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Could Gavin Newsom Be Worse Than You Think?

Norman Solomon LA Progressive
Newsom has drawn widespread praise for waging an aggressive war of words against President Trump. But few people outside of California know much about the governor’s actual record.

The Most Rancorous Line

Nicholas Guyatt The New York Review of Books
How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a long-standing colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?

It’s Dangerous To Overestimate the Left’s Strength

Eric Blanc and Bhaskar Sunkara Labor Politics
Be excited about Zohran, but sober about our movement's shallow roots. The big question now is whether we will be able to lean on that hope to rebuild a powerful working-class movement in workplaces and neighborhoods across our city and nation.

Working Families Party -2026 the Right Time for a Wave of Wins

Rachel Leingang The Guardian
The progressive party is now active in 18 states and much of its expansion happened in the past five years. The party believes 2026 will be a wave year for the left nationwide, so it will be aggressively recruiting candidates for state legislatures

Tidbits-Jan. 1- Reader Comments: Israel Preparing for Permanent Gaza Presence; New “New Deal” About To Wipe Out the Old Political Order; Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg; Exchange: Why Portside Ran SMART Union President’s Message; Cartoons

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Reader Comments: Israel Preparing for Permanent Gaza Presence; New “New Deal” About To Wipe Out the Old Political Order; Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg; Exchange: Why Portside Ran SMART Union President's Message; Announcements; Cartoons

The Resistance Moves Left

Eric Blanc, Waleed Shahid, Leah Greenberg, Daniel Denvir Convergence
How the socialist left and the anti-Trump Resistance are slowly but surely learning to work together.

Medicare for All Disappeared. Its Popularity Didn’t.

Meagan Day Convergence
The demand for Medicare for All went from the center of the discourse to political exile in record time. But the policy's popularity never faded. A new poll finds strong majority support for the neglected idea among Americans across the political spe
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