As the controversy over the Democratic National Committee’s buried autopsy report continues to rage, more Democrats from the party’s establishment wing are…
Last week, the Democratic National Committee met in New Orleans for its semiannual meeting. Despite attempts by the event’s organizers to project…
In late 2022, RootsAction, the organization where I serve as political director, called for Joe Biden not to run for re-election. We…
Nearly exactly a year later, two narratives have taken hold about the electoral wipeout Democrats experienced in 2024. The first is the…
When Donald Trump announced that he had helped broker an end to Israel’s onslaught in Gaza, it marked the achievement of a…
On Monday, August 11th, Donald Trump’s authoritarian gaze landed on Washington, DC, the city of 700,000 people in the White House’s backyard.…
On Friday, with another government shutdown looming, Senate Democrats, and their feckless leader, Chuck Schumer, fully folded to the Republican Party’s bullying…
Over the weekend, Politico reported that, in early February, a group of Democratic “consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials and party leaders” had convened in…
This week, delegates to the Republican National Convention (RNC) officially voted to adopt their new platform. Looming large behind the formal adoption of the party’s…
Up until Tuesday’s presidential primary in Michigan, President Joe Biden has met little electoral resistance as he rolls towards renomination as the…
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