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I love the smell of economic policy in the morning......

See the new website about the GasTax Scam While this is a pretty simple website that addresses a single economic issue - the great thing about this is that with true rapid response fashion a website was developed, designed, and launched to attack a specific policy. This is a new era of politics and its clear that a specific ideology of people owns the web... and they're not really friends with John McCain

Jane over at Firedog Lake thinks democrats will screw up FISA this week

Take a look at the ways in which minority voters will be effected by the new ID law in Indiana. Ally Klimkoski at Wiretap (who has been known to post on here from time to time) also posted a piece about this law on Monday.

Young Voters Flexing Muscle - via USA Today

NYTimes Op-ed about the GI Bill and the disappointment about McCain's resistance to help soldiers who are serving in combat have access to educational opportunities ...

Not to be outdone by Obama's Top Ten .... now... HRC's Top Ten List



(The super nerdy section)

Bloggers of Color now have a specific conference to address issues that face their community. Register today!

Stoller discusses the recent overthrow of a democratic incumbent who was too conservative for his own district. What is notable in this piece is that Stoller and his blogging buddies raised over $400,000 from 8,000 donors. Think blogs don't matter?? Think again... They aren't going away. Spread the news...

There is another attempt at a rockstar viral video endorsement ad (via the YesWeCan trends). While I am a huge advocate of using pop-culture and counter cultures to engage a new community of voters ... this video is just... well... bad. Maybe I'm getting to be too old...