Author: Howie Klein

Staten Island Is Crying Out For Change, Not Another Status Quo Conservative– Meet Brittany

I grew up 2 blocks from the Brooklyn part of what is now NY-11, the Staten Island/Brooklyn district that keeps swinging back and forth between conservative Republicans and conse...

Goodbye Conor Lamb– Hello Chris Deluzio

There are two good things about Conor Lamb running for the Senate-- he's leaving the House and he's not going to win the Senate seat. Lamb was elected to Congress in 2018. Since...

What Does Clean Energy Actually Mean?

"We are so far past the point of incremental solutions when it comes to climate change," he told me yesterday. "The IPCC report could not have put our crisis in starker terms-- ...

Blue America’s First Incumbent Endorsement Of 2022: Marie Newman

This is the third cycle in a row we've endorsed Marie Newman-- and she's gotten better and better each time. She didn't quite manage to beat Blue Dog incumbent Dan Lipinski the ...

Endorsement Alert: Mike Ortega In Orange County

Mike Ortega is an exceptional candidate-- both an engineer and a philosopher. In a STEM school he went to to study science, he also studied Che Guevara and Pedro Albizu Campos, ...

Endorsement Alert In Kentucky– Meet Chris Preece

Other than KY-03 (Louisville), KY-06-- which includes Fayette (Lexington) and Franklin (Frankfort) counties-- is the only congressional district in Kentucky where a Democrat has...

Ohio Endorsement Alert: Morgan Harper For U.S. Senate

"This is a wide open U.S. Senate seat in one of the most competitive states in the country. But between you and me, I don’t think Democrats will flip Ohio if we nominate anoth...

Endorsement Alert In Brooklyn– Meet Queen Johnson

This race is bigger than Hakeem Jeffries. This campaign and my race are about the representation that my community deserves, as well as what our whole country needs. As a lawmak...

California Has A Special Election In 3 Weeks With The Same Dynamics As The Nina Turner Race

The special election for California's 18th Assembly district is a race much like the Nina Turner contest-- a super-blue area contested by a progressive fighter and a status quo ...

Endorsement Alert: Steven Holden for New York’s 24th

This cycle, expect NY-24 to be one of the most avidly contested congressional races in the country. Won by Obama twice, by Clinton in 2016 and last year by Biden-- 53.4% to 44.4...

There Is No Way To Pass ANY Progressive Legislation While The Filibuster Exists

Don't let your eyes glaze over when someone starts talking about reforming-- or abolishing-- the filibuster. Not doing so, means nothing we want to see passed through Congress w...

Endorsement Alert In California– Bruno Amato v Kevin McCarthy

Bruno Amato is running for Congress in California's 23rd District against Trump's spineless House minority leader Kevin McCarthy. Bruno, the son of two Italian immigrants, told ...

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