Welcome to Team Tuesday! I learned about Mr. Weiland from a story in the South Dakota Searchlight, via News From the States – an...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! As usual, the words “poverty” or “poor people” aren’t being uttered by Presidential candidates or, generally, by...

Welcome to Winning Wednesday! In a recent email, the woman above with the million-dollar smile, Rep. Summer Lee (PA-12),  hailed her...

Welcome to Team Tuesday! You may have heard about the GOP’s current drive to ban regulations requiring employers to protect farmworkers...

Welcome To Message Monday! I found an interesting theory about how we should radically rethink how we do political advertising. It comes...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Taxes can be complicated, but I vow to keep this discussion as simple as possible, and laser-focused on the...

Welcome to Take Action Tuesday! The new UAW, more than any other organization on the left, THINKS BIG.  They swing for the fences.  We...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday!   Today is about how we need to neutralize the threat from our unfair rules of the game for elections. Voting...

Welcome to Team Tuesday! Convergence, “a magazine for radical insights,” is poised to play an important role in furthering the alignment...

Welcome to Message Monday! I just now learned about an extremely important 2023 study from Jacobin, ASU’s Center for Work and Democracy,...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! These dueling visions are polar opposites, not only in terms of what (policy), but in who is putting them...

Welcome to Message Monday! I’m a fan of Anand Giridharadas, so much so that his is the only Substack I pay for.  He recently posted a...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Since we are so weak on exploiting the right’s internal differences, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to throw out more...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Today we’re going to respond to leading strategist Ilyse Hogue’s recent comment (certainly accurate) that “we are...

Welcome to Message Monday! I was deep in an article on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website, about USA Today choosing one of our...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! I attended a meeting last week about building the left over the short- and long-term.  I heard a lot of...

Welcome to Message Monday! Progressive State Senator Chris Larson (District 7) is well known and loved here in Milwaukee, WI.  I only...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Wait, what? you say.  You may be thinking that “populism” is the racist and xenophobic philosophy behind Donald...

Welcome to Team Tuesday! I’m always excited when I see progressive groups working together, because that’s one of the most critical...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Last week, we talked about how conflict avoidance within an organization causes many problems, especially with...