Here’s some interesting/good news in an otherwise down week. In honor of exile and stlo7, currently representing RT at YearlyKos, here’s some commentary from Philip over at The Albany Project, on Prez candidate Chris Dodd defending YearlyKos on Fox News:

It really is pretty amazing when you think about it. As my Dark Overlord Markos put it yesterday:

I want to point something else out here, however. Take a look at what’s happening. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, a multi-kajillion dollar company, is having to battle us. And they’re having to do it as equals. They’re a giant, well-financed corporation: we’re a damn collection of websites and grassroots groups. We took away their ability to host Democratic presidential debates: they struck back by launching an on-air battle against one of the YearlyKos sponsors. They’ve launched themselves into a pathetic tit-for-tat, now choosing to take time out of their busy schedule of lying about the news to making conservatives feel better about themselves in order to start lying about us, because we’re finally to the point where we’re starting to threaten their abilities to get away with their manipulative, hatemongering crap — redbaiting, anti-patriotic blubbering that went out of style decades ago among all Americans but the most trembling and fear-driven and bigoted. They’re battling us on equal terms because they have to. And by mere virtue of that fact, we’re winning.

To think that this movement would have grown so in such a short period of time to the point that we warrant the attention of a MEGACORP like FAUX is pretty stunning. And we are winning. We are winning because people like Chris Dodd, a man who is running for president, fer chrissakes, aren’t taking it anymore. They are calling BS on this crap and people are listening. The days where blowhards like Falafel Boy could shoot their mouths off unchecked, where they could bully progressives with no consequences, where they hogged the mic, are over, friends.

Which is a great way to look at it, in terms of Ghandi’s quote: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” They’re fighting us now.

But it does feel a little bit like last November– nationally, progressives are making gains, locally, we’re not there yet.

We’re getting there– the steadily growing interest in this website alone shows that. But it’s like Itchy said, we need to be “ON OUR GAME”. There’s a lot of work to do.