• After Downing Street - In support of a resolution inquiry
  
  
• AlterNet - A highly acclaimed Internet information source that provides readers with crucial facts and passionate opinions they can't find anywhere else.
  
  
• American Civil Liberties Union - The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty. We work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Our job is to conserve America's original civic values - the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
  
  
• America Coming Together - The U.S. Senate is considering legislation, the “527 Reform Act of 2005” that would severely limit your ability to have a voice and an impact on the political debate.
  
  
• American Progress - The American Progress Action Fund is the sister advocacy organization of the Center for American Progress. The Action Fund transforms progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world.
  
  
• Borgen Project - The goals of a relief agency, the calculated approach of a corporation, and the structure of a political campaign; the organization is strategically bringing poverty reduction to the political agenda.
  
  
• Buzzflash - Daily headlines and breaking news
  
  
• Center for American Progress - Progressive ideas for a strong, just, and free America
  
  
• The Center for Media and Democracy (PR Watch) - The Center for Media and Democracy is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen democracy by promoting media that are "of, by and for the people" - genuinely informative and broadly participatory - and by removing the barriers and distortions of the modern information environment that stem from government- or corporate-dominated, hierarchical media.
  
  
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - One of the nation's premier policy organizations working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals.
  
  
• Citizens for Tax Justice - A 501 (c)(4) public interest research and advocacy organization focusing on federal, state and local tax policies and their impact upon our nation. CTJ's mission is to give ordinary people a greater voice in the development of tax laws.
  
  
• Common Cause - a nonpartisan nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 by John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest.
  
  
• Common Dreams News Center - Breaking news and views for the progressive community
  
  
• Corporate Watch - Corporations have gained a power out of all proportion to their original purpose. This is a research group supporting the campaigns which are increasingly successful in forcing corporations to back down. It is part of the growing anti-corporate movement springing up around the world.
  
  
• Death Penalty Information Center - a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. The Center was founded in 1990 and prepares in-depth reports, issues press releases, conducts briefings for journalists, and serves as a resource to those working on this issue. The Center is widely quoted and consulted by all those concerned with the death penalty.
  
  
• Democracy Now - A national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 300 stations in North America
  
  
• Der Spiegel English Site - I wish more German periodicals had English-language pages available. The American press is becoming so dysfunctional on international issues (and not just those!), what would we do without the Internet and quick access to European and other news services?
  
  
• Drum Major Institute for Public Policy - A non-profit organization dedicated to challenging the tired orthodoxies of both the right and the left. The goal: progressive public policy for social and economic fairness.
  
  
• Dunklin Democrat - Links to Gene Lyons' weekly columns for the (Arkansas) Daily Dunklin Democrat. Lyons is the co-author with Joe Conason of The Hunting of the President about the Clinton "scandals." Lyons is one of the best political columnists around.
  
  
• Emerging Democratic Majority, The - The Emerging Democratic Majority website and E-newsletter has its roots in the influential 2002 book by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira. The book's startling thesis - that demographic trends are inexorably creating the conditions for a solid and enduring democratic majority - heartened Democrats and dismayed Republicans across the nation.
  
  
• FAIR Fitness and Accuracy In Reporting - The national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled.
  
  
• Free Speech Network - a national television channel that reflects the diversity of our society, provides perspectives that are under-represented or ignored by the mainstream media, and shines a national spotlight on engaged citizens working for progressive social change.
  
  
• Iraq Occupation Watch Information Center - a news and information resource focusing on the U.S./coalition occupation of Iraq.
  
  
• John Dean Article Index - Links to John Dean's (usually biweekly) columns on legal and political affairs for Findlaw
  
  
• League of Conservation Voters - The political voice of the environmental movement
  
  
• Media Matters for America - Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation -- news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda -- every day, in real time.
  
  
• MoveOn.Org - MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people back into politics. With a system that today revolves around big money and big media, most citizens are left out. When it becomes clear that our "representatives" don´t represent the public, the foundations of democracy are in peril.
  
  
• Nation, The - The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred.
  
  
• New Republic, The - Online version of the popular magazine.
  
  
• Nizkor Project - Dedicated to 12 million Holocaust victims who suffered and died at the hands of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime
  
  
• OpenDemocracy - an online global magazine of politics and culture.
  
