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Trump Does Not Have Mandate

Peter Dreier Talking Points Memo
Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” None of those things are true. Recent public opinion polls reveal that Trump’s professed policy agenda is very unpopular.

A Portside Message: The Challenge of Wannabe Fascism

Portside Moderators Portside
How can we prevent a wannabe dictator from consolidating absolute power? Please help us to inform, analyze and mobilize in the year ahead. Here's how. You can help Portside...

From Kindergarten to Real World

Paul Garver Chartist
If DSA can graduate from the kindergarten playground to the real political world, it can make a major contribution to putting the interests of the inclusive and diverse working class onto the national political agenda.

#GivingTuesday and the Challenge of Wannabe Fascism

Portside
How can we prevent a wannabe dictator from consolidating absolute power? Please help us to inform, analyze and mobilize in the year ahead. Here's how you can help Portside on Giving Tuesday...

The New Anti-Abortion Argument Takes Us Back to the 19th Century

Linda Greenhouse New York Times
Idaho, Kansas and Missouri in seeking to establish standing to outlaw mifepristone argue cause "a loss in potential population or potential population increase,” and that “decreased births” were inflicting “a sovereign injury to the state itself.

Rural People and the Working Class. Here’s How We Unite.

Beth Howard Barn Raiser
The director of the Appalachia People’s Union on why the South is ready to stand up to Trump. White people delivered this victory to Trump. Out of 76 million votes cast for Trump (2 million more than in 2020), 84% of those were white voters.

Tidbits – Nov. 21 – Reader Comments: Trump 2.0; Resistance 2.0 and Community Organizing; Myths About Kamala Harris’s Loss; Scoundrel Time – Lessons From the McCarthy Period for Today; Your Help Needed – Cubans Needs Our Help More Than Ever; Cartoons

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Reader Comments: Trump 2.0; Resistance 2.0 and Community Organizing; Myths About Kamala Harris’s Loss; Scoundrel Time - Lessons from the McCarthy Period for Today; Your Help Needed - Cubans Needs Our Help More Than Ever; Cartoons, more....

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Dumb. It Could Also Do Serious Damage.

Casey Wetherbee Jacobin
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is equal parts asinine and dystopian. We can only hope that, by virtue of how insufferable all involved are, DOGE’s relationship with the Trump administration flames out spectacularly.
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