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Ezra Klein is moving from an opinion writer to a powerbroker, as sources say his partisan influence is raising concerns in the Democratic Party and the NYT (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/16/ezra-klein-power-play-democrats

How Ezra Klein's power play is guiding Democrats
The New York Times columnist, podcaster and author has helped shape the party's strategies and policies in President Trump's second term.

I do appreciate it when female politicians from the Democratic party follow the branding guidelines.

File under: Racist GOP muthafuckers.
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/wisconsin-gop-mixes-up-black-democratic-candidates-for-governor-in-social-media-post/

Wisconsin GOP mixes up Black Democratic candidates for governor in social media post • Wisconsin Examiner
The initial post made by the state party included a graphic of Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, not former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.

I dislike TikTok as much as the next guy, but I can't argue with things like this, that the actual Democratic party posted there, which combine two of my interests - both antifascism and the Wii - in such a great way.
*Making fools of ICE is ALWAYS correct*
#Wii #WiiBowling

You can hate me all you want, but when it comes to Zohran Mamdani, the reality is clear. He is a democratic socialist running as a candidate within the Democratic Party. Ultimately, by participating in the Democratic Party’s electoral system, he is operating within and effectively supporting the framework of American capitalism and imperialism.
The two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, are fundamentally aligned in preserving the capitalist system that m…

But if you think that the Democratic party is a fractured and messy coalition that’s going through a genuine internal crisis over whether to be an opposition party, and the party needs to figure that out while •we• take the lead on forming an opposition…well, then, we can talk.
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'Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles': why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates (David Smith/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/15/christian-democrat-candidates-trump-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p60#a251115p60

"The government and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) are forcing financial firms to compensate voice phishing victims, regardless of who is at fault, fanning concerns over how far consumer protection should go without distorting incentives in the financial system, market watchers said Monday."

Financial firms warn mandatory voice phishing compensation could backfire
The government and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) are forcing financial firms to compensate voice phishing victims, regardless of who i...

FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future by Forbes Breaking News
#uspol

The two smartest guys in the Democratic Party right now are Jon Ossoff and Pete Buttigieg. Neither one will be our next president. Jon is a Jew and Pete is gay. That's how fucked up things are right now.
And Michelle Obama is right: America has “a lot of growing up to do.”

Former Alaska representative
❤️#Mary #Peltola announced on Monday she is running for Alaska’s US Senate seat,
handing Democrats a major recruitment victory as the party battles to reclaim the chamber’s majority in this year’s midterm elections.
Peltola, who served as Alaska’s sole House member from 2022 un…

https://zeteo.com/p/democrats-fix-party-mamdani-trump-economy-health

Now Is the Time for a Better Democratic Party
Zohran Mamdani proved that corporate Democrats can be defeated. The intra-party fight must go on, until Democrats learn to make everyone’s lives better.

If they cave, the Democratic Party is done.
If you have Democratic senators, please, I urge you to call them and tell them to keep the pressure on Republicans going and not reopen the government until ACA subsidies are in place.

Democrats get to see what they've lost.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/barack-obama-democratic-party?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

As Barack Obama stumps for other Democrats, the party gets to see what it lost
The wit and wisdom of the superstar ex-US president make him the best candidate – too bad he can’t run

I donated to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School https://www.brennancenter.org/
Due to the dire threats to the USA from the current administration and the Republican party I am donating as much money as I spend on myself this year to protect us from those threats to our way of life.

Brennan Center for Justice | Home
Defend Democracy. Reform Justice. Protect the Constitution. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free.

Trump -- openly fearful that a Congress controlled by Democrats could investigate him, impeach him and stymie his agenda
-- is using every tool he can find to try to influence the 2026 midterm elections
-- and, if his party loses, sow doubt in their validity.
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion,
challenging long-established democratic norms.

They include unprecedented demands that Republican state lawmakers redraw congressional di…

Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.

🫱🏽‍🫲🏿 How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
#politics

How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.

I'm pleased to see many younger politicians among the new crowd...
The Democrats Just Took a Big Step Toward Getting Their Groove Back - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/politics/democratic-party-mamdani.html

I've read the following rhetorical question recently:
If “vote blue no matter who” doesn't apply to Zohran Mamdani, what does it actually mean?
...and despite all of us understanding the implication, let me actually try to give an answer, as the slogan emerged specifically from US politics, but this phenomenon hasn't.
This specific statement asking people to always vote for the democratic party, no matter who the candidate is, has always been thrown…

I'm starting to see an annoying return of "do something, Democrats!"
Do what exactly?
The Republican Party holds the House, the Senate, the White House, and SCOTUS.
You're mocking the Democratic Party for a resolution against Venezuela "War Powers" as merely symbolic. Welcome to reality. Symbolic gestures are one of the only tools with a rogue President and a Republican Party that won't impeach.

