My first article as "Mr. Liberal" on DailyKos was published on October 26, 2003. I was 15 years old, and had just been named by Markos the month before as a "guest poster" for the website (he posted a few articles by me that I had written before I opened my account).
The first entry makes me cringe a little – let’s just say it wasn’t exactly Pulitzer-Prize winning material (When your last two paragraphs begin with "Finally", you know it’s in need of editing!) It was a brief update on the three gubernatorial races being held in the fall of 2003 (Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana’s runoff), together with a polling update from Illinois.
The title of the piece, one that is equally relevant today was this: "Don’t Lose Heart Yet". While I didn’t realize it at the time, the statement might well be a summation of my life in politics (online and offline) since.