Moulitsas is a U.S. Army veteran and holder of two bachelor degrees and a law degree. He started DailyKos in May 2002 after moving to California to work in the tech industry. His blog experienced a meteoric rise in popularity and now gets more than a million unique visitors every day. Moulitsas is co-author of Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots and the Rise of People-Powered Politics. (with Jerome Armstrong). He lives with his wife and two children in Berkeley, California.