News, Views, and Tools for Progressives

Alternative Sources of News

• Huffington Post
• Alternet.org (news from Independent Media Institute)
• Common Dreams Newscenter (news and views for the Progressive Community)
• The Daily Beast
• Truthout
• BuzzFlash.com (Breaking news and views, updated frequently with uneven links to new reports)
• Democracy Now (progressive TV: "independent, unembedded media")
• Independent Media Center
• Inter Press Service News Agency
• Op Ed News
• Mother Jones
• Reddit Progressive
• The Intercept ("fearless adversarial journalism")
• District Sentinel (a progressive news co-op in Washington DC)
• Global Research: Centre for Research on Globalization
• Axis of Logic
• World Socialist Web Site
• Rewire (news and commentary "on issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice")
• Citizen Truth ("News for the People")
• Radio Free ("news without corporate agendas"), iOS app also available
• CounterPunch ("muckraking with a radical attitude")
• Blob ("human curated news aggregator")
• Liberals.com (news aggregator with links especially to Politico and MoveOn)

Netroots (Progressive Blogs and Podcasts)

• Daily Kos and Daily Kos on Facebook
• Digby Blog
• Shadowproof (formerly, Firedoglake)
• Occasional links & commentary on economics, culture & society (mostly cartoons of the day, curated by David Ruccio)
• Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen (podcast)
• District Sentinel Radio (podcast from Sam Sacks & Sam Knight)
• The Daily Nooze (liberal political blog)
• Last Men and OverMen (Mike Sax)
• The Young Turks Network and The Young Turks on Facebook
• Wonkette (topical satire)
• PolitiZoom (independent news magazine and blogs)
• Matter of Fact (Soledad O'Brien)
• The Progressives Abroad Podcast, also on YouTube (politics, society, culture through the lens of progressives living abroad)
• Letters from an American (blog of Heather Cox Richardson, professor of American history)

Websites for Progressives

• Indivisible Guide
• The Sanders Institute
• Salon
• The American Prospect
• The Progressive
• New Democracy Project
• Center for American Progress (Progressive ideas for a strong, just, & free America)
• Campus Progress (supporting progressive student movements on campus)
• ZNet ("a community of people committed to social change")
• State Innovation Exchange ("legislative wing of the progressive movement")
• Antiwar.com
• Democratic Underground
• People for the American Way
• TomDispatch.com (Tom Engelhardt from the Nation Institute)
• Informed Comment (Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion from Juan Cole)
• Now with Bill Moyers (PBS)
• The Nation
• New Republic
• Democracy for America (founded by Howard Dean)
• Public Citizen
• In These Times
• Progressive Democrats of America
• Citizen Works
• Campaign for America's Future
• Institute for America's Future
• The Smirking Chimp
• National Resources Defense Council
• Institute for Policy Studies
• Cosmic Fantasia
• New Standard News
• Links to more sites from The Progressive Populist
• Bridge Project
• The Burn Notice (forum for discussing current events)
• Popular Resistance: Daily Movement News and Resources

Progressive 527 Organizations

• MoveOn.org
• Major Players: Active Advocacy Groups (listed by OpenSecrets.org)

Writers

• Greg Palast
• Michael Moore
• Jim Hightower
• Thom Hartmann
• Tom Engelhardt
• Juan Cole
• Robert Reich
• Ralph Nader
• Naomi Klein (and her list of recent articles)

Useful Tools for Understanding the Media

• FactCheck.org (non-partisan political fact-checking from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania)
• SciCheck: fact-checking science-based claims (from FactCheck.org)
• Fair ("fairness and accuracy in reporting")
• Media Matters for America (David Brock)
• Media Lens ("correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media")
• Institute for Public Accuracy
• PR Watch from Center for Media and Democracy
• SourceWatch (formerly Disinfopedia, from Center for Media and Democracy): information about think tanks and P.R. firms
• Media Giants
• The Daily Howler: musings on the mainstream "press corps" and the American discourse
• Con Web Watch: keeping an eye on conservative news
• News Diffs (archives changes in articles after publication)
• Hamilton 68: tracking Twitter accounts linked to Russian troll farms, from Alliance for Securing Democracy (German Marshall Fund)
• Bot Sentinel (track trollbots)

Useful Tools for Understanding Politics

• Megavote (how your representatives voted)
• Open Secrets
• Players Guide: special interest groups behind TV ads (from FactCheck.org)
• Conservative Transparency (database tracking flow of money among conservative organizations)
• Iraq Body Count
• Open Debates
• Legistorm (non-partisan group disseminating public information about elected officials)
• 2020 Ad Tracker (Searchable database of immigration-related political ads)

Useful Links for Election Surveys, Polls, and Analysis

• FiveThirtyEight (Nate Silver)
• Pollster.com (approval ratings, primary polls, etc.)
• Maps and cartograms of the 2008 election results
• Electoral Vote Predictor
• Election Projection
• Gallup Poll
• Survey USA poll results by state
• Political Forecasting
• PollyVote ("evidence-based election forecasting)
• Iowa Electronic Markets (charts tracking assessments by online gamblers)

Music

• Peace Not War: anti-war music

Voting and Voting Problems

• Black Box Voting
• Vote Watch
• Verified Voting
• Let America Vote (fighting for voter rights)

Voter Registration

• Penn Leads the Vote (registering and voting at Penn)
• National Voice A List of Voter Registration Projects
• Raise Your Vote (from Organizing for America)
• America Coming Together
• Vote From Abroad (instructions for absentee voting)
• Music for America
• Rock the Vote
• Head Count
• Election Protection Volunteer
• Declare Yourself (resources for new voters)

Progressive Religious Groups

• Network of Spiritual Progressives
• Faithful America (for a just and compassionate nation)
• Sojourners (progressive evangelicals)
• American Friends Service Committee
• Tikkun

Other Sites for News and Views

• Interhemispheric Research Center (IRC)
• Right Web (from IRC)
• News and Guts (founded by Dan Rather)

News from Around the World

• Arab News (news in English from Saudi Arabia)
• Al Ahram (news in English from Egypt)
• Mosaic: News from the Middle East (unedited video with English translations by WorldLink TV)
• BBC Online
• Times of London (UK)
• The Guardian (UK)
• The Independent (UK)
• The Toronto Star
• Le Monde (France)
• La Repubblica (Italy)
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)
• La Vanguardia (Spain)
• MediaWar.info: news and op-ed from many sources (Independent Media News Portal)
• Al-Jazeera website in English
• English summary of Al-Jazeera News (from Cursor)

Last modified: November 26, 2022

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