Recently did a few interviews on various outlets, including Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein out of KPFA, the birthplace of listener sponsored radio. On web here — starts at the 19:00 minute mark. (Also, it’s on podcast here. It’s the second segment.)
VotePact Gives You Leverage Over the Duopoly
VotePact is a voting strategy that advocates that people vote for their actual preferences by pairing up with someone on the other side of the Democratic-Republican divide. So people can strategically vote for the candidates they most like without fear of helping those they most fear. Instead of effectively cancelling out each other — one for […]
Problems with Rejecting the “Safe State” Strategy
The group RootsAction is backing the “safe state” strategy as espoused by RootsAction — are out the window and that anyone who wants to stop Trump must vote for Biden no matter where they live. They may criticize Biden in some ways, but they are planning on voting for him even though they are in […]
Full VotePact Segment on Katie Halper Show
Talking VotePact on Katie Halper Show with Sam Husseini
VotePact is an all volunteer effort. Special thanks to Stephanie Welch who both suggested Katie book Sam on and then cut the video. If you’d like to help, please spread the word or drop a line to sam@votepact.org. If you can contribute financially — we’d love to do VotePact-related polling — please drop a line […]
VotePact is Totally Different from “VoteSwapping”
People continue to be confused by voteswapping. This happens every four years in part because major media like the New York Times, NPR and ABC have periodically hyped voteswapping and have continuously ignored VotePact. Voteswapping involves voters in so-called “swing” states who want to vote for third parties “swap” votes with committed Democrats and Republicans […]
Sanders Suspends: What Happened? What Now?
Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk commented just as Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign: “Bernie made a number of mistakes that I highlighted and broke down in detail. No excuses. Having said that, you’re out of your fucking mind if you think I’ll forget or look past ‘bloody monday’, aka the day Obama got Pete & […]
If Sanders is Robbed of the Nomination, It’s Time for the VotePact Strategy
Right now, the entire Democratic Party apparatus and allied corporate media are working to ensure that Sen. Bernie Sanders does not get the Democratic nomination even if he gets a plurality of delegates and votes in the primaries. The Democratic Party establishment seems to be gearing up for a brokered convention which will anoint an establishment […]
How a Would-be Thanksgiving Argument Can Help Birth a Revolution
It’s become something of a cliché: Many people dread Thanksgiving in part because they have to break bread with friends — and especially relatives — who they adamantly disagree with politically. One is pro-immigration, the other wants to build a bigger wall, etc. But what if this annoying encounter was actually a blessing? I don’t […]
How Trump and Obama are Exactly Alike
Not until faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth. —Rumi Trump won the 2016 nomination and election largely because he was able to pose as a populist and anti-interventionist “America Firster”. Similarly, Obama won the 2008 election in good part because he promised “hope and […]