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Political Philosophy
There was a time when to be a socialist ws to have read, absorbed and debated not only "Das Capital" but "Wealth of Nations" and seen the power and limits of both opposing perspectives. Seminal ideas were translated into every language, to become the root of revolutions that have defined our world. This site is to share insights, present thoughts and to have an ongoing conversation. No course prerequisites, but a genuine interest in understanding the spectrum of belief, historical and current, ...
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1A
A group to discuss and promote the first amendment, primarily focused on freedom of speech
2011-06-19 22:44:09
Adalah — A Just Middle East
Adalah ("justice" in Arabic) is a diary series about the Middle East, with special (but not exclusive) emphasis on the conflict in Palestine-Israel. The authors of this series believe in the right of self-determination for all the people of the Middle East and that a just resolution respecting the rights and dignity of both Palestinians and Israelis is the only viable option for peace.
2024-05-01 19:01:02
Appalachian Journal
News, Culture and History of the Appalachian Region.
2025-10-14 00:59:27
Bernie News Roundup
The Bernie News Roundup contains news, media, & other information related to Bernie Sanders' 2015-2016 Democratic primary campaign for president.
2025-06-14 22:47:58
Black Kos community
Black Kos community group. This group publishes diaries that cover a broad range of topics including black history, the arts, politics, and the culture of peoples of African descent worldwide.
2025-12-06 14:22:30
Book of Jobs
This is a group for job seekers, promotion-seekers, HR-related information and all other aspects of getting your foot in the door and climbing the career ladder.
2012-01-20 04:58:25
Community Quilt Project
Community Quilts are a way of sharing care, compassion and support for community members who are facing illness or other hardships.
2024-08-17 17:54:01
Cranky Grammarians
A grammar thingy group for the talking and speaking and writing and whatnot. - Julie Waters
2025-08-08 20:52:12
Daily Kos Elections: Policy
Daily Kos Elections: Policy is founded to supplement the main Daily Kos Elections group where discussion is limited solely to elections and not policy. Here, you can freely discuss policy issues and candidates' platforms/positions without it necessarily pertaining to elections without it derailing the main DKE Live Digests.
2017-11-29 04:26:21
DKos Travel Board
Travel vicariously via the keyboards of your fellow DK members. See the world in a way you have never seen it before.
2014-08-16 20:23:12
Ecocities Emerging
Ecocities Emerging is a group dedicated to discussing the reshaping of cities for the long-term health of human and natural systems. "An Ecocity is a human settlement modeled on the self sustaining resilient structure and function of natural ecosystems. The ecocity provides healthy abundance to its inhabitants without consuming more (renewable) resources than it produces, without producing more waste than it can assimilate, and without being toxic to itself or neighboring ecosystems. Its inhabi...
 2020-02-14 08:11:12
EconKos
This group is for the discussion of economic, financial and other relevant matters, featuring diaries of superlative quality that are low on hysterics.
2012-07-23 00:30:19
Elders of Zion
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...
 2025-12-05 00:00:17
ESL Writing
This group offers help to writers who are not native speakers of English.
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Genealogy and Family History Community
We are a Group interested in the research, analysis and discussion of genealogy and family histories, our own and others. We invite all those who desire guidance in getting started in their research, those who are looking for suggestions for getting past a problem in their on-going projects (brick walls), those willing to share resources, or those who simply want to talk about their projects (and we KNOW how family historians love to talk about their projects). All family backgrounds welcome an...
 2025-08-08 13:39:47
Global Expats
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...
 2016-07-03 22:51:31
History for Kossacks
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!
2025-12-06 22:31:34
Hunting and Fishing Kos
A group for those with an interest in hunting, fishing, or any of the issues related to those two activities. Anyone is welcome to follow, contribute, join, edit, and hopefully all four.
2025-12-06 00:46:07
I ♥ Democratic Socialism
In "Why I Write" (1946), George Orwell wrote a sentence that inspires this group: "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." Democracy and socialism belong together, and neither democracy nor socialism is deserving of its name without incorporating the other. This group discusses and agitates for both, together. Without democracy, what was often labeled "socialism...
 2025-12-06 22:31:54
IGTNT
I Got the News Today is intended to honor, respect, and remember the fallen, and to remind us that each casualty has family and friends who received the terrible news that their loved one has died at war. These memorial diaries are an important service to those who have died, and show our community's respect for our fallen brothers and sisters.
2023-06-12 09:18:38
Income Inequality Kos
We discuss income inequality, concentration of wealth, and related issues.
2024-08-17 17:51:49
International Kossacks
A group for non- Americans either living in the USA, or anywhere in the world... AND for Americans living overseas.
2011-02-22 21:17:32
KasichWatch
Ohio Governor John Kasich reveals almost daily new facets to the arrogance, belligerence, and closed-mindedness that put him underwater in approval before he even took office in January 2010 (after winning by 49 % of the vote). We'll try to keep track.
2017-06-28 21:29:55
KosAbility
KosAbility meets the last Sunday of each month at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. We are a volunteer diarist community of, by & for people living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability, or who want to know more about the issues. Our use of "disability" includes temporary as well as permanent health and medical conditions, from small, gnawing problems to major, life-threatening ones. Our use of "love someone" extends to cherish...
 2025-12-01 00:05:07
Kossacks for the Homeless Person
For those entwined in or interested in the plague of homelessness harming this nation.
2025-11-02 00:49:45
LatinoKos
LatinoKos is a community for the discussion of Latino politics, history, and cultures here in the US, in Latin America and the Caribbean. There is no "singular" Latino/a community in the US. Latinos/Hispanics who are the nation's largest minority group, will according to census projections make up 29% of the U.S. population in 2050. As Democrats we need to focus more attention on these communities and the issues that affect them.
 2025-12-06 14:22:42
LOL Wut
Follow 4 laffs
2014-04-04 17:42:23
Meta Groupies
Where Group Founders and Administrators meet to discuss issues of group management, share tips, policies, organizational choices and the like. Here is where you'll find DK4 Updates pertaining specifically to group features. While intended for group executives, Editors and Contributors are invited. Our mission is to make groups function better, improve ease of use for Followers, Contributors, and Editors and provide a meeting place where all who are involved in creating, running, and providing c...
 2013-08-29 13:26:37
Mojo Friday = Musings for Friday
For all the followers of TexDem and the lovers of all things mojo. And now, just for thoughts.
 2025-12-05 15:30:14
Muslims at Daily Kos
Group for muslims on Daily Kos (but not limited to muslims - anyone is welcome to join or follow) for discussion of Islam and other muslim issues
2016-08-13 22:31:27
O'Malley 2016
This group is for folks interested in learning more about Martin OMalley and his Presidential campaign.
2015-07-14 03:18:44
Protest Music

