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A new report from the grassroots organization #RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not:
publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign.
While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s
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“The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy”
A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign. While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s “Democratic Autopsy” looks at how factors like “service to corporate power, hostility to the progressive wing of the party, …

"Are we losing our democracy?"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/31/opinion/trump-autocracy-democracy-report.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk8.G-lO.sNBbzX5OaSNR&amp…

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa

New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the Republican Party deepen partisan divides over how the Constitution should guide presidential authority and the balance of power.

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Virginia Democrat flips seat in state legislature by taking on datacenters
John McAuliff won against a Republican by focusing on something affecting all his constituents:
the cost of energy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n

Dems tout another special election as a boost for their party ahead of midterms
Democrat won a special election for an Iowa state Senate seat Tuesday,
denying Republicans the opportunity to regain a supermajority in the chamber
and handing the Democratic Party a large-margin victory ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

#Renee

Democrat wins Iowa state Senate seat, thwarting GOP supermajority hopes
Renee Hardman’s convincing special-election win is an optimistic signal for Democrats looking to 2026. She becomes the first Black woman elected to the state Senate.

Trump’s defense secretary,
Pete Hegseth, said Monday that
the Pentagon will investigate Mark Kelly,
a Democratic senator from Arizona and retired Navy officer,
for his role in making a video reminding service members of their duty to disobey unlawful orders.

In targeting Kelly
-- and another prominent Democratic critic of the administration,
Rep. Eugene Vindman of Virginia,
-- the Defense Department has been co-opted into the president’s norm-shatte…

Hegseth conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s ‘retribution campaign’
In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats, Hegseth has joined Trump’s norm-shattering bid to punish political foes.

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids
“Coming to Other Cities”
as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/31/immigration_aaron_reichlin_melnick

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for federal agents to pause immigration enforcement in the Chicago area until after Halloween, amid widespread condemnation of violent arrests and confrontations with residents. Meanwhile, the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, did a five-hour deposition Thursday in a case challenging federal agents’ treatment of protesters, journalists, children and immigrants. Bovino is “in charge of the Chi…

Omar Fateh,
the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist,
is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis
and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey.
Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate.
Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization,
raising the minimum wage
and reforming how the city handles public safety.
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“Mamdani of the Midwest”: Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis?
Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey. Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate. Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization, raising the minimum wage and reforming how the city handles public safety. “Minneapolis can have a different kind of politics,…