Hasan Piker joins MS NOW’s Symone Sanders-Townsend and Eugene Daniels for a wide-ranging interview on Clock It. The Twitch streamer and political commentator has a massive following with growing influence in progressive politics. But he is controversial. It has Fox News talking about him all the time and many Democratic politicians denouncing him for offensive comments. But instead of talking about him, Symone and Eugene wanted to talk to him. In this wide-ranging conversation, Piker joins them to discuss his evolution from livestreamer to increasingly visible political influencer, and what that high profile means in this crucial midterm election cycle. They debate who the “working class” and the Democratic base really is and…
After winning an upset primary victory over a field of better-funded, establishment-backed rivals, Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-N.J.) is launching a super PAC to help other progressive underdogs do the same, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Mejia is adding to a growing constellation of new progressive super PACs trying to compete with cash-rich groups like AIPAC that back more moderate Democrats in primaries. - It is all part of a strategy that has helped the left pull off a series of high-profile primary victories this election cycle over incumbents and establishment favorites. - "We're ready to build a new class of unbought, unbossed candidates who will refuse corporate PAC money, and will stand for the values that the American people…
After winning an upset primary victory over a field of better-funded, establishment-backed rivals, Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-N.J.) is launching a super PAC to help other progressive underdogs do the same, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Mejia is adding to a growing constellation of new progressive super PACs trying to compete with cash-rich groups like AIPAC that back more moderate Democrats in primaries. - It is all part of a strategy that has helped the left pull off a series of high-profile primary victories this election cycle over incumbents and establishment favorites. - "We're ready to build a new class of unbought, unbossed candidates who will refuse corporate PAC money, and will stand for the values that the American people…Open
Beth Macy is challenging Rep. Ben Cline in a bright-red Virginia district, hoping her own story and the stories she told about the region will win back rural and working-class White voters.
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls out those whom he describes as ‘Corporate Democrats’ in a new Substack piece. It comes amid the recent rise of several progressive democrats across the country. Reich writes that democrats have scored some important victories for working families over the last three decades, but ‘they’ve done little to alter the widening economic inequalities that have taken a huge toll on working-class families.’ Reich joins Morning Joe to discuss the ‘fundamental shift’ he says is happening on the left.
The centrist Democratic group Third Way recently declared "war" on democratic socialists to head off what they fear could be a far-left hijacking of the party ahead of 2028. - But establishment Democrats have made clear what they're against without making much of a case for what they're for. Why it matters: It's hard to beat something with nothing. - Democratic socialism, whatever you think of it, is easy to grasp: Tax billionaires and redistribute wealth. Provide government-funded health care and child care for everyone. Rely less on markets for housing and education. Empower workers with stronger unions. - The establishment vision is murky. Raise taxes, but not too high; use government to make health care and child care more…
The centrist Democratic group Third Way recently declared "war" on democratic socialists to head off what they fear could be a far-left hijacking of the party ahead of 2028. - But establishment Democrats have made clear what they're against without making much of a case for what they're for. Why it matters: It's hard to beat something with nothing. - Democratic socialism, whatever you think of it, is easy to grasp: Tax billionaires and redistribute wealth. Provide government-funded health care and child care for everyone. Rely less on markets for housing and education. Empower workers with stronger unions. - The establishment vision is murky. Raise taxes, but not too high; use government to make health care and child care more…Open
New York State’s generous health plan for working-class people was hit hard by federal funding cuts. More than 400,000 people are now looking for new coverage or living without it.
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Progressive insurgents Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed want to shake up the next race for the White House — a notion that will likely petrify many top Democrats. Why it matters: They aren't running for president — they're vying for statewide office this year in presidential battlegrounds, and their campaigns are closely watched tests of the Bernie Sanders–style populism they want their party to embrace in 2028 . - It's a question that has haunted Democrats for a decade: Is America ready for a full-on left turn in politics, like what Sanders pitched when he ran for president in 2016 ? - The prospect worries many old-guard Democrats who fear Hong and El-Sayed can't win a November general election. Driving the…
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Progressive insurgents Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed want to shake up the next race for the White House — a notion that will likely petrify many top Democrats. Why it matters: They aren't running for president — they're vying for statewide office this year in presidential battlegrounds, and their campaigns are closely watched tests of the Bernie Sanders–style populism they want their party to embrace in 2028 . - It's a question that has haunted Democrats for a decade: Is America ready for a full-on left turn in politics, like what Sanders pitched when he ran for president in 2016 ? - The prospect worries many old-guard Democrats who fear Hong and El-Sayed can't win a November general election. Driving the…Open
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York said that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s close victory in the Michigan Senate primary put “working-class Americans back at the heart of our politics.”
