Last week, I sat down with one of my political idols and mentors, @BernieSanders. We talked about everything from street plowing, foreign policy, and the importance of bringing joy to your city as mayor.
The Minnesota state senator won Minneapolis’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for mayor—but the state-level party revoked it.
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My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.
A left that ignores the differences within the working class will never build power.
The masks are coming off
"Joel’s Army"—the militant Protestant movement that fueled both the January 6 insurrection and the recent political assassinations in Minnesota—is rearing its head once again, this time in the 2026 race for California governor.
Democracy is messy
If politics is ultimately about communicating in appealing ways, Mamdani is charting a new way forward for the digital era by the deliberate fusion of personal appeals with substantive ones.
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