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The Most Important Primaries Are The Ones That Will Yield The Most Consequential Members Of Congress
Not More Garden Variety Backbenchers AOC and Saikat Imagine for a moment that Saikat Chakrabarti somehow beats Nancy Pelosi and becomes...
Howie Klein
1 day ago4 min read
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DCCC Announced Its Target List For 2026— They Should Put More Energy Into Recruiting Good Candidates
Today's List Is Conservative And Unimaginative But, For Them, OK They're gone... but the DCCC is determined to find plenty just like them...
Howie Klein
Apr 82 min read
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This Is What Happened In Pennsylvania's Special Elections Tuesday— And Why It's Important Nationally
There were two legislative special elections in Pennsylvania Tuesday. Democrats won both. The more important one would determine which...
Howie Klein
Mar 275 min read
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The DCCC And Chairwoman Suzan DelBene— Born To Lose
New Dems, and whatever they touch, born to lose House Democrats always assign corporate-friendly New Dems to run the DCCC and never learn...
Howie Klein
Mar 264 min read
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Josh Weil— A Bad Ass Candidate For Congress… And In Florida No Less!
Exit polling in the FL-06 special election to replace Mike Walz, now Trump’s national security advisor, is not at all reflective of the...
Howie Klein
Mar 182 min read
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By Cheating Bernie Out Of The Nomination, The Neoliberal Democratic Establishment Gave Us Trump
Sorry, The Democratic Consultant/Donor Class Aren't Our Friends Elissa Slotkin is a Liz Cheney conservative Democrat, not an FDR Democrat...
Howie Klein
Mar 911 min read
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Shouldn't All The Democrats Who Don't Envision Themselves As Part Of An Opposition Party Retire Now?
Offering An Alternative To— Not Embracing— Kakistocracy Is Their Job Now I didn't dress them but that's Elizabeth Warren in blue & Jeanne...
Howie Klein
Dec 19, 202413 min read
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Can The Democrats Pull Their Heads Out Of Their Asses And Win The 2026 Midterms?
I saw a House Majority PAC wish list somewhere— 45 Republican-held districts they would like to contest in 2026. If they meant by...
Howie Klein
Dec 14, 20249 min read
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Can We Get Some Good House Candidates For The 2026 Midterms— No One Recruited By Chuck Schumer?
Yesterday, the Senate voted on Biden’s renomination of Lauren McFerran to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). It failed 50-49 ,...
Howie Klein
Dec 12, 20244 min read
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DelBene Is Certainly Not Going To Fix The DCCC— Will Jeffries Appoint Someone Who Even Wants To?
It Starts With Strong Recruiting, Not With Corrupt Blue Dogs This cycle, the DCCC re-recruited two of its worst 2022 candidates,...
Howie Klein
Dec 5, 20246 min read
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There Is A Path To Democratic Party Redemption— But Not Through The Neoliberalism That Wrecked It
Almost As Bad As Rahm As DNC Chair Would Be Ritchie Torres As DCCC Chair I have a strong stomach. Even when I was going through chemo and...
Howie Klein
Nov 30, 20248 min read
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The Last Uncalled Race— Who You Rooting For? The Corrupt Blue Dog Or The Faux-Moderate Republican?
Both CA-13 Candidates Are Putrid CA-13 came into existence after the 2020 census in time for the 2022 midterms. There was no incumbent in...
Howie Klein
Nov 29, 20243 min read
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Would The Democrats Control The House Now If The DCCC Didn’t Keep Supporting Corrupt Conservatives?
This year, the DCCC had the worst roster of candidates I’ve ever seen. Their red-to-blue program was absolutely putrid— and most of them...
Howie Klein
Nov 14, 20244 min read
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State Of The House— No One Knows Which Party Will Prevail Yet
What Went Wrong In New York And New Jersey? The partisan split in the House is going to be incredibly close. MAGA Mike will probably have...
Howie Klein
Nov 9, 202411 min read
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You Can’t Blame The Congressional Debacle On Poor Candidate Quality Alone
Oh, the DCCC roster was  the worst I’ve ever seen— and many of the incumbents looking most likely to lose their seats are among the worst...
Howie Klein
Nov 6, 20245 min read
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With The New Dem-Run DCCC Calling The Shots It's Miraculous That There Are ANY Democrats In Congress
Anyone Who Imagined DeBene Would Be Better Than Maloney Must've Been High For most Democrats in Congress— not all— the election is either...
Howie Klein
Oct 22, 202414 min read
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What Can We Expect From A Democratic House Majority On Day One?
Mychael Schnell and Mike Lillis interviewed Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) a couple of days ago. If the Democrats win the House,...
Howie Klein
Oct 20, 20243 min read
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Yes, The GOP Is Irredeemably Horrible— And So, I'm Afraid, Is The Progressive-Hating DCCC
Suzan DelBene Is Rahm Emanuel Without The Potty Mouth & Tutu There are some excellent candidates running for Congress this cycle but...
Howie Klein
Oct 20, 20245 min read
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The Big Realignment: How Many Core Values Are The Democratic Party Establishment Willing To Give Up?
Is Lesser Of Two Evils Good Enough For You? The DCCC has gotten behind some really horrible characters this cycle— in some cases even...
Howie Klein
Oct 17, 20243 min read
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Wondering If The Democrats Can Take Back The House Despite Exceptionally Poor Candidate Quality?
The DCCC Is Getting What It Wants-- A Lesser Of 2 Evils Election Cycle At least in theory, the DCCC is targeting 33 districts, 3 that are...
Howie Klein
Oct 11, 20246 min read
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