In a number of counties, voters ousted elected officials who’d directed their police departments to aid ICE in its deportations.
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Tuesday’s Verdict on Voter Suppression and Gerrymandering
In numerous states, voters elected new governors and legislatures, and passed ballot measures that could reverse the Republicans’ war on democracy.
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Wisconsin Voters Show Scott Walker the Door
Walker’s anti-worker policies finally caught up to him.
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How a Progressive Message Won House Seats
Advocating policies like Medicare-for-all, a significant expansion of Medicare, or a buy-in at age 55, Dems won in heavily blue and red districts.
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What Each Side Won Yesterday
Democrats claimed the cities and gained the suburbs. Republicans turned out the hills and the dales. Two nations, unhappily bound together as one.
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Can Low-Income Voters Make the Difference in Wisconsin?
With the state’s governor’s race at a dead heat, progressive activists focus on boosting turnout.
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About Those (Not Quite so Great) Wage Increases
An Election-Day primer
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Debate: Making American Democracy Representative
Two knowledgeable commentators respond to Benjamin Page & Martin Gilens’s argument in the Prospect for ranked-choice voting, proportional representation, and the abolition of primaries.
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Why Democrats Need to Win as Economic Populists
That’s the best way to win back Trump voters, avoid falling into the identity politics trap, and unify the potential coalition.
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How One Democratic Representative Transforms Young Progressives into Electoral Activists
Maryland’s Jamie Raskin offers an all-too-unique political skills-and-smarts education every summer.
