The Progressive Democrat Newsletter grew out of the frustration of the 2004 election. Having organized protests against the Republican Convention, I found I had a core of activists who were looking to me for support after Bush "won" re-"election". My carefully thought out suggestions as to where we could go from that defeat led to this more-or-less weekly newsletter.

This week I highlight a couple of primaries progressive Democrats need to focus on for 2008, I revisit the Katrina 11 (the 11 Republicans who voted against helping Katrina victims), I highlight MoveOn.org's efforts for our children's healthcare, I discuss how serious global warming is becoming and how we REALLY need to all act now, and I highlight some local stuff going on in Virginia, New York State, New York City and Colorado.

The 2006 elections can be won, but only with considerable effort on our parts. We all know this. In an attempt to focus our attention and donations, I have compiled a list of the Republicans most deserving of being targeted right now. There are actually two lists. The first combines an Act Blue list of the ten weakest Republican incumbents with the National Journal's ranking of the comparative liberal/conservative votes of a Representative. That combination yields three particularly conservative and particularly vulnerable Republicans we all should target for defeat.

The second list targets the most conservative of the Republicans who voted against aid to Katrina victems. I figure the mixture of callousness and conservativism of these Republicans means we should target them simply out of principle regardless of how vulnerable they are. This analysis with links to Act Blue sites is below.