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Nov 25 2025
03:05 pm

The people need the Democratic party. We need to be able to explain why.

James Carville: How About a Sweeping, Aggressive, Unvarnished Platform of Pure Economic Rage.
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The President has done nothing to curb the cost of what it requires to take even a breath in America today, the centerpiece promise of his 2024 campaign. The people are revolting, and they have been for some time.

This offers Democrats the greatest gift you can have in American politics: a second chance. I am now an 81-year-old man and I know that in the minds of many, I carry the torch from a so-called centrist political era. Yet it is abundantly clear even to me that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression.
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Le peuple se lève.

Andy Beshear: How Democrats can start changing rural red to blue
Be the party of aspiration — and talk like normal human beings
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Democrats won huge victories up and down the ballot this month. We won statewide in Georgia, held the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania, broke the supermajority in the Mississippi State Senate and took two gubernatorial elections by double-digit margins. In New Jersey and Virginia, Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger won by relentlessly focusing on the pocketbook pressures families across our country are facing.
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Trump has given Democrats a huge opening. He is making it so much harder for people to even get by. During the government shutdown, he was willing to use the hunger of Americans — including children and seniors — as a bargaining chip. It was cruel and wrong, and, importantly, it backfired. His One Big Ugly Bill will kick 17 million Americans, including 200,000 Kentuckians, off their health care and threatens to close 35 rural hospitals in the state, and 338 nationwide. His tariffs are jacking up prices across the board — for no reason.
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We’re not going to win the messaging battle if we say that Trump’s policies make people “food insecure.” No, they make people hungry.

Treehouse's picture

Yup

Jesse Mayshark's new podcast Headlights is out with an interview of Jim Hightower. Jim really spells out what the Dems have done wrong for many years. Corporatism!

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