Protest and topical music including comedy. We're interested in the history of protest music, for instance labor songs, civil rights songs, anti war songs. We also feature contemporary protest music and we particularly want to hear your protest songs.

This is an open group. Please join and post your diaries. If you want to help manage the group message me and I'll make you a BlogEditor.

Of course Protest Music is on topic. But it doesn't have to be both. Protest or Music. Prote...

 2025-12-05 14:44:35
Rurally Speaking
Discussing populist politics, particularly bridging the divide between rural and urban poor, working poor, and middle class people and the different ways both groups view politics based on their daily lives.
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Shut Down the NRA
A group to document News of gun violence, to create a Community of activists, and to create a platform for Action to work towards breaking the hold of the NRA on politicians and changes to gun law that will actually result in significant, measurable decreases in American gun violence and fatalities.
2025-09-15 06:46:41
SpiritSisters
We are a group of women from all walks of life sharing our stories and discussing women's issues and rights with intersectionality to prevent erasure and preserve identities of all women. We are sisters in spirit, and we are taking back our narratives. Dominant culture narratives do not represent our lives; they elide, alter, and erase. We discuss the harms women experience when the dominant culture does not accurately consider, believe or hear women's voices. We will also celebrate the strengt...
 2025-08-18 18:51:49
Street Prophets
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...
 2025-12-06 22:04:42
Tag Librarians
The gathering place for people interested in maintaining tags.
2023-08-30 18:35:02
Team Bernie
We support Senator Bernie Sanders for the next President of the United States because he is the real deal and will fight for the 99%, and the other 1% can easily take care of themselves.
2025-12-06 22:32:02
The Grieving Room
The Grieving Room is a Monday evening series for those who are experiencing grief or loss. And diaries of those going through the loss of a person or pet, whether recent or long ago. Or yet to happen. And those that come to console because they too have gone through the fire. A safe space.
2025-10-27 02:31:43
Thursday Worst Diary Competition
A group dedicated to the recognition, promotion and promulgation of the Best of the Worst
2020-09-13 23:27:07
Trolls
Troll diaries are great fun and do a great service to our community. The best should be preserved and the latest promoted for the greater lolz, TROLL HUNTERS WANTED: please message for membership.
2022-01-16 15:50:20
Troolz
Your Thursday Headquarters . . .
2014-09-03 19:32:18
Unemployment Chronicles
This group is for discussion of resources and advice to help unemployed folks survive with dignity and find another livelihood, whether it's a traditional job or some other way to survive.
2024-09-22 12:57:44
Western Asia
Information about, opinions on, and discussion of Western Asia. Including the people, history, culture, literature, flora, fauna, geography, cuisine, politics of and events in Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iran.
2012-03-23 15:17:03
Women for Bernie
Women for Bernie is a group created to push back against the sexist and minimizing meme that "only men support Sanders for President." We're here to say we exist AND we aren't a figment of our own imaginations, you cannot twist our words and say we support the patriarchy simply because we feel Sanders is the best candidate in the election, and no, not all Sanders supporters are "BernieBros" or "Bro-gressives." A lot of us are, in fact women -- and proudly so. -----------------------------------...
 2025-12-06 22:32:16
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