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Covering the Left Side of the Dial Since 2011. A place where amateur radio (ham radio) operators on Daily Kos can meet up, discuss matters important to the hobby, and potentially meet on the air for live discussion. Topics may also include the use of amateur radio for disaster relief. 73 and see you around the bands.

Solar, wind, geothermal, waves, fuel cells, solar collectors, fusion / fission, radiant heat, hybrid technology, Alternative energy in all its myriad forms. Anything but oil. Unsustainable hydrocarbons as an energy source is so 19th century.

Created to facilitate conversations about race and racism. We invite people to share their personal experiences and perspectives. We will also be providing links to interesting articles and teaching tools. We plan to republish relevant posts from other groups and writers at Daily Kos.

(THE WORKING CLASS OCCUPY MOVEMENT HAS MOVED BEYOND JUST WALL STREET)! Our group was Co founded by METEOR BLADES and DEMOCRATS RAMSHIELD. Meet our blog editors which are some of your favorate writers: teacherken,slinkerwink,X,Laurence Lewis,boatsie,LaFeminista,Eclectablog, MinistryOfTruth,xxdr zombiexx,Barbara Morrill,JekyllnHyde,Jake McIntyre, Eclectablog,Ojibwa,icebergslim,BruinKid,CityLightsLover,Mentatmark to name but a few. As members of the MOST PROLIFIC AND LARGEST GROUP AT THE DAILY KOS...

Community Quilts are a way of sharing care, compassion and support for community members who are facing illness or other hardships.

The Cranky Users group was founded in 2011 for DKos users who thought DK4 was scary or weird or hard to figure out. We made our way through DK4 and DK5, and now we're back! We're still gonna hold hands, help each other out, ask dumb questions, and laugh ourselves silly, this time as we navigate the jump to WordPress. Follow the group or the #CrankyUsers tag.

Welcome to the Daily Kos Phazebook social networking group. We are destined to become the Daily Kos largest social networking site. Are you interested in having a virtual phaze to phaze meeting with your favorite Daily Kos author or commentator? If so check out their personal DKos phazebook diary because now they and you have an opportunity to make a diary introducing yourself and your interests and you're not restricted to a few sentences or a single graphic. This is Daily Kos social networkin...

This group, founded by noweasels, comes together for a blogathon a few times a year to help raise money to fill foodbanks.

A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, one quilt at a time.

Who we are:

We are Jews, proud and unapologetic. We practice our faith the way we see fit, not the way antisemites, the ignorant, fundamentalists of all stripes, or others who would wish us ill would like to pretend we do. Some of us are very religiously observant, others are deeply secular; Jewish identity is highly salient for some of us and just one identity among many for others. But all of us here are progressive Jews. And although we recognize that th...

If America sneezes, Europe catches a cold. So why no share flu jabs? This (tentative) group is a place where Americans can unashamedly show their ignorance of Europe, and Europeans can show their ignorance of the US. Oh, and both inform each other.

I'd love for this group to be THE place for all things Rachel Maddow & Keith Olbermann; I hope you'll join us!

Global expats membership is open to everyone. This site is ran by people with international interest that include immigration to the United States and the rest of the world. This site is ran primarily by current and former expats, (or those who are interested in international issues) for the benefit of the Kos community and as a service to our members. The international expat community residing abroad has a responsibility to tell the folks back home what their experience is living overseas unde...

Once the name of a regularly-appearing series on DK3, History for Kossacks is now a DK4 group blog dedicated to the discussion and diarying of all things historical. Topics range from the impact of a'a' lava on ancient Hawaii to Zoroastrianism in Persia; time frame is from Australopithecus to Zulu hours today - so come on in to this dusty cave full of moldering tomes, have a seat in an overstuffed chair, and let's talk history!

A series about the invisibility of People of Color, women, LGBTQI, homeless, immigrants, farm workers, the working middle class/underclass, religious/spiritual minority groups, people with disabilities, etc. and the tools used to keep us invisible. Understanding and fighting against invisibility in all contexts can help build a stronger, larger coalition.

Welcome to Jews for President Obama. We believe that President Obama has been a good president and is an outstanding friend to the Jewish People and to the State of Israel. Please join us in supporting the President's re-election this year.

Dedicated to accelerating the transitions to clean renewable and sustainable energy generation, and conservation. Encouraging and publishing solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, energy, as well as conservation, and technologically based efficiency improvement. And, supporting the efforts of the MIT CoLab project

A group to explore and share sustainable, simple living ideas among fellow progressives. For the urban, rural, or wannabe homesteader, this is a place to share information to simplify everyday life. Sustainable skills such as gardening, food production and storage, do-it-yourself projects for the home or farm, and backyard chickens and other livestock, as well as eco-conscious philosophies such as cooperative living, eco-cities, the Slow Food movement, and being a mindful consumer are but a few...

The intersection of Gay and Politics for LGBT Kossacks and their Allies, Supporters and Others.

The official gathering place for all things Netroots Nation, http://www.netrootsnation.org. We're rocking Minneapolis - June 16-19, 2011. Register now at http://regonline.com/nn11

The New Diarists group republishes some (non-troll) first diaries and also posts tutorials about how to post diaries. One important New Diarists tutorial: Formatting, tagging, publishing, editing: https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/09/1482008/-New-Diarists-tutorial-for-formatting-drafts-adding-tags-publishing-options-and-editing

Nuclear Free DK is a group dedicated to promoting activism, education, conversation, and information about the world's reliance on nuclear power. ~Remember, if you're a group member, to also click the "follow" heart or else you may not have Nuclear Free DK diaries (including your own) show up in your stream.

This group will be talking about progressive messaging and how we can build the Progressive Echo Chamber...come join the fun!

Where readers, writers, bibliophiles, and lovers of all things literary find their favorite series and one-of-a-kind diaries, including "Bookflurries," "Write On!," and "Books So Bad They're Good." Plus newer series like "Indigo Kalliope," "Contemporary Fiction Views," "LGBT Literature," and "Books Go Boom!" We hope you'll visit Readers & Book Lovers for the same reasons you get together with a friend -- for the community of like-minded people who share your passion for the written word in all i...

The San Francisco Bay Area Readers of Daily Kos. We meet regularly around the Bay Area for political activism and also, recreation. One of our hallmarks is rolling out the red carpet for out-of-town/visiting Kossacks in the form of dinners or pot lucks.

Street Prophets is the forum that mobilizes progressive people of faith to name, discuss and take action on critical political and religious issues. So come on in and make yourself at home. We believe that most, if not all topics touching on faith and politics are appropriate on Street Prophets. While this forum represents people of widely differing (and often directly conflicting) theologies, our goal here is to focus on forwarding the progressive political discussion that our shared values mak...

Alternative universe for those interested in policies and politics that transcend pure partisanship. I.e., the "better" -- or even the other -- vs. the "more."

For LGBTQI users and their friends across all groups to discuss what unites us. Focus on how we can all come together to promote change and acceptance.

This is a historical group dedicated to the victims and families of the Second World War and the Holocaust. This historical group attempts to repay a debt with grateful remembrance through the publication of historical diaries. Therein creating a library of archive diaries, photographs and publicly available documents. This collection and publication is supervised by our blog editors, several of whom like myself are professional librarians. The purpose of this is to add value to the Kos communi...