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 November 20, 2020

The Midterms

How Democrats Won and Lost the 2022 Midterms

by Maurice Mitchell

The Left Has a Lot to Celebrate After the Surprising Midterm Results

by Branko Marcetic

Democrats Can’t Be Counted On to Stop the MAGA Right, So Socialists Are Stepping Up

by Kristian Hernandez

Democrats Need To Be Even Better on Abortion To Win the “Blue Tsunami” They Need

by Andrea Plaid

How to Fix the Pathetic Florida Democratic Party

by Hamilton Nolan

Democrats Must Invest in Young People If They Want to Win

by Varshini Prakash

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 Plaid’s 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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How the Democrats Won and Lost the 2022 Midterms

What the surprising results mean for the electoral Left.

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Democrats Must Invest in Young People If They Want to Win

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How Do You Flip Rural Trump Voters? Talk to Them.

In 2016, establishment Democrats all but ignored rural communities. Groups like People's Action are changing that, one conversation at a time.

This Arizona County Already Lives Under Trumpism—But a Latino Voter Surge May Change That

7 years of organizing against anti-immigrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio has driven massive voter registration.

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Democrats Need To Be Even Better on Abortion To Win the “Blue Tsunami” They Need

An interview about the midterms with reproductive justice pioneer Loretta Ross.

Don’t ‘Arquette’ Hillary Clinton

Will Clinton's 2016 campaign, like in 2008, be used to pit women and people of color against each other (as though the two don't overlap)?

What To Expect From New York’s Black Feminist First Lady

Can we embrace Chirlane McCray without smothering her?

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Democrats Can’t Be Counted On to Stop the MAGA Right, So Socialists Are Stepping Up

After the midterms, Congress will have more socialists than ever—while progressive policies won across the country. The Left will have to use its power to take on the anti-democratic GOP.

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Jamaal Bowman’s Loss Does Not Mean That AIPAC Is Winning

The Squad may have lost a key member, but AIPAC has had to drastically narrow its ambitions, targeting the most vulnerable of Israel critics in order to inflate its strength.

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An In These Times investigation reveals the individuals behind AIPAC's election war chest: nearly 60% are CEOs and other top executives at the country's largest corporations.

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SVB's Bailout Signals a Financial System Still Rotten to the Core

The spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was caused by corruption, financial recklessness and poor decision-making. How much longer will we put up with this?

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