Daily Kos
http://dailykos.com/
The most popular progessive BLOG on the Internet. Run by a young guy named Markos Moulitsas Zúniga. He was born in Chicago, raised in El Salvador and returned to Chicago. After serving in the U.S. Army, he went back to school and received two bachelors degrees. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and now lives completely off of his BLOG. Daily Kos even sponsors an annual convention that draws powerful politicians and the major media.[ Last Updated: 12-Aug-2006 | Hits: 81 | Reader Comments Report Problem
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation — news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda — every day, in real time.[ Last Updated: 12-Aug-2006 | Hits: 77 | Reader Comments Report Problem
Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/
Mother Jones is an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting. The name Mother Jones is based on Mary Harris Jones (August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930), better known as Mother Jones, who was a prominent American labor and community organizer, and Wobbly.[ Last Updated: 12-Aug-2006 | Hits: 50 | Reader Comments Report Problem
The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/
The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred. -- from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865[ Last Updated: 12-Aug-2006 | Hits: 38 | Reader Comments Report Problem
The Progressive
http://progressive.org/
On January 9, 1909, Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. of Wisconsin founded La Follette’s Weekly to be “a magazine of progress, social, intellectual, institutional.” The goal, he wrote, was “winning back for the people the complete power over government —national, state, and municipal—which has been lost to them.” He attacked private greed in the form of corporate monopolies that hoarded power. He championed the public interest, campaigning for social and economic justice. And he urged the United States not to entangle itself in foreign wars.
In 1929, La Follette’s Weekly changed its name to The Progressive, but the views of the magazine have remained remarkably consistent over the years. The Progressive, a monthly since 1948, has steadfastly stood against militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, and the disenfranchisement of the citizenry. It has continued to champion peace, social and economic justice, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy. Its bedrock values remain nonviolence and freedom of speech.
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