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Joan McCarter's Profile
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A lifelong Blue girl in a Red state, I'm now Senior Political Writer for Daily Kos. On any given day, I'd rather be horseback, but there's more demand for political writers than cowgirls.
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Saturday Evening Geek Out, Social Security Defenders, Social Security, Comics, Daily Kos Labor, VirtuallySpeaking, Transcripts and Documents, Daily Kos Economics, Five Questions
Twitter: @joanmccarter
Diaries published: 13768 (1 day since last diary on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 01:15 PM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: Koch brothers freak out in response to Rolling Stone expose, 548 comments, 1129 recommends
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The Judiciary Democrats' tough questioning of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed his absolute contempt for workers' rights and immigrants' rights. Organized labor is marshaling forces to put the pressure on.
They're...
by Joan McCarter
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Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins is rallying the right wing to push back against people-powered democracy in her home state. Mainers for Accountable Leadership, the Maine People's Alliance, and Be A Hero, founded by national health...
by Joan McCarter
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) can't get her story straight. Up until now, she's been insisting that she's not hearing from her constituents on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court like she did on Affordable Care Act repeal. So why should...
by Joan McCarter
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Schumer needs to be willing to play as dirty as McConnell to win back the Senate, save the judiciary Mitch McConnell has a number of tools at hand to try to divert that "shipwreck" Senate Republicans are fearing in November's election. Like this sledgehammer: keeping the Senate in session in October, and keeping the 10 Democrats running for...
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National polling by CNN conducted at the end of hearings for Brett Kavanaugh show that he's hardly more popular than the unindicted co-conspirator who nominated him. Just 38 percent of Americans say he should be confirmed, while 39...
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There were so many issues involving stolen emails and perjury and torture and war crimes going on in Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings last week that senators didn't have an opportunity to get around to a major...
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- Some of you reading the title alone will know what this blog post is about. I have been thinking about this a lot and after reading an opinion piece on the Huffington Post I felt the need to express why "The Talk" is so vital to African American...6 comments 12 Recs
- When I flew to Washington, DC, on Monday, to protest Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, I wasn't sure what my role would be. A number of organizations planned dozens of events and actions, so I signed up to volunteer and help out...148 comments 376 Recs
- Big telecoms are in the business of making money and increasing their strangleholds on the marketplace. They do not really care what happens to the majority of the country in the long run, because making money in our current financial system is based...24 comments 101 Recs
- Very short anecdote: GF and I were discussing Sen. McCain’s memorial service yesterday and the president’s pointed disinvitation. ”That’s letting him off easy,” she said. ”How do you ...437 comments 790 Recs
- That skeevy grifter squatting in the Oval Office made a bad move Monday. Whatever your personal views of John McCain, negative or positive, Donald Trump’s pathetic refusal to order the flags at the White House lowered back to half-staff was a PR...160 comments 400 Recs
- Just after my daughter graduated from fourth grade, we took her to the dentist for her bi-annual checkup. After a series of x-rays, cleaning, and small talk with the hygienist, the dentist breezed into the treatment room, resplendent with his festive...279 comments 296 Recs
- Last week, Joan McCarter told you about my stepdaughter, Abby McElroy, 17, who rocked her district's school board last month when she informed them that a local faith-based crisis pregnancy center, Amnion Pregnancy Center, had been invited into tenth...272 comments 353 Recs
- Aretha sang. As in, that girl can SANG. Aretha played the piano like a bad mother shut your mouth, honing her gospel piano chops in the black church just as so many others did before her. Lesser musicians marvelled at what a good improviser she...90 comments 124 Recs
- I am at Netroots Nation 2018, the largest Progressive conference in the country where politicians, activists, and bloggers get together to discuss ideas, train, learn, intertwined with a little bit of fun. I experienced an act of kindness from my...190 comments 588 Recs
- When I was a kid, a short-lived fad in suburbia was “progressive dinner parties.” They had nothing to do with politics, despite the name. It meant progressing to a series of homes where each host offered a particular course of dinner. The Joneses...28 comments 16 Recs
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