By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to subscribe to Roosevelt First, our weekday morning email featuring the Daily Digest. America’s Fastest-Growing Profession is Joining a Very Public Fight for Higher Wages (WaPo) Lydia DePillis looks at the differences in home health aides’ fight for “15 and a union” when compared […]

Hillary Clinton drew on her experience as secretary of state to frame her support for net neutrality in an appearance at tech forum Dreamforce 2014. Maintaining an “open Internet” is a critical, asserted Clinton, going on to outline how the U.S. Department of State “kept trying to spend money to defend those rights” during her […]

Mary Landrieu stands up for Social Security. Rep. Bill Cassidy, who is the regular Republican running against Sen. Mary Landrieu (they’re joined by tea party candidate Rob Maness) showed his Republican stripes and his hostility to Social Security in a debate Tuesday night. Cassidy, of course, maintained that the way to preserve Social Security for […]

Terri Lynn Land, on one of the rare occasions she’s shown up for anything. Michigan Republican Terri Lynn Land is making up excuses and making demands as she tries to dodge an endorsement meeting with the editorial board of the Detroit Free Press—and the newspaper’s editorial page editor is describing her actions as blackmail. Land’s […]

As early voting got underway today in Georgia, we learned some unexpectedly pleasant news: Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Michelle Nunn leads “proud outsourcer” and GOP nominee David Perdue in the latest SurveyUSA poll. But not all the news is quite so peachy, because even as the first ballots are being cast, the fate of 40,000 […]

Today’s comic by Matt Bors is No boots about it: These Daily Kos community posts were the most shared on Facebook October 14: Highly Respected Conservative Judge Rips “Voter ID” Laws–and the GOP–in Blistering Opinion, by Dartagnan GOP Male Rep. says female Democratic candidate Ann McLane Kuster is “UGLY As SIN” and can’t win!!!, by […]

Leading Off: • Governors, FL-Gov: Here’s an interesting fact: More money is going to gubernatorial contests than Senate races this year. The Center for Public Integrity reports that as of Oct. 6, $332.6 million has been spent on gubernatorial races compared to $282.6 million on Senate contests. The Wall Street Journal explains the disparity: No […]

Nina Turner, the Democratic candidate for Ohio secretary of state, has a new ad contrasting her priorities with those of incumbent Republican Jon Husted: The ballot box. Some dismiss it. Nina Turner has spent her life defending it. When you’re a first-generation college graduate, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the heart and soul of Ohio, defending […]

Volunteers in the MoveOn field office making calls to Iowa. Democrats could lose the Senate this year, simply because the pivotal races are almost all in red states that voted for Romney. If you don’t live in a state with a competitive race, this can feel very disempowering—given that control of the U.S. Senate will […]

Here’s a new one: “Many people were happy” before Obamacare, when their pre-existing health problems kept them from getting private insurance. That’s what Republican Tom Cotton said, anyway, in Tuesday’s debate with Sen. Mark Pryor in the Arkansas Senate race. Cotton said that the previous coverage for these folks, high-risk pools set up in some […]