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Meet the 21-year-old Undocumented Student Who Called Out Rahm Emanuel to His Face Over Immigration

Luis Gomez publicly blasted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Rep. Luis Gutiérrez for failing to do enough to protect all immigrants facing the threat of a Trump presidency—and for supporting Hillary Clinton and “stale neoliberal policies” over Bernie Sanders’ campaign.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Inside Afghanistan’s Internally Displaced Person Camps

Uprooted by war and rejected by the EU and Pakistan, many Afghans live in ramshackle conditions with little-to-no aid.

Mohammed Harun Arsalai

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After Trump’s Election, I Regret Being Leftier-Than-Thou. It’s Time To Get To Know My Neighbors.

In addition to organizing resistance, progressives should build communities that support and protect the vulnerable.

Frida Berrigan

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Our Movements Are Powerful, the Institutional Left Isn’t the Solution. Here’s What We Should Do Now.

We can't let the failure of the Democratic Party and the liberal establishment confuse us into thinking that our grassroots movements are losing—they're not.

Nicole Carty

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America Is About to Become a Global Pariah

No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov. 7, Donald Trump's win means they will now look at us differently.

Neal Gabler

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Trump Won Because the Democratic Party Failed, Not Because the White Working Class Revolted

It’s time to stop uselessly pouring energy into the black hole of the Democratic Party.

Arun Gupta

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Why Rahm Emanuel’s Community Investment Fund Would Be a Blank Check for Financiers

Progressives should oppose the "Chicago Community Catalyst Fund," which goes to a vote in City Council November 16.

Carlos Ramirez-Rosa

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Robert Reich: It’s Time to Dismantle the Democratic Party and Start Anew

Trump's victory only confirms that the Democratic Party as it stands is a corporate fundraising machine that doesn't speak to the needs of working people. We need to build a party that actually represents the working class.

Robert Reich

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This Moment Demands We Fight Harder Than Ever Before

A message from our editor & publisher.

Joel Bleifuss

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The Election was a Referendum on Globalization and Demographics—Not Neoliberalism

It also represented the consolidation of a misogynistic white united front.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

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Don’t Blame Voters of Color for Not Turning Out. Blame Voter Suppression and the Clinton Campaign.

Liberals took people of color's votes for granted, while conservatives kept them from the polls.

Marc Daalder

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It’s Easy To Blame the Democratic Party for Trump—But Reality is More Complicated

Thomas Frank and others lament that the party favored Clinton over Sanders, without asking why Democratic voters went along.

Nancy Folbre

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How to Organize Against President Trump

Grassroots activists reflect on the road ahead.

Kate Aronoff

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Trump Won Because Democrats Have Lost Touch With the Working Class

The Republican nominee tapped into the anger, pain and fear that motivated voters this election.

Marilyn Katz

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Well, That Happened: Let’s Try to Start Figuring Out How

A look at the polls suggests race, region and low turnout played important roles.

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

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What Trump’s Victory Tells Us: The Culture Wars Continue, But There’s a New “Wedge”

Trump used economics as a wedge issue in a novel way for the GOP, while submerging the old social issues.

Theo Anderson

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Michael Moore: Trump Won. 5 Things To Do Now.

How to take back the party that failed us.

Michael Moore, Alternet

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Trump Won, But the Future Still Belongs to the Left

Moving forward, step one is to support the communities of color, immigrants, Muslims and women who Trump's America threatens most.

LeeAnn Hall and George Goehl

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After Trump’s Win, Our Job Is More Clear Than Ever: Organize.

People have mobilized to defeat authoritarians in Trump’s mold before. Now it’s up to us to fight like hell, together.

Kate Aronoff

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The Left’s Support for Hillary Clinton This Election Was About Risk Mitigation, Nothing More

I cast my vote to give popular uprisings a fighting chance.

Kate Aronoff

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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.

George Goehl

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Working Families Party Offers Oregon Voters a Chance to Put Pro-TPP, Neoliberal Democrats on Notice

Shanti Lewallen took up the Oregon WFP’s offer to join the Senate race as its candidate. His Democratic opponent is Sen. Ron Wyden.

Kate Aronoff

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Statement of the DSA National Political Committee on the 2016 Election

Dump the racist Trump, continue the political revolution down-ballot, and build multiracial coalitions and socialist organization for long-term change.

Democratic Socialists of America

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Slavoj Zizek on Clinton, Trump and the Left’s Dilemma

To paraphrase Stalin: They are both worse.

Slavoj Žižek