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Democrats will win the House this fall, inshallah. We need a minimum net gain of six seats to take back the House, and more is better. We won’t win enough seats to override a Presidential veto, so real legislative wins in the next two years aren’t likely. But we can do things in this midterm cycle to set us up for more power in the future. Electing the right candidates to move us forward is how we get there. Why I chose these candidates I wanted to highlight candidates

Your top five wins this week!   5. Federal Judge Tells DOJ To Back Off  Rhode Island Voter Files By February 2026, according to the Brennan Center, at least 10 states, including Texas, had handed their voter files over to the Justice Department.  Most states have refused, and the administration is suing 29 of them over that issue. DOJ is asking them to sign an agreement to allow the Federal government to, among other things, remove specific voters from the rolls.  On April 17

Pearl Jam. Five.  “Stop The Steal” leader John Eastman loses his CA law license.   According to Politico , the CA Supreme Court turned down Eastman’s final bid to salvage his law license, upholding the decision by lower-court judges to order Eastman’s disbarment over his role in the 2020 scheme. The court ordered that his name be “stricken from the roll of attorneys.”  He’s been suspended from practice for the past few years, as cases against him have wound through the courts

Photo by Neil Constantine/Nurphoto/AP 1.  Immigration   New Dems are at least striving to create a plan  that goes beyond outrage and proposes specific ideas for what the right immigration policy could look like. Here’s a few key points that show up in their nine-part plan that could be embraced widely.   Our Legal System Increase DHS oversight and ensure humane detention conditions for migrants in US  custody. Provide judicial discretion for immigration judges to consider ma

Octavio Jones/AFP/Getty Images   In Part 3 of this series, we talked about policy solutions to the five issues that will do the most to help us win the battle for the midterms .  In this part, we’ll talk about the NEXT   five issues that could be game-changers for Democrats.     1)  Immigration and ICE   At least 60% of Americans now believe that Trump’s crackdown has gone too far , including most Democrats and independents and some 25% of Republicans.  The issue has gone fro

Both the issues we focus on and our policy solutions have to be targeted to the culture and conditions wherever we are.  For must-read analysis of America’s deep-rooted and very different regional cultures and the challenges of building consensus among them on issues, read Colin Woodard’s American Nations  and follow his work at the Nationhood Lab . FYI, I’m a proud product of Yankeedom. The housing crisis is everywhere, but it looks different in New York City vs. Alaska, and