How Democrats Won and Lost

And what the surprising results mean for the Left.

Maurice Mitchell, Varshini Prakash, George Goehl, Andrea Plaid, Kristian Hernandez and Branko Marcetic

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Maurice Mitchell is the national director of the Working Families Party.

Varshini Prakash is the executive director of Sunrise Movement.

George Goehl is a longtime community organizer. He is the host of To See Each Other, a documentary podcast about rural organizing, and the former director of People’s Action, a national people’s organization working in urban, suburban and rural communities.

Andrea Plaids work on race, gender, sex and sexuality has appeared at Newsweek​.com, Vogue​.com, Bitch​.com and Rewire, among others. She is writing the forthcoming stylebook, Penning with the People, for the TFW/​University of Arizona Press. She lives in Detroit.

Kristian Hernandez is chair of the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Committee.

Branko Marcetic is a staff writer at Jacobin magazine and a 2019-2020 Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting fellow. He is the author of Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden.

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