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Remember to vote tomorrow and attend your precinct conventions at 7:15PM, then enjoy yourself at one of the watching parties. There is lot's going on, check out some of these great events like plays, concerts and film screenings.
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Rockwall County Democratic Party
The Democratic Primary Election is Tuesday!
If you did not vote in the Primary during Early Voting, your last chance is Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Polls will be open in each Precinct across the County from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM and as long as you are in line by 7:00 PM you will get a chance to vote on your choices for the Democratic ticket in November!
Polling Locations in Rockwall County on Election Day
Tarrant County Democratic Party
March 2, 2010
Election Day for the 2010 Democratic Primary:
Click Here to find your of Election Day Polling Location. To learn more about our candidates Click Here.
Precinct Conventions:
Plan to attend at 7:15 p.m. (or after the last eligible voter has voted),
This is the first step towards becoming a State Delegate, and a great opportunity for you to get involved! | | Election Night Watch Party! | | 
Tarrant County Democratic Party's
Primary Night Election Watch Party
Tuesday, March 2
Watch the primary election results from across the state!
7:30 PM - 10:30 p.m.
The Pour House
2725 West 7th St
Fort Worth, TX 76107
Let us know you're coming by clicking HERE.
Contact Shiju Thomas for more information: sthomas@billwhitefortexas.com
Dallas Democrats Primary Night Election Watch Party We'll have local county results on the screens as well as on regular TV. Cash bar, and the kitchen will be open.
7 PM, Ozona Grill and Bar
4615 Greenville Ave., Dallas | | Democracy Now | |  "The Media-Lobbying Complex": Investigation Exposes Undisclosed Corporate Ties of Network Political Pundits
A four-month investigation into the covert corporate influence on cable news found that since 2007 at least seventy-five registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials have repeatedly appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and Fox Business Network with no disclosure that they are paid by corporate interests. We speak to journalist Sebastian Jones, who carried out the investigation for The Nation magazine.
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| | Drinking While Brown (or Gay) in Texas Will Get You Arrested | | 
Drinking While Brown (or Gay) in Texas Will Get You Arrested
The nation's broadest public intoxication law lets cops go virtually anywhere and arrest anyone for drunkenness -- even if they're quietly nursing a beer in a bar.
READ MORE | Obama, Tea Parties and the Battle for Our Brains by George Lakoff | | Over t he past couple of weeks, The New York Times has been reporting on results from the cognitive and brain sciences that confirm past research in those fields partly by me and partly by my community of colleagues. What makes this of general, not personal, interest is that the scientific results are especially important for understanding what has been going wrong for the Obama administration and for liberals generally, and what has been going right for conservatives. I'm going to start out with some science, and get on to the politics after brief discussions of three important New York Times' articles and what they mean scientifically.
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| | North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | | 
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An incisive look at the global economic crisis, our flawed response, and the implications for the world's future prosperity. The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial meltdown, which was exported across the globe with devastating consequences. The crisis has sparked an essential debate about America's economic missteps, the soundness of this country's economy, and even the appropriate shape of a capitalist system.
The Great American Bank Robbery
How did the big banks nearly take down the entire economy and still continue to profit? Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains. READ MORE
Joseph Stiglitz / W. W. Norton & Company | | Film Screening & Discussion: Aristide and the Endless Revolution | |  Film Screening & Discussion: Aristide and the Endless Revolution
Nicolas Rossier presents an intelligent examination of the 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti and the international self-interests which have suppressed democracy and reform in this impoverished country. Want to do more than charity in Haiti? Get the information you need to work for justice!
The 1st Tuesday Social Action Film Festival is presented by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff Social Action Committee and is co-sponsored by the Dallas Peace Center. Films are free, but a donation is suggested to defray costs. At 3839 W. Kiest Blvd. in Dallas.
| | iPhone app pitches climate change science against scepticism | | 
Deniers queue up to lambast Skeptical Science application developed by solar physicist John Cook. Now there's a surprise I'm not sure this is going to quell the climate wars raging at present, but it's an interesting development nonetheless. An Australian solar physicist called John Cook, who runs the popular Skeptical Science website, has developed an app which "lets you use an iPhone or iPod to view the entire list of skeptic arguments as well as (more importantly) what the science says on each argument". So the next time you're caught at the fag end of a wedding reception in an interminable one-way conversation with a reactionary uncle who's boring on about how "the climate's always changed", just switch on this app, hand them your iPhone, and proceed to the bar.
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Bill White for Texas
Come out the night before the primary election and support Bill White for the Democratic candidate for governor.
