So You Wanna Be a Democrat? Our Voice in the Party Unless we had an activist parent or some teacher who pushed us toward poli-sci, International relations, public management etc, ...

DAGR Weekly Reader W4-APR “Climate change, after all, doesn’t discriminate between species—it’s coming for all of us.” ~ Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Mother Jones Two to close out Earth Month: Rare ...

DAGR Weekly Reader W3-APR Palantir: The New Deep-State A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with ...

Easter is past. That is, western and orthodox Easter were April 20, marking also the end of Passover, and just a week or so past Ramadan. Let the TRAVEL SEASON ...

DAGR Weekly Reader W2-APR As a retired farm laborer onceput it to legendary Chicago journalist Studs Terkel, “Hope dies last.”  Print Media to Mass Protests: “Please Turn to Page ...

Stay Informed with Curated News Here are some of the news sources we’ve found solid, accurate, and provocative. - Rebecca Solnit: https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/ - Jay Kuo: https://statuskuo.substack.com/ - Heather Cox ...

DAGR Weekly Reader W1-APR “It’s now clear that the [Trump] Administration computed reciprocal tariffs without using tariff data. This is to economics what creationism is to biology, astrology is to ...

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[PB article] [photos] Kitty Dukakis, Former First Lady of Massachusetts Passes Away in Boston The National Herald, MAR 22, 2025

Come Together, Right Now By Irem Tunc, Alkman Granitsas There is an urgent need for Democrats to come together because the future of American democracy is at stake. We asked ...

60 Minutes: Crossing the Canadian Border, Saving Soldiers’ Lives, George Clooney We don’t usually post a whole video you could get on streaming service, BUT … not all of us ...

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“I find her personally to be an inspiration, because it shows that anybody can run for Congress.” ~ Joy Behar, re Rep Boebert (CO-04) on The View, Mar. 13, ...

DAGR Weekly Reader W2-MAR “This is a coin-operated president!” ~ Kara Swisher, Tech-biz journalist, host of the Pivot podcast Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To ...

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• Upcoming Events

[photo] DAGR Weekly Reader W1-MAR “156,160 people in my district receive $286,000,000 a month to live on.” ~ Rep. Al Green, TX-18, explaining his disruption of Congress. That’s $22,400 a ...