- 11-20 - JCDCC monthly meeting
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BlueOregon is a place for progressive Oregonians to gather 'round the water cooler and share news, commentary, and gossip.
Lefty Blogs - Oregon building the one place you can go to stay on top of all the latest action alerts, news, gossip, and important info that every progressive activist needs.
The Northwest Progressive Institute (NPI) was founded in August of 2003 as a forum of thought on politics, government, and policy. NPI believes that America will only be a better place if our freedoms are kept safe, our country works for peace, not aggression, and we as a people come together to realize our place in the world. NPI is a grassroots think tank. It's an unconventional concept, but basically, it's an institution created to research progressive ideas and promote progressive values and solutions to elected officials, opinionmakers, and the American people.
Owned and powered by NPI, Pacific Northwest Portal was founded in January of 2005 to provide the citizens of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska with local news and political commentary, as well as allow the rest of the nation and the world to gain access to an entire region of news & local progressive viewpoints through one website.
The portal was designed to be a regional start page, making it easier for people living in the Pacific Northwest to access local news and viewpoints.
Daily Kos created on May 26, 2002 by Markos Moulitsas -- a.k.a. "kos", is the premier political community in the United States.
Democracy for America (DFA) is a political action committee dedicated to supporting fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates at all levels of government—from school board to the presidency.
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 450 stations in North America.
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Joshua Micah Marshall started publishingTalking Points Memo (TPM), a political blog, in November 2000 during the disputed Florida election recount. The site has been in continuous publication ever since. It has a monthly readership of well over half a million readers and is frequently noted in publications across the United States.
Think Progress is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund a nonpartisan organization that along with the blog, CAPAF seeks to provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies.

