… A solid majority of American teenagers are convinced that humans are changing the Earth’s climate and believe that it will cause harm to them personally and to other members of their generation, according to a new Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Roughly 1 in 4 have participated in a […] Read more »
Grassroots Blossom Across America, Reshaping Country’s Political Geography
As the 2018 midterm campaigns hit their stride last summer, there was finally some mainstream recognition that post-2016 grassroots groups — sometimes discussed as “Resistance” groups — had become an electoral force to be reckoned with. Reporters and academics have established certain baseline facts: • The new groups are disproportionately composed […] Read more »
The Tea Party Didn’t Get What It Wanted, but It Did Unleash the Politics of Anger
In the late summer of 2009, as the recession-ravaged economy bled half a million jobs a month, the country seemed to lose its mind. … Ten years since that summer of rage, the ideas that animated the Tea Party movement have been largely abandoned by Republicans under President Trump. Trillion-dollar […] Read more »
The Trump Campaign Knows Why Obama Won. Do Democrats?
Before Republicans will send their organizers into early primary states, the organizers reportedly must read and pass a test on “Groundbreakers,” the story of how Barack Obama revolutionized campaigning by putting his faith in hundreds of thousands of volunteers. I was a top organizer in his 2008 campaign and trained […] Read more »
Women of color present potent threat to Trump’s reelection
… Women of color, especially black women, are potent forces in progressive politics, both in office and as organizers who mobilize voters. It seems that conservatives understand this better than liberals. That’s why it’s important to note that the outcome of the 2020 election will likely depend upon the efforts […] Read more »
Young LGBT Americans are more politically engaged than the rest of Generation Z
Young LGBT Americans score higher on political engagement surveys. Ink Drop/shutterstock.com Melissa Deckman, Washington College and Mileah Kromer, Goucher College Last year’s midterm elections were a “rainbow wave,” with more openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people elected to public office than at any other time in American history. According […] Read more »