Author: Howie Klein

West Virginia was the ultimate blue state starting with FDR's first election in 1932. Two years earlier, the Democratic Party won the state House and held it, uninterrupted from...

March 3 isn't just Super Tuesday for the presidential candidates, it is also the big day for many congressional candidates all over the country.

One of the best candidates Blu...

The most recent candidate endorsed by Blue America, Nabilah Islam, sometimes stands out from the crowd because of her name, which for old people, doesn't sound like a name from ...

Not every member of Congress can be AOC or even earn an A for their voting records. In fact, ProgressivePunch only has 46 "A" ratings right now. 7 of them are for New York Democ...

Washington's 5th congressional district takes up the entire eastern end of the state, from the Canadian border to the Oregon border and right along the Idaho border. The biggest...

Two weeks ago, Marianne Williamson suspended her presidential campaign. She told us that while she was on the road-- talking day after day for all of last year with people about...

There's a red hot 2020 race for Montana's one at-large congressional district to replace pugilistic multimillionaire Greg Gianforte. State Rep. Tom Winter is the progressive in ...

Beto did well in Texas last year-- but not well enough to beat Ted Cruz. Almost… but almost didn't do it.

Today Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez is building on some of the foundat...

We hope everyone's going to have a great holiday season and a wonderful kickoff to 2020. This is going to be our last e-mail of the year. We want to announce the winner of our N...

Our two favorite things about Seattle: grunge rock pioneers Nirvana and congressional progressive champion Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. So, when former Nirvana manager Danny G...

We're endorsing Lauren Ashcroft in #NY-12 not just because she's on the right side of every important issue and because she's a courageous and competent candidate but because we think she will make a great and productive representative for working families in Congress.

I don't want to go into-- for the 30th time-- the whole long story about how I helped my congressman first get elected in 2000 and then was mortified when he joined the Blue Dog...