Today on TAP: Creating a more democratic Senate
Democrats
Posted inPolitics
The DCCC Is Stepping Up for Two Left Candidates While Progressive Groups Step Back
Kara Eastman and Dana Balter are giving the left a second chance to show it can win swing districts. But progressive organizations are playing a minimal role.
Posted inPolitics
The House Super-Seats That Could Decide the Presidency
Here is one more constitutional contingency in a lunatic year.
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Door-Knocking in a Life-or-Death Campaign
Is the Biden camp blowing it by not walking precincts? Actually, no.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Amy Coney Barrett Will Take Away Your Healthcare in a Pandemic, Democrats Warn
Plus, commercial real estate collapses. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for September 28, 2020.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How to Rebalance the Supreme Court
Combine an immediate expansion with a proposal for a constitutional amendment.
Posted inPolitics
Mike Espy to Democrats: Don’t Write Off Mississippi!
The former Democratic congressman is close behind incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the latest poll, but party officials won’t open their wallets.
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Congressional Leader Lays Down Marker in Revolving-Door Battle
Rep. Raúl Grijalva has built a coalition of outside groups committed to barring corporate insiders from executive branch positions. Now he wants House members to sign on.
Posted inPolitics
How Progressives Built a Campaign Machine … Thanks to the DCCC
A fateful decision from the House Democratic leadership inadvertently created a progressive political force.
Posted inPolitics
The Congressional Black Caucus: Necessary but Not Sufficient
On the eve of the group’s 50th anniversary, the new progressives must push the group to be bolder about the problems facing African Americans.