Hakeem Jeffries dodges question on whether Mamdani is future of Democratic Party (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hakeem-jeffries-dodges-question-whether-mamdani-future-democratic-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p164#a251105p164

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Chuck Schumer remains the worst of the Democratic Party. Beholden to special interests, refusing to retire despite relying on a political playbook from former generations, and doing his best to knee-cap progressives while hoping for "bipartisanship" from Rs.
Remember when Schumer endorsed Mamdani? Yeah, neither do I, because he fucking didn't. Even Jeffries (waiting until less than 2 weeks before the election) finally endorsed the D Mayoral candidate. Not Schumer, tho!

Chuck Schumer’s Ridiculous Strategy For Trump’s Illegal War: Hope Republicans Come To Their Senses
I’ve criticized Chuck Schumer plenty over the years, generally for being bad on tech policy, but also for not understanding the moment we’re living through. Yes, he’s the leader of a minority…

"In case you hadn’t noticed, the current Democratic Party is dysfunctional if not dead."
#mamdani

The Mamdani Moment
And the Future of the Democratic Party

Now perhaps might be a good time for the reminder of a truth always obscured:
Black People (not Black "women" -- ALL BLACK PEOPLE - you have to watch how they do black men dirty here) are the practical always-voting correctly BASE of the Democratic party -- which in turn makes them the moral center of voting in America.
#uspol

Stay angry, and also have a dose of level-headedness.
❝We’re in a battle for at least the rest of this decade that will require a very different kind of Democratic Party — not one that is more right or left but one that is both comfortable using power and knows how to do it. So I’m going to take this big step in the right direction I’ve seen over the last month and pocket it and move on to the next battle. Meanwhile, keep purging all the folks who can’t get with the new program.❞ https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115527953925050812

I joined Labour 3 times.Never again.
"Questions arise for members of the Labour Party. Why would one join a party where being a member means only paying subs and having no voice? Why would one join a party which is itself host to the enemies not only of socialism but of mild social democratic reform? Why would anyone on the left join an organisation that required you to battle the party bureaucracy before you could battle the true political opposition?"

Bernie Sanders crashes Schumer news conference, criticizes Democratic Party leadership (Alexandra Koch/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-crashes-schumer-news-conference-criticizes-democratic-party-leadership
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p128#a251105p128

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, …

A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing (Calder McHugh/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/28/ai-j…

I tried to reach the last owners of Versailles to see how having such an opulent palace while your people starve worked out… but they seem not to be able to reply.
https://apnews.com/article/east-wing-white-house-ballroom-demolition-b60f…

What lawmakers are saying about Trump's demolition of the East Wing
Members of Congress are divided largely along party lines on the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make room for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that President Donald Trump wants to build. The stunning images of the teardown this week have left Democratic lawmakers incensed. Republicans, meanwhile, are likening it to a long line of White House renovations over the years. House Speaker Mike Johnson says “the ballroom is going to be glorious.” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schu…

Josh Shapiro Believes the Center Can Hold (Binyamin Appelbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/opinion/josh-shapiro-democratic-party.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p26#a251109p26

Democratic candidates can win Rust Belt voters by … attacking the Democratic party
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/democrats-rust-belt-economy

The American Democratic Party, and the concept of "Democratic Socialism" within the US, comes largely from an authoritarian political tradition where the state offers services in exchange for the population allowing elites to continue parasitize the system. Then it is critical for Liberals to consume and destroy popular mutual aid, because real mutual aid undermines their carrot.
Democrats tend to imagine that anarchists want to destroy "all the good things" that governments do. The reality is that we want to build those good things ourselves so that we can reject the offer of those same good things, less well managed, with all the bad things attached.
Anarchists want to build pro-social systems (what if we didn't *need* snap, but just made sure everyone was fed?) while eliminating anti-social ones (do we really *need* to kidnap children, or could we just kind of stop doing that?).

At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“We’re going to fight for working families. We’re going to stand with immigrants. We’re going to stand with the diversity of this city.”
Brad Lander, former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Mandani in the Democratic primary, commented on the power of having a “Muslim…

This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We’re going to fight for working families. We’re going to stand with immigrants. We’re going to stand with the diversity of this city.” Brad Lander, former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Mandani in the Democratic primary, commented on the power of having a “Muslim …

Someone has encouraged me to engage in party politics by joining a political party. However, I oppose it, because political parties often represent interests that conflict with my own values and belief system.
Rather than aligning myself with parties that promote agendas incompatible with my views, I want to organiz my local community, prioritizing grassroots involvement and direct democratic participation over representative party politics.
As a syndicalist, I firmly believe tha…

It's My Party and I'll Leave When I Want To (Rebecca Traister/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/democratic-party-politicans-gerontocracy-democrats-too-old-rebecca-traister.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p83#a251103p83

‘Stop protecting pedophiles!’ Democratic Party delivers brutal putdown to Mike Johnson - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2674256735/

If the Democratic Party takes Congress in 2026, the first thing they should do is end the Senate filibuster. It’s a rule that if it ever did serve a purpose, it now prevents any opportunity for Congress to challenge a POTUS that does not respect the rule of law. It’s not in the constitution.
#USpol #SenateFilibuster

Bernie Sanders says that Democratic Party leadership are 'way out of touch'
'Let the people in'
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010489789/bernie-sanders…

Video: Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Democrats Are ‘Way Out of Touch’
In this episode of “The Opinions,” Senator Bernie Sanders tells David Leonhardt that the party and its leadership need to make big changes to start winning election.

