News, Views, and Tools for Progressives

Alternative Sources of News

• Alternet.org (news from Independent Media Institute, updated weekday mornings)
• Common Dreams Newscenter (news and views for the Progressive Community, updated weekday afternoons)
• Huffington Post: Newswire
• BuzzFlash.com (Breaking news and views, updated frequently with uneven links to new reports)
• Truth Out
• Air America Radio (progressive radio live over the web)
• Democracy Now (progressive TV: "independent, unembedded media")
• Independent Media Center
• New York City Independent Media Center
• Inter Press Service News Agency
• Progressive Daily Beacon
• Infoshop News

Netroots (Progressive Blogs)

• Daily Kos
• Digby Blog
• Firedoglake Blog
• MyDD (Direct Democracy)

Websites for Progressives

• The Top 25 Most Popular Progressive Websites: a list with links
• ZNet (people committed to social change)
• Progressive Legislative Action Network (Progressives States Network)
• Salon (progressive magazine, free if you watch an ad)
• Tom Paine.Common Sense (a Public Interest Journal)
• The American Prospect
• The Progressive
• New Democracy Project
• Working for Change (Working Assets)
• Africana
• Center for American Progress (Progressive ideas for a strong, just, & free America)
• Campus Progress (supporting progressive student movements on campus)
• Antiwar.com
• Democratic Underground
• People for the American Way
• The Gadflyer
• Link Crusader
• 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)
• Students for Democracy
• Of, By, and For
• The Nation
• Democracy for America (founded by Howard Dean)
• Public Citizen
• Common Cause
• In These Times
• Rockridge Institute
• Progressive Democrats of America
• Progressive Caucus (Congress)
• Citizen Works
• Campaign for America's Future
• The Smirking Chimp
• National Resources Defense Council
• Institute for Policy Studies
• Cosmic Fantasia
• New Standard News

Progressive 527 Organizations

• MoveOn.org
• America Coming Together
• Make American Work for Us (Media Fund)
• Major Players: Active Advocacy Groups in the 2004 Election Cycle (listed by OpenSecrets.org)

Writers

• Greg Palast
• Michael Moore
• Arianna Huffington
• (Arianna) Huffington Post
• Jim Hightower
• Thom Hartmann
• Tom Engelhardt
• Tom Hayden
• Byron Williams
• Juan Cole

Useful Tools for Understanding the Media

• Annenberg Political Fact Check from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
• Fair ("fairness and accuracy in reporting")
• Media Matters for America (David Brock)
• Media Lens ("correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media")
• Spinsanity.com (non-partisan debunkers of spin)
• Take Back the Media
• Media Transparency (liberal watchdog group)
• Institute for Public Accuracy
• PR Watch from Center for Media and Democracy
• Source Watch (formerly Disinfopedia, from Center for Media and Democracy): information about think tanks and P.R. firms
• Media Channel (global network for democratic media)
• Media Giants
• The Daily Howler
• Sinclair Action (coalition protesting Sinclair Broadcast Group's misuse of public airwaves)
• Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
• Kossary: a glossary for obscure and often humorous terms used by political bloggers
• Con Web Watch: keeping an eye on conservative news

Useful Tools for Understanding Politics

• Megavote (how your representatives voted)
• Center for Public Integrity
• Open Secrets
• Fund Race 2008
• Project Vote Smart
• One Thousand Reasons
• Bush Watch
• Make Them Accountable
• Killed in Iraq
• Iraq Body Count
• Open Debates
• Legistorm (non-partisan group disseminating public information about elected officials)

Useful Links for Election Surveys, Polls, and Analysis

• Pollster.com (approval ratings, primary polls, etc.)
• Maps and cartograms of the 2006 election results
• Electoral Vote Predictor
• Election Projection
• Gallup Poll
• Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll
• Survey USA poll results by state
• Political Forecasting ("PollyVote")
• Iowa Electronic Market (charts tracking assessments by online gamblers)

Music

• "Nothing But a Lie" by Gerry Dignan
• "Takin' My Country Back" by Tony Stampley and Honky Tonkers for Truth
• Peace Not War: anti-war music

Voting and Voting Problems

• Black Box Voting
• Voter Protection Center (Election Incident Reporting System)
• Vote Watch
• Verified Voting

Voter Registration

• Registering to Vote at Penn
• National Voice A List of Voter Registration Projects
• America Coming Together
• Tell an American [living abroad] to Vote (instructions for absentee voting)
• Music for America
• Rock the Vote
• Involver 2004
• Punk Voter
• Smackdown 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
• CrossLeft
• None So Blind

Other Sites for News and Views

• The Note (frank political news notes from ABC News)
• Intervention Magazine
• Slate
• WhiteHouse.org (a satirical site)
• Interhemispheric Research Center (IRC)
• Right Web (from IRC)

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)

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