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New York could be even more progressive after this year's elections
CBS News
New York is often seen as a liberal bastion and a home base for the resistance, but the state that voted for Hillary Clinton by over 20 percentage points has a state Senate controlled by Republicans who have stymied efforts to enact progressive ...

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Washington Post
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo dispatches more-liberal Democratic challenger and will face rematch with ...
Washington Post
Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo survived a primary challenge Wednesday after a campaign that put the party's internal battles on full display up and down the ballot in one of the year's final nominating contests. Raimondo defeated Matt Brown ...
Raimondo beats more-liberal Democratic challenger in primary, will face Fung in rematchChron.com
The Next 3 Days: What's At Stake In The NH, RI, And NY Primarieswgbh.org
Bernie Sanders-inspired challenger routed in Rhode Island gubernatorial race; pro-Trump candidate gets GOP nodFox News
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The New Yorker
Understanding the Partisanship of Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Hearings
The New Yorker
Last week, thirteen progressive organizations signed a letter to the Democratic Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, complaining of his failure to defeat the nomination and claiming that “Kavanaugh is an extremist who will help institutionalize Trump's hate ...

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Wall Street Journal
No Tea Party on the Democrats' Left Wing
Wall Street Journal
... between tea-party upstarts and the Republican establishment. Even if Democrats are more disciplined than the GOP, their disgraceful performance at Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings was a harbinger of the harm that a progressive surge ...

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The Weekly Standard
Democrats Behaving Badly
The Weekly Standard
Democrats assumed that former Vice Presidential Walter Mondale would be able to ride the tide of emotion and hold Wellstone's seat, but Mondale wound up losing to Republican Norm Coleman (who would, in turn, lose to comedian Al Franken six years later ...

New York Magazine
How Elizabeth Warren Is Dominating the Democratic Presidential Race
New York Magazine
Elizabeth Warren is often bracketed with Bernie Sanders, a fellow folk hero of the party's progressive activists, and a competitor for much of the same support base she will need to win the nomination. But Warren is not attempting to .... Warren, like ...

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Conservatives admit they have media advantage
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise
... book about illegal immigration, ultra-conservative author Ann Coulter took me aback when she boldly and proudly stated that while the mainstream media/press had been mostly liberal/Democrat for many years, it now has become mostly conservative ...

CNN
Texas Democrats have a rising star. But Republicans are betting Beto doesn't have enough fans to win
CNN
Although the numbers may be against O'Rourke, it's clear his unapologetically progressive campaign is striking a nerve in the Lone Star State. Recent polls show O'Rourke is within striking distance of Cruz, and that ... Cruz is on a mission to paint O ...

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What's in a name? Clarifying meaning behind political labels
Idaho County Free Press
#“Republicans” generally hold conservative and/or libertarian beliefs (depending on the subject) and are usually members of the Republican (GOP) political party. #“Democrats” generally hold liberal and/or progressive and/or leftist beliefs (depending ...

NBCNews.com
Advocacy groups, political organizations go after the LGBTQ vote
NBCNews.com
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis is endorsed by the president, while progressive Democrat Andrew Gillum has been an outspoken critic of Trump's policies. Recent polling shows the two ... “LGBT voters are a distinctly liberal ...

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Washington Post
Taxes and Health Care Aside, Views on Trump Central to US Election
Voice of America
In some urban, liberal strongholds, the progressives' views could prove decisive in House elections, but their positions have yet to gain widespread national prominence. It is an intraparty fight ... Democratic agenda. But Republicans are also arguing ...
The Daily 202: Playing 'catch-up,' progressive groups to spend $10 million on digital ads for state legislative racesWashington Post
Senate Leadership Fund launches $6 million ad buy across six battleground statesNBCNews.com

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Vox
The public thinks the Supreme Court is more liberal than it is
Vox
But a 2016 Harvard University-designed survey, the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, found a quarter of Republicans found the Supreme Court to be “very liberal” or “liberal,” whereas only a fifth of Democrats saw the Court as “very conservative ...
Progressive groups ratchet up pressure on Sen. Collins to vote against Kavanaugh nominationPress Herald
Liberals to Collins: Vote No on Kavanaugh or We'll Give $800000 to Your Next ChallengerNew York Magazine
Kavanaugh Fight Has Red State Dems Ducking for CoverRealClearPolitics
Lewiston Sun Journal -Washington Times
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FiveThirtyEight
Does Obama Motivate Democrats Anymore? Or Just Republicans?
FiveThirtyEight
micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): With former President Barack Obama's return to the campaign trail in the last week or so, here's our overarching question for today: Who does Obama motivate more in 2018, Democrats or Republicans? I'm thinking ...
The Limits of Obama's LegacySlate Magazine
Slowik: Obama's return sure to fire up voters from both political partiesChicago Tribune

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The Atlantic
America Is Living James Madison's Nightmare
The Atlantic
... monied classes, and sought to consolidate national power. As the historian Sean Wilentz has noted, the great movements for constitutional and social change in the 19th century—from the abolition of slavery to the Progressive movement—were the ...

San Antonio Current
Trump, Cruz, O'Rourke and three myths about Texans
New Jersey Herald
But Republican dominance in Texas in recent decades -- abetted by aggressive gerrymandering and voter suppression -- obscures the liberal tradition of Democrats like House Speaker Sam Rayburn and President Lyndon Johnson, a tradition that may be ...
Beto O'Rourke is Likeable, Liberal and Shoots From the Hip, But It Will Take More Than That to Beat Ted CruzSan Antonio Current
David Hogg and other activists are trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Ted Cruz in one of the tightest Senate ...Business Insider

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TribTalk
Beto O'Rourke can save the GOP
TribTalk
That's why electing a progressive Democrat is Republicans' best long-term hope for a conservative Congress. In the largest study of its kind, Princeton and Northwestern Universities analyzed thousands of ... On the one hand you have O'Rourke driving ...
Trump, Cruz, O'Rourke and three myths about TexansNew Jersey Herald
David Hogg and other activists are trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Ted Cruz in one of the tightest Senate ...Business Insider

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Vox
The unprecedented number of women running for governor in 2018
Vox
Progressive groups are very excited about Abrams, but she's not exactly a political outsider; she served as the former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives and had a lot of support from national Democrats. Hawaii governor's race ...

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Newsday
John Jay LaValle wades into Conservatives' leadership fight
Newsday
LaValle, in a letter on GOP stationery, said he was “gravely concerned” because the minor party since 2010 has endorsed more than 50 Democratic candidates. “They have empowered the progressive liberals by cutting backroom deals with the Democrats ...

Washington Post
Will Florida Take a Left Turn?
Wall Street Journal
With a Bernie Sanders-backed progressive facing off against a populist conservative favored by Donald Trump, the Florida gubernatorial race might turn out to be a dry run for the 2020 presidential election. But first, it could set the ... In the five ...
GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged eventsWashington Post
DeSantis leaves congress to focus on governor's raceFox 35 Orlando
Fla. Rep. DeSantis, running for governor, resigns House seatThe Mercury News
Sun Sentinel -WGCU News -Tampa Bay Times
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The New Yorker
Is New York Progressive Enough for Cynthia Nixon?
The New Yorker
“I'm running because I know not every Republican is a bigot but every bigot voted for Donald Trump!” Clouds threatened .... Since 2008, a group of Democratic state legislators called the Independent Democratic Conference has insured a conservative ...

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