Maybe a bit controversial statement, but has democracy not already died in the US? Congress has no effective oversight anymore, GOP only listens to Trump, democratic party is totally ineffective. Rule of law is severely damaged.
#USA #democracy

👵🏻 Barabak: A youth movement is roiling Democrats. Does age equal obsolescence?
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-26/older-politicians-term-limits-pelosi-challenger-barbara-boxer-pete-wilson…

Senior politicians discuss the Democratic Party youth movement
Seasoned California politicians, including former Sen. Barbara Boxer and Gov. Pete Wilson, say age is no impediment to accomplishment. But they differ over the value term limits.

Trump slams pardoned Democratic congressman as 'disloyal' for not switching parties (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pardon-cuellar-democrat-texas-party-switch-26b1b9e4dda9e7f16bd58e957a547e2a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p47#a251207p47

Republicans work to make Zohran Mamdani the face of the Democratic Party (Scott Wong/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republicans-work-make-zohran-mamdani-face-democratic-party-rcna240069
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p110#a251027p110

Political operative Stuart Stevens spoke about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers.
Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project,
a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser,
is working to stop Trump’s anti-democratic agenda.

Cracks Grow in MAGA Coalition over Epstein Files, Healthcare & Racist Group Texts: Ex-GOP Adviser
“The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement.” Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where…

Angered by the Democratic leadership’s fecklessness and lack of a bold vision for the future,
a group of senators including Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
has formed an alliance to push back on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the party’s campaign arm ahead of next year’s critical midterm elections.
The “Fight Club” is pressing the Democratic Party to
“embrace candidates willing to challenge entrenched corporate interests,

Sanders, Warren Help Form Senate Democratic ‘Fight Club’ Challenging Schumer’s Leadership | Common Dreams
"So glad there are some Senate Dems willing to fight back," said one progressive strategist.

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.

Zohran Mamdani’s election was not as surprising as his primary win in June,
and since then, Republicans have had time to adjust to the idea of a young, charismatic idol espousing a new and exciting message for the Democratic Party
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/20

MAGA’s Reaction to Mamdani’s Win is a Dark Sign of What’s to Come
Powerful Republicans are turning to old forms of bigotry.

Bernie Sanders: 'There Ain't Much of a Democratic Party' (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/bernie-sanders-oligarchs-americas-story.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p80#a251103p80

Protests erupted nationwide as the U.S. attacks Venezuela and kidnaps President Maduro and his wife.
San Francisco was no exception.
As the recent days of rain let up for a grateful pause, activists of all ages from the Answer coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Democratic Socialists of American, Revolutionary International Youth, Refuse Fascism, and just people with home made signs rallied at Powell and Market.
They then marched down Market Street to …

Protests Throughout as U.S. Attacks Venezuela to Grab Country's Oil : Indybay
Blatant criminality characterized by NY Times as "some in Washington are concerned."

Andrew Cuomo fights for his political life and his version of the Democratic Party (Brian Mann/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5594845/andrew-cuomo-nyc-mayor-race-zohran-mamdani
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p33#a251103p33

In Saudi Arabia, Trump Jr. mocks ‘No Kings’ protests
Speaking alongside Omeed Malik of 1789 Capital,
Donald Trump Jr. criticized Democratic Party policies and protesters targeting his father.
Junior invests in 1789 and continues to work in the real estate arm of the family, the Trump Organization, which has expanded its Mideast offerings even as his father serves his second term in the White House.
In particular, Junior mocked the “No Kings” protests that drew milli…

With Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel.
Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him.
Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg,
was violating laws and the constitution,”
said Larry Jacobs,
director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the…

The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 along party lines on Thursday
to scrap rules that required U.S. phone and internet giants to meet certain minimum cybersecurity requirements.
The FCC’s two Trump-appointed commissioners, chairman Brendan Carr and his Republican colleague Olivia Trusty,
voted to withdraw the rules that require telecommunications carriers to “secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.”
The Biden administ…

Despite Chinese hacks, Trump's FCC votes to scrap cybersecurity rules for phone and internet companies | TechCrunch
Two Trump-appointed FCC officials voted to undo the telecom industry's cybersecurity rules. One Democratic commissioner dissented, saying the decision leaves the United States "less safe" at a time when threats are increasing.

“How do we move forward in a way that everybody feels like they’re being engaged, they’re being heard and they’re understanding that elections have consequences?” she asks rhetorically.
“You have to come out and vote. You lose your voice if you don’t come out to vote.
One of the problems that’s happening right now is people are fearful and that’s how dictatorship begins. That’s how authoritarian regimes start.
They create this chaos and then this fear and we cannot be fe…

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday doubled down on his criticisms of millions of protesters who joined Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies across the nation,
decrying the peaceful demonstrations as evidence of
“a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party.”
https://www.politico.co…