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March 13, 2012May 28, 2018 Kevin Bondelli Comments Off on Always Include Evidence In Your Action Alerts
  • Online Organizing

Always Include Evidence In Your Action Alerts

Yesterday the ACLU posted an action alert entitled “Use Birth Control? You’re Fired!” regarding an Arizona bill that allows employers to deny insurance coverage for non-medical contraception and more importantly terminate employment if a women chooses…

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  • Facebook
  • Republicans

Generation Opportunity At It Again

In August I wrote about the astroturf “youth organization” Generation Opportunity and how it was using people who liked “Being American” as a means of legitimacy. Well, it turns out one deceptive Facebook page just wasn’t…

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September 29, 2011May 28, 2018 Kevin Bondelli Comments Off on #ColinDelanyIsRight About Hashtags
  • Online Organizing
  • Social Networks
  • Twitter

#ColinDelanyIsRight About Hashtags

Yesterday, Colin Delany, a fellow online politico who runs epolitics.com, posted an article entitled “This Election’s Not Going To Be Won in Hashtags.” The main thrust of the article can be summed up with this line:…

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  • Administrata
  • Online Organizing

The Time My April Fool’s Post Became True: FarmVille Edition

On April Fool’s Day 2010, I posted a fake story about Republicans using Farmville to reach out to young voters. It turns out, 17 months later, that story has become true. Imagine my surprise when I…

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  • Conservatives
  • Millennial Generation

Generation Opportunity Revealed

Last month, Sarah wrote about the GOP recently pushing a “youth are leaving Obama” narrative. One of the major sources for these conservative columnists is a new ‘youth’ organization called Generation Opportunity. Since its public announcement…

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June 24, 2011May 28, 2018 Kevin Bondelli Comments Off on Some Guy Named Ted Nugent Thinks Lazy Millennials Don’t Protest
  • Conservatives
  • Millennial Generation

Some Guy Named Ted Nugent Thinks Lazy Millennials Don’t Protest

A Washington Times editorial today by some guy named Ted Nugent, who apparently is an unknown expert on the Millennial generation, states that Millennials “are being led to their own slaughter and are blindly following along…

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  • American Society
  • Education

Life as a Zero-Sum Game: How We are Taught Resentment

American society is all about being competitive. A component of the conservative divide and conquer strategy is convincing the American people that what is good for another is bad for you. When we look a the…

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  • In the States
  • Labor Issues

A History of the Conservative “Divide and Conquer” Strategy and How Walker Botched It

The conservative philosophy of government can be summed up by a single passage in historian Charles Beard’s An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of The United States: Inasmuch as the primary object of the government, beyond…

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