by Charles Cleveland The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the ACLU of cyberspace, and like the ACLU, they are working to preserve our rights.  If you can afford it, I urge you to go to www.eff.org to join and/or set up a monthly online tax-deductible donation to support the important work they do on our behalf.  If [...]

There seems to be a glitch in the otherwise smooth process of preparing new maps for California’s federal and state districts. The Citizens Redistricting Commission decided Saturday to skip a step in their process, and will not issue a second set of draft maps “in order to produce the best district maps possible.” The second [...]

As most of the nation pauses to celebrate the birth of these United States of America, Harvard University researchers are out with a study that may not mean all that much, but reminds Democrats of a struggle we have to win — taking back patriotism. The study, by Andreas Madestam and David Yanagizawa-Drott, finds that [...]

Each year on the fourth Monday in May, the nation pauses to honor those who have given their lives in the defense of our nation. The Escondido Allied Veterans Council holds a ceremony at Oak Hill Park each Memorial Day at 10 a.m. to honor and remember those who have died in support of freedom. [...]

May 22 is observed in California and across the nation as Harvey Milk Day, in remembrance of the first openly gay elected official in the United States. Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, and came to serve as an example and an inspiration to the movement for LGBT equality. [...]

President Obama launched his 2012 re-election campaign April 4 by filing papers with the Federal Elections Commission, sending an email to supporters, and posting a video on YouTube. Read coverage in The New York Times. Read coverage in the Washington Post. Read coverage in Politico.com. Sign up with the campaign at www.barackobama.com.

  César Chávez Day is observed in California on March 31 of each year as a day of service to the community in honor of his life and work. “We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice [...]

EDC is the subject of a feature story in the North County Times (Monday, April 12, 2010), resulting from the Club of the Year award by the San Diego County Democratic Party. Here’s the beginning of reporter David Garrick’s story: Democrats have been mostly an afterthought in staunchly conservative Escondido for decades, but the Escondido [...]