The Census Is Under Attack, but Grassroots Groups Are Fighting Back

If the grassroots can come together to protect the census, the social power developed is likely to boost other progressive campaigns – from teacher strikes to immigration reform to the mobilization of minority voters in 2020.

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Labor Strikes Back: A Forum on How Workers Can Win

Based on recent labor activism by teachers and workers, there is a clear opportunity to build a “mass movement from below” and bring a bottom (99%) versus top (1%) progressive strategy to the 2020 elections.

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Rural Politics, Climate Change and the 2020 Elections, Part II

If a future President Sanders or Warren were able to take on Big Ag and implement programs to help small farmers and rural communities, it would shake up the politics of rural states and the country as a whole.

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Rural Politics, Climate Change and the 2020 Elections, Part I

The crises in rural America – economic, agricultural and climate – cry out for progressive policies and therefore open the door to connecting with large numbers of rural voters.

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2020 Candidates Side With Labor As Strikes Deepen, Extending to Private Sector

Recent strikes in Erie County, Penn., and New England are evidence that workers in the private sector are beginning to exercise their strike muscles again – and reawakening the labor roots in the Democratic Party.

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Workers Strike Back: 2019 Sees The Return of Labor Activism

Today's explosion in worker actions reveals a broad opposition to neoliberalism that is more like a crowd-sourced and coordinated dance than a disciplined march. And it shows no signs of slowing down.

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Striking Los Angeles Teachers Won Big. Here's What Their Victory Means.

The successful L.A. teachers strike helps move the balance of power in California and nationally toward public education, and against both austerity and the privatization of education through charter schools.

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What It's Going to Take To Win A Green New Deal, Part II

The Green New Deal will be the equivalent of the New Deal of the 1930s, the Civil Rights era, and the Moonshot of the 1960s – all at the same time. At its core, it is a grand story about American renewal.

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Escaping the Neoliberal Trap and Winning A Green New Deal, Part I

Progressive Democrats must go much further in taking on the fundamental injustices of the corporate capitalist economy, which does not work for the majority of Americans nor, incidentally, for the planet either.

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Election Rigging and the Decline of American Democracy

Formally democratic institutions can be severely weakened by those willing, even eager, to betray democratic principles in order to maintain power.

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