(first time poster, cross-posted on Daily Kos)

I am an environmentalist.  I have been since I was very small.  And I'm a netroots activist - I haven't been that quite so long, but I have been reading political blogs since I was too young to drive a car.  

In this post, Matt Stoller of MyDD lists some broad tactics to guide the netroots in building a people-powered movement for the coming years.  #2 on the list was: "Expand our netroots base: Let's get more people involved.  Let's build bridges to different communities, and bring their influentials onto the internet to engage in dialogue."  

While much of the blogosphere has focused on the actions of the Democratic Party establishment in DC, there is important progress being made out west. In the book Crashing the Gate there is justifiably a great deal of attention given to the Montana and Colorado models of reforming how we win. While both models are important to understand as we seek to reform the Democratic Party, so is the geography where the innovation is occuring. This is important for those taking a short-term approach of figuring out how to win back congress in 2006 along, especially important for those focused on winning back the White House in 2008, but deserves just as much attention from those interested in where we want the Democratic Party to be a generation from now. This is the idea behind the Western Strategy.