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Progressives: urge Clinton, Obama, Richardson, Edwards to support Elvira Arellano's "campaign of resistance" - 7/02/2007

Dear fellow progressives: Elvira Arellano - the undocumented person from Mexico currently seeking sanctuary in The Right Rev. Walter "Slim" Coleman's church in Chicago to avoid being deported and separated from her U.S.-born son - has issued a call to a "campaign of resistance". I urge all fellow progressives to not only heed the call, but to encourage the Democratic ca...

Sen. Chris Dodd: go to campaign appearances and ask tough questions - 6/28/2007

Senator Chris Dodd has stolen my idea! But, I don't mind, and he may or may not have developed the idea himself. He wants citizen journalists to attend campaign appearances by his competitors for president and ask them tough questions: Call, visit, or find your Senators while they're home on break this weekend and videotape yourself asking them to support the "Dodd Amendment" t...

Senate illegal immigration amnesty: cloture or defeat. And: what you can do. - 6/07/2007

[6/7 8pm UPDATE: The bill has ceased to exist... for now. The final try at cloture failed, but the bill might come back later in the year. Please read the original entry below if you'd like to help prevent future tries at amnesty..

Hillary Clinton picks National Council of La Raza's Raul Yzaguirre to co-chair - 4/12/2007

... Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007 (Barack Obama) Alliance for Immigration Reform 2007

Joe Biden responds to question from Youtube user - 4/04/2007

Jeff Jarvis from BuzzMachine has a new site called PrezVid.com. He's encouraging everyone to upload videos to Youtube asking the candidates questions.

MoveOn.org to pester Barack Obama, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, others on April 10 - 4/02/2007

... email: Do you mind if we invite Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton to talk with MoveOn members about Iraq in your living room? (OK, they'll be in about 1,000 other living rooms at the same time, but it's still unlike any other political gathering that's ever happened before). It's the first ever MoveOn Virtual Town Hall Meeting. Those candidates and others [1]...

Gentle Matthew Dowd turns on President Bush - 3/31/2007

In what might turn out to be an April Fool's Day joke, the New York Times offers "Ex-Aide Details a Loss of Faith in the President" about former Bush chief campaign strategist Matthew Dowd becoming disenchanted with Our Leader: He criticized the president as failing to call the nation to a shared sense of sacrifice at a time of war, failing to reach across the political divide

Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007 (Barack Obama) - 3/09/2007

On Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama introduced the "Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007". This important story was overshadowed by the most likely unimportant story about his stock holdings [1]. The CPA could be described as a "New Democrats Initiative/Funding Source for Possibly Foreign-Linked Pro-Illegal Immigration Groups" bill, and perhaps some reporters should have asked Obama a...

Can Barack Obama answer this? - 2/25/2007

Please go to Barack Obama's campaign appearances and try to ask him the question on the video (reprinted below). The media isn't going to ask politicians any difficult questions, so it's up to us to do it. Note that the same question applies to others who spoke at the May 1 rally: U.S. Reps. Rahm Emanuel, Jan Schakowsky, and Luis Gutierrez.

Barack Hussein Obama brings mania to Los Angeles - 2/20/2007

Barack Obama Mania visited near-South Los Angeles earlier today, as the presidential candidate delivered a stock speech before a few hundred supporters at the Rancho Cienega Sports Complex. The speech was held outside in the bleachers of a softball field, and that made it a bit difficult to get a good photo. About the only Los Angeles-specific part of the speech involved him promoting finding job...

Barack Obama, Al Gore, Bill Richardson begin Amanda Marcotte bidding war - 2/12/2007

As soon as a door closes, a window opens or something, and recently-resigned John Edwards blogger Amanda Marcotte is learning that Edwards' loss might be B. Hussein Obama's gain. Or...

Barack Obama middle name: Hussein - 11/12/2006

Senator Barack Obama's middle name is Hussein. I strongly urge everyone not to take advantage of this fact. No, really, don't call him something like "Barack Hussein" or something.

AVWatch: Villaraigosa first former MEChA leader to make big leagues - 11/10/2006

Duke Helfand of the Los Angeles Times offers a hagiography of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in "Mayor to reap spoils of election victories". He has a vision "of an eco-friendly metropolis with less traffic, more affordable housing, new trees and perhaps a subway to the sea." And, Aztlan! Except, that's not mentioned. It acknowledges one of the reasons AV might hav...

More on the Chicago NAIR meeting from Workers World - 8/22/2006

Around August 11, a few hundred illegal immigration supporters met near Chicago and created the "National Alliance for Immigrant Rights".

Shocker: Chicago Tribune supports U.S. laws - 8/17/2006

Chicago's knockoff of the WAPOLATNYT offers the editorial "Elvira Arellano and the law" about the illegal alien who was ordered to report to DHS to be deported but instead took refuge in a church. It ends with: ...she has benefited from some extraordinary political support, which few illegal immigrants get to enjoy. She won the help of members of the Illinois congressional delegati...

May Day illegal immigration march/boycott: the supporters - 4/28/2006

Who supports the May 1 illegal immigration boycott and/or the marches on that day?

Bush favors a massive illegal alien amnesty. Should he switch parties? - 4/26/2006

Bush recently held a meeting of pro-illegal immigration Senators ("Bush, senators agree on alien citizenship, shut out critics"). According to Mel Martinez (R-FL): "There was a pretty good consensus that what we have put into the Hagel-Martinez proposal here is the right way to go...

Jim Oberweis for Illinois governor - 9/12/2005

... better to lose a Senate seat to Barack Obama than to run a candidate who's opposed to illegal immigration: Jim Oberweis. Despite finishing second in the primary, he was basically ignored by the GOP leadership because of his pro-borders views.

"GOP Immigration Idiocy In Illinois" - 8/31/2004

... choosing Alan Keyes to run against Barack Obama, the IL GOP held a ludicrous search for a candidate. About the only person they didn't consider was Chitown's own Bozo the Clown. Eventually they settled on Alan Keyes, who now trails Obama by a whopping 41 points. At the time, the story that failed to gain any traction was that there was a perfectly good challenger available and he even l...

Is the Illinois GOP making sense? - 8/03/2004

... fervent search for a competitor to Barack Obama. At post time, they have not yet considered my suggestion that they consider Chitown institution Bozo, but give them time. Meanwhile, the latest desperate plan from the Illinois GOP is to convince one-time presidential candidate and two-time senatorial candidate Alan Keyes to move from Maryland to Illinois and run against Barack Obama: "GOP woo...

Fanboys and fangirls at the convention - 7/29/2004

Can you spot what's wrong with the following TalkLeft post? Wednesday night, just before John Edwards spoke, a group of bloggers were invited to interview Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL). We jumped at the chance since we think Durbin has introduced some of the best legislation in the past year and opposed some of the worst... Here were the questions I wanted to ask him: 1. How will a Kerry Adm...

Illinois GOP cedes senate race to Democratic challenger - 7/09/2004

Amidst all the talk about Jack Ryan and Seven-o-Nine and Mike Ditka, the craven stupidity of the Illinois GOP has been obscured. It looks like they'd rather cede the race for Senate to the Democrats than nominate someone who's - horror of all horrors - opposed to illegal immigration: The Illinois Republican Party took another body blow Thursday, as the candidate considered the favorite ...

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