A vibrant, grassroots, bottom-up movement was behind the victory, offering a template that other states can follow.
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Universal Child Care Is Popular. New Mexico Showed Us How We Can Win It. Read Post »
More than 1,600 people have already been arrested, and 1,500 more have pledged to risk arrest Saturday in London.
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UK Gears Up for Mass Protest Against Banning of Palestine Action Read Post »
The growth of crypto—decentralized digital currency that doesn’t rely on the backing of a bank or government—is one of the most transformative financial developments of the 21st century. And yet cryptocurrencies still baffle so many. How risky of an investment is it? Where do I buy it? And, wait, what is crypto again? On this […]
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So You Don’t Understand Crypto. Buckle Up. Read Post »
Trump aims to clear the lane for Cuomo because he knows Cuomo will clear the lane for Trump’s agenda, says Mamdani.
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Eric Adams Withdraws From NYC Mayoral Race as Polls Show Cuomo Behind Mamdani Read Post »
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Sunday that he will abandon his chaotic reelection campaign to run the biggest city in the country. The move came after weeks of speculation that the Trump administration was pressuring Adams to drop out, in a bid to boost former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s chances against frontrunner Zohran […]
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On Thursday evening, around the same time the Justice Department overruled career prosecutors in order to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division sued six states—California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania—for failing to hand over their full, unredacted voter registration lists. The new legal actions signify […]
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The Justice Department Is Ramping Up Trump’s Election-Rigging Efforts Read Post »
This was not how Greg Casar planned to spend his recess. On a Thursday afternoon in mid-August, as the clock ticked down on the first special session of the Texas legislature, the 36-year-old second-term Democratic congressman was sitting at the head of a small wooden conference table, commiserating with the legislator on the other end […]
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How To Survive a Republican Power Grab Read Post »
This was not how Greg Casar planned to spend his recess. On a Thursday afternoon in mid-August, as the clock ticked down on the first special session of the Texas legislature, the 36-year-old second-term Democratic congressman was sitting at the head of a small wooden conference table, commiserating with the legislator on the other end […]
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How to Survive a Republican Power Grab Read Post »
As the Trump administration vows to undertake a sweeping crackdown on liberal organizations following last week’s murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, the Justice Department on Tuesday sued two blue states, Maine and Oregon, to attempt to gain access to their full, unredacted voter registration lists, intensifying President Trump’s anti-voting efforts. The DOJ has demanded […]
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The Trump Administration’s Latest Power Grab: Your Voter Data Read Post »
Kamala Harris is back…with a vengeance. The first excerpt of her forthcoming memoir, 107 Days, about her history-making presidential campaign after President Joe Biden dropped out, published on Wednesday morning in The Atlantic. And it is unexpectedly juicy for Harris, who is typically known to equivocate—and who, until now, staunchly defended Biden’s decision to run […]
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The Most Eye-Popping Parts of Kamala Harris’s New Memoir—So Far Read Post »
“Now more than ever, the world needs an honest newsroom.” With these words, the little-known Informing America Foundation was awarded the $250,000 Gregor G. Peterson Prize in “venture philanthropy” last December for its “high-quality journalism.” If few had heard of IAF, hinted the nonprofit’s CEO, Debbie Myers, it was by design. “We stay very much […]
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Inside the Hidden Conservative Network Bankrolling an “Ecosystem” of Right-Wing News Read Post »
Zohran Mamdani hadn’t been Regina Weiss’ first choice for mayor of New York City. She’d ranked city comptroller Brad Lander number-one on her primary ballot in June, and told me she wished that the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist state assemblymember brought a bit more experience to the job. But Weiss, who volunteers with Indivisible, was happily […]
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Democratic Voters Want their Leaders to Stop Running From Zohran Mamdani Read Post »
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