Many of your friends have not had the opportunity to meet Bill yet; and this would be a great opportunity for you to introduce them to the future governor of Texas! Monday, March 1st
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Brazos Room -Gilley's Dallas
1135 South Lamar /Dallas, TX 75215 | The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union, and It's Catching on Quickly | | 
An ingenious grassroots union for the unemployed is only a month old -- and its numbers are growing. It's been only a month that a union for the unemployed has come into existence through an ingenious grassroots organizing campaign. In case you haven't heard about it, the union's name is "UR Union of the Unemployed" or its nickname, "UCubed," because of its unique method of organizing.
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| | Texas may be quick to devolve, not secede | | 
Texas may be quick to devolve, not secede
Countdown- by Keith Olbermann - Feb. 23 (Opinion)
According to a University of Texas poll, 68 percent of Texans either believe humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, or aren't sure.
WATCH HERE
| | Progressive Talk Radio News | | 
Famed New York radio voices join WWRL
Familiar New York radio voice Thom Hartmann and very familiar New York radio voice Mark Riley have stepped into the WWRL (1600 AM) slots left open by the demise of Air America.
Hartmann is now heard 3-6 p.m. weekdays and Riley from 6-8 p.m.
WWRL program director Rennie Bishop says a few smaller adjustments will also be made in the next week or so.
Read more
Organizing for America : On the Air
The fate of health reform has been a focus of debate in living rooms and offices, on TV and online -- and on talk radio. And since millions of folks turn to talk radio as a trusted source of news and opinions, we need to make sure OFA supporters are calling in with a pro-reform message. CALLING TIPS Be polite, respectful, and clear. Remember, you represent Organizing for America. How radio stations will connect you will depend on the show. Some radio shows may connect you right away, but most will take your name and basic info and put you on hold. You may or may not be able to hear the broadcast on the show while you're waiting. You may hear the radio host say something like, "Hello, we have your name on the line with us." Some hosts may challenge your views. Stay calm and firm. Sharing a personal story about how health reform affects you and your family is a great way to show the importance and urgency of health reform. If you can't get through, don't worry! If the show you call is busy or not accepting calls at the moment you call in, simply click "Give me another show" to find another. 
| | Progressive Bible Study by Melissa Harris-Lacewell | | 
History is replete with examples of how religion has been used to divide, abuse, and justify horror. Christian theologies have been distorted to fit ideologies of white supremacy, patriarchy, imperialism and oppression. Today many Conservative spokespersons continue to selectively quote scripture, employ religious imagery and deploy twisted religious rhetoric to support policies of unprovoked international aggression and domestic oppression.
Many who resist marriage equality base their opposition in a biblical assertion that homosexuality is inherently evil and deserving of punishment.
read on | | Texas Democratic Women of Collin County: March Fundraiser: A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage | | 
March Fundraiser: A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage
A bluegrass musical production of Mark Twain's long lost short story
Host:Texas Democratic Women of Collin County
Date:Saturday, March 6, 2010
Time:8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location:Courtyard Theater, Plano
Street:1509 H Avenue /City/Town:Plano, TX
Description: Please join us Saturday, March 6th at 8pm at the Courtyard Theatre in downtown Plano for a bluegrass musical production of Mark Twain's "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage," followed by a reception with cast members. Tickets are $20 per person and include a ticket to the play and to a reception following the play. The reception features heavy hors d'oeuvres . Your ticket provides you with two drink tickets.Visit our website for more information and to purchase tickets: HERE | | The Left's Top 25 Journalists (The Daily Beast) | | 
Tunku Varadarajan: Given that almost four times as many American journalists identify themselves as "liberal" than as "conservative," tagging the 25 most influential journalists who sit somewhere to the left of center on the political aisle was considerably more complex than identifying the top 25 on the right.
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| | Equality Texas & Collin County Gay and Lesbian Alliance (CCGLA)
hold US Census North Texas LGBT Mixer- Friday, March 5 |  We are pleased to announce CCGLA is partnering with Equality Texas and the U.S. Census Bureau to help achieve a complete and accurate count of every U.S. resident in the 2010 Census. Conducted every 10 years, the censusdefines who we are as a nation. It guides critical decisions on the national, state and local levels that affect Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people.
Elizabeth Lopez Lyon, LGBT Partnership Specialist for the Dallas Regional Census Center, will be the guest speaker at the March CCGLA Mixer. Light appetizers and refreshments will be served. The mixer is Friday, March 5, 6- 8 p.m. in Plano Texas. Ms. Lopez Lyon will discuss the Census' outreach efforts to the LGBT community and historic changes in the way same-sex couples will be counted.
For more information email 2010census@ccgla.org or go to www.equalitytexas.org or
www.ccgla.org | | Civil Rights Awareness Forum | | Saturday, March 6th, 9:30am sign-in - 10:00am
Are you a victim of civil rights abuse or just constitutionally-protected rudeness or insensitivity? If your civil rights have been abused, what do you do? Diana Clark, head of the NAACP Legal Redress Committee, has invited judges and lawyers, including Judge Elizabeth Crowder to fill a panel of experts to talk about what your civil rights are in Texas in the 21st century and what you can do when you feel you've been wronged. The panel will be taking questions and offering very preliminary advice for what can be very complicated situations.
