for progressives and others who wish to be more fully informed
News & Opinion Sites
- 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!
- Inter Press Service News Agency
- Op Ed News
- Mother Jones
- Reddit Progressive
- The Intercept
- District Sentinel
- Global Research: Centre for Research on Globalization
- Axis of Logic
- World Socialist Web Site
- Rewire
- Citizen Truth
- Radio Free
- CounterPunch
- Blob
- Liberals.com
Prog Blogs and Podcasts
- Daily Kos and Daily Kos on Facebook
- Digby
- Shadowproof
- Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
- District Sentinel Radio
- The Daily Nooze
- Last Men and OverMen
- The Young Turks Network and The Young Turks on Facebook
- Wonkette
- PolitiZoom
- The Progressives Abroad Podcast
- Letters from an American (blog of Heather Cox Richardson, professor of American history)
Progressive Advocacy
& Opinion Sites
- Indivisible Guide
- The Sanders Institute
- Salon
- The American Prospect
- The Progressive
- New Democracy Project
- Center for American Progress
- Campus Progress
- ZNet
- State Innovation Exchange
- Antiwar.com
- Democratic Underground
- People for the American Way
- TomDispatch.com
- Now with Bill Moyers (PBS)
- The Nation
- New Republic
- 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
- Bridge Project
- The Burn Notice
- Popular Resistance: Daily Movement News and Resources
Progressive 527 Orgs
Writers & Commentators
- Margaret Kimberley
- Greg Palast
- Anoa Changa
- Michael Moore
- Jim Hightower
- Benjamin Dixon
- Thom Hartmann
- Tom Engelhardt
- Glen Ford
- Juan Cole
- Mona Eltahawy
- Robert Reich
- Ralph Nader
- Michelangelo Signorile
- Naomi Klein
- Thomas Frank
- Dr. Cornel West
Tools for Understanding 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 US 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)
- BotCheck.me: Detect and Track Twitter Propaganda
- Bot Sentinel (track trollbots)
- Trump Twitter Archive (search all of 45*’s tweets)
Political Analysis Aids
- 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)
URLs of Election Surveys, Polls, & 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 & Voting Problems
Voter Registration
- 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
- Sojourners
- American Friends Service Committee
- Tikkun
Other Sites
- Institute for Policy Studies
- Militarist Monitor (from IPS)
- Dan Rather’s News and Guts
World News
- Arab News (news in English from Saudi Arabia)
- Al Ahram (news in English from Egypt)
- Mosaic: News from the Middle East (unedited video with English translations by WorldLink TV)
- BBC Online
- Times of London (UK)
- The Guardian (UK)
- The Independent (UK)
- The Toronto Star
- Le Monde (France)
- La Repubblica (Italy)
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)
- La Vanguardia (Spain)
- MediaWar.info: news and op-ed from many sources (Independent Media News Portal)
- Al-Jazeera website in English
- English summary of Al-Jazeera News (from Cursor)