The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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To Build a Progressive Populism, Look to Farm Country
With their sights now firmly trained on 2018, Democratic strategists and liberal pundits have an opportunity to re-think populism and learn from the work of farm communities that have fought racism and corporate control.
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The Wisconsin Experiment: Could G.O.P. Win As "Moderates" on Education In 2018
With Democrats predicting big gains as President Trump’s approval ratings flatline, Republicans are courting an audience that they’ve neglected since the Tea Party victories of 2010: moderates.
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Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda
Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen.
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The Wizard of Odds: Reality TV Takes Over the White House in Trumpenstein's America
The media spins the Trump victory as though it originated from “white” pain: the white working (mostly male) pain of being shocked by change, and made to merge into a cultural landscape of earthy tones rather than perpetual beige as far as the eye can see.
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The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are agents of a revolt, from the left and the right, fueled by anger at those who have had power over our economic and political system since the start of the 1980s.
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U.S. Government Begins "Tea Party" Shutdown
The extreme faction of the Republican party forced a stalemate over health care that has shut down the government.
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The Liberal Narrative Is Broken, and Only Populism Can Fix It
The left dare not answer conservatives by simply saying government is good. Instead, it must make special interests a rallying cry.
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A House Divided: This Time, Between The People and The Corporations
We must confront the corporate corruption of democracy to ensure that our American family still has a house to fight in.
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One Multi-Millionaire is Turning North Carolina into Tea Party Utopia
With no remaining checks to Republican rule in North Carolina, the state has now become a haven for some of the most ideological — and ill-considered — tea party fantasies dressed up as legislation.
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Occupy Suburbia: Where the Battle of Ideas Must Be Won
Voters' rejection of Tea Party policies signaled an opening for a different narrative to become cemented in the suburban political mind.
