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Entries from December 2007

Wyoming Democrats, Push This Button

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

The Wyoming Democratic Party has become reinvigorated with news that Gary Trauner will be confronting incumbent Republican Barbara Cubin, who currently occupies Wyoming’s seat in the House of Representatives. The Wyoming Democrats’ blog declares, “When faced with a choice of what is best for Wyoming, and what the far right wing leadership of the Republican Party tells her to do, Cubin ALWAYS caters to the far right.”

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Tags: state and local

Alabama Pro-Choice Button

December 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Anti-choice ideology is getting really extreme in Alabama, if even a non-implanted fertilized egg is regarded as having full legal rights as a complete human being. It’s time for pro-choice Alabamans to get active, and stop taking their rights for granted.

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Tags: legislation · state and local

Indiana for Barack Obama

December 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Perhaps those Obama supporters can take some solace in the knowledge that some independent activists are preparing the way for the coming of Barack. There’s this button, for example, which comes from a progressive button catalog that seems to promote all Democratic presidential candidates, not just Barack Obama.

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Tags: candidates · state and local

Idaho Voters Matter As Much As Iowa Voters

December 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Let Iowa voters have their influence, but let other voters in other states participate too, and have a fair contribution to the selection of their own party’s presidential candidate. It’s with that idea in mind that I’ve sought out a progressive political button from another state, and come across this one for Dennis Kucinich in Idaho: Idaho Supports Kucinich.

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Tags: candidates · state and local

Got Bush. Got Fear?

December 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Got rid of Iranian nuclear program four years ago. Got update four years late? Got Bush White House. Got ears? Got new foreign policy. Got right wing ideology? Got anti-Iran propaganda anyway.

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Tags: war and peace

Why Not Be Proud To Be Liberal?

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

What do right wing politicians have against liberty? Why do so many Democratic politicians feel afraid to say that they believe in the value of liberty? Don’t join the spineless Democrats. Don’t give in to the bullying right wing. Declare yourself a proud liberal - with this button, and no apologies.

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Tags: culture · liberty

Mohandas K. Gandhi on Tending the Earth

December 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Mohandas K. Gandhi said, “To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” Walking so free from planet Earth, what have we become, and what will we do if our space gazing civilization stumbles?

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Tags: environment

Progressive Buttons Coming

December 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Progressive Buttons blog is coming soon right here at this spot. It will be the job of this blog to consider political campaign pins from the progressive side of the political fence.
Note that the buttons discussed here will be progressive, but not necessarily Democratic. Democratic politicians, after all, often engage in antiprogressive […]

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