DSA’s and Mayor Mamdani’s candidates rocked establishment incumbents backed by unions and political bigwigs. In most cases it wasn’t even close. You don’t always win, but when you do? “People carry that with them for the rest of their lives.”
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The Democratic establishment has made some huge mistakes—but progressives are running savvier campaigns than they used to. The battle for the soul of the Democratic Party is alive again, with progressives winning key primaries around the country
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Activists are building a political home for the Michigan Senate candidate’s anti-corruption, anti-war populist message. Following Sen. Gary Peters’s announced retirement, Michigan’s open seat has become the most hotly contested race in the country.
Reader Comments: Voting Rights Still Need Protection; Those Accompanying Trump on His Trip to China; The Art of the Deal - Now Iran; 2026 Future of Care Work Convening - Protecting Care in Times of Disruption - Conference; Cartoons and more...
Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. and Viola Liuzzo did not die just for the conservative majority to commit this heartless act of political vandalism. In a 6-3 decision, the court rendered ineffective section 2 of the Voting Rights Act...
With the May Day protests, the group shifts tactics ahead of the midterms. With 2,500 chapters nationwide in large cities and rural areas, Indivisible is one of the largest, most effective networks of grassroots resistance in the Trump era...
As a Hungarian-American on my mother’s side, this election was very personal to me. just as people like Steve Bannon have learned powerfully evil lessons from Orban, we should also learn lessons from the successful opposition movement against him.
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