So, what can you do? Maybe you don’t want to vote for Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party. Maybe you can’t bring yourself to vote for Jill Stein of the Green Party. You’re a Democrat, after all.

So, vote for Darcy Richardson. Darcy Richardson is a progressive Democrat, running for President as an alternative to Barack Obama. He’s on the ballot for the Democratic primary in several states.

See what Darcy Richardson stands for. Then, put this Darcy Richardson bumper sticker on your car. Tell your friends about the Richardson for President campaign. Then, most importantly, vote for Richardson!

Congressman Sam Farr was not among them. Unlike many of his colleagues, Representative Farr took a strong stand against the renewal of the most clearly unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act. Farr explained,

“I felt compelled to vote against extending the three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act that continue to give the government sweeping authority to spy on individuals inside the United States and, in some cases, without any suspicion of wrongdoing. These intrusive and sweeping powers stand in stark contrast to the fundamental individual privacy rights enshrined in the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution. All three surveillance provisions are unnecessary, they do not protect us against terrorism, and they should have been allowed to expire long ago. I am appalled by the blatant disregard for the civil liberties of innocent Americans who have absolutely no connection to the global war on terrorism, and I look forward to a time when these provisions are no longer the law of the land.”

You can stand with Sam Farr in his opposition to the Patriot Act. At noon tomorrow, March 12, 2011, Americans will gather in protest against the Patriot Act outside the U.S. Capitol. You can join them. For more day to day, simple activism, if you live in Washington D.C. or in the 17th congressional district of California, where Sam Farr comes from, you can place this bumper sticker on your car, with the simple message: I support Sam Farr.

Among the candidates is Marcy Winograd. She’s the most liberal of the Democratic candidates for California’s 36th congressional district. She has a strong history as an anti-war activist, and has consistently campaigned for renewable energy, single-payer health care reform, and constitutional rights (the actual constitutional rights that are in the Constitution, not the Tea Party fantasy version).

To support the Winograd for Congress campaign, volunteer, talk to your friends, donate if you want to. You also can put this bumper sticker on your car, to say I’m With Winograd for Congress in 2011!.

For those who don’t want to see the Alabama Democrats die out, the campaign to re-elect Sewell to Congress starts now. You can join in that effort with this bumper sticker expressing your support for Sewell in 2012.

It’s the Blue Dog Democrat strategy to a T – and it’s enabled Melancon to rise to the top of the right wing Blue Dog Coalition in the House of Representatives. The Blue Dog Democrats are like Melancon – voting like Republicans in Congress, but registered as Democrats for electoral advantage. Melancon has become the co-chair of the Blue Dogs, leading the charge as the Blue Dogs rip apart progressive Democratic legislation.

Charles Melancon thinks that kind of political two-timing has earned him a promotion, so this year, Melancon is campaigning to become Louisiana’s newest United States Senator. The bumper sticker you see here speaks to Melancon’s bid, reading, Melancon is too much like a Republican to get this Democrat’s vote.

Sanford Bishop consistently votes against the progressive values of his constituents, and in favor of the interests of corporate polluters. The Democrats of Georgia’s 2nd district deserve better – and it’s to them that this bumper sticker is designed to speak. Sanford Bishop? I want a real Democrat! – not a blue dog.

Bayh’s rather right wing attitude has led to some serious resentment among Indiana Democrats. That’s why many Democrats are withholding support for Bayh during his re-election campaign for 2010, and joining the insurgent campaign of Democratic challenger Tamyra d’Ippolito instead.

Where Senator Bayh works against progressive principles, d’Ippolito stands firm. On health care reform, issues of war and peace, the environment and the economy, d’Ippolito is unafraid to talk straight with Democratic voters, and represent their values. If you’re tired of seeing the Democratic Party sell you out over and over again, join the campaign of Tamyra d’Ippolito for US Senate, and show your support with this bumper sticker.

No, we don’t, and Democrats in Congress are the reason we don’t. In the House of Representatives, the Blue Dog Democrats wrecked health care reform. In the Senate, five right wing Democrats joined the Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee today to vote against a public option in health care reform. These five Democratic turncoats were:

Max Baucus
Blanche Lincoln
Kent Conrad
Bill Nelson
Tom Carper

Progressive organizations agree – without a public option health care reform is rendered virtually meaningless. Now, these right wing Democratic senators have killed the public option. They’ve ripped the heart out of Barack Obama’s reform program.

So what are we going to do about it? Sit around and mope? No. We’re going to teach these anti-progressive Democrats a lesson about what happens when leaders break promises made to progressives. The progressives get organized, and they fight back.

In Arkansas, John Gray is leading the charge. He is challenging Blanche Lincoln from the left, asking why Lincoln is abandoning Democratic Party promises and voting like a Republican instead.

Today, Gray responded right away when he heard that Blanche Lincoln had voted against Barack Obama’s public option. Gray linked Lincoln’s anti-reform vote to the large campaign donations she receives from insurance companies and other commercial entities that make a profit from the broken status quo. “She has a rather large campaign chest, almost half of which is from the medical industries,” Gray said. “The fact that she is loyal to her sponsors is not at all surprising.”

Gray pledged to support single payer health care instead of the pro-industry sham promoted by Senator Lincoln. By eliminating the commercial inefficiencies created by insurance companies, the Gray Health Plan would enable savings that would pay for health care coverage for all Americans.

Universal health care coverage – remember that promise? John Gray has not forgotten. That’s a darned good reason to vote John Gray for Senate in 2010.

Now, in 2009, voters see that they didn’t get what they thought they were voting for. Ann Kirkpatrick has turned her back on the progressive activists who fueled her campaign, and gone off to the House of Representatives to vote as if she were the second coming of Rick Renzi.

U.S. Representative Ann Kirkpatrick has worked to support just about every cockamamie far right wing idea that’s run through the back halls of Congress: Flag burning amendments to the Constitution, protecting government torturers, Star Wars missile defense boondoggles, even agitation against clean energy legislation.

What was the point of rank and file Democrats working so hard to put Ann Kirkpatrick in Congress, now that she’s acting like a Republican? Voter disgust at this hard right turn is what motivates this bumper sticker: Progressive Arizona Against Ann Kirkpatrick

Tomorrow in Alabama, for example, there will be a primary election to determine the Democratic nominee for United States Senate to go head to head against Jeff Sessions, the incumbent Republican.

My bet is on Vivian Figures, the most experienced, most coherent of all the Democratic contenders.

Figures is for strong education for all children, for trade that keeps jobs in the USA, for a health care system that serves all Americans instead of just the insurance companies, for an end to the drain of American dollars into the Iraq War. Vivian Figures isn’t a partisan ideologue out to score points. Her ideas for America just make sense.

Find out more at Figures2008.com – the official Vivian Figures for Senate campaign web site.