California Has A Special Election In 3 Weeks With The Same Dynamics As The Nina Turner Race
The special election for California's 18th Assembly district is a race much like the Nina Turner contest-- a super-blue area contested by...
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Howie Klein
Aug 5, 20214 min read
Guest Post By Shahid Buttar: Lies Punching Left Are A Pattern
Watching Nina Turner’s defeat at the hands of the Democratic establishment’s games felt eerily familiar. Many observers have noted the...
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Howie Klein
Aug 5, 20213 min read
Progressivism Can Win-- And It Isn't Always Only About Candidates
I started getting really involved with politics while LBJ was in the White House. That picture above includes me (holding that Brooklyn...
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Howie Klein
Aug 4, 20217 min read
The Democratic Establishment Beat Nina But Cori Bush Took Them To The Cleaners Over Evictions
The Democratic base was majorly pissed off at the ugly little game Biden and Pelosi played with the expiration of the eviction ban,...
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Howie Klein
Aug 4, 20217 min read
Lessons From The Nina Turner Race?
"I am going to work hard to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen to another progressive candidate again. We didn’t lose this...
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Howie Klein
Jul 14, 20212 min read
Chris Larson-- The "Unrig The System" Wisconsin Democrat
As you probably know, Blue America has pre-endorsed and then quickly and enthusiastically endorsed Wisconsin state Senator Chris Larson...
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Howie Klein
Jun 30, 20213 min read
The Establishment Shoots Another Arrow At Nina Turner
In 3 weeks, Jim Clyburn (D-SC) will turn 81. May he celebrate 81 more birthdays. But not in Congress. He's too conservative, too devoted...
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Howie Klein
Jun 25, 20215 min read
Early Voting For Nina Turner Starts In 2 Weeks
First the good news: the day after Hillary Clinton endorsed the establishment status quo candidate in the OH-11 special election for the...
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Howie Klein
Jun 12, 20217 min read
Is It Finally Line In The Sand Time For Progressives?
Margins are so tight in the House and even more so in the Senate, that just a few dissenters on the Democratic side of the aisle can...
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Howie Klein
Jun 12, 20218 min read
Why The CPC Memo Bodes Well For Progressive Challengers To Corporate Dems
-by Jason Call congressional candidate (WA-02) On May 27, the Congressional Progressive Caucus released its Focus Group Findings on 2020...
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Howie Klein
Jun 6, 20214 min read
Can A Progressive Win A Rural Toss-Up Congressional District?
California’s 21st congressional district is politically unique. David Valadao, a Republican who voted to impeach Trump yet voted with him...
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Howie Klein
May 26, 20213 min read
Most Americans Would Like To See Biden Go Bigger, Not Smaller
Last month Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA),...
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Howie Klein
May 25, 20215 min read
Shocked That Biden, Schumer & Pelosi Haven't Turned Out To Be A Panacea? Student Debt Forgiveness?
This morning, Punchbowl News reported that the Senate Democrats now realize they have to use reconciliation to pass the infrastructure...
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Howie Klein
May 25, 20214 min read
How Bad Is Your Average Corporate-Owned Democratic Politician?
-by Jason Call congressional candidate (WA-02) I’m not talking 'bad' in terms of comparison to Republicans. Your average contemporary...
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Howie Klein
May 23, 20215 min read
Beware Conservative Calling Themselves Democrats
Right-wing aggression has America's democracy hanging by a thread. The Democrats control the White House and both branches of Congress....
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Howie Klein
May 23, 20213 min read
Biden-- Still Better Than Trump
With the GOP having moved way, way, way right, it's difficult to see that Biden is governing as a centrist-- ever so slightly left of...
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Howie Klein
May 18, 20217 min read
Big Contrast: Warnock Is Running On A Proud Progressive Platform; Kelly's Running As A GOP-Lite
Yesterday, NPR's All Things Considered reported on the profound split inside the Democratic Party when it comes to messaging. Emma Hurt,...
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Howie Klein
May 17, 20213 min read
Time For A 3 Party System?
Ipsos took a poll for Reuters about a week ago and found that "62% of Republicans said they had little or no interest in joining a...
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Howie Klein
May 7, 20214 min read
What Can Democrats Learn From Labour's Catastrophic Losses Yesterday?
This morning, The Hill's Alexander Bolton predicted that Manchin is on a collision course with Bernie and Elizabeth Warren over expanding...
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Howie Klein
May 2, 20216 min read
Democrats Giving Up To The Conservative Coalition On Infrastructure
Almost the whole time I was growing up, the Democrats controlled Congress. There were more Democrats in the House and more Democrats in...
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