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Monday’s Supreme Court decision blessing Ohio’s removal of half a million voters was ultimately decided on the issue of a postcard. Now that little postcard threatens the voting rights of millions

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The actor and activist is running to win—not just push Andrew Cuomo to the left. But can she convince voters she’s ready to govern?

More than one poll has affirmed that our country’s rising political demographic group wants to see more government intervention in the economy. Young Democrats lean socialist, and people of color are disillusioned with the capitalist system.

A party built on demonizing and attacking marginalized people is a party that will have to disenfranchise those same people if it is to survive.

A large network of political groups and outreach initiatives, many of them helmed by black women, backed Abrams in Georgia’s May 22 democratic primary

Summer Lee, Sara Innamorato and Liz Fiedler faced enormous odds against well-funded opponents. These progressive women took the odds and won ... not by a little but by a lot. They've proven the old analysis that says you have to be a centrist to win is dead wrong.

If elections are wealthy interests versus voters, the counter to the power of Big Money is to increase voters’ financial power.

Democrats have a problem the Republicans don’t. The pursuit of big money drives establishment Democrats to adopt positions — and to nurture a political culture — that prevents them from winning their natural constituencies.