Dear nancy, Good Morning! Thanks so much to everyone who entered the mini-fundraiser, the funds raised helped us during the campaign season waive advertising for some campaign events. We will have our regular annual fundraiser in April and WOW do we have prizes!! There are many more progressive / Democratic holiday events happening across the Metroplex and you are invited !
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Nancy Cunningham
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Holiday Parties and YOU are invited ! | 
DCYD Holiday Party
December 10, 2010 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
The Home of the Fitzgeralds Dallas, TX 75226
Join DCYD as we celebrate 2010. Light bites and libations will be served.
For our community service project for the holiday season, we are hosting a canned food drive for Methodism's Breadbasket. Please bring canned food items or a cash donation to the event and help brighten another person's holiday.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Jordan McCarter at jordanmccarter@aol.com. Dallas County Democratic Party Party With Us Monday Dec. 13 At Our EC Meeting This year the Dallas County Democratic Party will hold its Executive Committee Meeting in conjunction with a Holiday Party. The County Chair and Secretary and all of the Precinct Chairs are members of the Executive Committee. All good Democrats are welcome at the party. The joint event will be at the usual place, the Communication Workers of America Hall, at 1408 N. Washington at Bryan, Dallas, and is scheduled from 6:30 to 8:30 PM on Monday, December 13. See you there. Dallas Stonewall Democrats Stonewall Democrats Annual Holiday PartyMonday, December 6 7 - 9 PM, Round Up Saloon, Round Up Saloon, 3912 Cedar Springs Rd, Dallas Democratic Women of Denton County Democratic Women of Denton County Holiday Party Please bring a personal care item (shampoo, body wash, toothbrush, toothpaste) to donate for the 2011 Epiphany Party for the Poor. Sunday, December 12 4 - 8 PM, 2519 Sir Percival Lane, Lewisville |
Commentary: Tom DeLay's political system wasn't above the law | 
"This is an abuse of power," Tom DeLay said Wednesday after an Austin jury found him guilty of politically inspired money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. "It's a miscarriage of justice. I still maintain my innocence. The criminalization of politics undermines our very system." It's odd that he would put it that way, given that criminalization of politics is exactly what the jury said he did. read on Who Nailed the Hammer? In 2005, a series of shocking investigative stories by The Texas Observer brought House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's GOP money-laundering scheme to national notice. On the day before Thanksgiving, DeLay was convicted on the charges first reported by the Observer. (Read the original series here on the money laundering charges, and former editor Lou Dubose's coverage of the DeLay trial here .) |
Democracy Now | 
We host a debate between Steven Aftergood, a transparency advocate who has become a leading critic of WikiLeaks, and Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and legal blogger for Salon.com. Watch/Listen/Read Despite sustained denials by the Pentagon, the leaked cables from WikiLeaks confirm that U.S. military special operations forces have been secretly working with the Pakistani military to conduct offensive operations and coordinate drone strikes in the areas near the Afghan border. The cables confirm aspects of a story about the covert U.S. war in Pakistan published in The Nation magazine last year by investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill. Watch/Listen/Read.. The Senate has failed to advance a bill that would have extended the deadline to file for federal unemployment insurance through next year. This leaves some two million unemployed Americans without jobless benefits after this month. The White House, meanwhile, has signaled it's willing to compromise on Republican demands to preserve the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. We speak to the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Watch/Listen/Read Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership" In a national broadcast exclusive interview, we speak with world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky about the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks. In 1971, Chomsky helped government whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret internal U.S. account of the Vietnam War. Commenting on the revelations that several Arab leaders are urging the United States to attack Iran, Chomsky says, "latest polls show] Arab opinion holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that's 80 percent; the second threat is the United States, that's 77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by 10 percent," Chomsky says. "This may not be reported in the newspapers, but it's certainly familiar to the Israeli and U.S. governments and the ambassadors. What this reveals is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership." Listen/Watch/Read |
Southern Poverty Law Center Live webcast Hate Groups Tuesday, Dec. 7 | 
SPLC President Richard Cohen and SPLC's Intelligence Project Director Mark Potok invite you to join them for a live webcast-a 30-minute audio chat-December 7 at 2:00pm EST, to discuss the addition of anti-gay organizations, including the Family Research Council, to SPLC's hate group list.
Live webcast Date: Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 /Time: 2 p.m. Eastern
How to participate: Register here and you will receive a confirmation email with a link to sign into the webcast.Richard and Mark will accept questions before and during the 30-minute audio webcast. |
North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | 
Secrecy: The American Experience
By The Honorable Daniel Patrick MoynihanPrice: | $19.50 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.
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Product Description Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan here presents a fascinating account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American government since World War I-how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded efforts to curtail or end it.
Published in 1999 but a very timely read!!!
