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Congressional Retirements Are Usually Good For The Country
I can't think of a single Republican member of Congress I would be sorry to see retire. There are a few who may have a good trait or two...

Howie Klein
Jan 5, 20223 min read
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Republicans vs Everyone Else
As the Republican base gets crazier and crazier-- whether because of Fox, hate talk radio, fascist podcasts, Russian propaganda,...

Howie Klein
Jan 4, 20225 min read
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Trump & The Dems Have The Same Strategy For The Midterms: Make Them All About Trump
The fact that Trump lost to Biden by an immense number-- 81.2 million votes to 74.2 million votes-- and that Biden picked up red states...

Howie Klein
Jan 2, 20226 min read
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Trump Endorses Illinois QAnon Crackpot Mary Miller Over Mainstream GOP Incumbent Rodney Davis
Last month, we took a look at Mary Miller, the reactionary QAnon congresswoman from Illinois who everyone forgets about. Except Marjorie...

Howie Klein
Jan 1, 20223 min read
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What's Worse-- A Party That Opposes The Minimum Wage Or One That Doesn't Have The Will To Raise It?
How horrible are conservatives? This isn't about political parties-- just a barbaric and poisonous ideology. Notice the picture above;...

Howie Klein
Jan 1, 20227 min read
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What It Means To Be A Progressive Candidate For Congress-- Guest Post By Summer Lee (D-PA)
When I first began to organize around electoral politics, and then ultimately run myself-- I never consciously decided to do it all as a...

Howie Klein
Dec 30, 20217 min read
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Do You Want Congress To Re-Direct Funds Towards Domestic Priorities Instead Of War? Vote For That
Late at night on December 7, the House overwhelmingly passed the final version of the bloated Pentagon budget, piling on all kinds of...

Howie Klein
Dec 30, 20214 min read
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New Michigan Redistricting Has New Dem Haley Stevens Primarying Progressive Andy Levin
In 2017 I got a call from Haley Stevens, a young woman who was running to represent western and northern Detroit in Congress (MI-11), a...

Howie Klein
Dec 29, 20212 min read
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False Equivalencies Between A Fascist Right & A Non-Existent Hard Left Are Stupid & Dangerous
In her essay for The Atlantic this morning, The Left And The Right Believe The Worst About Each Other, Victoria Parker falls into...

Howie Klein
Dec 27, 20218 min read
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Blue America Leaving 2021 On An Up-Note, Endorsing Long Island Progressive Melanie D'Arrigo
I grew up in Nassau County and went to college in Suffolk County. The two make up the bulk of NY-03, the North Shore congressional...

Howie Klein
Dec 27, 20213 min read
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Trump Roiling South Carolina GOP Primaries
With the exception of a huge Democratic carve-out for Jim Clyburn, South Carolina in a predominantly red state. The state PVI is R+8 and...

Howie Klein
Dec 23, 20213 min read
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In New Jersey Redistricting A Bi-Partisan Panel Makes Sure Both Parties Get Their Beaks Wet
Right now New Jersey has 11 Democrats and 2 Republicans in Congress. After former Supreme Court Justice John Wallace acted as the...

Howie Klein
Dec 22, 20213 min read
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Voters Should Like The Democrats. Why Don't They?
I received an incredibly dishonest and intentionally misleading e-mail from Nancy Pelosi yesterday that began with "I'm in utter...

Howie Klein
Dec 22, 20216 min read
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We'll Wait 'Til Cristina Garcia Declares She's Running Before We Endorse Her, But...
Early this morning we looked at some changes in Congress and in the California congressional districts-- one of which was CA-40, one of...

Howie Klein
Dec 21, 20216 min read
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What's The Worst Thing About The Worst Candidate You Know?
Yesterday I drew a contrast between North Carolina progressive champion Erica Smith and the conservative Democrat who is opposing her for...

Howie Klein
Dec 19, 20215 min read
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An Obvious Choice in NC-02
If you haven’t heard by now, Erica Smith has transitioned from the U.S. Senate race in North Carolina to an open U.S. House seat in...

Howie Klein
Dec 18, 20214 min read
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Goodbye & Good Riddance, Devin Nunes-- Hello & Welcome, Lourin Hubbard!
Devin Nunes' Central Valley district went from R+6 to D+7 and Nunes ran for his life, landing a make-believe job with Trump's...

Howie Klein
Dec 12, 20214 min read
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Trump Isn't The Only One Roiling NC GOP Politics-- So Is Would Be Kingmaker Madison Cawthorn
If right-wing former congresswoman Renee Ellmers-- the first congresswoman to endorse Trump back in 2016-- thinks she's going to be...

Howie Klein
Dec 9, 20212 min read
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Trump: Still The Greater Evil
Congressional Democrats know they screwed it all up and that the public is going to punish them at the polls next year. How severely...

Howie Klein
Dec 9, 20214 min read
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Will Peter Meijer (R-MI) Be Another Example Of Trump Road Kill?
Peter Meijer (R-MI), heir to the Michigan supermarket chain that bears his name, is the freshman who won the Grand Rapids-based seat...

Howie Klein
Dec 7, 202110 min read
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