About Bowers News Media and Chris Bowers
Bowers News Media LLC
Bowers News Media LLC is an email-based news aggregation and progressive/Democratic Party political activism organization.
Bowers News Media PAC
Bowers News Media PAC is a federal, nonconnected political action committee that functions as a fundraising conduit for Democratic candidates supported by Bowers News Media LLC, Wolves and Sheep, and Bowers Kerbel Media. Chris Bowers serves as the Treasurer of the PAC. Endorsement decisions are made in consultation between Dr. Matthew Kerbel and Chris Bowers.
About Chris Bowers
Chris Bowers is a 20-year veteran of online, progressive grassroots news and political activism. For 14 years, Chris served as the director of the email and activism programs at Daily Kos, growing those programs from scratch into one of the largest online progressive grassroots news and activism operations in the history of the Internet. Before his time at Daily Kos, Chris spent six years writing for the blogs MyDD and Open Left, publishing over 3,000,000 words and generating tens of millions of reads.
About Wolves and Sheep, Matthew Kerbel & Bowers Kerbel Media
About Wolves and Sheep
Wolves and Sheep is a Substack owned and operated by Matt Kerbel. You can sign up for Wolves and Sheep by clicking here.
The journalist Edward R. Murrow long ago warned, “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Well, here we are. It’s scary and dislocating to live in a time when the foundations we took for granted our entire lives are under assault. Things like personal rights, free elections, and democracy itself. Things that provided a basic sense of personal security. Democracy survived an insurrection—but the insurrection isn’t over. Could it succeed next time? Is partisanship going to define everything we do for the rest of our lives? What’s driving all this instability? Why is it happening now? Will it ever get better? Wolves and Sheep is a place to understand these questions through the lens of history and social science—a perspective you won’t find in mainstream punditry. And it’s a place to gather with others who share your concerns about living in an age when the ground never stops moving under our feet.
About Matthew Kerbel
Matt Kerbel is a former radio news reporter and television newswriter who for 36 years has been a professor of political science at Villanova University outside Philadelphia, where he also served as department chair and vice provost. Matt is the author, co-author, or editor of nine books on the politics of television and the Internet, political parties, campaigns, elections, and the presidency. His titles include If It Bleeds, It Leads: An Analysis of Television News, and two books on the rise of online progressive activism: Netroots and Next Generation Netroots (co-authored with Chris Bowers). His work traces the arc of political engagement from the cynical television-dominated 1990s through the revival of grassroots activism in the twenty-first century. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he is the voice of the Substack newsletter Wolves and Sheep.
About Bowers Kerbel Media
Bowers News Media LLC and Wolves and Sheep will soon become part of the (soon to be formed) Bowers Kerbel Media LLC, a joint media and political activism venture between Chris Bowers and Matt Kerbel.