In 1932, with the Great Depression underway, President Herbert Hoover and General Douglas MacArthur violently suppressed the Bonus March, a massive encampment of veterans demanding relief, with far-reaching and unforseen consequences.
We must organize within Morena, and we must organize in the streets. Young people must be patient and persevere. We must fight all our lives to transform reality. With AMLO, hope returned to us. I’m ready.
Julia Rock, Rebecca Burns, Andrew Perez, Matthew Cunningham-Cook, David Sirota
Convergence
Progressive and leftist voters are always told we’re too extreme. The midterm results should quash that narrative. Results suggest that when the Democratic Party listened to its progressive flank voters rewarded its politicians.
Reaction to the Republican Supreme Court’s attack on abortion rights, drove high Democratic turnout, especially among women and young voters, saw Democrats overperform polls in many places, just as in summer special elections in New York and Alaska.
On a night when things mostly went right for the party, the Empire State’s liberal leaders will be left to rue their costly errors and campaign struggles. State Dems sought to punish the Left in New York, instead lost control of Congress.
Center for Reproductive Rights
Center for Reproductive Rights
Millions of people voted in elections that will shape U.S. sexual and reproductive health and rights policy in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s devastating decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate the constitutional right to abortion.
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