Recent disclosures reveal attempted Russian intrusions into American election systems—and that state officials were kept in the dark.
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Supreme Court Has Historic Chance to End Extreme Gerrymandering
The Supreme Court, which has decided to hear a landmark case on whether Wisconsin electoral maps were unconstitutionally drawn, could deliver a major blow to ultra-partisan redistricting.
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Collecting Campaign Cash from the Homeless
In a system driven by big donors, a pioneering Seattle program hands the campaign-finance purse strings to average and even homeless voters.
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Democrats Need to Be the Party of and for Working People—of All Races
And they can’t retake Congress unless they win over more white workers.
Posted inWorking in America
A Tale of Two Populisms
The elite the white working class loathes is politicians.
Posted inWorking in America
The Democrats’ ‘Working-Class Problem’
It’s not only with whites. It reaches well into the party’s base.
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Winning (Some) Middle-of-the-Road Working-Class Whites
White working-class voters differ not just in “what they think” but in “how they think.” Understanding this difference is the key to creating a successful Democratic strategy for regaining their support.
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The Racism Obstacle
There are limits to how effectively a progressive populist economics can woo working-class whites.
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Extreme Gerrymandering Complicates 2018 Congressional Map for Democrats
It will take nothing short of an electoral wave for Democrats to retake the House in 2018, and that’s exactly the problem. A new report from the Brennan Center at the New York University School of Law underscores the devastating effect of gerrymandering on recent House elections: The researchers found that over the past decade, […]
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Did Misogyny Drive Comey’s Subversion of Presidential Campaign?
The potential villains in the FBI’s anti-Clinton narrative were all women.
