The flawed study ‘Deciding to Win’ may help Democrats get back to fighting for the forgotten middle class again.
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Democratic Wave or Republican Swamp
Can Trump revulsion and voter mobilization overcome voter suppression?
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Candidate Trump Boosts Republican Turnout. President Trump Boosts Democratic Turnout.
Trump in power has meant death for Republican prospects in every election held while he’s occupied the Oval Office. His skills on the stump (slander, vilification) don’t play so well when they dominate his performance in office.
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Poll: Trump Is Not Delivering on Foreign Policy
Overall, Americans are not pleased with President Trump’s performance on foreign policy: 50 percent grade him as “poor” against 37 percent as “good,” and on a range of foreign-policy topics, he is only above water on stopping “international drug trafficking.”
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A Democratic Sweep
Riding on the public’s pervasive economic anxiety and its substantial but not quite so widespread fury and fear of Trump’s trashing of American democracy, the Democrats won big from coast to coast yesterday.
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The 2025 Election’s Hudson River Divide
Through the campaigns of Zohran Mamdani and Mikie Sherrill, we can see a path that tenuously unites both social democrats and moderates. Future Democratic electoral successes will rest on a foundation of progressive economic populism.
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Voters Did Not Understand the Stakes in 2024
A large majority of American voters are greatly dissatisfied with the state of things, most especially the economy. It turns out that median voters were catastrophically misled about the stakes of the election last year.
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What the Polls Are Screaming to ‘Mainstream’ Democrats
Today on TAP: The Democratic rank and file is much more aligned with Bernie, AOC, and Zohran than it is with Chuck and Hakeem.
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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
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Donald Trump Won’t Be Saved by Maps
Gerrymandering in red states is predicated on Republicans holding Trump’s support in 2024, particularly from Latinos. That could be a bad bet.
