This is our first time during this panel doing this pencil since 2014. We are grateful to our host at net roots nation. We will be taking questions from the folks in the room and folks online. You can tweak us to our twitter account and we will try to get your questions as well. The blogsrit of though, this panel has been about interactivity. Im going to give extreme the quick introductions about who we are and we are going to get to our questions because we think arming progressive with information about the elections they need to be fighting in is what is going to make this the most effective we can be heading into the 2018 midterms. My name is david nir, and i run the part of our website called daily kos elections. We have the morning digest which covers every key race for senate, house, governorships, and the down ballot including state legislatures, mayoral races, and more obscure than that. Obscure than that. We are responsible for daily kos candidate endorsement program. The tea
This is our first time during this panel doing this pencil since 2014. We are grateful to our host at net roots nation. We will be taking questions from the folks in the room and folks online. You can tweak us to our twitter account and we will try to get your questions as well. The blogsrit of though, this panel has been about interactivity. Im going to give extreme the quick introductions about who we are and we are going to get to our questions because we think arming progressive with information about the elections they need to be fighting in is what is going to make this the most effective we can be heading into the 2018 midterms. My name is david nir, and i run the part of our website called daily kos elections. We have the morning digest which covers every key race for senate, house, governorships, and the down ballot including state legislatures, mayoral races, and more obscure than that. Obscure than that. We are responsible for daily kos candidate endorsement program. The tea
Progressive caucus has always wee, for a number of years, have the annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those big ideas trying to move the ball forward. Only giving us policy solutions that people are asking for but how we can help elect electorally. I will let each person kind of say whatever they want. We will have five minutes to make some initial comments. We will ask a couple questions by the panel. So first, i will go in order here that we have. I will start this way. We have the president of democracy and color. Next to her, from the 17th district in california. Joshua, a polling firm that works a lot with aggressive democrats. And next to me is the Vice President for research and policy. It helps a lot of us in the progressive caucus, Democratic Party, and candidates come up with great policy ideas. We will do this in the last panel. Start here. Down the row and then open up the conversations. Amy is the president of democracy and color. Amy good a
New allegations are prompting more anger over the scope of the u. S. Deposits secret Surveillance Programs. A german news magazine, monitoring the phone of german chancellor Angela Merkel back in 2002. Demonstrators marched to wach washington and our jean meserve was there. Nsa spying should stop. Im here because of our liberal principles here in this country that should be stopped. That is. Our First Amendment our Fourth Amendment and were here to restore balance to the way our lives are been tumped up, get our sprieives back our safe space back. 580,000 signatures to the member of the u. S. Congress. It is callings for full disclosure of what the nsa ask doing, an end to those programs and accountability to those who are responsible. In addition the organizers released a statement to the man who is responsible for the current state of knowledge about nsa programs, edward snowden. That statement says in part, we declare that mass surveillance has no place in this country. It is time f
I think that there are a lot of libertarians to start her pain starts. And am i libertarians them contains different things. Some forms of it are very burkey n. A hayeks kind of the least inorganic growth is the essence of works to you. But some forms that are very rationalistic and really believe that society by applying different roles, especially economic principles that are morally signed chafic can maximize freedom and therefore maximize happiness. What pain shows us in the course of his own thinking and in the evolution of his own thinking is how radical individualism leads to the desire to liberate the individual Firm Reliance on other people, which is i would say the essence of canes goal come out the to the creation of a kind of faceless provider and get there himself. He takes the steps and shows you the tendency among us american conservatives to think of the welfare state and sec before progressivism that alphas the german import. In a lot of ways it is. Our welfare state i