Hey there! Our BCDP Office is now open from Tuesday to Saturday. Swing by on Saturdays between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. for our Take Action ...

The BCDP Election Headquarters is staying open. We're not slowing down. We'll still be there for voters, recruiting candidates for 2026...

We are so grateful to everyone who generously contributed your time and effort over the past year. We simply could not do what we do...

OMG! Holy Moly! Unbelievable! On the second day it was open, I took a turn at Headquarters. It was nice. A table with some giveaways, a...

Great Ideas For Civic Engagement from the Brookings Institute Civic engagement is the glue that holds self-government together....

Want to give the BCDP prime, long-lasting visibility and help the Earth at the same time? Consider adopting a highway, mile, stream, or...

Our 2024 Election Headquarters are open. Stop by and visit. Our January hours are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, from 11am-2pm. We'll...

Trump Talking Points - Lest You Forget “Grab them by the p***y.” “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I...

What Can I Do? # 5 Want to educate yourself? Thinking of running for office? Want to volunteer?...

Here’s a list of 25 ideas of things you can do to help get a Democrat elected. Door knocking - Work at the...

Probably none of us are the Koch brothers or a Super Pac. Both are groups that pour out millions of dollars to influence elections....

One-third of all registered voters in Blount County are Democrats! Let me repeat that. ⅓ of all registered voters in Blount County are...

Without Democrats on the ballot your vote, money, efforts and hopes don’t really matter. We must have a candidate for every position in...

In 2010 the Supreme Court changed money in the political world with the Citizen United Decision. The Court decided in that decision that...

In March we had a post on this blog describing how our elections came to exist on a Tuesday in November. We have all experienced the...

When I taught History and the class discussed the Declaration of Independence I always emphasized Thomas Jefferson’s words “all men are...

President Biden and Speaker McCarthy have managed to hammer out a compromise on the debt ceiling. In the time we live in that is a major...

On August 8, 2008 a student of Central High School in Knoxville walked into the cafeteria before school had started and fatally shot a...

We have all grown up victims of book publishers, Hollywood and TV producers who created the myth of the Wild West. That myth is the...

President Franklin Roosevelt in his first term faced the one of the greatest economic challenges in our history, the Great Depression. ...