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What Makes Someone Identify With One Of The Two Establishment Political Parties
Fewer And Fewer People Are Seeing Themselves As Democrats Or Republicans Zach Shrewsbury is the progressive Democrat running for the West...
Howie Klein
Nov 5, 20238 min read
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Trump Slithered Into The White House Because Of So-Called "Small Town Values"
The Republican Party is still viable because of so-called “small town values.” Yesterday, inspired by Paul Waldman’s look at Doug Burgum...
Howie Klein
Jun 21, 20235 min read
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Let Me Apologize In Advance If The Phrase "Efffing Hick" Offends You. Now You Apologize For Trump
What does Jay-Z know? Probably a lot more about America than Doug Burgum does, like Lou Reed, Sinatra, Jay McInterney, Stevie Wonder,...
Howie Klein
Jun 20, 20237 min read
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THE Democrats Can't Win The Open Missouri Senate Seat-- THIS Democrat Can
There 13 counties that either entirely or partially make up Missouri’s 18th state Senate district in the northeastern corner of the...
Howie Klein
Jul 23, 20224 min read
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There Is A Way To Talk To GOP Voters Without Selling Out Your Values-- Meet J.R. Gaillot (D-FL)
Sometimes a race happens, and you see the effects for years to come. That seems to be the case in Florida. Two years ago, Blue America...
Howie Klein
Jul 12, 20224 min read
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A Memo: If You Abandon Working Families, They Will Abandon You In November
Biden Thinks He Won Because Of Himself, Rather Than Because Trump Lost Alan Grayson launched his congressional campaign on Tuesday with a...
Howie Klein
Jun 16, 20226 min read
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Forget About GOP Politicians For A Moment-- What Is Wrong With The People Who Vote For Them?
Yesterday we looked at how the rate of premature deaths are higher in red counties than blue counties. This morning a trio of Wall Street...
Howie Klein
Jun 11, 20224 min read
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Mark Neumann... On What's Right With Small Town America
Last night Mark Newmann noted here that Biden's plan for rural America was a good start. "The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is...
Howie Klein
Apr 12, 20225 min read
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Can Democrats Win Back Rural Voters?
No one ever thought a Democrat would be a front-runner in a Missouri Senate election, but Lucas Kunce is nothing like the GOP-light...
Howie Klein
Apr 11, 20225 min read
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Gerrymandering In Arizona-- How Safe Is Far Right Crackpot Wendy Rogers' Seat?
-by Eva Putzova, Founder Catch Fire Movement In many states the rules of the redistricting process that takes place every 10 years after...
Eva Putzova
Apr 6, 20223 min read
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Progressives Don't Write-Off Any Groups Of People
Hank Linderman, as we saw a few weeks ago when we first met him, is the head of the Kentucky Democratic Party's rural caucus. He's...
Howie Klein
Mar 23, 20224 min read
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The Democratic Party Ignored Rural Voters-- Now Rural Voters Are Ignoring Democrats
Hank Linderman is the head of the Kentucky Democratic Party's rural caucus and he's running for Congress in a very rural-- and very red--...
Howie Klein
Feb 23, 202210 min read
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Democrats Who Have Nothing To Say To Rural Communities But "Broadband" Won't Win
That Trump-- And The GOP-- Are Beloved In Rural Districts Is The Ultimate Con The video above was released the morning by Austin...
Howie Klein
Feb 17, 20227 min read
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Can Democrats Win Back Rural America? Mark Neumann & Erica Smith Say Yes. So Does Bernie
Bernie beat Hillary by double digits in the Wisconsin presidential primary. I want to look at the 18 counties, most of which are rural,...
Howie Klein
Feb 12, 20226 min read
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Progressive Politics Make Sense For Rural Americans-- Meet Scott Comegys In Central New York
One of the ways I'm introduced to new candidates is from other candidates I know and trust. In the case of Scott Comegys, in rural...
Howie Klein
Feb 1, 20226 min read
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Are Rural Voters Elusive? Lately, Only For Democrats
At the tail end of the so-called "Roaring Twenties," just before the Republicans' Great Depression hit, the presidential election saw...
Howie Klein
Nov 6, 20218 min read
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Rich Democrats Abandoned The Working Class-- So Guess Who's Been Abandoning The Democrats
As the Democrats expanded the party tent to embrace more upper-middle class voters and Big Money special interests, party support and...
Howie Klein
Oct 6, 20219 min read
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Erica Smith Pledge: For Every Dollar Donated, We’ll Knock On A Door In A County Trump Won In 2020
1$=1 Door -by Erica Smith I’m writing to my Down With Tyranny and Blue America friends today to tell you about an exciting new initiative...
Howie Klein
Aug 23, 20213 min read
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Democrats Can Win The Midterms-- But The DCCC Can't
Every time I've done anything Google related this week, I've gotten a Gavin Newsom ad. They're annoying and they're constant-- so...
Howie Klein
Aug 23, 20216 min read
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Voters Don't Know What The Hell The Way Too Big Democratic Tent Even Stands For Anymore
You may recall how bent out of shape I was by a recent YouGov survey of rural voters in Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina,...
Howie Klein
Jun 9, 20215 min read
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