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One of Tulsi's colleagues in Congress-- asked me for anonymity inorder to share some thoughts with me about her for DWT. I didn't ask her about Tulsi. She just brought her up on her own after she announced last week that she isn't running for reelection.

Tulsi never seems to have any problems with genocidal fascistsTulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign is going badly. Did anyone ever expect it to do better? She's a polarizing figure and I always guessed she was running for a cabinet or sub-cabinet position anyone. Her RealClearPolitics national polling average is 1.0. The new YouGov poll from The Economist. Brought more bad news when it was released yesterday.

The refurbished peace boat set sail on May 1, with its first leg taking it to Hawaii, reports Colonel Ann Wright. ‘Wave Maker’ Found Derelict in 2011  By Ann Wright Special to Consortium News A refurbished peace boat that left…Read more →

Racism in the U.S. Congress nearly derailed Hawaii becoming the 50th state, as Sarah Miller Davenport reports.     By Sarah Miller Davenport  University of Sheffield The Conversation  Sixty years ago, Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation making Hawaii America’s 50th state.…Read more →

A major spill of jet fuel in 2014 should have shut down this aging, leaking, storage complex, says Ann Wright. By Ann Wright in Honolulu Special to Consortium News The North Korean missile scare in Hawaii a year ago was…Read more →

Lee Cataluna, one of Hawaii's top political commentator's penned a column for the Star Advertiser Wednesday: Political Winds Of Change Are Felt, covering the announcement that state Sen. Kai Kahele will be challenging Tulsi Gabbard's reelection in a 2020 primary.

Stanley Chang is a progressive Democrat representing the 9th District in the Hawaii State Senate, which-- until he won his election, was the last Republican Senate district in Hawaii. Recently, he was named Chair of the Committee on Housing, which is tasked with finding solutions to Hawaii’s chronic housing shortage.A recent poll from the University of Hawaii Public Policy Center lists housing as the number one issue for voters in the State of Hawaii.

As I mentioned a few days ago, there are a shitload of really terrible candidates jumping into the quest for the Democratic nomination for president (and vice president). Today starts a new series to introduce you to the worst of them.

As you know, Blue America raises money for progressives running for office, primarily for the House, but also for the Senate, for a handful of

The day after Alexandria Ocasio's political earthquake-- her "unlikely" victory over a hack politician who had first been elected to office before she was born-- Chris Hayes had her on his MSNBC show for an interview. She made sure to endorse Kaniela Saito Ing on the program. A week later she dispatched one of her most trusted staffers to Honolulu to give Kaniela a hand with his campaign. The political establishment in Hawaii isn't enamored of the populist agenda that has powered boh Alexandria's of Kaniela's underdog races.