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Platner Volunteers Want To Move Forward With a New Candidate

Nathan Bernard Drop Site News
The populist movement propelling Graham Platner’s senatorial campaign sees a replacement in former state senator Troy Jackson. The energy behind this politics of change is genuinely real and organic. Wednesday evening, Platner suspended his campaign

France’s Heat Shock

June Loper and Harrison Stetler The Nation
A historically hot summer is revealing a society massively unprepared for a new climate reality. A concrete jungle such as Paris, or any French city center, is a built environment conceived for the far more temperate climate of a preindustrial world

Tidbits-July 9 – Reader Comments: World Cup, World Stage, Trump; What the Country Wants and Believes; What’s the Matter With JD Vance?; the Judeo-Bolshevist Target; Take Action – Honduras; Symposium: Forging a Democracy That Works for All;

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Reader Comments: World Cup, World Stage, Trump; What the Country Wants and Believes; What’s the Matter With JD Vance?; Judeo-Bolshevist Target; Take Action - Honduras: The Narco-Dictatorship Returns; Symposium: Forging A Democracy That Works for All

Commies EVERYWHERE!

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Can you generate a red scare absent actual reds?

How Israel Lost Americans

Michelle Goldberg The New York Times
It's not just Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians that have eroded Americans’ good will toward Israel. Perhaps as important has been Israel’s role in American politics.

Socialist Francesca Hong on Her Wisconsin Insurgency

Interview by Daniel Denvir Convergence
Francesca Hong, the democratic socialist candidate for governor in Wisconsin, discusses organizing beyond Madison and Milwaukee, confronting the Democratic establishment, and rebuilding working-class power.

Up Next for the DSA? 2 Major Swing States.

Will Steakin Politico
The group is racing to prove that it can win competitive statewide races, channeling staff, star surrogates and resources toward Michigan and Wisconsin.

We Need a Second Founding

Yael Bromberg and Cornell Williams Brooks Democracy Docket
A Second Founding is necessary to build a stronger democracy. Young Americans must lead it. We propose the following ambitious agenda.
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