Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tells progressive Senate candidates to stop running in primaries and funnels money and operatives to his centrist preferences.
Bob Moser
Bob Moser is a contributing editor for the Prospect and The New Republic, and the author of Blue Dixie: Awakening the South’s Democratic Majority.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Voter Suppression Chronicles
When the Roberts Court all but nullified the Voting Rights Act, it said the pre-1965 practices were long gone. New hearings by the House make clear: They’re back.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
A New South Rising: This Time for Real
The midterms made clear that progressive candidates can retake the region with young and minority voters.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Q&A: The Quiet Fire That Burns Democracy
Carol Anderson on voter suppression and Jim Crow 2.0
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Democratic Progressives Survived a Landslide
They ran against Wall Street and carried the white working class. The Democrats who shunned populism got clobbered.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Two Centrist Dems May Herald a Progressive Future for Georgia
As Republicans head to the polls to select a U.S. Senate candidate who will almost certainly hail from the right, Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter–daughter of Senator Sam and grandson of President Jimmy–take the middle path on a road destined to veer left.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Daily Meme: Strange Doin’s in Dixie
No subject tends to confound political pundits-or national Democrats and liberals in general-quite like Southern politics. And if you don’t believe it, take a gander at the oft-cited 2006 manual for Democratic Dixie-bashing, Tom Schaller’s Whistling Past Dixie, which bizarrely recommended that the party abandon the nation’s largest and fastest-growing region (not to mention its […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Daily Meme: It Ain’t Easy Being a Koch
Pity the poor Koch brothers. All Charles and David want to do is make America safe for good, old-fashioned, Wild West capitalism. But somehow, they seem to be teeing everybody off-left and right. Plus, it’s so doggone pricey to buy control of the federal government these days! The K-Bros dished out $400 million to defeat […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Daily Meme: The Man From Oops
While the Republican presidential contest for 2016 is delightfully, crazily up for grabs, you probably figured there was one thing you could bank on: Rick Perry would never run again after humiliating himself so memorably in 2011 and 2012. Think again! The Man from Oops is back, now sporting a pair of “make-you-look-smarter” glasses and […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Daily Meme: Fred Phelps, God’s Gift to Gay Rights
You’ve no doubt heard that Fred Phelps, the terror of Topeka, Kansas, and patriarch of the “God Hates Fags” Westboro Baptist church, died late Wednesday night at 84. While Phelps came to infamy picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard and countless other gay men, that was only the beginning of his family church’s two-decade hate […]