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August 6, 2026
A socialist candidate criticized Thanksgiving — and unearthed a deeper debate on the left
Francesca Hong is the frontrunner to win the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin next week. If she goes on to win the general election, she’ll become the first democratic socialist gove...
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August 5, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed’s win tees up the first true swing state test for the Bernie left
Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary — albeit by a significantly smaller margin than preelection polling suggested. He’s beaten back $30 million in AIPA...
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August 1, 2026
AIPAC helped knock him out of Congress. Now, he says, they’re losing.
One of the most powerful forces in American politics is about to face a major test of its influence — and it may well come up short. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, has for ...
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July 31, 2026
The DSA has had unprecedented success. It also has serious internal divisions.
It’s been quite a year for the Democratic Socialists of America. They got one of their own, Zohran Mamdani, elected mayor of New York City. They’ve taken down congressional incumbents in New York a...
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July 29, 2026
The primary pitting an 80-year-old progressive against an insurgent the left loathes
The prototypical Democrat vulnerable to a primary this year has been old, in Washington a long time, and vulnerable from the left. But in Massachusetts, there’s a race that’s scrambling that formul...
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July 25, 2026
Could you lose your right to vote if you bet on an election?
Could you accidentally gamble away your right to vote? If you live in Wisconsin, and you bought contracts on a prediction market like Kalshi about who would win elections there, you’ve done just th...
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July 22, 2026
A crucial governor’s primary just became Democrats’ biggest debacle
Move over, Maine. A new Democratic primary has taken the crown as the country’s most dysfunctional. In Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race, a crowded field of establishment-tied Democrats has been split...
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July 21, 2026
How the Michigan Senate primary activated every bitter Democratic grudge
A decade’s worth of grudges and feuds between the Democratic establishment and the insurgent left is coming to a head in one election this year: Michigan’s Senate primary. The contest between Rep. ...
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July 17, 2026
Did Trump fire someone trying to stop IRS abuses?
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July 17, 2026
She could be America’s first socialist governor
Democratic socialists have scored surprising wins in several mayoral and congressional races across the country. But a swing-state governorship is a different story. In fact, there’s never been a s...
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July 16, 2026
When Israel lost Democratic voters, in 3 charts
Among Democratic voters, Israel’s reputation is in tatters. Polls show Democratic voters have dramatically unfavorable views of Israel. Three incumbent Democrats who’ve supported Israel lost primar...
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July 15, 2026
A tale of two Trump flip-flops
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July 13, 2026
Is the Iran war back on for real?
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July 7, 2026
What could Democrats have done differently about Graham Platner?
When Graham Platner met with Democratic senators last month to try to assuage fears that his troubled personal history would doom his Senate campaign, they pressed him on whether any additional all...
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July 6, 2026
What’s inside the one bill Trump most desperately wants to become law
President Donald Trump has been on a single-minded, months-long quest to try and get one particular bill — the SAVE America Act — through Congress. It’s a bill that would transform voting registrat...
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July 1, 2026
Melat Kiros is the first political star truly formed by the 2020s
In many ways, Melat Kiros epitomizes the winds of change sweeping over the Democratic Party. Kiros is a 29-year-old political newcomer who is disillusioned with the system, who calls ending aid to ...
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June 30, 2026
Are moderate Democrats washed?
A year ago, the hottest idea in Democratic circles was “abundance” — a growth-friendly agenda with centrist appeal that would help the party prove it was capable of shoving aside special interests ...
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June 26, 2026
Democrats’ real plan to control Congress again
The political world is in a frenzy over left-wing challengers’ wins in New York City’s primaries Tuesday. Leftists are overjoyed, and think they’re beating back the Democratic establishment. Many o...
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June 24, 2026
Why urban Democrats love socialists now
Democratic socialists won big in New York’s primaries Tuesday, as two members of the Democratic Socialists of America defeated the Democratic establishment choices in congressional primaries, and s...
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June 24, 2026
Zohran Mamdani just became a congressional kingmaker
Zohran Mamdani just took his first steps toward remaking the national Democratic Party. The New York City mayor took on his state’s Democratic establishment in three key congressional primaries Tue...
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June 18, 2026
The state that will tell us who’s winning the Democratic civil war
In November 2023, Melat Kiros blew up her career. Major US law firms had signed a letter denouncing antisemitism and “calls for the elimination of the Israeli state.” Kiros, a 26-year old attorney...
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June 16, 2026
The case that Florida is ready to turn blue again
For decades, Florida was the archetypal presidential swing state — and as recently as 2016 and 2018, Democrats came close to winning statewide elections there. Then things took a turn. After Ron D...
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June 10, 2026
Rolling the dice on Graham Platner
Graham Platner’s primary victory in Maine means Democrats officially have their candidate in a race that is pivotal for their hopes of retaking the Senate. But Platner isn’t a typical Democratic no...
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June 2, 2026
This Democratic governor won in a landslide — and is now at war with her own base
After Abigail Spanberger’s landslide election win in Virginia last November, she’d hoped to govern as she’d campaigned — rising above the partisan fray and focused on affordability. It hasn’t worke...
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May 22, 2026
Democrats don’t need an autopsy to know what they did wrong
If you’re looking for insights into why Democrats lost in 2024, you won’t find many in the DNC’s disavowed “autopsy,” which was released after much pressure Thursday. The incomplete and error-ridde...
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May 15, 2026
The rise of the progressive billionaire candidate
Left activists who love Sen. Bernie Sanders have this year flocked to a surprising new champion: hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer. In his campaign for California governor, Steyer has racked up the...
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May 14, 2026
The real reason Americans hate the economy so much
Americans’ doom and despair about the economy is mounting. In fact, by one measure, the public is more depressed than they’ve ever been in the postwar era. The University of Michigan has been surve...
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