Read NPI’s review of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting, by writer E. J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport, a former Secretary of State.
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Netroots Nation 2022 — Day 3 — Featured Panel: Post-Roe Does Not Mean Post-Abortion
“Every movement can be tracked back to the importance of abortion access,” said Lizz Winstead of the Abortion Access Front. This was the central theme of Saturday morning’s Netroots Nation panel titled: Post-Roe Doesn’t Mean Post Abortion…If You Step Up.
Netroots Nation 2022 — Day Two — Redistricting: What Happened? What Did We Learn? What’s Next?
Michael Li of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program opened Friday afternoon’s redistricting panel at Netroots Nation by stating that although there have been historic gains in this redistricting cycle, “There are many maps in the country that are still widely skewed in favor of the party that drew them.”
Netroots Nation 2022 — Day Two — Featured Panel: Disinformation and the Vote
This Friday morning at Netroots Nation, the conversation at the Disinformation in the Vote panel focused on how such efforts disproportionately target non-English-speaking communities.
Netroots Nation 2022 — Day One — Opening Keynote: All Eyes on Pennsyvania
Netroots Nation 2022 kicked off Thursday with a lively keynote speech from a long list of electeds, advocates and activists in Pennsylvania politics.
Netroots Nation 2022 — Day One — Featured Panel: Solving the Climate Crisis Starts with Combating Misinformation
Combating disinformation and misinformation starts with tracking where it is being spread and how far it’s reaching. That is the goal of Phil Newell and Allison Fisher, two of Thursday afternoon’s panelists, at Media Matters.
Netroots Nation 2022 — Day One — Featured Panel: Defenders of Democracy
Netroots Nation’s “Defenders of Democracy” panel on Thursday morning focused on keeping personal abortion care stories on the forefront of campaigns and advocacy this November.
Book Review: It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful relates how art helped combat AIDS
Lowery chronicles the art installations by the collective Gran Fury, including Kissing Doesn’t Kill and All People With Aids are Innocent, while also describing the tragic consequences AIDS was having on the members themselves.
Patty Murray urges Republicans to stop blocking gun safety bills in the U.S. Senate
Washington State has shown what can be accomplished even in the face of strident opposition from the gun lobby, but Congress has not, because Senate Republicans have sadly blocked any and all progress to date.
Book Review: Flipped recounts Georgia progressives’ big 2020 breakthrough
The thrilling victories of the Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, which were followed within hours by the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, are richly chronicled in Flipped, a recently published book by the chief political reporter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Greg Bluestein.
Book Review: Left Behind puts the DLC’s failed track record under a microscope
Read NPI’s review of Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, by historian Lily Geismer, an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.
Book Review: Laboratories of Autocracy puts Republican-run statehouses under a spotlight
Read NPI’s review of Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines, by Ohio Democratic Party Chair David Pepper.
Book Review: Flying Blind examines the bad decisions that led to Boeing’s current crises
Read NPI’s review of The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing, by award-winning Bloomberg reporter Peter Robison.