“Growing population in America’s highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And Republicans are scrambling for answers,” Politico’s Charlie Mahtesian and Madi Alexander write.
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Democratic strategists: Why the party can win a trifecta in 2024
“If we do the basic blocking and tackling of great field and GOTV work, and focus on executing an effective strategy for working-class voters, all the elements are in place for a big Democratic victory in 2024,” Mike Lux and Celinda Lake write.
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Democratic voters want Democratic elected leaders who do things
“Tuesday’s results showed that money isn’t all that counts in elections,” Alexander Sammon writes. “Big spending matters, but the progressive policy vision continues to excite voters enough to overcome major fundraising deficits, and with just two major primary days in the books, the Squad already looks poised to add two members. Progressives look competitive both in open seats and in primaries, both of which will be critical to shaping the Democratic caucus for years to come.”
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Democratic National Committee members push for changes in party to give more money to states
“Dozens of voting members of the Democratic National Committee met Friday to organize a new voting bloc to push for changes to the internal governance of the national party and send more money to state party groups,” The Washington Post’s Michael Scherer reports.
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Democrats, speak to working class discontent
Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg writes: “The Republican threat to America’s constitutional experiment has led me to ask: What is our plan to save it? Here’s mine.”
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Why ‘moderation’ doesn’t guarantee electoral success for Biden and the Democrats
“The reality is that politics is complex and somewhat unpredictable — with a lot of voters who are regularly changing or just forming views on issues and also changing who they vote for or whether they vote in the first place,” Perry Bacon Jr. writes.
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Are we entering a new political era?
“The neoliberal order seems to be collapsing. A generation of young activists is trying to insure that it’s replaced by progressive populism, not by the fascist right,” Andrew Marantz writes for The New Yorker.
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Biden shifts his political operation to DNC ahead of 2022 midterm elections
The move signifies that Biden is a team player committed to the Democratic Party. In 2009, Barack Obama and his advisers chose to keep campaign data in the hands of a semi-separate outfit called Organizing For America.
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Today’s bold progressive ideas will be the next political era’s widely accepted Democratic policy platform planks
“Increasingly the Democratic Party is divided into two camps: those who favor the ideas of Warren/AOC/Sanders now, versus those who will favor these same Warren/AOC/Sanders ideas in 3-4 years, when those ideas are more in the political consensus,” Perry Bacon Jr. writes.
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DNC members outline party reforms in letter to Biden
“Twenty-nine Democratic National Committee members have joined a call for structural reforms to increase transparency and ensure fairness in the nominating process,” David Moore writes.
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The Atlantic profiles NPI alum Garlin Gilchrist II’s work to deliver a Democratic victory in Michigan
Writer Edward-Issac Dovere takes a look at the Democratic Party’s plan to win the Wolverine State in 2020 after losing to Donald Trump by less than 11,000 votes in 2016, which emphasizes facets of big organizing and local control.
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Slate columnist: Chuck Schumer is a lefty now
A Slate columnist says that Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is taking an increasing number of progressive positions, aligning himself with Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, and Ron Wyden, and going further than Joe Biden has in embracing policy directions we need.
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Organizing at scale: A conversation with top organizers from the Sanders and Warren campaigns
“Expect to understand more about the best in modern political campaigning, and a chance to hear some inside stories from this year’s campaign.”
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How Mitch McConnell became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
Republican consultant Stuart Stevens: “Trump was the moral test, and the Republican Party failed… It’s an utter disaster for the long-term fate of the Party. The Party has become an obsession with power without purpose.”
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John Pavlovitz: The privilege of saying you’re a “_______ or bust” progressive
“A revolution of policy or a renaissance of humanity cannot happen without participation in and access to the process — and we all will lose that access if we do not move in concert right now.”
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HE’S BACK! President Obama returns to the arena with major speech rebuking Trump and the Republicans for their toxic politics
Today, President Barack Obama received the Paul H. Douglas Award for ethics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During his acceptance speech, President Obama returned to the political arena, blasting Donald Trump and the Republicans for their toxic politics of division.
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Democrats are moving left. Don’t panic.
Democrats will not defeat Trump and his increasingly fanatical, revanchist party by promising the restoration of what came before him; the country is desperate for
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Democrats see openings at state level, thanks to Trump resistance
It does feel very much like 2010 reversed to me right now. — Governor Bill Haslam of Tennessee, the head of the Republican Governors Association,
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The 7,383-Seat Strategy
“Taking inspiration from Virginia, Democrats are finally running to win in the states,” writes Joan Walsh. “But will the party make room for a different kind of candidate?”
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Why rural America isn’t a lost cause for progressive ideas
“Too often, liberal candidates write off red states. But their policies could find a willing audience there,” writes Ivy Bashear.
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Republicans’ yellow brick road always leads back to bashing Seattle
Columnist Danny Westneat calls out the Washington State Republican Party and its legislative caucuses for their divisive, counterproductive Seattle-bashing, which they’ve said they intend to do even more of in 2018, even though it hasn’t worked for them in the past.
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