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Virgin America Lets Flyers Register To Vote On Planes | 
As a way to promote its new route from San Francisco to Washington DC, Virgin America is letting flyers register to vote using its in-air entertainment platform Red and a smartphone. Beginning today, guests on Virgin America flights can use their smartphones to scan a QR code on the screen of the seat in front of them which will lead them to a landing page where they can register to vote. The mobile app is powered by PromoJam Social Marketing Platform and is made possible through a partnership with Rock the Vote. As part of the promotion, "presidential" impersonators will be aboard the maiden flight from SFO to DC today. Washington State recently launched an app that lets voters register to vote on Facebook. The app is part of a collaboration between the state, Facebook and Microsoft. |
Ryan no stranger to Texans | 
FORT WORTH, Texas - Paul Ryan is no stranger to Texans. The newly anointed Republican vice presidential nominee was a keynote speaker at the state Republican Party's convention in Fort Worth this summer and he traveled to Texas vouching for Ted Cruz, who last month claimed the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate seat Kay Bailey Hutchison will leave next year. "In Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has chosen a champion of fiscal sanity and a formidable advocate for policies that will get our country back on the right path," Cruz said Saturday."When it comes to the federal budget, we can't afford four more years of reckless, runaway spending. As the next president and vice president of the United States, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will lead an administration that finally brings fiscal responsibility back to Washington," he said. Read more here |
Democracy Now | 
Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crime accusations. Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the secret history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Watch/Listen/Read Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney's newly picked running mate, Paul Ryan, is on the forefront of efforts to dismantle Social Security by putting seniors' savings into risky Wall Street investments. Over the years, Ryan has not only pushed for privatizing Social Security, but also dismantling Medicare and slashing funding for Medicaid. We speak with two experts on Social Security: independent journalist Eric Laursen, author of the book The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan, and Heather McGhee, vice president of policy and outreach at the progressive policy group Demos and co-author of a chapter on retirement insecurity in the book Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences. Watch/Listen/Read |
How Texas Came Within an Atom's Breadth of Discovering the God's Particle | 
Ryszard Stroynowski sat bathed in the pale glow of his laptop screen. At 2 in the morning of Independence Day, as the final, fugitive firecracker reports of the night crackled across a sleeping Dallas, the 65-year-old physicist was wide awake. As he watched the live broadcast in his pajamas, his colleagues at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, the locus of the physics universe, tolled the end of the search for an elusive force that had confounded them for half a century. It was the final puzzle piece in a theory that describes with unfathomable precision the fundamental particles of the universe and the laws they obey. This piece, known as the Higgs boson and ... more |
State Representative Eric Johnson and the Reverend Dr. Henry Masters cordially invite you to the Community and Police Town Hall Summit | 
Date: August 25, 2012 Time: 10am to 12pm Location: St. Luke "Community" United Methodist Church, 5710 E. R. L. Thornton Freeway, Dallas, TX 75223 Featuring Guest Panelists: Dallas Police Chief David Brown, Dallas City Attorney Thomas Perkins, Jr. .Dolphin Heights N.A. President Anna Hill South Dallas Business Owner James Mitchell With opening remarks from Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings Please join us for this important community discussion |
North Texas Progressive Calendar | 
Monday, August 20: *North Texas Asian Democrats 7:30 PM, Maxim's Restaurant located at 1531 Terrace Drive, Richardson - * Rockwall County Democratic Party Meeting 7:00 PM: Rockwall Community Center, Harry Myers Park, 815 E Washington, Rockwall
Tuesday, August 21: * Irving Democratic Club 6:30 PM, Senter Park East Building, 228 Chamberlain in Irving * Stonewall Democrats of Dallas 6:30 PM, Ojeda's Restaurant, 4617 Maple Ave., Dallas Thursday, August 23: *Dallas Drinking Liberally Group Wine-ing Liberally 7:00 PM @ Times Ten Cellars, 6324 Prospect, Dallas, TX 75214 *Grassroots Democratic Coalition Monthly Meetup 7:30 PM Black Eyed Pea Restaurant 7979 Belt LIne Rd at Coit Rd - Next to Shell Service Station Dallas, TX 75287 Price: $2.00 per person Proceeds will go towards funding our local party presence and efforts to get Democrats elected in November! Friday, August 24: * Final Friday Baseball Outing with the Democratic Party of Collin County 6:45 PM to 10:00 PM CDT Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, 7300 Rough Riders, Frisco, TX 75034 Saturday, August 25: * Tarrant County Democratic Party Delegate Send-Off Party 11:00am until 2:00pm Join us for our National Delegate Send-Off Party! We hope you will attend our TCDP fundraiser to send off the Tarrant County National Delegates to Charlotte. When: August 25, 2012, 11AM-2PM at J. Gilligan's Bar and Grill on, 400 East Abram Street Arlington, TX 76010. Requested Donation- $15 or for Sustaining Members $10. RSVP to Kat Allen at 817-335-8683 or by email at kat@tarrantdemocrats.orgI can't make it. |
| What Does Facebook Have In Store for the Republican, Democratic Conventions? | 
With the 2012 presidential election approaching Nov. 6, Facebook outlined its plans for the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 27-30, and the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 4-6. Politico This years conventions will be the first in which newer social media platforms like Twitter, as well as mobile devices like iPhones and iPads, will take center stage and other, older online tools and sites -- like Google and Facebook -- have come into their own.
