From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Late Night Snark: Gentle Breeze Edition “Honestly, we could have delved into all the terrible actual answers Rick Scott gave in the debate about his horrifying policies for Florida. But that’s not nearly as fun as him missing four minutes of the debate because his opponent had a fan […]

Breaking exclusively on Politico: Sen. Rand Paul tells POLITICO that the Republican presidential candidate in 2016 could capture one-third or more of the African-American vote by pushing criminal-justice reform, school choice and economic empowerment. “If Republicans have a clue and do this and go out and ask every African-American for their vote, I think we […]

Dustina Gill has been spending the past five days knocking on doors to get out the Indian vote in South Dakota. Here she is on the Standing Rock rez, once home to the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull. At the time I finished writing this, more than 8,200 members of the Daily Kos community had […]

Leading Off: • NE-02: On Friday, the GOP unveiled two new negative ads in this fiercely contested Omaha-area race that instantly achieved serious levels of notoriety. First up is the NRCC’s new throwback spot. A few candidates this year have revisited infamous hatchet-man Lee Atwater’s playbook and run ads hitting their opponents for supporting policies […]

Video here. You lie. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina was asked Thursday, during a question-and-answer after a speech, about the threat of Ebola entering the country through the U.S.-Mexico border. Referring to the “hypothetical,” Wilson said, “I’m very concerned. We had people who, I’ll repeat it, the creed of Hamas: We value death more […]

Time to wipe that smirk off his face It’s been hard to get motivated for this election. Until recently, the best we could hope for was that Democrats cling to their Senate majority, and gridlock continues for the next two years. At least now, we have a chance to elect a populist progressive in South […]

On Friday morning in Jacksonville, Florida, Michael Dunn was convicted of killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis, whom he shot at a local gas station in November 2012 during an argument over loud music. At the sentencing hearing, Lucia McBath and Ron Davis, Jordan’s mother and father, gave gut-wrenching statements about their pain and loss. Lucia McBath […]

Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Voter fraud vigilantes: What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … California Prisons, Newt Gingrich, and broken clocks, by Susan Grigsby A fiery prophet for social justice and for why we must vote: Rev. William Barber, by Denise Oliver Velez Stand Your Ground: Women and blacks need not apply, by […]

Do what this guy does, get out the vote. National Review Online editor-at-large and Fox News contributor Jonah Goldberg contributed some typical bullshit on Fox News this week. Again, typically, he cast the Republicans as victims in the spending race this election, even standing up for the poor beleaguered Koch brothers. [Democrats are] spending a […]

No, it’s not all doom and gloom. If you are on party committee and candidate lists, you’ve no doubt received a DOOOOM email. You know, the ones that proclaim that Republicans will crush everything that is holy and good unless you send in money. The reason campaigns and committees send those out is apparently because […]