  
• Pacifica Radio - Bringing listeners alternative, community, free speech, listener sponsored radio for 56 years
  
  
• Parameters - US Army War College quarterly journal that gives a good measure of how serious Army strategists are processing events and interpreting recent history
  
  
• Path to Freedom - Provides pathways to living a self-sufficient lifestyle in an urban setting
  
  
• Peak Oil - Peak oil is the point in time when extraction of oil from the earth reaches its highest point and then begins to decline. We won't be able to say with certainty when we have reached peak oil until after the fact. Many experts say we have already reached the peak. Others say not yet, but within the next few years.
  
  
• People for the American Way - We're fighting to maintain and expand 50 years of legal and social justice progress that right-wing leaders are trying to dismantle. We won't let them turn back the clock on our rights and freedoms
  
  
• Political Compass, The - The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left' , established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape.
  
  
• Progressive Review - An online journal and archive of alternative news and information
  
  
• Public Campaign - A non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to sweeping reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics.
  
  
• Separation of Church and State - The Separation of Church and State principle is a part of our historical, legal and political / social heritage and preserves and protects our religious liberty. Our page is devoted to exploring the nature and purpose of this principle in an effort to educate the public. We also intend this page to provide a resource to anyone involved in the on-going Church and State debate.
  
  
• Sojourners - A Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the Biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice
  
  
• Theocracy Watch - Theocracy Watch raises awareness about the pervasive role of the Religious Right in the U.S. government.
  
  
• Tikkun - We are an international community of people of many faiths calling for social justice and political freedom in the context of new structures of work, caring communities, and democratic social and economic arrangements.
  
  
• Tom Paine's Common Sense - TomPaine.com is for people who want to keep in touch with the progressive community but don't have time to surf dozens of websites. We do it for you. It's also for people who care about the progressive cause and are looking for an online home.
  
  
• Truthout - From issues to townmeeting, the media to the environment
  
  
• United For A Fair Economy - UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. We support and help build social movements for greater equality.
  
  
• United States Department of Faith - USDOF proposal to amend the United States Constitution to conform to Biblical principles regarding marriage
  
  
• Working for Change - an online journal of progressive news and opinion published by Working Assets. Visit on a daily basis to read the latest dispatches from nationally syndicated reporters and columnists including Molly Ivins, Robert Scheer, and Greg Palast.

