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Your top five wins this week! 5. Zohran Puts Another Advocate in Driver’s Seat NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has wasted no time putting “our” people into positions of power in his administration, especially on his top issues. On Day One, he appointed tenant organizer Cea Weaver as head of his “newly revitalized” Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. On April 27, he chose Elizabeth Adams, a former top executive at longtime transit advocate Transportation Alternatives, to spearh

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