Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, often known by his username and former military nickname "Kos", is an American blogger who is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos, a blog focusing on liberal and Democratic Party politics in the United States.
14 Facts About Markos Moulitsas
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Markos Moulitsas co-founded SB Nation, a collection of sports blogs, which is a part of Vox Media.
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Markos Moulitsas moved with his family to El Salvador in 1976, but later returned to the Chicago area in 1980 after his family fled when threats were placed on their lives by communist insurgents during the Salvadoran Civil War.
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Markos Moulitsas completed training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and fulfilled his three-year enlistment as a Multiple Launch Rocket System Fire Direction Specialist while stationed in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany.
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However, during his time in the military Markos Moulitsas began a transition in his political philosophy that would lead him to change his party affiliation from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.
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Markos Moulitsas attended the Boston University School of Law from 1996 to 1999, earning a JD degree.
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Markos Moulitsas then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he worked as a project manager at a web development shop.
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Markos Moulitsas describes himself as a recovering Catholic, and says that while he has many problems with the Church, Salvadoran martyr and archbishop Oscar Romero is still his greatest hero and inspiration.
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Markos Moulitsas has prosopagnosia, which makes it difficult to recognize familiar faces.
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Markos Moulitsas founded his blog, Daily Kos in May 2002, and has managed the blog as a full-time occupation since early 2004.
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Markos Moulitsas's statement was precipitated by a "strike" conducted by several pro-Clinton diarists, even though none of these posters was paid or in any way officially linked to the site.
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Markos Moulitsas was a regular contributor to Newsweek, having been hired by the magazine for its 2008 presidential campaign coverage.
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Markos Moulitsas is a fellow at the New Politics Institute, a think tank of the New Democrat Network, which was founded by Simon Rosenberg in 1996.
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In March 2018, Markos Moulitsas announced the launch of Civiqs, a polling and data operation that tracks opinions on candidates, issues, and elected officials.