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BlogPac Hero: The Amanda Marcotte Story You Haven't Heard

Submitted by Mike Stark on Fri, 2007-05-18 16:31. BlogPac Netroots Hero

Mike Stark here: This is another of John Javna's Hero series. We awarded $1,000 to Amanda for her courage in the face of an irresponsible media; standing up to Bill Donohue's lackies on the fringe Fox network, and then, soon afterwards, in the more mainstream media took guts.

We'll have another story to tell soon. Please look out for it.

In the meantime, as I said in this diary, it is you and your donations that make it possible for us to make these awards. Please continue supporting your own by donating to BlogPac's ActBlue page.

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BlogPac Hero #3: Lane Hudson & the Rest of the Mark Foley Story

Submitted by Mike Stark on Mon, 2007-03-12 15:57. BlogPac Netroots Hero | Lane Hudson

This is the third in a weekly series of articles, written by John Javna, that will appear on BlogPAC.org, recognizing unsung heroes of the progressive movement — ordinary people who are working tirelessly to make America a better place. If you have suggestions about people who deserve more recognition for their work as progressive activists, please contact us at fighttheright@opendoor.com.

BLOGPAC NETROOTS HERO #3: LANE HUDSON

Ever wish you could single-handedly deliver a knockout blow to the right-wing, like a political Rocky?

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Freeze Out Fox News: Democrats in Nevada are going to have a Presidential candidate debate forum hosted by Fox News. Blogpac is taking action against this egregious granting of credibility to what we all know is a partisan propaganda outfit.

Exposing the right-wing front group Catholic League: When right-wing blogs and a front group called the Catholic League smeared John Edwards and two of his bloggers, Blogpac helped organize and lead a campaign to expose the antisemitic and bigoted nature of the attacks. As a result, Edwards chose to retain the bloggers on staffer, and media coverage included exposition of right-wing conflicts of interest.

Use it Or Lose It: When a Democratic wave looked likely, we decided that putting everything into this election was the most appropriate strategy. Use it or Lose It was a campaign to pressure Democratic lawmakers in safe districts to donate part of their warchest to the DCCC so it could be used in competitive races.

Google Bomb the Elections: Despite the prevalence of search in American life, search engines are not well-used by campaigns. We worked with liberal blogs to elevate credible mainstream on political candidates content in search rankings so that when users searched for certain political candidates, appropriate content would show up high in the results.

Netroots Survey: Who are the people doing politics on the internet? It's hard to tell without data, so what we've done is the first scientific survey on the composition of the 'netroots'.

Netroots Survey Part One
Netroots Survey Part Two

This new progressive movement is shaping up on the internet, and we will continue to try and find data on the shape of the movement and the people in it.

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