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2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power -Here's how you can help.

2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power -Here's how you can help

2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power -Here's how you can help.

Partyism Without the Party

Chris Maisano Dissent Magazine
Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties. When was the last time being on the left was fun? It was a year-long act of collective joy. We actually won.

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Giving Tuesday and 2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power. Giving Tuesday lets you help

Tidbits-Nov.27 -Reader Comments: Thankful for Farmworkers; Mamdani and Wilson – Democratic Socialists and FDR Democrats; Legal Orders; What We Forgot About Socialism; Raising Taxes on the Ultrarich; New Approach to Getting Rid of Citizens United;

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Reader Comments: Thankful for Farmworkers; Mamdani and Wilson - Democratic Socialists and FDR Democrats; Legal Orders; What We Forgot About Socialism; Raising Taxes on the Ultrarich; New Approach to Getting Rid of Citizens United; The Montana Plan;

2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power in a myriad of ways.

Other Victories for Working Families

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Zohran Mamdani got the headlines, but New York was not a one-off. Candidates endorsed by the Working Families Party had amazing election successes elsewhere in America, showing well-organized progressives can beat the power of big money.

Tidbits-Nov.20 -Reader Comments: Trump Meets Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salam; Not Just About the Hostages, Gazans Continue To Be Killed; Forums–Policing and Public Safety-A Socialist Mayor; Fighting MAGA & Fighting Racism – Looking Towards 2026

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Reader Comments: Trump meets Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salam; It Was Not Just About the Hostages - Gazans Continue to be Killed; Policing and Public Safety-A Socialist Mayor - A Panel Discussion; Fighting MAGA & Fighting Racism - Looking Towards 2026
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