CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA — Kevin de León is cool in that way your dad is cool, which is to say he’d be insanely cool for the United States Senate. This particular Sunday, he’s sporting bright white Adidas sneakers, which are somehow scuffless even after the morning’s Central American independence parade. He’s wearing jeans; he left his tie at home.
De León is running late, but the 40 or so people gathered at a Persian restaurant in Claremont, California, are unbothered. When he ...
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How ‘Medicare for All’ became a rallying cry in California’s most conservative districts
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA — “We have to make America mentshlekhkeyt again,” Rabbi Arnold Rachlisl declared with a grin at Sabbath service at University Synagogue in Irvine, California.
The rabbi was clearly proud of his joke. Mentshlekhkeyt means “humanity” or “human decency” in Yiddish, he explained to the crowd gathered at the synagogue.
Many in the congregation Friday evening had not been aware that the campaign event for Katie Porter would begin with a Shabbat ser...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s not-so-strong Medicare, economy myths
AP FACT CHECK: Trump spreads falsehoods on economic growth, trade, making Medicare and Social Security 'stronger' and ways to punish his critics, plus legal distortions from his Supreme Court nominee
Rahm Emanuel quits Chicago, but can the Democratic Party quit him?
On Tuesday, incumbent Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued a surprise announcement: He would not, as many expected, seek a third term as mayor of Chicago. The shock announcement prompted radically different reactions. Working-class locals largely rejoiced at the news. The local business press, on the other hand, wore their frowns so tight that they risked pulling a muscle.
But while Emanuel may be retreating from public service after almost three decades, it remains an open question as...
Hating Amazon is one thing the hard left and hard right agree on
For a brief moment on Sept. 4, Amazon was worth $1 trillion, the second US company ever to hit that mark (Apple was first). Earlier this summer, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos secured the title of world’s richest man, with a personal fortune that now stands at $167 billion, or 3.5 time...
Delaware primary offers Democratic voters two diverging green visions for the future
Democratic voters in Delaware heading to the polls on Thursday will face a choice that has become increasingly familiar this primary season: casting a vote for a long-secure incumbent, or opting for a surging challenge from the left.
On environmental issues, that decision could be especially fraught, with both of the state’s Senate candidates offering competing green visions for the future.
Sen. Tom Carper, a former governor, has held his seat since 2001 and typically s...
No immediate ruling in GOP’s latest ‘Obamacare’ lawsuit
A federal judge in Texas didn't immediately rule on the latest push by Republicans to end the Affordable Care Act
The Delaware Senate primary could be the biggest get for progressives this primary season
From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York to Andrew Gillum in Florida, it’s been a primary season marked by progressive upsets — and Thursday’s Senate primary in Delaware could bring one more.
The openly LGBTQ Harris, like Ocasio-Cortez and Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, who took down Rep. Mike Capuano (D-MA) in Massachusetts this week, is another younger woman of color aiming to topple an older white incumbent. She, too, has presented a full-throated progr...
Tuesday’s primaries were a mixed bag for Massachusetts progressives
More than 500,000 Massachusetts Democrats and unrolled voters participated in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries in a blue state where the primary is often much more competitive than the general election. While progressive activists score a couple of historic wins, some of the most conservative Bay State Democrats were able to hold off more liberal challengers.
The marquis victory came in the overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts 7th Congressional District, where progressive pri...
These 15 House incumbents scrubbed ‘repeal Obamacare’ from their re-election sites
With their party majority in extreme peril in November’s midterm elections, House Republicans are facing a dilemma. While they ran on a pledge to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, support for Obamacare now far exceeds support for the GOP-controlled Congress. Several incumbents have employed a bold strategy: hide the evidence of their position.
ThinkProgress examined the campaign websites of dozens of Republican incumbents in races deemed competitive by ...