A Gallup poll out this week shows Americans think it’s the Republicans, not the Democrats, who’ve gone off the deep end.
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Democrats Playing the Economic Populist Card in Iowa Midterms
The combination of farm-state economic woes and Democrats speaking the language of working-class people has residents saying the state is ‘getting purple.’
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‘Stunning’ Level of Support for Universal Health Care: Jayapal
Even more people want Medicare for All than did last December, a new poll shows.
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Will Democrats Fail to See the Working Class Again?
The Democratic base and working-class swing voters want action on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid and the expanded monthly Child Tax Credit.
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Labor Day 2026: Record-High Popularity, Record-Low Power for America’s Unions
Wages now constitute the lowest share of the nation’s income since the government began measuring them in 1947.
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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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Democratic Voters Are Fired Up
2018 was a historic blowout for the Dems. This year, primary turnout is much higher.
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Why Have Less Than One Percent of American Socialists Joined DSA?
Socialism has not been this popular in America in at least a century, but how it’s defined, and who defines it, matters.
Posted inTAP
Trump’s Speech Tonight Won’t Be About the Economy or Iran
It will be about what really concerns him: the 2020 election.
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AWOL in the Class War
Americans realize they’ve lost power and income to the very rich. Too many Democrats, even too many unions, have yet to go to war for them.