Tag Archives: Democratic party
An Anti-Incumbent Mood for Democrats
Five House Democrats were either beat or forced into runoffs Tuesday.
A surprising number of incumbent House Democrats lost tonight, or are headed to runoffs. Here’s a run-down of five races where we saw upsets tonight: —Dawnn...Read More
What Democrats Can Learn from Louisiana (No, Really)
The election of Democrat John Bel Edwards as governor of Louisiana is one of the most significant but ignored progressive policy victories in years.
The last four years have been among the grimmest periods in the Democratic Party’s history. State parties in nearly every region have been decimated, Dems hav...Read More
At Grand Prairie Rally, Bernie Sanders Urges Crowd of 2,000 to Fight Back in Texas
Organized by the Democratic National Committee, the "Come Together and Fight Back" tour aims to unify the party after the fractious 2016 primary and energize the progressive grassroots.
Around 2,000 people gathered in Grand Prairie Thursday to hear Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders address the future of the Democratic Party as part of a nine-state...Read More
Red Dawn: Socialist Group Sees Explosive Growth Ignited by Sanders, Trump
By embracing Bernie Sanders, the Democratic Socialists of America reaped the harvest of politicized young people no longer afraid of the s-word.
By embracing Bernie Sanders, the Democratic Socialists of America reaped the harvest of politicized young people no longer afraid of the s-word....Read More
In Austin, DNC Candidates Pledge to Rebuild the Democratic Party from the Grassroots
You’ve heard it a million times from Republican candidates — the powers-that-be in Washington, D.C., are out of touch, and the federal monstrosity they cont...Read More
Tune into the Trump Show, Brought to You by the Happily Stupid
Fear won this election. In the House of Fear lives racism, sexism, homophobia, gun-fanaticism, and poverty.
Texas author Joe R. Lansdale surveys the post-Trump landscape, pruned into fearful formation by the "happily stupid," who didn't take Trump at his word....Read More
Hooks: Dems are Missing Their Chance to Give Obama His Transformational Legacy
In 2008, Obama said he wanted to create Reaganesque transformational change. Can Clinton do it?
As the Obama presidency ends, his aspiration to fundamentally change the country is the metric by which we should judge his legacy....Read More
Money for Nothing: D.C. Dems View Texas as an ATM
Writes Chris Hooks: The D.C. folks would be more than worth the money if they were any good, but lefties can't seem to get a leg up in the Lone Star state....Read More
How 13 People (Total) Elected Houston’s Likely New State Rep
Texas is known for low voter turnout, but even by its measures, what just happened in Houston is surprising: Thirteen people elected the next state rep....Read More