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Our Revolution Takes Issue With The "Dictatorial," "Arrogant," "Pompous" DNC
While Sanders works "inside the system," his outside political group is suddenly rallying progressives against an old enemy: the DNC. Nina Turner, Our Revolution president, does not have good things to say. “They tried to seduce us with donuts and water."
Ruby Cramer
Hillary Clinton Hires Two Former Campaign Aides For "Resistance" PAC
Onward Together, the group Clinton formed earlier this year, has brought on Emmy Ruiz and Adam Parkhomenko, veterans of her 2008 and 2016 presidential campaigns.
Ruby Cramer
EMILY's List Expands After 16,000 Women Reach Out About Running For Office
The record before: 920 women from 2015-2016. ("That was our Hillary bomb.")
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Republican And Democratic Groups In Talks With Encrypted Messaging Company
After hacks during the 2016 election, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee moved to Wickr, an end-to-end encrypted messaging service for internal communications. The company says it's in talks with — and has trials in place for — groups from both political parties.
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The First Democrat Running For President Is A Pro-Business Moderate
Maryland congressman John Delaney announced his 2020 campaign in an op-ed on Friday, 20 months ahead of the point at which most Democratic candidates announced their campaigns in 2016.
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The Bernie Faithful Wait For A 2020 Signal
Part of Bernie Sanders' surprise success in 2016 was that he didn’t do politics like other people. Now he’s a frontrunner for president. Does he wing it all over again, or start building the kind of campaign operation he never embraced the first time?
Ruby Cramer
After 2016 Hacks, House Democratic Committee Switches To Encrypted Messaging
The DCCC has moved to Wickr, an end-to-end encrypted messaging system, for all internal communications. They're first to do so after a year in which hacking dominated the news.
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Democratic Mayor Launches PAC Aimed At “Politics Of The Everyday”
This is South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's first major political effort since his campaign for chair of the Democratic National Committee earlier this year.
Ruby Cramer
What Kind Of Democrat Will Be The Next Jon Ossoff?
A new political terrain where a "pragmatic moderate" can become the face of the anti-Trump movement and the grassroots isn't demanding a hard shift left.
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Bernie Sanders "Sickened" By Alleged Shooter Who Once Volunteered For His Campaign
On Wednesday morning, a man opened fire on a congressional Republican baseball practice. The alleged shooter was a former Bernie campaign volunteer. The senator condemned violence of any kind on the Senate floor on Wednesday.
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Ralph Northam Wins Democratic Primary For Virginia Governor
Democrats were expecting a close race in Virginia, but Northam prevailed over the Bernie-backed Tom Perriello.
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Clinton Says Russians Had To Be "Guided By Americans" — "Hard Not To" Suspect Trump
"Yes, I'm leaning Trump."
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The Place Where Letters To Hillary Clinton Go
At just 30 years old, Rob Russo has been one of Hillary Clinton’s closest aides for a decade, organizing and drafting her political and personal correspondence. After the election, his job changed as thousands of strangers started writing to Clinton. Now he’s living through the end of an era, one letter at a time.
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DNC Chair Hires New CEO As Reorganization Begins
The top Democratic political organization has hired a new CEO — Jessica O'Connell — to oversee the "turnaround" effort that DNC chair Tom Perez has promised.
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Hillary Clinton Returns To Politics With A New Focus On The Grassroots
The former Democratic nominee, partnering with Gov. Howard Dean among others, is preparing a return to politics with a new entity — still in the planning stages — dedicated to funding and supporting the activist groups working to counter Donald Trump.
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Tom Perez Is OK With Getting Booed
The DNC chair's first two months of listening, listening, and more listening.
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"None Of It Made Sense": Martin O'Malley's Long Year After Running For President
Martin O'Malley was right. Democrats did want a challenger to Hillary Clinton — it just wasn't him. Now the former Maryland governor has emerged from a long year, is again campaigning for local Democrats, and trying to make sense of what happened in 2016.
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Democratic Super PAC Launches Anti-"Trumpcare" Campaign In Key States
The ads from Priorities USA — which is reshaping its role after a 2016 election spent on Donald Trump's character — takes on his new policy, reaching nine states, including Alaska and Maine, home to two Republican senators who could oppose the bill.
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While Democrats Press Trump On Russia, Liberal Activists Target On One Of The Party's Own: Joe Manchin
On Thursday, activists protested the West Virginia senator's role in Democratic leadership. Manchin, perhaps more than any lawmaker, represents Democrats' dilemma: oppose Trump at all costs or risk losing key party seats in Washington.
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Democratic War Room Expands With Plans To Scrutinize Hundreds And Hundreds Of Trump Appointees
The Center for American Progress' anti-Trump hub brings on a new communications director as it plans to "expand indefinitely," slow-walk GOP efforts in Congress, and craft a blueprint for a new "economic narrative" with broad Democratic appeal.
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