Alternative News Sources and Journalists

  • COA News
  • ... a portal to independent news media.
  • Democracy Now
  • Free Press
  • Greg Palast Investigative journalist

AZ Government Resources 

  • Arizona State Legislature
  • Arizona Climate Change Advisory Group (CCAG

Blogs & Stuff

  • Altercation (Eric Alterman)
  • AMERICAblog
  • Atrios
  • just another Cranky Little Blog
  • CounterRecruiter
  • Crooks and Liars
  • Daily Kos
  • Democratic Underground
  • Direland by political journalist Doug Ireland
  • Feminist Blogs
  • Firedoglake
  • Freeway Blogger
  • Glenn Greenwald
  • Greg Palast
  • MyDD
  • Peek: The Blog of  Blogs
  • SaveRoe.com
  • David Sirota
  • Talking Points Memo
  • The Brad Blog
  • TPM Cafe

Clean Elections (National)

  • Public Campaign Action Fund

Corporate Money Watchdogs

  • Media Transparency Excellent site following "...the money behind conservative media"

Global Heating

  • Climate.org
  • Climate Crises (An Inconvenient Truth)
  • Environmental Defense
  • Greenpeace USA
  • NEW Global Dimming (BBC2 NOVA video, 49 minutes)
  • National Environmental Trust (NET)
  • Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
  • RealClimate
  • SaveOurEnvironment.org
  • Stop Global Warming
  • The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
  • THE CLIMATE CRISIS COALITION
  • World View of Global Warming project

Election Integrity

  • The Brad Blog
  • Black Box Voting
  • Solar Bus Election Justice Center 
  • VotersUnite.org

Katrina-related

  • The Recovery Divide Summary

Public Interest and Issue Campaigns

  • People For the American Way (PFAW)
  • Save the Internet

Reference & Research (includes general media sources, progressive think tanks and progressive action groups)

  • The 14 Characteristics of Fascist Regimes Laurence W. Britt
  • Constitution of the United States (PDF) 176KB
  • Democracy for America (DFA)
  • Dick & Don's Cabal
  • TomPaine.com map of the players associated with the Cheney/Rumsfeld run-up to the Iraq invasion
  • Exxon Secrets
  • Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
  • FrameShop
  • Frank Luntz Republican playbook (formats thanks to realtique, searchable HTML thanks to Political Strategy):
    1. PDF (1.64mb)
    2. Word 2003 (671kb)
    3. RTF (908kb)
    4. searchable HTML
  • KNOWING THE ROOTS OF WAR: Analyses and Interpretation of Six Centuries of Warfare (Collected Papers) FRANK H. DENTON -- a remarkable statistical analysis of war concluding that 3 out of 4 times war fails to meet intended goals.
  • Media Access Project
  • Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)
  • Peak Oil -- 5-part series by Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum
  • PublicEye From Political Research Associates (PRA), who "works to facilitate public understanding of the threat posed to human rights by oppressive and authoritarian right-wing movements in the United States."
  • RealClimate
  • Rockridge Institute
  • The Hill The Newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress
  • The Age of Reason Thomas Paine's 1796 critique of organized religion (eBook)
  • The Age of Reason Same as above (zip file)
  • The Brookings Institute (non-partisan think tank)
  • The Jefferson Bible -- Thomas Jefferson's 'rewrite' of the King James New Testament
  • Wikipedia