

Let’s pick up in Miami-Dade where we left off a couple months ago, when we saw an obvious legislative “flip opportunity” for the hard-pressed Democrats to pick up. Remembe...

We All Need To Be Braver

There are 7,386 state legislative seats in the U.S., from just 49 in Nebraska, the only state with a unicameral legislature, to a massive 424 in New Hampshire, where each House ...

Meet Nebraska’s Populist Independent, Dan Osborn

The Democratic Party decided not to field a candidate in Nebraska’s Senate race this cycle. Maybe they thought the state was just so damn red that they couldn’t even beat as...

Taking Back Florida From The Nuts— One District At A Time… Meet Haley Morrissette

You've probably heard of the Redneck Riviera, right? Some people in the Pensacola area prefer the “Emerald Coast,” but, still, most wear “Redneck Riviera” as a badg...

Can You Spare $1.30 To Help Flip An Ohio Congressional District?

No one is kidding themselves about Ohio’s sprawling 12th district in the central and eastern part of the state. It stretches from the Columbus suburbs into the rural Appalachi...

New Candidate Alert In Wisconsin– Meet Eric Wilson

Eric Wilson is a Bernie-grade progressive Democrat running for Wisconsin's Third Congressional district, a swing district that has 6 universities and progressive ...

Endorsement Alert In Vermont: Tanya Vyhovsky

A Working Class Candidate And A Renter In The State Senate

There are 7,383 state legislators in the country— 1,972 state senators and 5,411 state reps. Until today, Bl...

America Needs Gen-Z Voices At The Policy Tables

Today Ben Braver, a progressive state Senate candidate in the Tampa suburbs is turning 22. In the 18 years Blue America has been operating, I don’t think we ever asked anyone ...

Blue America is