Times change. I was just going back through my emails from 2005 looking at my first correspondence with Elizabeth Warren to set up a short-run blog dedicated to her and her students advocacy agst the Bankruptcy Bill then moving through Congress. There was originally ...
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2/ a Bankruptcy Bill blog and then that was folded into Warren Reports which was part of TPMCafe which we launched in the summer of 2005. Our staff is going back and collecting and will soon republish all of this. So I was looking back at the correspondence between us.
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3/ Warren of course is exactly the earnest and engaged person you see at her rallies and debates. This was the first time I'd let anyone else run a blog under their own control at the site. So there's an email I wrote with a sort of how to about how to blog. A lot of it ...
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4/ very nuts and bolts. No autocorrect, watch out for typos! But some more substantive strategic stuff too. Then there are just other oddities. I noticed that there's an email from David Sirota at the time. But it's circulating a memo from John Podesta, then CEO of CAP ...
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5/ opposing the bill. The Sirota/Podesta Axis! As you'd expect, what comes through in the correspondence is that Warren earnestness, a mix outrage and enthusiasm. So in one of her first notes.pic.twitter.com/IrEWtuM05R
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6/ And then a week later as we're putting the finishing touches on the sub-blog I set up for them.pic.twitter.com/uM04ONqfw1
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7/ It's important to understand that this whole activism around the bankruptcy bill was close to hopeless. And the bill passed. It was also close to off the radar of conventional politics. Which is a reason it had so much political buy-in from Democrats. The back story ...
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8/ here is that TPM had been at the forefront of whipping the push for Social Security privatization in the months just before. So they saw that as a kind of proof of concept for what the web could do. Anyway, it's all interesting stuff and we'll be publishing it on the site ...
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9/ since it's newly relevant backstory as Warren moves into front runner or tied frontrunner status in the presidential primaries.
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10/ Here is Warren's introductory post on the Bankruptcy Blog - circa March 2005. Again, we'll be republishing all of them. But this gives you a feel for them.pic.twitter.com/zp5n7jDN7s
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Someday we might get The Collected Blog Posts of President Warren.
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Let’s hope so!
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