Progressive political candidates in 2026 are doing more than just trying to win an election. Sometimes politicians only think of how volunteers can serve the campaign, but that’s an ineffective view to building power.
Francesca Hong says she can appeal to a wide coalition in November. Her detractors worry the democratic socialist will lose the crucial battleground race.
Abdul El-Sayed says Tuesday’s Senate primary in Michigan is a referendum on the future of the Democratic Party.
Voters are faced with the thorny question of electability: who can win this purple state in November and potentially push Democrats toward a US Senate majority?
Americans realize they’ve lost power and income to the very rich. Too many Democrats, even too many unions, have yet to go to war for them.
The people vs. data centers
In a stunning House vote, lawmakers began an attempt to end the war without presidential approval — creating conditions for a potentially historic legal showdown, potentially setting the stage for a legal showdown over the limits of executive power.
In much of the US, Democrats’ reputation is utterly toxic to working-class voters. Running independent candidates may be the way forward for labor and the Left in many regions — potentially planting the seeds of a new party.
After failing to gut a bill that legalized collective bargaining for state and local government workers, she opted to veto it.
The looming loss of Black House districts across the South has raised the stakes in an open-seat primary in Philadelphia.
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