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Da'Shaunae Marisa Revenge of the Wine Moms
How anti-Trump women in America’s suburbs are ushering in a new era of political activism
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty What COVID-19 Families Hear When Trump Brags About His Strength
With each dismissive comment he makes about his own experience with the virus, the president minimizes the suffering of an ever-growing share of Americans.
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Getty The People Trump Came Home To
The president’s behavior threatens the very employees charged with taking care of him.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Democrats’ Supreme Court Hail Mary
This is the progressive case for court packing in a nutshell: “If your wallet is stolen, you don’t forgo efforts to recover it just because it might be stolen again.”
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The Atlantic This Is the Future That Liberals Want
Say the Democrats win. Then what?
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Sean Pressley The Progressive Activist Begging the Left to Stop Owning Itself
Sean McElwee has a simple message for his compatriots: Rigid doctrinarianism doesn’t win elections.
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Alex Lourie / Redux The Violence Could Get Much Worse
Unless police and political leaders begin to crack down on the armed vigilantes monitoring protests, more bloodshed could soon follow the killings in Kenosha.
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Bloomberg / Getty Democrats’ Unprecedented Embrace of Gun Control
The party is betting that support for restrictions is more likely to attract moderate voters than turn them off.
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Joseph Przioso / Amy E. Price / Getty ... Sanders Supporters Realize Their Party Is Bigger Than They Are
The parade of GOP defectors speaking on the DNC’s first night seemed to confirm progressives’ worst fears about a potential Biden administration.
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Nati Harnik / AP The Big Reason Lefties Aren’t Upset About Kamala Harris
They’re hoping that the vice-presidential nominee will be as malleable as Joe Biden.
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Ralph Freso / Getty / The Atlantic How to Lose a Swing State
Arizona is moving left. But the state GOP chair, Kelli Ward, is doubling down on Trumpism.
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Getty / The Atlantic Debbie Dingell Is Afraid the Trump Polls Are Wrong—Again
The Michigan congresswoman warned her party about the president’s appeal four years ago. Here’s what she’s afraid of this time around.
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Bloomberg / Caroline Brehman / Getty / The ... Why the Iowa Senate Race Is Suddenly Competitive
Theresa Greenfield’s strategy to defeat Joni Ernst could show Democrats how to swing rural America away from the GOP.
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José A. Alvarado Jr. / Redux The Protests Are Already Changing Elections
The past few weeks of activism have directly fueled the wins of a handful of black progressive candidates.
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Probal Rashid / LightRocket via Getty The Enormous Scale of This Movement
The nationwide demonstrations could carry on for days or weeks—maybe even through November.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP / The Atlantic What Really Brought Down Steve King
The primary campaign against the Iowa Republican wasn’t about his racism.
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Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch via AP The Congresswoman Pepper-Sprayed by Police
In that moment, Ohio Representative Joyce Beatty said, she was just another black American attacked while protesting injustice.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Two Choices Bernie Backers Have Left
Progressives on the Biden-Sanders “unity task forces” see some opportunity to move the presumptive nominee left. But they know they won’t get all that they’ve been fighting for.
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Audra Melton / The New York Times Thousands of Americans Have Become Socialists Since March
The Democratic Socialists of America have an estimated 10,000 new members—growth that organizers attribute, in part, to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Their States Are in Crisis. They’re Declaring Victory Anyway.
For the Republican governors reopening their economies, “bad news may be around the corner.”
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