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Trump’s Canceling Democracy; The Left Needs A Different, Smarter Playbook
Primaries Are Far More Important Than Most Voters Understand The 2026 midterms are already underway— and if you blink, you might miss...

Howie Klein
Aug 84 min read
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Trump Promised Latino Voters Prosperity And Respect—Then Sent High Prices And ICE Instead
The Backlash & Anti-Red Wave Begins In The Rio Grande Valley Basically, all of the congressional districts in the country with big...

Howie Klein
Jul 96 min read
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Will The 2026 Blue Wave Be Big Enough To Reach South Carolina... Tuesday's Special Election Says Yes
Nancy Mace's & Lindsey Graham's Careers Could Well Capsize There was a special election Tuesday in a rural South Carolina State House...

Howie Klein
Jun 53 min read
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Next Year's Midterms Will Bring Undeserved— And Temporary— Good News For Congressional Democrats
Tragically, There Are No Blue Waves— Just Anti-Red Waves Luckily, not as bad as Trump And MAGA Mike The reputational damage to the...

Howie Klein
May 268 min read
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Sure, Trump Lost The Plot— But The Democrats Sure Appear To Be Losing The Moment
Echoes In The Vacuum— The Opposition That Forgot To Oppose As hard as it is to believe— it’s easier to believe Musk used Starlink or...

Howie Klein
May 144 min read
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Building The 2026 Big Blue Wave— Trump, Vought And Musk Are The Chief Architects, Not The DCCC
One of the big dynamics happening in electoral politics right now isn’t some strange new paradox— it’s the same failed routine the...

Howie Klein
Apr 289 min read
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Thanks To Trump, Iowa Appears To Be On The Verge Of A Major Red To Blue Flip
In 2024, Iowa continued to be a dead zone for Democrats. Trump beat Kamala 927,019 (56.0%) to 707,278 (42.7%). Both houses of the state...

Howie Klein
Apr 265 min read
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Let's Not Mix Trump Up With The U.S.A.— And Let's Hope No One Overseas Does Either
A Blue Wave Is Forming— A Big One At a small dinner party the other night, one of the guests, an old friend, stated that she never...

Howie Klein
Apr 265 min read
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The Most Important Primaries Are The Ones That Will Yield The Most Consequential Members Of Congress
Not More Garden Variety Backbenchers AOC and Saikat Imagine for a moment that Saikat Chakrabarti somehow beats Nancy Pelosi and becomes...

Howie Klein
Apr 194 min read
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DCCC Announced Its Target List For 2026— They Should Put More Energy Into Recruiting Good Candidates
Today's List Is Conservative And Unimaginative But, For Them, OK They're gone... but the DCCC is determined to find plenty just like them...

Howie Klein
Apr 82 min read
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Report From The 2024 Blue Wave
Plus... A Killer New Stevie Nicks Song The people who see a blue wave forming, mostly keep it to themselves. It’s embarrassing when you...

Howie Klein
Sep 28, 20244 min read
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Is Iowa On The Verge Of Flipping Blue— Or At Least Purple— Again?
The DCCC Thinks Dems Could Win Back 2 House Seats There In 2016 Iowa gave Trump a thumping 10 point win over Hillary. He won all but 6...

Howie Klein
Sep 21, 20243 min read
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I Expect A Blue Wave Election DESPITE Poor Congressional Candidate Quality
A few days ago, Jonathan Chait wrote that Kamala should cut Biden loose and go her own way. I think she’s playing it the way she has to...

Howie Klein
Sep 19, 20246 min read
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Will November Bring A Nice Blue Wave— Or Will Execrable Candidate Quality Keep The House Red?
About a week since Trump lost the debate, Kamala is— according to YouGov— 5 points ahead of him, 50% to 45%, up from 47% to 46% in late...

Howie Klein
Sep 17, 20248 min read
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It's Strange That None Of The Congressional Handicappers Factor In Candidate Quality
2024 Is A Very Bad Year For Candidate Quality First some horserace stats: Nate Silver’s latest polling average shows Kamala ahead 49.2%...

Howie Klein
Sep 4, 20244 min read
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She’s Talking About The Number One Issue That’s Facing The Country & He's Talking About Crowd Size
Drug Prices Are Finally Coming Down— Bigly On Wednesday, GOP pollster Frank Luntz— no friend Trump’s— was a guest on CNBC’s Squawk Box ,...

Howie Klein
Aug 15, 20244 min read
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Flipping The House Red To Blue— A Focus On California And Wisconsin. Is It Even Worth The Effort?
Blue Wave Headed This Way? Yesterday, James Rainey reported something that isn’t exactly earth shattering: Kamala and Tim are building a...

Howie Klein
Aug 15, 20245 min read
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Blue Wave, Anyone? Have Americans Finally Snapped Out Of It?
Will Kamala And Tim Have Strong Enough Coattails? The 2020 lesser of two evils election wasn’t that close. Biden— an extraordinarily bad...

Howie Klein
Aug 12, 20247 min read
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The House In A Total Mess— And Neither Craven Party Has What It Takes To Bring It Back To Health
The Lesser Evil Party Will Likely Win In November Blue America has an ActBlue page dedicated to flipping the House. There are no Blue...

Howie Klein
Apr 8, 202410 min read
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Dare We Expect A Blue Wave? Or Will Our Countrymen Surrender To The Allure Of Authoritarianism?
Like It Or Not, Our Fates Are Bound Together Not many people are talking about a blue wave. But earlier we noted that political...

Howie Klein
Feb 8, 20246 min read
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