The Motley Moose
  • Home
  • Featured Posts
  • Editors’ Choice
  • News & Opinion
    • Biden-Harris White House
    • Motley Megaphone
    • It Takes a Village
    • Obama White House
  • Just Grazin’
    • Fiction
    • Our World in Images
  • Community
  • The Moose
    • Recent Post Feed
    • Comment Feed
    • Moose Admin Posts
    • FAQ – Getting Started
    • FAQ – How to Log In
    • FAQ – How to Compose a Post
    • About
  • My Moose
HomeDemocratic Party Principles

Democratic Party Principles

Democratic Party Values

It Takes A Village – HNV Tuesday: We are Democrats, and That Means Something 6/20/19

June 20, 2017 DoReMI 14

It’s often said, probably with a great degree of accuracy, that a party platform is forgotten soon after a convention is over.  For the next few weeks, I intend to turn conventional wisdom on its […]

Election 2016

Michelle Obama: “When they go low, we go high”

September 17, 2016 JanF 2

Yesterday, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke to a crowd at George Mason University in Fairfax VA about the upcoming election. She reminded people of what is at stake and how important it is to vote. […]

Election 2016

Hillary Clinton: “Hold every candidate accountable”

February 19, 2016 JanF 4

On Wednesday, former Secretary of State and current Democratic Party presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, spoke at the Schomburg Center in Harlem. It was not an ordinary stump speech – because this was no ordinary venue […]

Election 2016

Democratic Party Principles: An Energy Program for the Future

September 25, 2015 JanF 3

Senate Democrats unveiled their energy bill this past Tuesday. There is not much hope that the bill will be passed and signed into law but it is an important step in defining where Democrats stand […]

Editors' Choice

80 years ago today: The Social Security Act of 1935

August 14, 2015 JanF 5

On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat, signed the Social Security Act into law. Since that time, Social Security has been protected by Democratic presidents and Democratic Congresses. FDR signing Social Security into […]

Editors' Choice

Working together towards a common goal

July 21, 2015 JanF 21

The latest dustup in the progressive blogosphere has exposed a rift in the progressive movement. It is something that should not be a rift and maybe it does not reach the level of rift but […]

Editors' Choice

Working Towards Our More Perfect Union: The Civil Rights Act of 1964

July 4, 2015 JanF 8

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Democrat, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 The act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin and gave […]

Featured Posts

Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

Featured Posts
March 20, 2026 3
Today, March 20th, at 7:46am Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]

Spring is in the air!

Featured Posts
February 1, 2026 2
At the beginning of February, when much of the north appears frozen and lifeless, there are stirrings below the surface and in the sky. The light is returning; today there is nearly an hour more [...]
Featured Posts

Welcome, Returning Light!

December 21, 2025 5
The winter solstice “occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, the term is [...]
Featured Posts

Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

September 22, 2025 3
An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The latitudes +L [...]
Featured Posts

“Give Thanks for the Blessings”

August 1, 2025 3
Happy Lammas!! Hey, wait just a minute! Those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all! Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the [...]

Recent Posts

  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 22nd March 21, 2026
  • Springing into Spring – No Kidding! March 20, 2026
  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 15th March 14, 2026
  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 8th March 7, 2026
  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 1st February 28, 2026

Legacy Motley Moose

Motley Moose – July 2008 to May 2015

Motley Moose Archives by Month

Recent Comments

  • JanF on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 22nd
  • JanF on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 22nd
  • Diana in NoVa on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 22nd
  • bfitzinAR on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 22nd
  • anotherdemocrat on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 22nd

Blog Roll

Legacy Motley Moose – Archive

Balloon Juice
Black Kos
Booman Tribune
Charlie Pierce
Ed Kilgore – NY Mag
Horizons (Smartypants)
Norbrook’s Blog
Peter Jukes
P.M. Carpenter
Stonekettle Station
Talking Points Memo (TPM)
Washington Monthly
Wonkette

Search the Moose

Moose Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • Home
  • Editors’ Choice
  • Featured Posts
  • News and Opinion
  • Biden-Harris White House
  • The Obama White House
  • Motley Megaphone
  • It Takes a Village
  • Just Grazin’
  • Fiction
  • Our World in Images
  • Community
  • About the Motley Moose
  • FAQ – Getting Started at the Moose
  • My Moose

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
RSS NPR
  • Supreme Court declines to review press freedom case March 23, 2026
  • Voice of America staffers sue, alleging Kari Lake put on propaganda March 23, 2026
  • Trump delays strikes on Iran's power plants for 5 days. And, ICE deploys to airports March 23, 2026
  • Trump delays striking Iran's power plants for 5 days during 'productive conversations' March 23, 2026
  • What does a 'GLP-1 Friendly' diet look like? We asked nutritionists March 23, 2026
  • Mapping ICE's expanding footprint, and the communities fighting back March 23, 2026
  • Worried about a shaky stock market? This is what financial advisers suggest you do March 23, 2026
  • As D.C.'s cherry blossom trees near peak bloom, here's a guide to their history March 23, 2026
RSS Guardian – US News
  • Middle East crisis live: Trump says both Iran and US ‘want to make a deal’ and claims they will talk today March 23, 2026
  • Buddha’s birthday preparations and horseback goat-grabbing: photos of the day – Monday March 23, 2026
  • Actor Alan Ritchson filmed allegedly assaulting neighbor in front of his kids March 23, 2026
  • Pope Leo says planes should be ‘carriers of peace, never of war’ March 23, 2026
  • Leonid Radvinsky, owner of OnlyFans, dies aged 43 March 23, 2026
  • TSA lines stretch for hours as Trump deploys ICE agents to US airports March 23, 2026
  • Pilot and co-pilot killed after Air Canada jet collision at LaGuardia New York March 23, 2026
  • John Oliver on police stings: ‘might actually be doing more harm than good’ March 23, 2026
RSS Lawyers, Guns and Money Blog
  • Iran war over for today at least March 23, 2026
  • Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,105 March 23, 2026
  • The power of utterly delusional thinking March 23, 2026
  • Who lost Russiagate? March 22, 2026
  • Our Official Policy is “Let’s Blow Some Shit Up” March 22, 2026
RSS ProPublica
  • Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids March 23, 2026
  • Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments March 23, 2026
  • ProPublica Adds Ownership Search to Nursing Home Inspect Database March 23, 2026
  • The Number of Families Being Held at Dilley Detention Center Has Plummeted March 20, 2026
  • DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator March 20, 2026
RSS BBC – World News
  • US' and Iran's options for ending war narrow the longer it goes on March 23, 2026
  • What we know about the LaGuardia Airport crash March 23, 2026
  • OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43 March 23, 2026
  • Nigerian police arrest 15 after viral videos of alleged sexual assault at festival March 23, 2026
  • Oil falls and shares rebound after Trump says talks have been held to end war March 23, 2026
RSS BBC – Latin America
  • National blackout hits Cuba for second time in a week March 22, 2026
  • BBC in Cuba as island plunged into darkness March 22, 2026
  • Car stolen with two-month-old baby inside March 20, 2026
  • Venezuelan leader replaces senior military commanders March 20, 2026
  • Mexican teen dies while being held in US immigration custody March 20, 2026
  • Home
  • Editors’ Choice
  • Featured Posts
  • News and Opinion
  • Biden-Harris White House
  • The Obama White House
  • Motley Megaphone
  • It Takes a Village
  • Just Grazin’
  • Fiction
  • Our World in Images
  • Community
  • About the Motley Moose
  • FAQ – Getting Started at the Moose
  • My Moose

Copyright © 2026 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes