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[democracyunderground]

Trump’s Parting Gift to Joe Biden

Tension within the Republican coalition over the Capitol riot could push GOP-leaning voters into the new president’s camp.

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

Jeff Goldblum Urges Phone Banking for the "Most Important Election"

Jeff Goldblum urged on left-leaning volunteers to phone bank on Friday by telling them that 2020's is "the most important election in the hi

Miller popped in to say hi.

[clarkgregguniversity]

For a lot of states, early voting has began. You can also mail in your vote or show up on Election Day which is Nov 3rd. Make a plan and #SwingLeft Be like @clarkgregg and go VOTE! #BlueWave2020 #BidenHarris2020 #Vote #ElectionDay @joebiden @kamalaharris @swingleft #Swingleft #kamalaharris #joebiden #voteamerica #getoutandvote #earlyvoting #voteearly #mailinvoting #clarkgregg #agentsofshield https://www.instagram.com/p/CGi1vPEFmHo/?igshid=1fn2lpiksxpti

[littlelonelymusic]

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Found this too-short clip in my phone from an Oct ‘19 pre-Covid night in a Los Feliz backyard w The One & Only 💙Rufus Wainwright💙 !!! Thanks @pijacobs + @swingleft for this memory! #rememberconcerts #precovid19life #swingleft #rufuswainwright (at Los Feliz, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/CATPmu3BSxJ/?igshid=lyztxo9cab0d

[progressiveparty]

The Democrats are moving left. Will America follow?

The Progressives are moving the Democrats to swing left. Social movements — the Arab Spring, SlutWalk, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March and #MeToo — remind Americans of how essential protest is to shoring up the integrity of democratic politics.

Perhaps the great unknown of 2020 is how the tenor of the Democratic nomination contest will affect the general election. The outcome of the primaries and caucuses, of course, is far from clear — the nominee may ultimately lean to the center or the left — but what is clear is that the party has shifted in fundamental ways since the last presidential election. You can see it in the policy positions being discussed and embraced by Democrats, many of which go well beyond the positions taken by previous Democratic presidents and nominees — from banning private insurance to free college to a wealth tax to the Green New Deal. You can see it in the left-populist worldviews and solid poll numbers of two of the three leading candidates, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. And you can see it in the substantial popularity among the Democratic rank-and-file of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies in Congress. In this issue of the magazine, journalists, wonks, activists and politicians — from a variety of ideological perspectives — reflect on how all of this might play out in the months and years to come, and how Americans should feel about it. — Richard Just

It’s about time Democrats moved left

By Brittney Cooper Since 2011, we have watched a spate of social movements — the Arab Spring, SlutWalk, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March and #MeToo — remind Americans of how essential protest is to shoring up the integrity of democratic politics. If you understand the history this way, Democrats have taken a decade to arrive at what has by all accounts been a pretty raucous party, what with flesh-baring feminists demanding sexual autonomy, young black folks fighting the power again, and radical white kids mad as hell about capitalism robbing them of their American Dreams. To the Democrats’ credit, they have made a fashionably late entrance, bringing the power of formal and established American politics to a table set by those who usually, to paraphrase Shirley Chisholm, have to bring their own chair. When we ask the question of whether Americans will follow, it begets for me a different question: Which Americans do you mean? Young Americans of all races, and especially those of color, have been sounding the death knell of capitalist excess since they formed the first encampments in New York’s Zuccotti Park. When we see presidential candidates laying out policies and affirming their belief in reproductive justice, reparations and Medicare-for-all, this leftward shift is the direct result of the leadership of 21st-century rabble-rousers and dissenters. The question of whether Americans will follow really asks whether older generations, baby boomers in particular, will get on board with a vision that fundamentally challenges their belief in the myth of American meritocracy — that if you work hard, you can have everything you want. The country simply does not work that way for undocumented folks, for black folks, for the poor, or for trans people. Do I believe Americans will follow? Americans like me — first-generation college kids, 40-year-old xennials squeezed by the care-taking of children and elders, and those mortified by the persistence of patriarchy, our brazen return to violent white nationalism and our swift if predictable descent into fascism — absolutely will. It’s the only way to a future in which we all get to live and thrive. Brittney Cooper is an associate professor of women’s and gender studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University. This Piece Originally Appeared in Washington Post Read the full article

[stillwithhernothim]

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[paperpastries]

@swingleft party @paperpastries this upcoming Monday night ✅ Joining forces with @typographynerd to get the vote out 🗳All info via link in profile. Rubber stamp by Mary loves postcards on Etsy. . . . #swingleft#happeninginnela#bluewave#2020#atwatervillage#rubberstamp#letterwritersalliance#write (at Paper Pastries) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ZP941pTvE/?igshid=1hrygrbzkp1sk

[cakeandlobster]

Work-in-progress! I am making a series of posters and post cards for people to use for all the elections through 2020. We have to do more than just vote from now on. #wip #flipthesenate #flipthewhitehouse #GOTV #swingleft @swingleft @swingleftpa01 (at Art Projects at Studio 103) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxaGYHVDb41/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16hoxk199nrj