• ABC News: Politics - Political news and features.
• Balanced Politics.og - Dedicated to fair and balanced discussion of several societal issues.
• Ballot Access News - Free online version of newsletter reporting on third-party and independent candidates' efforts to obtain fair access to the ballots and elections.
• Bulletin News - The White House Bulletin, The Frontrunner and The Morning Digest, daily on-line subscription-based publications covering politics and policy in both Washington, DC and the US.
• Capitol Grilling - The Political Parlor Game - Insider Scoop, Rumor and Gossip for the Washington DC Political Insider.
• Capitol Spotlight - Online weekly newsletter dedicated to reporting on key votes on Capitol Hill.
• CapitolStrategy.com - Links to the political web sites, political pages in newspapers in all 50 states, electronic media sites.
• Capitolwire - Provides news important to state and local governments (subscription service).
• The Center for Public Integrity - Nonprofit, nonpartisan organization works to provide the American people with the findings of our investigations and analyses of public service, government accountability and ethics related issues. Features news, projects and reports.
• CNN AllPolitics - Cable News Network's political section.
• Congressional Quarterly - A source of factual news in American politics.
• C-SPAN - Video clips of televised coverage. Features special series archives.
• FactCheck.org - Annenberg Political Fact Check - Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Offers email newsletter. From the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
• The Hill - Weekly Washington, DC newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress.
• The Hill Politics - Political commentary, message board forums, and relevant political issues in the news.
• Intelligence Review - Investigative analysis of political issues.
• Jack O'Toole - Politics, culture and ideas from a center-left perspective.
• Joyce Communications - Communications firm that produces Eye On Washington and Max Cleland's Washington Report television programs and publishes Nevada's Washington Watch newsletter.
• Left, Right, and Center - Directory of links to political columnists, magazines and humor from around the US.
• Liberty Lost - A news site covering the daily intrusions on American rights and abuses of American power.
• New Democratic Dimensions - Political organization with forums, conferences and a cable TV show.
• New York Times: Politics - Expansive coverage of federal and state plus access to C-Span video coverage of the presidential race, and video of campaign advertisements.
• The Pelican File - Headline links to politics and public policy news and commentary.
• PoliSource.com - Provides politically and socially oriented news and editorials, a political search engine, an image gallery, and categorized pages of editor-selected web resources.
• Political News by Political Star - News coverage on American politics from all sides of the political spectrum.
• Political News Daily - Political news updated daily from the AP, Reuters, NY Times, and the Washington Post. Site also includes useful political sites.
• Politics Now - Political updates from the National Journal group.
• Politics Web Directory - A web directory with categories for political news, both national and local. This web directory is non-partisan and politically unbiased.
• PR Newswire - Washington and the World - Up-to-the-minute source for news and press releases about Congressional and State legislation.
• Public i - An investigative report from the Center for Public Integrity. Includes news reports, and political commentary.
• Radical Middle Political Newsletter - Ezine covering policy issues, conferences, and books in the fields of politics, government, law, business, and foreign affairs. Edited by Mark Satin.
• RealClear Politics - News, political opinion and commentary, and the political issues of the day.
• Roll Call - Bi-weekly publication featuring news from Capitol Hill.
• Spinsanity - Column which analyzes political and media rhetoric and criticizes "spin" and punditry. Includes archive and e-mail list information.
• Taegan Goddard's Political Wire - Daily collection of links to political and current affairs news on the Internet.
• Tech Central Station - Politics - Offers a free market perspective on the news.
• Think & Ask - Nonprofit news agency offers articles that reflect the geopolitical movements and cultural references of the day. Features the top ten stories of the year, history, author's biography and submission guidelines.
• U.S. Politics: Current Events - About.com - Links, articles and other recources about current events in the United States.
• U.S. Politics Today - Non-partisan news service for political professionals. Features editor picks and e-mail subscription.
• The Washington Chronicle - Covering liberal, conservative, Democratic and Republican politics and elections through commentary and reporting.
• Washington Post: On Politics - Political news and opinions.
• The Weekly Standard - Cover story and selected features from the current issue available free online. Full issue, search and archives for subscribers only.
• Zogby's Real America - A public opinion newsletter.

• Wired News: Politics - Politics news from the monthly magazine. [RSS]

• Comparative Democratization Project - A Stanford University project studying emerging democracies. Features a large directory of Internet resources, a collection of syllabi from leading democracy scholars, and seminar papers.
• International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) - A plan to transform the ruthless competition of globalization into global cooperation.

