3 challengers vs. Jim McCrery (R) incumbent

Artis Cash (D) Shreveport
Patti Cox (D) Shreveport
Chester Kelley (R) Shreveport

Ned Lamont’s win in the Connecticut senatorial primary was a great victory for Internet activists. Let’s enjoy it for a moment, and then get right back to work. We have many more victories to arrange over the next 2-1/2 months, so let’s use the energy generated by Tuesday night’s good news to do more. To win more. To take back the Congress and to take back our country from the right wingers who have stolen it.

One candidate who needs our help is Tony Trupiano, running for Congress in Michigan’s 11th District. Tony is a true blue progressive, and is exactly the kind of candidate we of the netroots want to put in office. And he can win—BUT ONLY IF WE WILL HELP! Tony has shared with me the results of his recent internal polling, and here are some of the highlights:

We've been duped. Again. Just like kids who plunk down their quarters to bet on the bean as the carnival barker spins the nutshells around, we've been duped by the Bush administration's support for corporatism over common sense and the national security, a Congress more responsive to form than to function, and a media unable or unwilling to focus on the facts that matter. After a flurry of controversy lighting up the congressional switchboards over the sale of American port operations to DP World, a company owned by the monarchy United Arab Emirates, ABC now reports that a Miami-based company's lawsuit is causing a brief delay in the turnover of port operations.

Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA-1), a Vietnam combat veteran, introduced a bill Tuesday, Feb. 28th that would return our military from Iraq upon the completion of the Iraqi constitutional amendment process. The bill, H.Con.Res. 348 titled "Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to accomplishing the mission in Iraq" states: “Resolved in the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that it is the sense of the Congress that—