Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist, albeit a pro-environment one, and yes he won the popular vote.
John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist.
Barrack Obama won in 2008, talking like a progressive, but then became a centrist, and the Democrats lost a lot of Congressional seats as a result.
Hilary Clinton lost in 2016 as a centrist.

The vast majority of people believe in single payer healthcare, ending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, legalizing cannabis, raising taxes on the very wealthy, common sense gun control, and transforming our energy system into a carbon neutral system, with no fossil fuel use. We're talking at least 70% support for each and every one of those positions. So why don't we have them yet? A better question still might be: why do we keep electing centrist incumbents to Congress, despite these centrists not working toward the same goals that we are? It seems to me the left had been reduced to a whisper by centrists who convinced America that we have to move right to please Republicans. But Republicans never move left to please Democrats. The end result is that our officials have been moving farther and farther right. They have tried to please Republicans and they have not produced the results that we all wanted.

The left, in my view, has been trying to come screaming back. And that's just what we need. Elected representation on the left has been reduced to a handful of Representatives (and one Senator) that most people weren't even aware of until 2016. Now we know Senator Sanders and some of the Congresspeople that were elected in 2018, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar. But in order to pass something like the Green New Deal or single payer healthcare, we're going to have to elect enough people who believe in them, who will work to make them a reality.

If we want this kind of systemic change, we need everyone to rise up together. And we have to pitch in. Because guess what? The system is working just fine for people with a lot of money. But the rest of us, the people, like you and me, who are necessarily the ones rising up, we can barely afford to get through each month. And that makes it difficult to raise the fund for lawn signs or television commercials, etc. I do not have high dollar fund raisers hosted by billionaires. I do not make deals with corporations to push their agenda for donations. Our campaign is only funded by small contributions from individual people like you and me. I am proud to say that our average contribution is $19.84. That's why I'm asking you to step up and make an investment in the future and together we can push a people's agenda. An agenda based on justice. Can you donate $27 to our campaign?
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YOU are paying the salaries of ghost soldiers, in Afghanistan (and probably Iraq, Syria and other places too) with your tax dollars, soldiers who do not exist. This was talked about in the Afghanistan Papers that WaPo released recently. This article is from 2017, but very relevant. So when our Congress rubber stamps the next war budget, like they always do, know that soldiers that don't even exist are a higher priority than homeless veterans right here at home.
Here is a brief, but valuable message from my friend Ida. Please sign up to observe ballot counting in your area.
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I sent out my challenge to Mike Thompson, which ran in the Vallejo Times-Herald and the Sonoma D Here is that letter:

Dear Mike Thompson,

Today it has been 707 days since I first challenged you to debate. I know that you have refused to debate all of your opponents, going back at least to 2012. What is it you're so afraid of the public hearing? How you've taken millions of dollars from special interests, including drug companies, Wall Street and weapons manufacturers? That you rubber stamp war budgets? That you have opposed debt relief and any evening out of the economy that helps families? How you've supported the militarization of our police departments? That you have voted for warrantless government surveillance over and over? Well, guess what? People are finding out. Why don't you agree to a public debate so you can defend yourself in person? Prove me wrong that you care more about your wealthy donors than the people of this district. I guess that's a tall order after you just voted to continue the war in Yemen and to create a space force instead of helping the homeless in your own district.

May the people see the truth,

Jason Kishineff
Democratic Congressional candidate
American Canyon
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The United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more, on ghost schools in Afghanistan, meaning schools that do not exist. This was talked about in the Afghanistan Papers that the Washington Post recently released. This article is from 2015. Interestingly, I was able to find mention of ghost schools in a few articles, going back to 2010. This happened for YEARS and is probably still happening. And not just in Afghanistan, but this is probably happening in Iraq, Syria and probably other places too. But the story never got much traction in the lamestream media, because those channels are owned by war profiteers. So the next time Congress increases the war budget from $738 billion to whatever it will be next, maybe $750 billion, know that our elected officials would rather waste money on schools that don't exist than increase funding to real schools so we can give our hard working teachers a pay raise, or fully fund art and P.E. again.

I had such a wonderful time at the Kwanzaa celebration, in Vallejo, that my very good friend Askari Sowonde planned and organized. The city of Vallejo is blessed to have someone like Askari, who organizes community events that aim to bring us all together. Thank you for all that you do!
The California Progressive Alliance is having it's annual convention in Berkeley at the UC Berkeley campus. Sign up to get your tickets. We'll have a table there and hope to see you!
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I'll close with a quotation from Dr. King, which matches the theme of our email, which is "Centrists Gotta Go":

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." - Martin Luther King

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