• About Democracy - Details how "the essence of Democracy" the way Greeks from antiquity meant it and lived it is the exact opposite of our so-called "democracies" of today.
• Ballot Initiative Strategy Center - An organization dedicated to helping progressives participate in launching ballot intiatives and democratic action.
• Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - One of the four bureaus that comprise the Office of the Under Secretary for Global Affairs. Responsibilities include promoting democracy worldwide, formulating U.S. human rights policies, and coordinating policy in human rights-related labor issues.
• Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD) - "Main Objectives are to promote democratic and free-market values, to publicize the major achievements of Western democratic thought, and to encourage a non-partisan theoretical analysis of the problems of the post-communist transition process in Georgia and the Caucasus region."
• Celestial Democracy - Scientologist site on democracy and political philosophy.
• Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development (CCSDD) - Johns Hopkins University institute providing research and training for individuals and groups from countries undergoing the process of democratic transition in Central and South Eastern Europe, as well as North Africa. Site provides publications, conference information, and activist resources.
• Center for International Policy - Founded in 1975 to promote a U.S. foreign policy that reflects democratic values.
• Center for New Community - Works to revitalize community toward democracy, justice, and racial equality. Includes a calendar of events and resources.
• Center for the Evolution of Democracy - A non-profit organization dedicated to the task of making new ideas and information available for the purpose of democratizing undemocratic systems, and for improving democratic processes that are still only partially realized.
• Center for Voting and Democracy - Provides information to the public about the impact of voting systems on political representation, proportional representation, voter turnout, and the influence of money in elections.
• Centre for Democracy and Development - A non-profit, non governmental, institution dedicated to policy-oriented scholarship on questions of democratic development and peace-building in West Africa. Site includes press releases, strategy statement, current projects and publications, and partner organizations.
• CITIDEP - A non-profit, multi-national research institution on participatory democracy, with focus on the impact of information technologies. Site lists activities, research areas, papers, and events.
• CommonBorders - A non-partisan organization of volunteer international election observers based in Victoria, British Columbia. Site describes activities in Latin America, lists goals and objectives, and provides application form.
• Democracies Online - Promoting the development and sustainability of online civic participation and democracy efforts around the world through experience, outreach, and education.
• Democracy Coalition Project - An Open Society Institute initiative supporting civil society coalitions around the world that promote democratic reforms.
• Democracy Watch - An independent, non-profit, non-partisan Canadian citizen advocacy organization seeking to empower Canadians as voters, citizens, taxpayers, and consumers.
• Electoral Systems - Includes information about electoral systems of the world, as well as a focus on proportional representation.
• Ethic of Citizenship - Introduces the book "Toward an Ethic of Citizenship Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21st Century".
• Foundation for Democracy in Africa - A Washington based non-profit, nonpartisan organization focused on strengthening and enhancing the fundamental principles of democracy, and freedom in Africa.
• Free China Movement - Information and statements from the movement, with a discussion forum.
• IDEA - International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance - Objective is to promote and advance sustainable democracy and to improve and consolidate electoral processes world-wide.
• Improving Democracy - Essays on the functioning of different forms of democracy and suggestions for improvement.
• Indonesia: The People's Resistance in Indonesia [CSVI] - The Indonesian Page of People Movement for Justice and Democracy.
• Institute for Multiparty Democracy IMD - Supports the process of democratisation in young democracies. Based in The Hague, Guatemala and Maputo (Mozambique).
• International Republican Institute - Non-partisan Washington, DC-based group which conducts programs outside the United States to promote democracy and strengthen free markets and the rule of law. Site lists activities, volunteer opportunities, links, and historical speeches.
• International Resource Center for Democracy (IRCD) - An independent endeavor to make scholarly ideas and information on democracy more accessible, housed at Indiana University. Links to political and activist resources as well as constitutions, elections, human rights, and regionally oriented sites.
• Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) - The world organization of parliaments. Site about parliamentary democracy, elections, human rights, participation of women in politics, and about how it all works on the level of national legislative institutions and internationally.
• Islamic Iran Participation Front - Promoting democracy in Iran.
• MajorityVoice.com - A free, non-partisan, local/global, issue-specific, democratic forum system designed to enable humanity to define, proclaim and achieve common goals.
• Maximiliano Herrera Human Rights Site - Personal site dedicated to the promotion of the freedom and the democracy around the world. Includes international election calendar, freedom ratings, links to international media and organizations, and a list of countries facing political instability.
• A More Perfect Union - Challenges to American Democracy are discussed within this website, along with sociological views of government. ThinkQuest semifinalist.
• National Democratic Institute for International Affairs - Non-profit organization associated with the Democratic Party of the United States. Site describes current programs and research projects on the development of democracy, as well as a searchable resource exchange for democratic activists and practitioners.
• National Endowment for Democracy - A private, nonprofit, grant-making organization created to strengthen democratic institutions around the world. Offers access to research and analysis of democratic development around the world.
• Network Democracy - Projects involve the use of Internetworking technologies to facilitate public participation in the processes of state, local and federal governments.
• Network for Economic and Political Democracy - Aims to create the conditions for an alternative to New Labour and a new, truly democratic society.
• On Plato's Criticism of Democracy - Essay accepting Plato's observations of the weaknesses of democracy, but recognizing that the weaknesses can be minimized.
• PSI - Defining Georgian Democracy - Partnership for Social Initiatives' fundamental goal is to help develop and advance democratic institutions and beliefs in Georgia.
• Ratifiers for Democracy - A democratic model that harmonizes representative and direct democracy, to ensure that legislation is citizen-mandated, and to be a loophole-free way to clean up the control that money and special interests now have in politics.
• StateDemocracy.com - Aims to increase the American public's participation in the legislative processes for more democratic representation. Reports current events in Congress and State legislatures and offers communication between Citizens, legislators and interest groups.
• Time to Reengineer Democracy? - An invitation to a broad discussion to explore a reengineering of democracy for the better of all people on earth.
• UNDP Democratization and Governance - United Nations conference on new or restored democracies; documents, statements, links, and related General Assembly resolutions available.
• Universal Franchise - Articles, links, bibliographies on the intersections of citizenship, democracy, ethnicity, nationality; advocates that voting be opened to non-citizens. Mainly in French, some content in English and Dutch.
• Websters World of Cultural Democracy - A Web center for information and discussion about the world of cultural democracy.
• The Western Democratic Tradition - An explanation and description of the western democratic tradition by a professor of constitutional law.
• Wikipedia: Democracy - Definition from an open content encyclopedia.
• World Citizen Foundation - Nonprofit nonpartisan think-tank dedicated to the design of solutions to international problems based on the fundamental principles of equal human dignity, liberty, democracy and constitutionally protected basic rights of all. Activities, resources, volunteer information, staff, and petitions.
• World Movement for Democracy - Nongovernmental effort to strengthen democracy where it is weak, to reform and invigorate democracy even where it is longstanding, and to bolster pro-democracy groups in countries that have not yet entered into a process of democratic transition.
• The World Wide Democracy Network - Aims to link people wishing to contribute to the development of a new paradigm of democracy based on soft-systems thinking and complexity theory.

