I'm glad you are here, too!

Lynn used to have radio talk shows on NYC's WBAI and WABC before going satellite.

She had a great list of links on her website, including DU.

I logged in to that original, fairly limited site and looked for others who shared my feelings about the horrific SCOTUS decision to make him president. I continued to lurk for a few months before signing on and have been here ever since. Fellow Coloradoan Kentuck and I signed up on the same day I found out years later so I always look for his posts.

At the time there were just a handful of emerging Dem resistance posts--including Bartcop, The Smirking Chimp, Atrios, etc. Wow... a long time ago... I hope all who remember the lessons of then can propel us forward now.

Been here ever since.

I feel fortunate to have found this community.

A friend recommended Common Dreams years ago as a news source, and balanced opinions. Someone on that site mentioned Democratic Underground. Not a frequent poster, but I depend on DU as a source of sanity, along with timely and honest info.
And thanks to someone, for those hearts!

Will Pitt mentioned it in a reply to a comment I made on one of his articles there. I was lurking here then and eventually decided to join.

He mentioned it sometime in the summer of '16. "Democratic what, now?" was likely my response.

Different username back then. Posted rarely but read everyday. To me this is the best site.

It was mentioned by someone posting there, I was curious and checked it out. Was a lurker for many years, then became a member a few years ago.

I think I was trolling the Red State site. 2012ish. Then I decided to calm down and find kindred spirits. But there were some Jill Stein, Glen Greenwald, Matt Taibi, Julian Asange fans here too at the time. And some really vile Hillary haters. They've left several years ago.

Found us at DU. Enjoy your posts.

I was trying to read the tea leaves in the GOP primary. I really didn't want Rick Perry to be the nominee! They really seemed to like him over there.

I found DU shortly around that time also because I was reading up on the primaries. I remember Jen Rubin liked Rick Perry. I sent her an email about incompetent he was.

I joined after Obama's not so good first debate. I wanted to "do something!!!". Fortunately, I found a connection to a local campaign office and started making calls to Florida.

On progressive radio

Mainly because I'm rural and on a good day back then our internet speed would be 44k. A bad day was 22k.

I found Democratic Underground's Facebook page between two Democratic pages on Facebook. One was Occupy Democrats and I can't
remember the other page. I'm not sure if it's still an active page or not.

Back then, Facebook pages followed each other if they shared similar content and ideals. It would would also state that that the pages would be followed by so and so pages.


Then I discovered the actual forum for DU.


Also, if it had not been for Facebook, I wouldn't have discovered that a local politician in my district was running on a 2022 Democratic ticket and there was nothing Democratic about that politician. I discovered this by looking at their Facebook page.


So people can bash Facebook all they want to. If I hadn't been on Facebook I'm not sure if I would have discovered DU.

first time my page was trashed. All of our ideas and projects were trashed. Never closed it I was very mad. Have never been back to Facebook. It was a teachers page, not political. Thank you for sharing your posts with us. I am very glad you are on DU. Love your posts.

I'm glad that you're here on DU as well, Debbie.

Found it scrolling around at the local library. I may have seen it mentioned on Daily Kos or Firedog Lake. I lurked for years. Joined about 2 years ago.
It was Bush 2 and the Iraq war that drove me here. Glad I found it.

Something from DU. I thought it sounded interesting so I went searching for that Democratic Underground, found it and lurked for a while then I joined. I’m SO glad I did. I don’t know what I’d do without my DU family!

DU kept showing up in searches for bush v Gore, war, recession, Obama, Clinton.

One of the hits was the Top 10 Conservative Idiots. I lurked until fall of that year, mostly because I didn't have a home computer then. Then I joined and bought my first computer. Been here ever since.

The triplets in my username were babies then. Now they're 24 and all three college graduates starting their careers. It's an interesting way to measure time.

around the Obama campaign.

I originally joined under a different screen name about a year after DU was launched. Possibly 2002.

fell in love with it at first look.

It was around 23 years ago so it's a little hazy.

one day hopefully I'll have a shot of tequila in honor of him.

Back in the days when most newspapers allowed comments.

He said to me, Wow, did you get all your talking points from Democratic Underground?

I thought, what is Democratic Underground? I had never heard of it before. So I searched for it, and, as they say, the rest is history!

We are almost neighbors!

I can’t remember which one

LiberalSlant
MediaWhoresOnline
Bartcop

I miss all of those sites …

Am so glad that DU has endured

I was just searching for news/information on the protests and DU came up in the search. I think I've been here just about every day since. I joined 11/1/2024 cuz I didn't want to be blacked out during the election, and I knew I needed DU's opinions and research to help get me thru it. And you did. Thanks!

An email from a friend who shared links after Trump won in 2020. I fell in love with the place. I grabbed on like a liferaft .

… back during Shrub’s first term. I was a lurker for a loooooong time!

I don't remember how I discovered BartCop, but he started me on the road to be a proud and active Dem.

Somebody over on NationalZero mentioned DU. Being a curious sort, I looked DU up and am so glad I did!

Bartcop or one them promoted D.U.

Saw a weekly version someplace and clicked on it. Must have been 2003 or 4.

That was some time in 2001/2002, I think. (I had a different username back then.)

There used to be a KO forum. Gosh, it feels like such a long time ago. The KO forum is no more but DU keeps me sane, informed and entertained. So glad I discovered it.

station in Pittsburgh.

Didn't sign up until the 2004 election.

Finally created an account in 2016 due to all the bots and trolls flooding the place.

Only started posting last year mainly because most of my sentiments are expressed so much better by many folks here.

I was so upset watching the nightly bombings and a coworker told me about DU.
Yea, it has been many years that I have lurked and learned from the fine people here.

I was anti computer at that time . My husband was an earlier gamer so we had a
PC at home . While he was at work a couple months after Bush's inaugural I turned
a computer on for the first time in my life .

I typed I hate Bush into a search engine and was directed to Hated.Com . it listed all websites
that were opposed to Bush. I scrolled a bit and recognized The Democratic Underground clicked
and found like minded people .

I became very passionate very quickly . I volunteered as Moderator a few months after that.
My first day as a moderator I had learn how to copy and paste

I spent most of the next 10 years serving this community as Moderator.

being a Moderator.

It was during the first GWB term. I started reading DU every day before work, and about 20 years later, I finally joined.

of turmoil. You deserve all those hearts.

...I suspect it was from a website called "smirking chimp" where the argument at the time centered largely around whether Ralph Nader was an asshole or not. I was an advocate for "he's an asshole."

There was a moderator there called "board nanny," who I assumed was actually the web page owner sock puppet, who sometimes, eventually often, would delete posts for specious reasons, like a lack of specificity in the post title.

Someone probably linked DU and I came over and never looked back.

I did post for a while at DailyKos, somewhat prolifically for a while, but the owner banned me for telling the truth. Unlike DU, Daily Kos is an autocracy. I returned all my commentary to DU where, when I'm obnoxious - and sometimes I am - I'm judged by a jury of my peers.

I'm concerned that DU may be suppressed by the fascist thought police led by his Maggotcy King Elon the first ( and hopefully last.)