Texas also has Texas Kaos. (Points to sig.)

There's actually a lively Texas blogosphere with some of the local blogs doing really exceptional work focusing on local issues and investigations.

You can find a log of them linked up at Burnt Orange or Texas Kaos on the blogroll.

Hope Illinois gets another one.  The one you list is a bunch of whiners.  

DFA has been good in the past for local blogs.  But they are trying to merge all of them in the State.

But still, I say a very good idea.

People do want to get involved.  I have had people calling me about where they can find a protest against the surge.

We protest every weekend.  It did help the last election.  But damn I wish we had a national protest.

At the New Nebraska Network, we're happy to take submissions from readers via e-mail and to run them as diaries.  Would gladly move to more of a community-based format but only if it doesn't cost me anything.  Been running the site for two years - trying to build some sort of progressive online presence in Nebraska.  While a nice overhaul of the site would be fantastic, I'm not willing to invest money I don't have so that other people can make advertising revenues from our efforts.

Call me selfish.

It seems like Maryland Dem bloggers tend to create individual blogs and then cruise around the local blogosphere using things like leftyblogs or blognetnews.com.  Even many of the group that posts on Free State Politics have their own individual blogs.

For some other great Maryland Dem blogs check out:

Crablaw
Jousting For Justice
The League Re-Assembled
The Old Line
and my own personal blog Kujanblog.

The District of Columbia isn't even on the list.  It should be.  No suggestions as to blogs yet (maybe some other people can help there) but it definitely needs to be here.

As a progressive mississippian, I was disappointed (though unsurprised) to see that my state doesn't have a statewide blog. I've considered starting one before, even came up with a possible name: MississippiBlogging (playing off the "mississippi burning" phrase). Anyway, would be interested in doing this for my state, assuming I can do so and still, you know, work my day job. can contact me at: sun_god_79 AT yahoo DOT com

Of course, if we can get the state blogs on board w/ OpenID, readers will be able to use any OpenID provider, not just Netroots.com. That's why it's so cool. It's a distributed system that puts the power of identity in the hands of the user - they choose who to trust. With Netroots.com we're hoping to build an OpenID provider that also includes some helpful tools for online activists. I promise to write more about it soon.

I would change MT to Left in the West which is now scoop, has been around for over two years and was the primary blog leading the push for Tester. MT Netroots in new, but LitW has rocked for a long, long time.

One thing that also needs to be considered is sub-state blogs. California, for example, is large enough that in addition to blogs dealing with the whole state, it would make sense to have ones concerned with the north or south of the state, even with certain of the metropolitan or regional areas.

The main thing is to avoid the top-down model of setting one blog as 'the' state blog. There's a place for several for each state, looking at everything from statewide races down to congressional districts right down to very local races. I think making sure they're all linking to each other and functioning as a cohesive whole which further connects to national blogs is the key, not just making sure each state has a blog which claims to represent it in the blogosphere.

very, very cool. sounds like a great project.

and not just because our blog is listed, either.

whatever we can do to help this get off the ground, we'd be more than happy to do.

seriously.

Laura (lpackard) and Matt Fergusun deserve a lot of credit for making MichiganLiberal.com so successful. We now have seven blogs exclusively tracking the republicans in Michigan's congressional delegation, and none of them would exist if it weren't for MichiganLiberal.

In Ohio, I like Buckeye State Blog: http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/

Left in the West in Montana has diaries.

Montana Netroots doesn't -- and it also has some conservative contributors. It's a good site, I'm just not sure it's progressive or a community site.

As Ohio Goes is good, but Ohio also has Buckeye State Blog (http://buckeyestateblog.com).

The Las Vegas Gleaner certainly does allow comments and has have a thriving comments sectio -- and by the one, it is run by one person -- so you should remove the asterisk. Its also far from the only progressive blog and not really a statewide blog.

I'm partial to   Rochester Turning myself.

City blog for a city in New York state.

We have been looking into upgrading our New Mexico blog, New Mexico FBIHOP, for some time now.  But we decided that we would wait until after the election so nothing would happen in that critical time.

Of course, our candidate, Patricia Madrid, lost, but that's not the point.

I think that upgrading to a Scoop blog would be something that we would consider, but we really don't know that much about it.  We don't know what kind of work this would entail, how much bandwidth it would require, etc.

In other words -- anyone have any personal experience or suggestions for us over here in New Mexico?

