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With Feinstein on Her Way Out, Can a Progressive Win Her Senate Seat?
By Norman Solomon / Published by Truthout After three decades in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein has announced that she will not seek re-election in 2024, giving Californians a valuable opportunity to elect a progressive to the upper chamber. In this solid blue state, three prominent Democrats in the House — Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and…
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Biden Wielding DNC to Guard Against Progressive Challenge
By Norman Solomon When the Democratic National Committee convenes its winter meeting on Thursday in Philadelphia, a key agenda item will be rubber-stamping Joe Biden’s manipulation of next year’s presidential primaries. There’ll be speeches galore, including one by Biden as a prelude to his expected announcement that he’ll seek a second term. The gathering will…
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Biden 2024 Decision Pits the Party’s Elites Against Most Democrats
By Norman Solomon Denial at the top of the Democratic Party about Joe Biden’s shaky footing for a re-election run in 2024 became more untenable over the weekend. As the New York Times reported, investigators “seized more than a half-dozen documents, some of them classified, at President Biden’s residence” in Delaware. The newspaper noted that…
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So Much for the Idea that Biden Is the One to Beat the GOP in 2024
By Norman Solomon For many months, conventional media wisdom has told us that Joe Biden would be the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump in 2024 because he did it before. The claim was always on shaky ground — after all, Trump was the ultimate symbol of the status quo when he lost in 2020,…
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The Myth of the “Moderate Republican” — and Why It’s So Dangerous
By Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen The current notion of a “moderate Republican” is an oxymoron that helps to move the country rightward. Last week, every one of the GOP’s so-called “moderates” voted to install House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who won with the avid support of Donald Trump and got over the finish line by…