read here NEW IN THE iTUNES STORE: Tampa 2012 the official app of the Republican National Convention, available for Apple and Android devices. http://bit.ly/NM646T 2012 Democratic National Convention mobile app here DNC 2012 from The Charlotte Observer By The McClatchy Company HERE |
Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews to Anchor MSNBC's Primetime Convention Coverage | 
MSNBC has announced its coverage plans for the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Tampa, Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina. Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews will lead the network's primetime coverage, with nearly every program originating from the host cities during the conventions. "Morning Joe" and "Way Too Early" will originate from restaurants in both cities, with the dayside news programs being anchored from inside the convention centers. MSNBC will also have another set for "Hardball" with Chris Matthews. read on |
Why Paul Ryan is a Gift to Progressives by Sam Seder | 
| Why Paul Ryan is a Gift to Progressives |
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| An Unserious Man By PAUL KRUGMAN | 
Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate led to a wave of pundit accolades. Now, declared writer after writer, we're going to have a real debate about the nation's fiscal future. This was predictable: never mind the Tea Party, Mr. Ryan's true constituency is the commentariat, which years ago decided that he was the Honest, Serious Conservative, whose proposals deserve respect even if you don't like him. But he isn't and they don't. Ryanomics is and always has been a con game, although to be fair, it has become even more of a con since Mr. Ryan joined the ticket. read on | |
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Final Friday Baseball Outing with the Democratic Party of Collin County | 
Where:Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco 7300 Rough Riders Frisco, TX 75034 When: Friday August 31, 2012 from 6:45 PM to 10:00 PM CDT Start your Labor Day Weekend out with our August Final Friday at a Frisco Rough Riders game, Friday, August 31st at the Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco! Your $20 ticket will include a Rough Riders baseball cap, & all you can eat hot dogs, bratwursts, nachos, plus all you can drink Dr. Pepper products for 90 minutes after 1st pitch at 7! Then, fireworks after the game! Proceeds will go towards funding our local party presence and efforts to get Democrats elected in November! Please get your tickets now and come join us! Click on the link below to register! office@collindems.us 972.578.1483
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Performance.gov | 
Performance.gov provides a window on the Obama Administration's approach to improving performance and accountability "Performance.gov is a window to the Administration's efforts to deliver a more effective, smarter, and leaner government. The site gives the public, government agencies, Members of Congress, the media, and others a view of the progress underway in cutting waste, streamlining government, and improving performance. Specifically, Performance.gov provides information on the following areas of focus: Acquisition; Financial Management; Human Resources; Technology; Performance Improvement; Open Government; Sustainability; Customer Service."
check it out here Performance.gov
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University of North Texas acquires GLBT collection | 
Materials that trace 60 years of the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements in the North Texas region will be housed at the University of North Texas Libraries under an agreement with Resource Center Dallas to acquire the center's archives. The UNT Libraries will receive approximately 400 boxes of materials from the center's Phil Johnson Historic Archives and Research Library. Assistant Dean for External Relations Dreanna Belden said the archive will be a strong foundation for the libraries' goal of collecting LGBT archival material from across the South
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Metrocrest Democrats Club supports Food 4 Kids | The Metrocrest Democrats Club is participating in the Food for Kids program by raising money for the backpack program sponsored by the North Texas Food Bank. Any amount you contribute will be greatly appreciated. Bring your check made out to Food 4 Kids to the meeting or mail it to Metrocrest Democrats, P.O. Box 476, Coppell, TX 75019.....
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