News, Views, and Tools for Progressives
Contents
- Alternative Sources of News
- Netroots (Progressive Blogs)
- Websites for Progressives
- Writers
- Useful Tools for Understanding the Media
- Useful Tools for Politics
- Useful Links for Election Surveys, Polls, and Predictions
- Progressive 527 Organizations
- Music
- Voting and Voting Problems
- Voter Registration
- Other Sites for News and Views
- News from Around the World
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
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)