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Monday November 03, 2008 · 11:47 AM PST

2008/11/03 · 11:47

We have been living for nearly eight years now through the national nightmare of the Bush-Cheney presidency, a gang of silk-tied thugs who came into office through an illegitimate seizure of the presidency and have used its powers to trample the Constitution, spit on the Bill of Rights, wreak economic class war on behalf of a rich and powerful oligarchy against everybody else, turn our national treasury and resources over to the oligarchs’ private uses, scorn the rule of law, subject the tools of government to the pursuit of permanent despotic one-party rule, destroy the dreams and lives of thousands of young Americans through foreign war based on blatant and deliberate lies to the nation, unleash agony and destruction upon hundreds of thousands of human beings for no crime other than being Iraqi, and tax our children and their children with endless piles of national debt in the illegal pursuit of foreign empire.

As I stood in the voting booth on the first day of early voting, I thought about...

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Friday February 29, 2008 · 10:32 AM PST

2008/02/29 · 10:32

It appears that one of the campaigns, probably Clinton, has threatened the Texas Democratic Party with a possible lawsuit over our delegate election processes, prompting the Texas Denmocratic Party's general counsel to send the campaigns a letter urging them not to do such a thing.

We have had our combination primary and precinct convention system in Texas for a long time, at least since the 1970s. It is not complicated at all. Part of the national delegates are allocated proportionately by the popular vote in the primary election and part are allocated proportionately by how many attendees at the conventions sign in for each candidate. It is a very simple exercise but the national media are trying to make it sound complicated because they can make a story up about it to trash Texas as they have loved to do for many decades.

And Hillary Clinton is publicly trying to make it sound complicated because she wants to set up an excuse in advance - no surprise, that's the modus operandi of the Beltway consultantocracy that Bill and Hillary Clinton follow in all their decisions. The really laughable part of it is that Hillary Clinton's argument to Texas voters is her claimed familiarity with Texas people and Texas Democrats in particular.

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Monday July 23, 2007 · 12:40 PM PDT

2007/07/23 · 12:40

July 23, 2007
The Honorable John Conyers, Jr., Chair
House Committee on the Judiciary
Fax: 202-225-0072

Dear Chairman Conyers,

Probably more than most, you are obviously aware of the egregious pretensions of George Bush and Dick Cheney to virtually unlimited executive power at the expense of the legislative and judicial branches. Over and over again George Bush, Dick Cheney, and their agents have told the country that the presidency is above the rule of law, indeed that the president is the law unto himself, subject to check by nobody.

I am old enough to have lived through Tricky Dick's assault on the Constitution. I agree with John Dean that the Bushites are much worse.

TX AG Candidate Van Os

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Wednesday July 04, 2007 · 9:08 AM PDT

2007/07/04 · 09:08

Two hundred thirty-one (231) years ago our nation’s Founders issued the momentous Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and its tyrannical king. Never before in the history of the human race had a new nation been founded for the purpose of protecting the unalienable rights of the individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; never before on this globe had a nation’s very birth been based on the principle that government derives its powers only from the consent of the governed.

This world-shaking declaration announced more than a new country. It was not only a revolution against one particular tyrannical king; it was a revolution against all the old ways and in favor of unprecedented new ways. It set forth the vision of a new society. It was to be a society without monarchs, royalty, titles of nobility, lords or castes. It was to be a nation of self-government, wherein every citizen was a 100% equal part owner of the government, and wherein the rule of law was to be the only king.

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Tuesday July 03, 2007 · 4:01 PM PDT

2007/07/03 · 16:01

In a decision announced on June 21, 2007, the US Supreme Court in Rita v. United States upheld as reasonable under federal sentencing law a prison sentence of 33 months for the offense of perjury committed in testimony to a grand jury, which is virtually the same sentence imposed on Scooter Libby for the same offense.

The defendant Victor Rita was a 25-year military veteran with 35 commendations, awards and medals for his military service, and in poor medical condition. He contended that the length of his prison term was unreasonable in light of his exemplary service to the country and his health circumstances. The Supreme Court granted review in order to examine and clarify the issue of how to determine the reasonableness of a prison sentence.

