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Tag: Partybuilding

Nancy Pelosi speaks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Democratic National Committee members push for changes in party to give more money to states

March 11th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

“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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Democratic donkey and health symbol

Democrats, speak to working class discontent

February 24th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

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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Joe Biden speaks to Iowa Democrats in 2019

Why ‘moderation’ doesn’t guarantee electoral success for Biden and the Democrats

August 10th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Elections, Party Politics

“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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Democratic donkey and health symbol

Are we entering a new political era?

May 25th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

“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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Joe Biden speaks to Iowa Democrats in 2019

Biden shifts his political operation to DNC ahead of 2022 midterm elections

February 23rd, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

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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Democratic donkey and health symbol

Today’s bold progressive ideas will be the next political era’s widely accepted Democratic policy platform planks

December 9th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

“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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Democratic donkey and health symbol

DNC members outline party reforms in letter to Biden

November 28th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

“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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Garlin Gilchrist II + Gretchen Whitmer

The Atlantic profiles NPI alum Garlin Gilchrist II’s work to deliver a Democratic victory in Michigan

October 26th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Elections, Party Politics

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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Chuck Schumer speaking

Slate columnist: Chuck Schumer is a lefty now

September 19th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

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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A New Fifty State Strategy (Netroots Nation 2015 Panel)

Organizing at scale: A conversation with top organizers from the Sanders and Warren campaigns

April 16th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

“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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Mitch McConnell

How Mitch McConnell became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief

April 13th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Elections, Party Politics

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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Democratic Party kicking donkey

John Pavlovitz: The privilege of saying you’re a “_______ or bust” progressive

March 6th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

“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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President Obama speaks at the 2015 Labor Day Breakfast

HE’S BACK! President Obama returns to the arena with major speech rebuking Trump and the Republicans for their toxic politics

September 7th, 2018 Andrew Villeneuve Party 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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Democratic Party kicking donkey

Democrats are moving left. Don’t panic.

July 24th, 2018 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

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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Democratic Party kicking donkey

Democrats see openings at state level, thanks to Trump resistance

July 22nd, 2018 Andrew Villeneuve Elections, Party Politics

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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Democratic Party kicking donkey

The 7,383-Seat Strategy

March 23rd, 2018 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

“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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Map of Kentucky with farm background

Why rural America isn’t a lost cause for progressive ideas

January 29th, 2018 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Party Politics

“Too often, liberal candidates write off red states. But their policies could find a willing audience there,” writes Ivy Bashear.

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The Republican Formula

Republicans’ yellow brick road always leads back to bashing Seattle

January 7th, 2018 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

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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Democratic donkey and health symbol

Democrats leave few seats unchallenged in quest for House control

December 24th, 2017 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

The New York Times examines the Democratic Party’s candidate recruiting successes and concludes the party is doing a good job of returning to the fifty-state strategy championed by Howard Dean.

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Panorama of the capitol of Wisconsin

In La Follette Territory

July 26th, 2017 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

“How did the Democrats lose a once progressive and populist hotbed like Wisconsin?” The Nation’s Sarah Jones asks.

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Democratic donkey and health symbol

Lessons learned, the healing within the Democratic Party begins

July 24th, 2017 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

The Democratic Party is on its way to finding its way out of the wilderness thanks to a willngness by elected Democrats to listen to the grassroots, writes David Atkins.

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