Socialists and left populists have argued that a Democratic big tent should include figures like Hasan Piker. But the Democrats’ best coalition builder of the last 60 years, Barack Obama, had a different strategy.
Howard Dean
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Rural Revival
With the onset of the Great Depression, the United States appeared on the verge of political revolt in rural areas. For half a century, rural people had felt increasingly marginalized by changes in American society and the economy and ignored by political leaders. A farm crisis in the 1920s inflicted further pain. By 1933, with […]
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Democrats Have Successfully Implemented a 50-State Strategy
How the party changed its fundraising game to fuel grassroots donations directly to candidates.
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Why Warren Would Be a More Effective President Than Sanders
She is aware of what it takes to govern as an executive in a democracy.
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Midterms Show You Can Teach an Old Democratic Party New Tricks
Helping individual candidates raise money online from small donors is a game-changer.
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A Super Decision by the DNC?
Perhaps you can call it a political revolution. Democratic Party officials voted Saturday to strip superdelegates of much of their power in the presidential nominating process, infuriating many traditionalists while handing a victory to the party’s left flank. The measure’s overwhelming approval – met by cheers in a hotel ballroom here – concluded a tense […]
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The Ecstasy and the Agony
What did Dickens say about the best of times and the worst of times, the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness? Next week marks the tenth anniversary of two back-to-back events that still define our politics–and will continue to define our politics for generations to come. The first such event occurred on August […]
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Why We Sometimes Have to Vote Against a Deplorable Candidate
‘In the primary, vote with your heart. In the general…go with you head.’
