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July 4, 2026

Corporate Pundits Panic Over Democratic Voters’ Socialist Preferences

Raina Lipsitz FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

Others in corporate media grasped one key to these wins: the months of organizing and door-knocking that made them possible.

July 4, 2026

Don’t Surrender Power: A Conversation With Florida Rep. Angie Nixon

Delaney Vandergrift in conversation with Angie Nixon Convergence

Florida has not been lost because people stopped caring. Florida has been lost because too many institutions stopped investing, stopped organizing, stopped showing up. You cannot write off a state and be surprised when people feel written off.

July 4, 2026

250 Years of the American Experiment: Who Gets To Be Free?

Kara Gotsch Mass Incarceration and Other Bad Ideas

Freedom represents a constant pursuit of equity, dignity, justice, and safety—yet it faces relentless attack.

July 3, 2026

The First Indigenous Women in Congress Carry a Legacy Older Than American Democracy Itself

Errin Haines The 19th

In 2018, Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland became the first two Native American women elected to Congress. They are trailblazers from a long lineage of women whose ancestors were original inhabitants of the land that became America.

July 3, 2026