RSVP HERE | | | | | The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged by Frank Rich NYT | | 
| | No one knows what history will make of the present - least of all journalists, who can at best write history's sloppy first draft. But if I were to place an incautious bet on which political event will prove the most significant of February 2010, I wouldn't choose the kabuki health care summit that generated all the ink and 24/7 cable chatter in Washington. I'd put my money instead on the murder-suicide of Andrew Joseph Stack III, the tax protester who flew a plane into an office building housing Internal Revenue Service employees in Austin, Tex., on Feb. 18. It was a flare with the dark afterlife of an omen.
What made that kamikaze mission eventful was less the deranged act itself than the curious reaction of politicians on the right who gave it a pass - or, worse, flirted with condoning it. Stack was a lone madman, and it would be both glib and inaccurate to call him a card-carrying Tea Partier or a "Tea Party terrorist." But he did leave behind a manifesto whose frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage overlaps with some of those marching under the Tea Party banner. That rant inspired like-minded Americans to create instant Facebook shrines to his martyrdom. Soon enough, some cowed politicians, including the newly minted Tea Party hero Scott Brown, were publicly empathizing with Stack's credo - rather than risk crossing the most unforgiving brigade in their base.
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| | Neil Durrance for Congress | | 
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| | 6 Word Stories -It Is Amazing What People Can Say in Six Words | | 
It Is Amazing What People Can Say in Six Words
'Four years and more than 200,000 six-word memoirs later, we continue to be blown away by what people are capable of saying in just six words.'
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Send me you 6 word story describing the Republicans ! I'll post them next week !
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| | Dead Man Walking Main Stage Theatre | |  'Dead Man Walking' production part
of national project on death penalty
An upcoming production of "Dead Man Walking," which opens Friday,
Feb. 26, is part of the national Death Penalty Play Project
and a first-ever collaboration among
the departments of criminology and criminal justice, political
science, art and art history, communication and theatre arts.
"Dead Man Walking" will be presented at the Mainstage Theatre
in the Fine Arts Building. Performances are at 8 p.m. Feb. 26, 27 and
March 4, 5 and 6, with a 2:30 p.m. matinee March 7. Related
student art will be on exhibit in the breezeway outside of
Mainstage Theatre one hour before the March 5 performance.
Following the March 5 performance, audience members can listen to
an After-Show Talk featuring Sara Phillips, visiting professor of
criminology and criminal justice, and show director Anne Healy,
an adjunct theatre arts lecturer.
| | Rockwall County Democrats | | 
| | Connections Band Frisco Show
SuperHits of the 70's: Great Music for a Great Cause | | 
Date: Friday, March 5, 2010
Time:7:30pm - 9:45pm
Location:Grace Avenue United Methodist Church
Street:3521 Main Street
City/Town:Frisco, TX
It's a FREE concert, to which you should bring your friends!!
We'll be doing the popular "Super Hits of the 70s" show. A love offering will be collected to benefit earthquake victims in Haiti through UMCOR.
The two sets include classics from Fleetwod Mac, Stevie Wonder, Steve Miller, and Earth Wind and Fire. There are ballads from Harry Chapin ("Cats in the Cradle"), and rockers from Steely Dan ("Reelin' in the Years").
You'll be singing along on every song and once again be pleased by our most ambitious concert yet. More than 25 musicians, including full brass and strings, will provide the music for the night.
Check our website at http://www.connectionsband.net
(lots of soundclips to hear...)
This show will be a benefit for Haiti Earthquake Relief, via "United Methodist Committee on Relief." (UMCOR)
UMCOR is a "first responder" organization, similar to the Red Cross, that provides resources and staff to assist in emergencies like Hurricane Katrina and humanitarian crises like Darur.
Check out info on UMCOR's work in Hait at http://www.umcor.org/haiti
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| | Fresh Air NPR: CPAC, the Tea Party, and the Remaking of the Right and more ... | | 
National Public Radio's "Fresh Air" "Connecting the Dots Between PhRMA and Congress", and "CPAC, the Tea Party, and the Remaking of the Right".
You can listen to them on-line at: HERE
| | Get busy, Democrats by Garrison Keillor | | 
This country loves its hustlers and slick operators, but it's hard work that gets you through the rough patches
It is a large moment for Democrats, learning to stick with a good man through a rough period when the people who crave disillusionment have become disillusioned. It's like a winter vacation in the Caribbean when it rains buckets and you eat some bad shellfish and a shrieky teenager says you've ruined her life forever. You smile, take a shower and organize a volleyball game. You have to work at it. It's work.
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