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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, …

Judge Calls DOJ's Slavery Exhibit Comments 'Dangerous' | HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-calls-dojs-slavery-exhibit-comments-dangerous_n_697d3eb1e4b0b1de95c1c9e5

Judge Calls DOJ's Statements On Slavery Exhibit Display 'Dangerous' And 'Horrifying'
Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe told the Justice Department's attorneys, "“You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way.”

Guau, Queen, bueno el 50% de Queen, dice que no van a ir de gira a EEUU porque es demasiado peligroso https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/brian-may-us-too-dangerous-for-queen-concerts-1235507483/

From Evidence for Democracy
On 28 January 2025, Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue held a press conference on the Foreign Interference Commission’s final report, where she identified misinformation as the single greatest existential threat to Canadian democracy. Our research team at Evidence for Democracy carried out a broad review of the state of misinformation in Canada, and what we can do to rebuild public trust in Canada’s democracy.

Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-score-upset-texas/

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.

Congratulations to Democratic State Senator-elect Taylor Rehmet for flipping ruby red Texas SD9 from red to blue!
Trump endorsed Taylor’s opponent, which helped Taylor because Trump is so weak and unpopular.
Democrats will win Congress in Nov, and it won’t be close.
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From polling and special elections over the past year, we’ve seen two important trends:
Democrats are strongly over-performing in general elections (to the tune of 10-15 points),
and Democratic leadership is incredibly unpopular, even among Democratic voters.
This combination means that there will be a lot of support
— in enthusiasm, money, and votes
— for primary challenges to Democratic incumbents,
and the usual Democratic fretting about electability …

Signs of a progressive takeover?
Colorado offers some tea leaves for this year's Democratic primaries

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.