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@AsteadWH
Aug 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
NEW: I talked to Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman and more about how a year that started out bleak for progressives turned into a good one. Biden is the nominee but a robust bench is being built, and the Bush win provides a leftist breakthrough in black districts
nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/…
Jamaal Bowman on the idea that it is racist to challenge a black incumbent or CBC member: “Every brother ain’t a brother. So it’s not just about being a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, but standing up and fighting for your people.”

nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/…
Cori Bush, on whether it will be difficult to make the transition from outside activist to Washington rep: "If we need to be in the streets, I will be in the streets. That part of Cori won’t change. I am still a boots-on-the-ground type of person.”

nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/…
AOC did not endorse Bush in this primary but did endorse her in 2018. The two spoke today and she congratulated her win. Sanders having livestream tonight, a torch passing from from the OG revolutionary to the new ones (who come w/ a new constituency)

nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/…

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Nov 5, 2022
🗣🚨 Just pubbed at @nytimes: 'The Run-Ups Guide To The Midterm Elections'

I like think of our podcast as like a 10-track set 😂, abt this Tuesday's election but also how US politics...got this way

This guide takes you thru it!!

Let's dig in 🎧🧵(1/?)
nytimes.com/2022/11/05/pod…
First up, The Autopsy

How the political establishment misread America's demographic change, and created space for Donald Trump. It kicks off one of our key themes: establishment/grassroots disconnect

W/ @adamnagourney, @KellyannePolls, @jennymedina nytimes.com/2022/09/15/pod…
Next, The Republic

Does democracy ~really beat in the heart of most Americans, as the President says

Lessons from southern Black voters and Arizona's openly anti-democracy wing, which has taken over the party

Feat: @JimClyburnSC1, @DraperRobert
nytimes.com/2022/09/22/pod…
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Jun 15, 2021
I would only also add that they are forgotten in this way because they are working class AND largely people of color. A particular blindspot of white media elite
early in the primary when polls were doubted because "no one knew a Biden supporter".......it was real "tell me you don't know a Black person over 50 without telling me you don't know Black person over 50" on this here app
and age matters a lot here because most of the Dem racial language is still filtered thru ascendant progressive activists who trend younger and are not inherently reflective of voter base
Read 4 tweets
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Sep 26, 2020
NEW: The Minneapolis City Council stunned all when it pledged to "end policing." Now, several tell me they regret the pledge and it sowed confusion. How what seemed like political boldness was really paper thin. How bureaucracy + politics stymied change nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/…
“I think our pledge created confusion in the community and in our wards," the council president.

Councilors "have gotten used to these kinds of progressive purity tests," another member

"I'm embarrassed"

"They didn't engage Black and Brown people"
nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/…
This is not about the merits of defunding as policy, but the political process that such ideas for systemic change have to go thru. There, the divisions among activists, mistakes among elected officials, and an unelected city commission all converge
nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/…
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Sep 14, 2020
News: Susan Sandler, the liberal donor involved in Obama 08 who has since been diagnosed w/ brain cancer, will invest $200 million in progressive organizing groups. TX Organizing Project, New GA Project, New FL Majority among those getting big, new $$$
nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/…
Sandler will announce fund in a Medium post today. In it, she says diagnosis shifted her giving priorities/political perspective. "Each of us can establish a legacy. I’m grateful that I’ve been given the time since my cancer diagnosis to establish mine."
nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/…
The move, like $220 million from Soros foundation earlier, will help give chosen organizations assurance past 2020 and Trump. It also continues a shift in donations away from singular campaigns/restrictive grants and an embrace of long term power building. nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/…
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Aug 25, 2020
NEW: Black women are the base, consistent and loyal voters. To get Obama's Black turnout, Biden needs to improve on Clinton's support from Black men. A story about 2020 and Black men from North Milwaukee, and the privileges Biden enjoys (+ some barriers)
nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/…
It's not that Black men don't vote, but every missed vote for Dems is almost assuredly a blue one. To those I talked to, there's an acknowledgement of the sexism that Clinton faced, and a sense that Biden is poised to do better bc of Trump, not himself
nyti.ms/31o6Whp
The stakes here aren't Biden Has To Do This Or He Loses The Election, it's really about the party's changing coalition, and the real possibility that Bidens winning formula in 2020 is a whiter one
nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/…
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Aug 24, 2020
New: More Than A Vote, the group of athletes headlined by @KingJames, has chosen its next political target: recruiting poll workers to staff locations in Black communities. Joint effort w/ @NAACP_LDF. Second national campaign after arena voting initiative nytimes.com/2020/08/24/us/…
I spoke with Michael Vick, a member of the group who said his own experience losing voting rights has made it more important for him to speak out. "As someone who had their voting rights restored, I want to influence younger people to be a part of this." nytimes.com/2020/08/24/us/…
Renee Montgomery of the Atlanta Dream, who is sitting out this WNBA season to focus on activism: "I live in Atlanta, so this issue is right on my front door."

Michigan SoS says state is still 1k-2k poll workers short. Needed in DET and Flint nytimes.com/2020/08/24/us/…
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