Mississippi has the Jackson Progressive blog: http://www.jacksonprogressive.com/JPBlog /

Lefty Blogs has 50 state coverage and several thousand blogs :

http://www.leftyblogs.com/

There's much to be done though, so don't worry !

Raising Kaine is ready to work with any and all state-based Progressive blogs.

This year was an incredible triumph for all of us.  Momentum is on our sides, but you only need to look at the other side of the aisle to see how fast that can go away.

New coordination, organization, and initiatives like this are crucial, as long as they are built on solid progressive principles.

Working together, there's nothing we can't accomplish.

Let us know what we can do to help.

Tennessee:

Tennessee Guerilla Women at guerillawomentn.blogspot.com and Music Row Democrats at mrdtalk.com.

I'd just like to say that for those places that don't have a "community blog" yet -- a very important distinction from the "lone angry voice" blog -- there really is no reason NOT to go with Soapblox as your platform. It is dirt cheap ($15/mo) and super-functional. You will have nearly as much functionality as DKos or MyDD -- you won't miss the rest -- and you gain the power to create a community, which is powerful.

Our traffic went way up after we went to Soapblox. Some of that was timing, but a lot of it was just giving people a chance to use our blog as their blog. We now have over 2,500 registered users at Blue Mass. Group, which gives the site a lot of credibility, and our diarists a lot of eyeballs looking at their stuff. I wouldn't call it an "organizing tool", but it's a way to create community in a way that the typical toilet-paper roll Blogger site just can't do.

If you're thinking about it in places like Kansas or Louisiana or wherever, go ahead and open your doors to your community.

I love kyle, @ the New Nebraska Network, and work with him on a daily basis in Nebraska Young Democrats...

but I'd like to put in a plug for the UNO Democrats blog.  It has a larger community and readership, and a more mydd-like perspective.  
(www.unodemocrats.com/blog)

Also, three writers for the UNO Dems blog will be at the DNC Meeting in Feb, but no one from the NNN will be there.  

So, at least in the future if not for this project, please consider the UNO Dems Blog.  

http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog

For Oregon, I'd respectfully submit the one I co-founded, Loaded Orygun, the Oregon journal of politics and culture. It's a two-person outfit (you may know my co-founder, Carla, from Preemptive Karma), and while we're currently on Blogger and have no diaries, we're in the process of moving to our own domain and switching to MT. (Speaking of, if anyone can help me resolve perl issues that are putting mt.cgi into an endless loop and getting our account suspended, email me at loadedorygun-at-gmail, thanks!)

I love BlueOregon, and I know Kari is a frequent contributor of items here at MyDD. It has more reach than LO, many more contributors including current local and state politicians, and is generally considered the dean of OR blogs. However it's primarily a discussion arena for progressives, rather than a unified platform for  advocacy and investigative reporting. I modestly submit that LoadedO is more of the latter, and is in fact the most-read blog by BlueOregon readers, so it's uniquely suited as a complement to BlueO in the 50-state context, I believe.

I don't want to wade into another state's blogbattle, but if you're talking lefty blogs in Washington, you simply can't leave out Horses' Ass. If nothing else, Goldy is also on the radio now, which gives him double-threat power. He's a difference-maker.

Torridjoe's right -- Horses Ass is an important one to include for Washington.  I don't see the "Blog Wars' out here in WA...  (though maybe some blogger battles; Washblog's had a little excitement recently).  Goldy is a community-builder -- suceeding through excellence rather than competition.

Washblog, the blog you have listed now, and on which I'm an editor, is indeed a true community blog  -- with 14 front-page writers, a soon-to-be-announced new editorial board of 6 members, and a diary section open to the community.   We regularly promote diaries posted by community members to the front page.  And we're actively reaching out to progressive community groups to contribute content and to advise us on their issues and on networking across issues.  

We have an advocacy mission -- to work with other blogs and community organizations to help network the progressive movement in the state.  Washblog's writers and board members are community activists, grassroots, feet-on-the-ground people -- as are many of our readers and contributors.

I've been hosting a Wisconsin progressive blog for some time - http://www.uppitywis.org.  I've emailed Laura about it - I just wanted to invite anybody in Wisconsin who would like to contribute to do so - we have blogs available to anyone who registers, a link directory to Wisconsin progressive/liberal/left-wing resources, and quite a lot more -- but we could sure use more contributors.

It's interesting - I'm up here in the Northwestern part of the state, but most of the contributions and readers come from Madison and Milwaukee.

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