Capitalizing on a surge of Democratic energy, the Sanders team is hiring full-time organizers and pushing supporters toward critical local issues.
Micah L. Sifry
Micah L. Sifry writes a regular newsletter, The Connector, about democracy, organizing, technology, and social movements.
Posted inPolitics
Opening the DNC’s Black Box
Why we’re publishing a previously undisclosed list of all 448 members of the Democratic National Committee
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Focus on the Grassroots
Grassroots Democratic civic life is a desert that only gets watered for a few months every two or four years, and then only in battleground states or districts.
Posted inBooks
Why Did Obama Forget Who Brought Him to the Dance?
His memoir is strangely silent about the people who organized for him.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
From Virtue Signaling to Politics
Two new books try to put power back into civic engagement.
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To Change Voters’ Sympathies, It’s Time to Go Deep
A new model known as ‘deep canvassing’ is being tested in the swing areas of Pennsylvania. Here’s an inside look.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Here’s the Real Trouble With Tech
Once you understand the tech giants are capturing unguarded human experience, their business makes sense.
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Who is Dean Barkley?
In appointing Dean Barkley, the head of Minnesota’s Planning Agency, to fill out the remainder of Paul Wellstone’s Senate term, Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has actually made a surprisingly respectable choice. The outgoing governor has been having another one of his very public temper tantrums ever since participants in the Wellstone memorial service booed his […]
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Finding the Lost Voters
Al Garcia is one frustrated Democratic campaign manager. A criminal defense lawyer by trade and a 20-year veteran of Minnesota politics, he ran two candidates for the state assembly in 1998. Both were in Anoka County, ground zero of the Jesse Ventura vote. One candidate, Jerry Newton, a decorated Vietnam veteran and small-business owner, fiscally […]