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North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
Denton County Democratic Party Executive Committee Meeting Thursday, December 9 /7:30 - 9:00 p.m. Lewisville Visual Art League /701 South Stemmons Freeway, #115 In the Lewisville West Shopping Center (NW corner of Fox Ave. & I-35) Lewisville, Texas 75067-4518 At this meeting we will discuss the importance of precinct chairs in the coming election cycle, and would like to vote on requirements for fulfilling and keeping precinct chair positions. We would also like to introduce you to the new Precinct Development Chair, John Burke, who has some great plans for precinct chair support. As we plan for 2011, and the 2012 election cycle, we welcome your ideas on a variety of topics from future EC meeting speaker suggestions, to fundraising and implementing election strategies.All Democrats are welcome to attend. If you have any questions, please contact us by reply email, or call headquarters at 940-566-1165. |
| Atheist ads turn up on buses in Fort Worth, Texas | 
Starting today, the sides of four Fort Worth city buses will bear this message: "Millions of Americans are Good Without God." Their sponsor, the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason, says it's only coincidence that the atheist-themed ads will debut during Christmas season. They are not exactly apologizing. read more |
Fox News Joke on 'The Simpsons' Pulled from Web Replays On Hulu, Fox.com | 
For the second week in a row, "The Simpsons" mocked its corporate cousins at Fox News Channel. This time there is an added wrinkle, however, as the joke in question was apparently cut from the online version of the show on Hulu and Fox.com.
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Majority Report returns ! Listen daily to Sam Seder via computer and smart phone | 
Sam Seder says " You wanted it. You got it. (you still want it, right?) THE MAJORITY REPORT Streams live everyday at 11:30AM-1PM PODCAST available at MAJORITY.FM and via RSS and ITUNES or listen via stitcher on your iPhone- it's super easy! http://majority.fm/ |
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| All the President's Captors By FRANK RICH NYT | 
THOSE desperate to decipher the baffling Obama presidency could do worse than consult an article titled "Understanding Stockholm Syndrome" in the online archive of The F.B.I. Law Enforcement Bulletin. It explains that hostage takers are most successful at winning a victim's loyalty if they temper their brutality with a bogus show of kindness. Soon enough, the hostage will start concentrating on his captors' "good side" and develop psychological characteristics to please them - "dependency; lack of initiative; and an inability to act, decide or think." This dynamic was acted out - yet again - in President Obama's latest and perhaps most humiliating attempt to placate his Republican captors in Washington. No sooner did he invite the G.O.P.'s Congressional leaders to a post-election White House summit meeting than they countered his hospitality with a slap - postponing the date for two weeks because of "scheduling conflicts." But they were kind enough to reschedule, and that was enough to get Obama to concentrate once more on his captors' "good side."
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Dallas Drilling public Hearing December 15th |
As noted by DallasDrilling.com, a public hearing will be held on
Wednesday, December 15th at 6:30 p.m. before the Town of Flower Mound
Oil and Gas Board of Appeals. Keystone has requested numerous
variances from current regulations, including its proximity to Lake
Grapevine and its location in a FEMA floodplain.
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Thom Hartmann | Stop Them From Eating My Town | In Chapter 3 of Thom Hartmann's "Rebooting the American Dream" (serialized exclusively on Truthout), the author looks at how chain stores run by "corporate Godzillas" are crowding out local businesses and endangering communities. He offers proven recommendations - from elsewhere in the world and from this country's past - to encourage entrepreneurship, keep small businesses healthy and stop giant corporations from "eating your town next"! Read the Article
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Rep. Henry Cuellar and his iPad |  We've reported on a number of iPad toting politicians in Washington and now there's another one to add to the list, Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democratic congressman from Texas. According to a report from POLITICO, Cuellar loves gadgets and is an admitted techie. He even had his iPad accompanying him at the speaker's podium in the House of Representatives for all to see on C-SPAN Tuesday.
"I've always considered myself a techie," Cuellar told POLITICO. "I'm always looking for the newest technology out there and I've done that for many, many years. The iPad is just one of those fabulous pieces of equipment that's available out there. First thing I do in the morning is get my cup of coffee and start reading the papers. ... And at night, before I go to bed, I check my last e-mails and check to see if there's any new stories online." Cuellar checks several different publications daily using his iPad, to include POLITICO, Politics Daily, The Hill, Washington Post, USA Today, New York Times and the Associated Press. He also uses the "Congress in Your Pocket" app to keep tabs on his colleagues and a teleprompter app for delivering speeches. You won't find any Angry Birds on his iPad though, it appears Cuellar is all business when it come to this device. The iPad has definitely gained popularity among politicians. From Presidential Staffer David Axelrod to Former President George Bush, they're certainly enjoying the iPad's capabilities.
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