Elections • Financial
Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money
Natalie Jonas
Open Secrets
The proposed amendment to the state Constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity and acceptable corporate donations by limiting corporate charters.
Democratic Party • Elections • Financial • Social Justice and Equity
The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Trump—It’s Wall Street
Michael Beyea Reagan
In These Times
Wall Street destroyed New York City’s social welfare economy in 1975. Avoiding that fate under Mayor Mamdani will require popular movements to discipline the super rich.
Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power
From Silence to Spotlight: How a Democratic Shadow Cabinet Could Break Trump’s Spell
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
Voters don’t rally behind policy papers: they rally behind leaders they can see and believe in. Democrats must end the era of weak, divided messaging and rise with a chorus of commanding voices…
Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal
Steve Bannon just laid out the MAGA media playbook to subvert the midterms
John Knefel, Research Sophie Lawton
Media Matters
The right-wing media plan for undermining the 2026 elections includes pushing for ICE to stalk polling sites and sending a band of election deniers on tour
Economy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Chris Armitage
The Existential Republic
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
Democratic Party • Economy • Elections
Establishment Democrats Are Going to Torpedo the 2026 Midterms
Aaron Regunberg
The New Republic
Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections.
Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power
Texas GOP flexes power to shut down Democrats’ last tool of resistance
Eleanor Klibanoff
The Texas Tribune
“To one degree or another, to be successful as a Republican, you have to emulate Trump’s speech, his attitude and take directions from the White House.”
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War is 100% “America” and Michigan Wants its Fair Share
Questioning war and why we fight is imperative. It will require a courageous confrontation with a powerful taboo, a palpable force field that snarls and growls. But this is the end of the line. War at this scale is ecocide, a death wish.





