Heartbreaking

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Tuesday's Kentucky school shooting was the 11th school shooting since January 1st. That is appalling. It is a nightmare. It is a disgusting and abject failure. A permanent stain on…

What are Coons and Carper even doing?

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What's the point of Delaware sending "Democrats" to the US Senate when they allow Republicans to get away with LITERALLY everything. For example, did you know the GOP used the shutdown to FURTHER chip away at the ACA by cutting key ACA related taxes? I didn't. From their silence on the topic you have to wonder if Carper and Coons knew it.

More Surprise Primaries Coming

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The primary of Tom Carper is a welcome surprise. But elected Dems at all levels of government should be worried, particularly those Dems that have just been shuffling through the motions. What is the next step for activists who have joined marches, and committed their energies to organizations like Network Delaware and Delaware United? There is a rumbling and grumbling across the state at the weak effort that Professional Democrats are putting into resisting, not just Trump, but Republicanism in general. It is happening. Constantly parroting Republican talking points on the need for budget cuts isn't going to cut it.

Season of Reckoning, Prologue

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By RE Vanella I’ll be brief. I’ve been poking around these blog parts for probably ten years. Maybe more. There’s been plenty of commentary written about The Delaware Way. It seems like we get the same retread mediocre middle management types regardless of what we do. Oligarchy light. There are enough bankers and attorneys and pharmaceutical sales people and insurance company lackeys kept satiated to make for an indifferent polity. Corporate work numbs the mind. I know first-hand. Everyone settles in middle-class and upper middle-class enclaves and the police keep the undesirables under the boot and sequestered in the “rough neighborhoods.” (That’s why “smart police” are absorbed into the same political machine, in case you’ve ever wondered.) We send our kids to private schools or move to Chadds Ford or just create an exburb in Middletown. This arrangement is untenable. I’ve never made a meme, but the Tom Carper in the NASCAR fire suit with adverts slapped all over is funny. Funny because it’s true. We can end that. And with your help we will. A candidate for and of the people will be our representative and we will send her to the United States Senate. Over the next few weeks platform and policy will be shared. Goals that will bring us together in satisfaction and security. Then, on Saturday, February 10th, our candidate will be introduced to the public at the Chris White Gallery on 7th and Shipley Streets. I’m asking for one thing. Turn up to the event. We’ve argued for this and hoped for this. Look at the platform. Think on it. Disseminate and discuss it. Then come, rally with comrades, and meet our courageous fighter. This needs to be that kind of effort. Physical attendance will be crucial in this process. The Revolution isn’t televised or periscoped. It simply can’t be. Those tools were created for an ulterior purpose. I’ll introduced you to her personally. Then together we do what needs doing. Deal? Audere est facere. https://www.facebook.com/events

This is why I hate the Democratic Party

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The Party is a DC based fundraising scam. This article will make you puke. Literally. Have a bucket at the ready.
James Thompson, who lost a close special election in Kansas and is again running for the Wichita seat in 2018, said the DCCC is specific about why it wants candidates to raise money. “They want you to spend a certain amount of money on consultants, and it’s their list of consultants you have to choose from,” he said. Those consultants tend to be DCCC veterans. A memo the party committee sent to candidates in December lays out some of the demands the DCCC made around spending.