Billionaire donors went hard in July to sell mainstream Dems on their diet MAGA vision for the party. Now they are back on the defensive.
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Abdul El-Sayed Lost in 2018. It Set Him Up for 2026.
I covered Abdul El-Sayed when he ran for governor and lost. Here’s how he and the landscape have changed.
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Ida B. Wells: Brave Woman
By chronicling the shame of lynching in the South, Ida B. Wells exposed the corruption of white supremacy.
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The CBC Challenge in Detroit
The Congressional Black Caucus has to decide between incumbency and additional representation in a House race between Rep. Shri Thanedar and Donavan McKinney.
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Frederick Douglass: Indefatigable American
If Frederick Douglass, a former slave who saw the dream of emancipation drown in Jim Crow, didn’t give up on this country, then we have no excuse.
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These Are Our Prospect Patriots
In the nation’s 250th year, we turn an eye to Americans who challenged power, took risks, and made our country greater.
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Thomas Paine: The Consistent Revolutionary
Thomas Paine’s lifelong battle for freedom
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The Democratic Establishment’s Mess in Wisconsin
On the verge of a potential governing trifecta, state party leaders have hopscotched from candidate to candidate in the governor’s race, trying to stop democratic socialist Francesca Hong.
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Zohran Mamdani’s New Kids on the Block
The politics of urban racial, class, and regime succession.