By Max Elbaum These notes were the basis for a presentation to the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild on November 8, 2018. This piece was originally posted on portside.org Politics is about Power. One of the positive things about this moment is that the question of […]
OrgUp interviewed Sema Hernandez, a progressive community organizer in Texas who ran in the Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate. In this interview, Hernandez touches upon the political landscape in Texas before and after the midterm elections as well as how she used the Democratic primary to push Beto O’Rourke’s program to the […]
By Eddie Wong This piece was originally published on East Wind ezine, a new online journal looking at Asian Pacific American politics. East Wind ezine has a number of recent pieces looking at APA involvement in the midterms, and we encourage readers to visit the website and dig in. All over the country, Asian […]
By Beth Blacksin The Illinois Resistance added to the 2018 blue wave by flipping two House seats. IL 6 and IL 14 were won by first-time Democratic candidates with 53% and 52% of the vote respectively. IL 6, covering parts of the west and northern suburbs of Chicago, is overwhelmingly white, urban and educated. […]
By Al Nichols Soon-to-be former Governor Scott Walker was never the kind of dominating political actor that assembled a broad coalition of diverse political interests around a durable vision for their common benefit. He was much more a creature of the right-wing Koch-funded Tea Party ascendancy that developed in the vacuum of leadership […]
by Adam Gold During the lead-up to the midterms, there was a common refrain among liberals, progressives, and leftists alike: the country was in danger of descending into fascism. Some said that the 2018 midterm elections were “Do or die.’ If Democrats, and particularly progressive Democrats, couldn’t grab some of the reins of power […]
Last Tuesday’s election changed the terrain and set the stage for the intense political warfare that lies ahead. The resistance to the Trump/GOP racist hate crusade didn’t win everything we wanted to, but we did win what we absolutely had to. Denying the GOP control of both Houses of Congress for the next two […]
by Will Tanzman For more than 15 years, Jerry Davis-El went back and forth between Cook County Jail, where he would be locked up while waiting for trail because he could not afford to post bail, and prison, where he would serve time after being pressured into plea deals. Davis-El was one […]
by Christine Riddiough, DSA National Political Committee The following notes are from Christine Riddiough’s presentation for a webinar on the role of socialists in the 2018 elections, hosted by the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. I want to cover three points related to DSA, our electoral strategy, and our recent growth: The […]
Fighting Trump and Building the Left, from the Left Inside/Outside Project We’re still less than halfway through this thing. Twenty-one months in, we can survey the damage done by the Trump administration. The GOP congress has been plagued by internal division, giving the resistance some breathing room. But the White House has worked efficiently to […]