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Trump-W

Liberals, Stop Fawning over George W. Bush

October 22, 2017 Reece Ellis Democrats, Politics, Republicans 2 comments

Former President George W. Bush gave a speech last week that could be summed up as “racism is bad” and “democracy is good”. The

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Tim Ryan

Iowa, already, really?

October 9, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2020 Election, Democracy, Democrats, Electoral College, Politics, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

I remember that Barack Obama, upon leaving office, said that one of his post-presidency goals was to reform our democracy. He seemed to have

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Fund-Raiser-Invitation

Dems: Let’s try politics without the donor class

September 20, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

There’s nothing particularly sexy about what’s happening above the radar in Democratic politics. Primaries for Congress and states don’t start until well after the

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Better deal

Dems’ Better Deal: Courting white voters, abandoning social justice

August 14, 2017 Hafsa 2018 Election, Charity & Justice, Democrats Leave a comment

Since the harrowing, soul-crushing Democratic defeat in the 2016 elections (and ever since), liberals have been desperately wracking their beleaguered brains trying to devise

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Five Candidates

2020 Potential Democratic Contenders: A Closer Look

August 7, 2017 Reece Ellis 2016 Election, 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Politics, Voting/Elections 3 comments

The race for the 2020 Democratic nomination began at 11:30 PM, November 8th, 2016 when the networks projected that Donald Trump would carry the

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Kelli Dunaway challenging Ann Wagner: First impressions

August 6, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Democrats, Missouri region 3 comments

Kelli Dunaway introduced herself to a small, informal group of progressive-minded Democrats last week and, as she told her jaw-dropping origin story, made a

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Problem Solver Caucus

Dems – Beware of sleepwalking into compromise

August 1, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Democrats, Economy, Health care, Politics, Republican Brain, Social Sec/Medicare Leave a comment

We can see it now, the smiling faces of more than forty Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives who are working on

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Democratic Candidates

It’s Never Too Early! Narrowing the 2020 Field

July 20, 2017 Reece Ellis 2020 Election, Campaigns, Democrats, Voting/Elections 4 comments

(Methodology) Pundits and politicos have been curating lists of potential contenders for the 2020 Democratic, including on this site, but how do we sort

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Trump-2020

12 Possible Endings for Trump’s 1st Term

July 9, 2017 Reece Ellis 2016 Election, 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Democrats, Government, Republicans, Voting/Elections 2 comments

This list isn’t organized in any particular way, but rather it’s just a selection of possible places we might find ourselves in 4 years.

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Bernie-Medicare-for-All

Media must step it up on Medicare-for-All

July 4, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Health care, Obama, Republicans, Social Sec/Medicare One comment

There are two key reasons why mainstream media must be talking about Medicare-for-All. First, it is sound policy, something that all Americans should hope

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