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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 01/05/2026
This is an essential read, and really calls for some deep thinking among liberals about the normative work that analytical terms like 'polarization' are doing in American and comparative politics
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
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"I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
Senator Chuck Schumer conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol in May 2025. Image: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images
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How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
Adam Bonica, Jake Grumbach
With responses from →
Cori Bush, Amanda Litman, Matthew Yglesias, G.
Elliott Morris, Julia Serano, Eric Rauchway, Suzanne Mettler & Trevor E. Brown, Thomas Ferguson, Timothy Shenk, Jared Abbott & Milan Loewer, Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, Lily Geismer, Danielle Wiggins, William A. Galston, and Henry Burke
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We have no idea where Yglesias got his numbers but they’re wrong. This debate has for so long been plagued by numbers basically pulled out of thin air Right pic is from my and @adambonica.bsky.social’s response essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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1-2 percentage points is a small number but it's a very big deal.
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Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach claim to find only "small" electoral benefits of moderation, on the order of one to two percentage points. Their subtext is, who could possibly care about an effect of this size? In fact, campaign professionals emphasize to me that this is an enormous effect compared to what you get from spending on campaign ads or mounting field programs to mobilize and turn out voters. A swing of one to two percentage points would have been enough for Hillary Clinton to win in 2016 or for Kamala Harris to win in 2024. Two is a small number, but I don't think that's small change for the world. It's a little bit hard for me to understand what this debate is even supposed to be about given that the skeptics of moderation are willing to concede that both of Trump's election wins were within the bounds of what they say can be plausibly achieved by moderating. To underscore the point: since 2012 there have been seventeen Senate races decided by less than the Bonica-Grumbach margin of moderation.
7:29 AM • 2/3/26 • 14K ViewsTo begin with, Yglesias is way off in claiming that moderation increases a candidate's vote share by
"one to two percentage points.' We don't know where he got these numbers, but they aren't in our essay; as our cited graphic shows, the best estimate is less than half a percentage point. He also need not speculate that moderating would have flipped important congressional races — we ran the numbers ourselves and found that moderation would have flipped none of the close House races in
2024. But we're used to seeing incorrect numbers on this subject.
In any case, Yglesias's incorrect numbers are not as important as missing the central failures of popularism in recent years. Consider how it has hindered Democrats' leadership on public opinion.
G. Elliott Morris is exactly right that trajectories are far more important than what polls say at any given moment. Throughout 2025, as Yglesias was arguing that Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration, the public turned dramatically against Trump on the issue in part due to the leadership of some Democratic leaders like Senator Chris Van Hollen.
Now even Trump himself is reportedly "looking to change the subject to his economic agenda as his administration faces growing backlash over his
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Out here with @troublemakers.bsky.social @mlklabor.bsky.social and a few hundred of our friends in solidarity with Minnesota and immigrant communities everywhere to tell Target "ICE OUT NOW!"
200 protestors shut down Pike outside of target in downtown Seattle. The iconic Pike Place Market sign is in the background
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"In 2023, the “Minnesota Miracle” secured one of the strongest social safety nets in the country...None of it would have been possible without years of organizing that built a multiracial constituency prepared to stand together" - @hahrie.bsky.social for @hammerandhope.bsky.social, 2024
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Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New post: The brutal invasion of Minnesota is the most recent maneuver in the MAGA military "reconstruction" of the North—a coordinated assault on not just the idea of liberal democracy, but on those living in states who still strive for it.
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The War of Southern Aggression
The MAGA reconstruction of the North is well underway
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Mayors Innovation Project @mayorsinnovation.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We are thrilled to announce Dr. @dorianwarren.bsky.social, Co-President of Community Change & Co-Founder of @economicsecurityproject.org, as our Winter Meeting Keynote speaker! Mayors, you won't want to miss it! Make your plan to join us in DC today: bit.ly/MIPW26
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
Sign at the Weiners Circle: "F  k T  mp we can redact too."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Latosha Brown: “ This Thanksgiving, I’m taking power back…I invite all Americans who are fed up to do the same.” I don’t know about you, but “I’m Not Buyin’ It!” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio... @blackvotersmatterfund.org
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We're not buying what Trump enablers sell this Black Friday | Opinion
This holiday season, we're launching the 'We Ain't Buying It!' campaign – a call to action redirecting our spending, and resisting authoritarianism.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Still wondering what you can do? Here’s your answer for Black Friday Week: don’t support companies that don’t support you. Stop financing your own oppression. We ain’t buying it.
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 20/11/2025
NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level. The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
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Cook County becomes the first county in the US to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income  • The TRiiBE
On Thursday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the FY 2026 budget, which includes $7.5 million to fund the county’s guaranteed basic income program.
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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Ok but GUYS MY BOOK IS ACTUALLY OUT TODAY YOU CAN GO AND GET A COPY AND READ IT AND EVERYTHING www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vanes...
Picture of "The Price of Democracy" From the framing of the constitution to the decades-long backlash to the Civil Rights movement, the battles most pivotal in defining our democracy have hinged on one issue: taxes. 

