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The Progressives Propelling Abdul El-Sayed Forward in Michigan

Eli Day The American Prospect
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.

Tidbits-May 14- 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; More…

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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...

How Indivisible Is Organizing Rural America

Cara Letofsky Barn Raiser
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...

Six Takeaways From Sunday’s Hungarian Election

Janos Marton The Gameplan
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.

Democrats Are Badly Failing To Hold Trump Accountable Over Iran

Aída Chávez The Nation
Party leaders have been doing everything in their power to avoid confronting the US-Israeli war in any meaningful way. Trump’s war is deeply unpopular. He is losing it badly. Its continuation would be a catastrophe. Democrats must go all in.

Trump’s Wreckage of Social Security and Medicare

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them. Taxing the rich to save social insurance has the further virtue of splitting Republicans, who are divided....

Tidbits-Apr 2-Reader Comments: More War, Cuts to Social Safety Net; on the “Left” Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community As Strategy: 10 Ways To Create Belonging, Power; Teaching Antifascist History

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Reader Comments: More War, More Cuts to Social Safety Net; On the "Left" Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing the Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community as Strategy: 10 Ways to create belonging and power; Teaching Antifascist History...

Special-Interest Super PACs Underperform in Illinois

Emma Janssen The American Prospect
Only two of four AIPAC-backed Democratic House candidates won, despite tens of millions in spending. An absurd $92 million was spent on four open-seat House races and an open Senate race, a corruption of democracy that is relatively unprecedented
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