Yes, our new forum is officially open.  We welcome new members regardless of your level of knowledge or experience in politics - this forum is for all lefties who wish to discuss the issues important to all of us.  Register today and you can begin posting in minutes. 

The forum is now the main page of All Things Democrat, while the blog is archived and will no longer be used.  Please update your bookmarks.

After 2 years as a blog, All Things Democrat is returning to its roots and will soon reopen as a new discussion forum.

For those of you who have known this site since the beginning, you’ll recall that we started as a forum, but then became a blog.  Much of the reason for that change was simply to get in on the fun; blogs were hot, forums were not.  However, the primary goal of this site was to be an online community for lefties and others supportive of Dems, and as a blog we weren’t moving toward that goal.  We were just one of a thousand struggling blogs desperately seeking to have a post acknowledged (or sometimes stolen) by the big blogs (kudos to Crooks and Liars for being the exception).  On the other hand, a forum is, by definition, an online community.  I’m glad that we went through the blog experience, but I look forward to being one of a handful of lefty forums focusing on community, instead of competition.

So, please check back at the end of August for the official launch of our new All Things Democrat Forum.