"Taxes are not just the lifeblood of government. They are the wellspring of democracy. That is the revelatory message of Vanessa Williamson's propulsive, panoramic history." -- Jacob S. Hacker

"I love this book... The Price of Democracy makes a convincing case that we must take back the power of taxation to restore our democracy." -- Heather Cox Richardson
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-november-11th-we-cave
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I spoke with Community Change co-president @dorianwarren.bsky.social last week about current political perils and how to create the world we want. www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/events/democ...
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Demos @demosorg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Why is labor power essential to democracy? For week 2 of our @npquarterly.bsky.social Third Reconstruction series, @darrickhamilton.bsky.social & @dorianwarren.bsky.social look at U.S. history. Read why the path out of authoritarianism runs through a multiracial labor movement: demos.nyc/43lmRwx
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Forging a Path to Democracy with Labor and Solidarity at the Center - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
To build the democracy we never had, activating people power—animated by an inclusive vision for our economy, especially through labor unions—is essential.
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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
DC FRIENDS: I'll be at Politics and Prose on Nov. 17th to talk about my new book, The Price of Democracy! Thrilled to be joined by @dorianwarren.bsky.social for the conversation. 5015 Conn Ave Monday, Nov 17th 7pm politics-prose.com/vanessa-will... Come talk 😍taxation and democracy😍!
Image reading "Politics and Prose presents The Price of Democracy. Vanessa Williamson with Dorian Warren. Monday November 17. Connecticut Ave.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/10/2025
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
(around an image of the No Kings logo) IT’S OFFICIAL

Nearly 7 million people have attended today's peaceful protests, which makes No Kings Day the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history!

With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, No Kings Day was 14 times larger than both of Trump's presidential inaugurations (combined).
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Onyx Impact @theonyximpact.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The harm is real: Black workers pushed out of jobs, HBCUs stripped of resources, Black mothers and fathers denied healthcare, and neighborhoods left without protection from floods, asthma, or poisoned water. 📖 Read the full Blackout Report now. #BlackoutReport #OnyxImpact
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The Role of Race in Trump’s Authoritarianism: 'Black people have a rich tradition of collective organizing and action. We’re good at this. I wish we didn’t have to be.' Read the Op-Ed by @dorianwarren.bsky.social on The Progressive. progressive.org/op-eds/the-r... #authoritarianism #resistance
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The Role of Race in Trump’s Authoritarianism
Black people have a rich tradition of collective organizing and action. We’re good at this. I wish we didn’t have to be.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
DC — Press Conference & Rally TODAY The Trump regime has escalated their occupation of DC—Federal agents are now violently profiling, harassing, and arresting Black and Brown DC community members. Join DC community leaders to demand FEDERAL FORCES OUT NOW: 📍 14th St NW & U St NW ⏰ 3 PM FREE DC.
DC DEMANDS FEDERAL FORCES OUT NOW

