After World War II, Dems lost touch with their New Deal roots. Now they’re coming back home.
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The Credit Card Operative Helping Shape Democratic Primaries
Peter Kauffmann, vice chair for VoteVets, which has raised $20 million to spend in primaries on mostly moderate candidates this year, is running a front group fighting to keep credit card fees high.
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MI-07: Tom Barrett Scrambles to Bury His Data Center Past
The Republican incumbent voted for massive tax breaks for data centers in the Big Beautiful Bill. Now he’s saying Washington shouldn’t decide on the facilities.
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How the Cost of Money Spikes Inflation
Government borrowing costs are going through the roof—and so are yours and mine.
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Fake Poll Scandal Has All the Earmarks of a Pump-and-Dump Scheme
If you wanted to rig political prediction markets, this is exactly how you would do it.
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The DSA Strategy to Build Power
The democratic socialist organization is building something much bigger than an email list.
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Democrats’ 2028 Primary Schedule: A Cold Shoulder to Their New Activist Base
For reasons both good and bad, big cities don’t figure much in the states that will kick off the presidential primaries.
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The Last Big Primary Night of the Year
Here’s what’s happening in Florida and across the country in key races.
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Now You Vote; but Maybe You Won’t in Backsliding Missouri
Republican state leaders are working frantically to skim off as much of voters’ democratic powers as they can this election season.
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Hong Campaign Postmortem: It Wasn’t the Socialism, It Was the Woke
The right’s attacks actually don’t focus on socialism’s defining economics.