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Alan Grayson: the Democrat Who Punches Back, Enraging GOP Hacks and Tea Party Billionaires

Mark I. Pinsky, The Nation. September 29, 2010.

Alan Grayson is up against a Tea Party conservative. The billionaire Koch brothers, through their organization Americans for Prosperity, have dropped $250,000 in negative TV ads.

Dems Take on Supreme Court's Giant Sell-Out of Our Democracy to Corporations

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. July 29, 2010.

The Supreme Court handed over our political system to corporate power, and now some lawmakers are fighting to get it back.

Blackwater Rescued Progressive House Rep. Alan Grayson from Niger's 'Civil Unrest'

Daniel Schulman, Mother Jones Online. February 25, 2010.

Grayson, who made his fortune by suing military contractors and later lambasted them as a lawmaker, was evacuated from Niger by personnel working for Xe Services.

Grayson: Fight Now or 'Kiss Your Country Goodbye' to Exxon, Wal-Mart

Sahil Kapur, Raw Story. January 22, 2010.

Congressman says of recent Supreme Court ruling removing decades of campaign spending limits on corporations "opens the floodgates for the purchases and sale of the law."

Alan Grayson to Dick Cheney: STFU

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. December 10, 2009.

Grayson's always good for a Youtube video.

Why It's Not Smart to Call Women Conservatives 'Whores'

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. November 2, 2009.

Conservative women should be strongly criticized. But using gendered language to attack them doesn't help progressives.

Alan Grayson Schools GA Wing-Nut Paul Broun on Constitution

Staff, AlterNet. October 23, 2009.

Responds to GOP Witch-hunt against ACORN.

The Lesson of Alan Grayson: When You Challenge These Bullies, They Crumple Like a Yugo

Jill C., Brilliant at Breakfast. October 2, 2009.

The congressman is not backing down.

3 Important Lessons Dems Should Learn From Grayson

Chris Bowers, Open Left. October 1, 2009.

Even as Grayson intensified his rhetoric, Republicans withdrew their resolution to condemn him on the House floor.

Tough Progressive House Member Alan Grayson Gives GOPers a Taste of Their Own Medicine

Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress. September 30, 2009.

"I don’t think the Democrats need to be on defense," Rep. Grayson said. "I think we should be on the offense and not the defense, and that’s where I plan to stay."