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Saturday, August 02, 2003

 

We need Dean in Texas http://dean2004.blogspot.com/2003_08_02_unmedia_archive.html#105984241627387755

posted by Aziz P. at Saturday, August 02, 2003 permalink View blog reactions
I've got a post on my own blog that discusses how the redistricting issue hurts ordinary Texans like me. And this is part of a larger issue - Texas is not a monolith, in fact there are a lot of people here who are itching for a chance to speak out. This is why Dean's use of the $500,000 we raised for him in just four days is so brilliant - Dean can come here and rip the mask off the facade of Texas as "Bush country".

Beginning Monday, Howard Dean is going up on the air in Austin, Texas. In a television commercial recorded late this week, he will invite the people of Texas to join us in building the great grassroots campaign of the modern era-- whether by signing up online or using our new toll-free number, which will be revealed on Monday.*

The people of Texas know George W. Bush better than anyone. Throughout this campaign, Howard Dean has been standing up to George W. Bush, and what better place to stand up against what George W. Bush has done to the economy and our nation than in Bush's home state of Texas.


Monday will be a great day.

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Nation-Building was founded by Aziz Poonawalla in August 2002 under the name Dean Nation. Dean Nation was the very first weblog devoted to a presidential candidate, Howard Dean, and became the vanguard of the Dean netroot phenomenon, raising over $40,000 for the Dean campaign, pioneering the use of Meetup, and enjoying the attention of the campaign itself, with Joe Trippi a regular reader (and sometime commentor). Howard Dean himself even left a comment once. Dean Nation was a group weblog effort and counts among its alumni many of the progressive blogsphere's leading talent including Jerome Armstrong, Matthew Yglesias, and Ezra Klein. After the election in 2004, the blog refocused onto the theme of "purple politics", formally changing its name to Nation-Building in June 2006. The primary focus of the blog is on articulating purple-state policy at home and pragmatic liberal interventionism abroad.