PRESS CONFERENCE + RALLY TODAY AUG 18 @ 3 PM
14th ST NW & U ST NW

FREE DC
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
As he unleashes troops to combat "crime," Trump is simultaneously gutting the cops on the beat that stop corporations from harming us — the EPA, IRS, SEC, Labor Department, FTC, CFPB, Consumer Product Safety Commission, FDA, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Hello?
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Sure, narrative control is side benefit, but seems wrong to claim Trump's motive in taking over DC is to distract from his failures & crimes. That's the calculus of a politician trying to win elections. His agenda is to seize ultimate power so he need not have to bother with courting votes.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
My MSNBC debut, on the rising ACA premiums. The Trump Admin is letting the Biden Admin's enhanced subsidies expire, making marketplace ins prohibitively expensive (so younger/healthier people will drop out, leaving the rest costlier to insure), & tariffs aren't helping. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | Republicans are trying to turn their attacks on Obamacare into self-fulfilling prophecies
For those who buy insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act, premiums are about to get much more expensive.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This point — in a very insightful post by @adambonica.bsky.social — is so obvious that only bad faith actors can deny or ignore it.
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Suzanne Kahn @suzmkahn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Parents and providers know what they need in a childcare system: something simple & safe where all kids have a high quality spot. We worked with Community Change on a new paper w/ research rooted in conversations with stakeholders about these simple demands.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Trouble with having focused on Medicaid alone, instead of naming horror show #MAGAMurderBill, attacking it as financing fascist assault to abduct our neighbors, steal our healthcare, seize more power, is that Medicaid provisions go into effect AFTER midterms.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Black leaders are on through the night to rally our community. You can join. www.youtube.com/live/uax8jmJ...
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LIVE State Of The People Marathon
YouTube video by State of the People
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A word on the sanctity of birthright citizenship: Rights that Black Americans created for our liberation—also benefitting countless others—are routinely undermined by opponents of our freedom who try to convince us it is in our interest to adopt their narrowest construction. 1/4
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Will the Dem leaders and frontline members be “popularist” (join the large majority in opposition to war) or will they fold in the face of Republican bluster (which would tell us a lot about the role popularism actually plays in Dem politics)? www.offmessage.net/p/18-thought...
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?
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Popular Democracy in Action🎙 @popdemocaction.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨 NEW REPORT: We’re exposing 6 billionaires behind Trump’s cruel agenda. In order to appease their billionaire donors, Republicans are pushing tax cuts for the ultra-rich and making us pay for it by slashing our survival programs. Unlock the findings: popdemoc.org/trumps-oligarchs
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Trump's Corporate Oligarchs: Billionaires Cash In While Working People Pay the Price - Popular Democracy in Action
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/06/2025
administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. 
Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Who was MN Rep. Melissa Hortman in the MN Legislature? READ about her consequential leadership in this THREAD by @taniel.bsky.social. Take the time.
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Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy @racepowerpolicy.org · 30/04/2025
Join us on May 6 for the closing lecture of the 2025 #HCLS to explore the critical role of the labor movement in rebalancing power and achieving economic justice. RSVP: event.newschool.edu/stronglaborm...
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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
One week from today! @c-hughes.bsky.social, Stone Center Associate Director Leslie McCall, and @dorianwarren.bsky.social will discuss today's shifting economic landscape and the possibilities for change. Moderated by @feliciawong.bsky.social. Register for the in-person event or livestream!
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Are We on The Brink of a New Economic Order?
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Chris Hughes @c-hughes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today is launch day for the book Marketcrafters! I went on CNBC's SquawkBox to explain what it's all about -- and take on the skeptics www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...
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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes on the importance of marketcraft
Chris Hughes, Facebook co-founder, Economic Security Project chair and ‘Marketcrafters’ author, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the importance of government investments for political goals, impact of Pr...
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Dorian Warren @dorianwarren.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Ditto.
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Dorian Warren @dorianwarren.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“They were not guaranteed to win, but they did choose not to fight.”
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Remember when Biden's inner circle swore up down left right he would not step down? Made battleground state Dem leaders put out a letter supporting him staying the DAY BEFORE he stepped down? Do not give up. This is not over & saying it is gives them cover. #NoOnMAGAMurderBudget
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It gets worse! Many, many Democrats have opposed filibuster abolition on the grounds that they’d miss it when Republicans gained a trifecta and it wasn’t available to them anymore.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)
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What's the Matter with Billionaires?
How America's wealthiest sabotage their own prosperity (and ours) to avoid paying taxes
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump backed GOP into a big corner with his “balanced budget” point. The ONLY way House GOP could even think about upholding their “no cuts to Medicaid” swing seat promises and their spending cut mandates is deficit spending and bad math. Now they have to gut Medicaid & hand it to Elon in public.
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