1040.Com -Tax info. 
All US Govt Servers -Plus email addresses. 
BLS -Bureau of Labor Statistics, job outlook. 
Business Advisor -Business to government link. 
CDC -Center for Disease Control. 
Census Bureau - 
CIA -Central Intelligence Agency. 
CIC -Consumer Information Center in Pueblo, CO. Free govt info.
Congressional Email Directory -
DOC  -U.S. Department Of Commerce. 
DOE  -U.S. Department of Energy. 
DOEd -U.S. Department of Education. 
DOI  -U.S. Department of the Interior. 
DOJ -U.S. Department of Justice. 
DOT -U.S. Department of Transportation. 
EDGAR -SEC's database of corporae information. 
EPA -Environmental Protection Agency. 
FBI -Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
FCC -Federal Communications Commission. 
Federal Jobs Digest -Private source of federal job info. 
FEMA -Federal Emergency Management Agency. 
FedWorld - An index of U.S. government information servers. 
FindLaw -Legal search engine, great for searching statutes. 
FirstGov -Portal to all US government info
GovBot -Search over 500,000 govt web pages.
GPO/ Access -Government Printing Office.
GPO/ GILS -Government Information Locator Service. 
GPO/ Pathway -Another GPO SE
GSA -U.S. General Services Administration 
Heritage Foundation -Conservative group.
HHS -U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 
IRS -Internal Revenue Service, tax info, forms and updates. 
Judicial Watch -Battling government corruption
LLF -Landmark legal foundation, challenged Clinton corruption.
LOC -Library of Congress. 
MOCAT -Monthly catalog of govt publications
NASA -National Aeronautical and Space Administration. 
NARA -National Archives and Records Administration. 
NCO -National Coordination Office. 
NII -National Information Infrastructure Bluebook. 
NPR -National Performance Review. 
NREL -National Renewable Energy Laboratory. 
NSF -National Science Foundation. 
NTIA -National Telecommunications Information Administration. 
ORCA -Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment.
Political Information -A Search Engine for Politics & Policy
Public Safety -Public safety search engine
SBA -Small Business Administration. 
The Smithsonian Institution - 
SSA -Social Security Administration. 
STAWRS (AKA Tax.Gov) -The Simplified Tax and Wage Reporting System
offers employers/businesses a one-stop guide to federal and state tax
and wage reporting information, hiring employees, and
reporting requirements. 
THOMAS -U.S. Congress on the internet. Legislation information. 
USTREAS -U.S. Department of the Treasury. 
USF&W -U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 
USF&W/ RS -U.S. Fish and Wildlife Refuge System. 
USGS -U.S. Geological Survey. 
US House -U.S. House Of Representatives. 
US Senate -U.S. Senate. 
USPTO -U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 
USPS -U.S. Postal Service, zip codes, address changes, etc.. 
U.S. State Department Travel Advisories -Warnings about terrorism. 
VA -U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.