Okay, I haz a sad. Look at my poor Netroots for the Troops fundraising thermometer: Only 42% of my goal and the conference is in less than two weeks. Not sure if this is a worthy effort to drop a few dollars on? Read more about it HERE or watch this video: Are YOU going to Netroots Nation in a […]

NOTE: This is a repost of my previous diary. We are woefully short of meeting my goal of raising $2,500 for Netroots for the Troops and the Netroots Nation Conference is only a month away. Please consider joining TEAM ECLECTABLOG and making a donation. Even $10 is very helpful. And please consider sharing this on your Facebook page, tweeting it […]

Hi. I’m back again to talk about Netroots for the Troops, a project aimed at providing 600 CARE packages to men and women in the military who are stationed overseas. As I mentioned in my last blog about this, I have set up a team called “Team Eclectablog” (original, eh?) and have given myself a goal of raising $2,500 for […]

Every year at the Netroots Nation conference, a group of very hard-working, compassionate and caring people step up to help our men and women in the armed forces in an impressive way. They spend the year raising funds and soliciting contributions and then, in a several hour frenzy of activity, they assemble CARE packages to be sent to our troops […]

After having raised over $1,000 for the Netroots for the Troops efforts, I had the very sincere privilege of helping the Netroots for the Troops crew produce 300 CARE packages that were sent to men and women in the military in both Iraq and Afghanistan. I have pledged to try to help more next year and in future years until […]

Did you hear the one about the conservative that told a provably false, bald-faced lie to his conference attendees? “Netroots Nation is going down faster than Mel Gibson’s career,” Erik Telford of Americans for Prosperity told a laughing crowd at the Venetian casino gathered for the third annual RightOnline. AFP started RightOnline to counter Netroots Nation, celebrating its fifth anniversary […]

This afternoon I head off to Las Vegas for the Netroots Nation conference. The opening keynote speaker is Governor Brian Schweitzer from Montana and Senator Al Franken will do the closing speech. In between there will be tons of amazing people there including Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to my donation page for […]

I’m thrilled to say that next month I’ll be winging it to Las Vegas to attend the Netroots Nation conference. Netroots Nation is the biggest, most influential conference for progressive activists, bloggers and organizers in the country and I am totally thrilled to be going this year. From their website: The fifth annual gathering of the Netroots (formerly known as […]