Twelve days after the Supreme Court held as a matter of law that a sentence of 33 months of prison for perjury was reasonable for a decorated veteran in poor health, the president,

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Friday August 25, 2006 · 4:18 AM PDT

2006/08/25 · 04:18

This year in Texas, rural voters are presented with a new breed of populist Democratic candidates for state office who are real fighters. These Democratic candidates stand up for the people against the power-grabbing political and corporate elites who are running roughshod over rural Texas in a reign of greed and arrogance. The time is ripe for such candidates, because a populist revolt is percolating across rural Texas, the likes of which has not been seen in decades.
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Redistricting: the Rethugs screwed South Texas Latinos, or why we have to save the Voting Rights Act

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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 3:58 PM PDT

2006/06/28 · 15:58

Today the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the Republican Party's transparent attempt to protect Republican Congressman Henry Bonilla by decreasing the Latino population in Bonilla's 23rd Congressional District in South Texas. The Court held that the redrawing of District 23 violated the voting rights of the district's Latino population under the Voting Rights Act. The justices' analysis of voting trends showed conclusively that a clear majority of Latino voters do not support Bonilla, and that the DeLay redistricting plan had removed a large chunk of Latino voters from the district in order to protect Bonilla from the political threat to his incumbency represented by the growing Latino voting strength in the district. Read More

The biggest voter bloc

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Sunday May 28, 2006 · 1:42 PM PDT

2006/05/28 · 13:42

The biggest bloc of voters in every election is those who don't vote. They are the real majority who control every election. Instead of spending so much time on who will serve in what Party position or on what committee or who is hosting what reception or who is getting recognized for what or by whom or who slighted whom or who endorsed whom, activist Democrats need to leap out of the box of junior high school politics that they get themselves caught in, and learn to speak to the non-voting majority. I am suggesting a subtle yet major paradigm shift. That is, to think of the citizens who who have been choosing not to vote not as non-voters, but as voters who are casting ballots of abstention. Maybe they are telling us something; after all, they are the majority, and we do believe in democracy, don't we? Think about this for a few minutes and let it sink in. It could lead one to challenge many conventional assumptions about political messages and tactics.

David Van Os
Please contribute to my campaign at www.vanosfortexasag.com

Thanks again from deep in the bowels of Texas, with progress reports

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Wednesday May 24, 2006 · 9:56 PM PDT

2006/05/24 · 21:56

Thank you to the many participants of the Daily Kos community who commented in the thread to my previous Diary Entry. I have replied to most of the comments and they can be seen in that thread. Some of my postings in that thread are progress reports of my May 23-24 trip. Here's a bit more. Read More

Deep in the Bowels of Texas: Thank you to the Daily Kos Community

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Tuesday May 23, 2006 · 4:50 AM PDT

2006/05/23 · 04:50

To those of the Daily Kos community who have expressed your support for my mission to return the Attorney Generalship of the great state of Texas to the service of the people, you honor me greatly with your warm-hearted interest and support. I thank you profoundly. Read More

The consultantocracy

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Monday April 03, 2006 · 9:57 PM PDT

2006/04/03 · 21:57

Today the chief political writer of a major urban daily newspaper asked me what I meant by "consultantocracy." This is the answer I gave him. Read More

Dear Fellow Fighting Democrats, forget the irrelevant Senate Dems.

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Wednesday February 01, 2006 · 3:49 PM PST

2006/02/01 · 15:49

It is often lamented by many Democrats that Americans who believe Bush's pack of lies lack intelligence. I do not agree with this.

Don't blame it on the people for not seeing through the Bushite lies. That's blaming the victims for the crime. Blame it on the pathetic Beltway Democratic upper crust. The political process is an adversary process. In order for the public to perceive the truth when the dominant party is misleading them, there has to be an opposition party that fights for the truth, in both words and deeds. We don't have that. Democrats don't have that, hence America doesn't have it.

Actions speak far louder than words. Read More

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