A Winning Message for 2026 Swing Voters: Tax the Rich and Medicare for All!

New York City Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA) hold a rally in Union Square marking the start of a campaign to tax the rich and win universal childcare on November 16, 2025.  (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images) “The swing voters who will decide the midterms are not asking… Continue reading

‘I’ll Be a Vote for Medicare for All’: Troy Jackson Makes His Case After Platner Exit

Troy Jackson speaks during a May Day rally organized by local unions on May 1, 2026 outside City Hall in Portland, Maine.  (Photo by Graeme Sloan/Getty Images) “We may both be from Aroostook County, but we’re not the same,” Jackson said of Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Jake Johnson Jul 09,… Continue reading

SF Ballot Measure Could Help Establish the First City-Run Public Bank in the US

SF Ballot Measure Could Help Establish the First City-Run Public Bank in the US

8 July 2026/SF Politics/Leanne Maxwell (SFist.com) The SF Board of Supervisors voted to add a measure to the November ballot that would help the city work toward establishing its own public bank, which would fund affordable housing, green energy, and small businesses — the first of its kind in the… Continue reading

‘Heavily intoxicated’: Woman says Senate nominee raped her in 2021

“Jake Tapper, now an anchor at CNN, wrote a 4,200-word essay in the Washington City Paper headlined I DATED MONICA LEWINSKY. (‘I’ll get with her because I figured that behind her initial aggressiveness lurked on easy, perhaps winning, bit of no-frills hookup.’)” –Brooke Nevils, “Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame and the Stories We Choose to… Continue reading