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No Left On Red
Lessons from the loss in Tennessee
Dec 3
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Liam Kerr
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The Golden Zone
Model & motivator
Dec 2
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Liam Kerr
19
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November 2025
Congressional Competition Index Q3: The Ever-Changing House Battlefield
Republicans tried to shrink the battlefield with aggressive gerrymandering, but the 2025 elections suggest these gerrymanders might not hold up
Nov 20
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Dan Conway
10
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Voters are not fools
Issue positioning isn’t everything, but it’s not nothing either
Nov 17
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Milan Singh
15
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How Democrats Lost Black and Hispanic Voters
Dems’ problem isn’t in turning out the base — it’s keeping voters of color in the base.
Nov 15
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Lauren Harper Pope
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New Kind of Old-Fashioned Democrat
Learning from a winner
Nov 11
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Liam Kerr
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The Real Lessons From Last Night
Look to Virginia and New Jersey for lessons about the midterms.
Nov 5
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Dan Conway
17
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Responding to the Mamdani Shift
Three lessons, two myths, one warning - and join the office pool!
Nov 3
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Liam Kerr
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October 2025
Deciding to Back Winners
Ben McAdams: Recruiting the Calm to Beat the Storm
Oct 31
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Liam Kerr
22
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DECIDING TO WIN: How We Got Here
An analysis of the Democratic Party platforms from 2012 to 2024 gives us clues to the current Democratic Party struggles
Oct 28
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Lauren Harper Pope
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Introducing DECIDING TO WIN
Postmortem with a plan
Oct 27
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Liam Kerr
32
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Essential Reading in The New York Times
To beat authoritarianism, you need to win elections. Centrists do it best.
Oct 20
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Lauren Harper Pope
32
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