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In spite of the rising popularity of concepts such as the "Overton Window," the importance of grassroots organizing is still underestimated.

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Maddow Blog | The right should endorse Bidens IRS plan (but it wont) MSNBC 1 hr ago Steve Benen The first sign of trouble came two weeks ago, when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) started railing against President Joe Bidens IRS plan. Politicoreported yesterday that the Iowa Republican isnt alone. Add another obstacle to the growing list President Joe Biden faces in his negotiations over his massive spending plans: mounting opposition to one of the ways to pay for his proposal �...

The right should endorse Bidens IRS plan (but it wont) Bidens plan for the IRS is the kind of revenue-generating idea that conservatives should be comfortable with. Its just not working out that way. The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington on Sept. 28, 2020.Erin Scott / Reuters file May 25, 2021, 1:20 PM UTC BySteve Benen The first sign of trouble came two weeks ago, when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) started railing against President Joe Bidens IRS plan. Politicoreported yesterday ...

Democrats need a plan to beat back the Big Lie at the ballot box: Trumps loss boosts GOP engagement Salon 1 hr ago © Provided by Salon Trump Supporters; MAGA hats Supporters listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Kenosha Regional Airport on November 02, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Trump, who won Wisconsin with less than 1 percent of the vote in 2016, currently trails former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the stat...

In the US, the hostilities have revealed signs of change. Unequivocal bipartisan support for Israel, come hell or high water, is being questioned. US President Joe Biden has been taken to task by progressive Democrats. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, whose grandmother is in Gaza, made an impassioned plea to Biden during a brief meeting. The times, they are a-changing. There was a time when the US media—and popular opinion—refused to even acknowledge the existence of Palestinian nationhood. Isr...

The narrative in which Republicans are doomed by demography and their addiction to Trumpism misses the polarized dynamics in which they never pay a price for extremism, cannot fall far, and have an excellent chance to win in 2022 and 2024.

As the country reopens and the economy is recovering in the wake of a historic pandemic, Fox’s purported “straight news” personalities are jumping on reports of inflation, attempting to advance a series of talking points to depict a chronic economic disaster — a conclusion that is far too soon to draw as experts largely believe the effect is a temporary step in the recovery itself. Eric Levitz of New York magazine explained that most of the price increases came from “either from reop...

The Democrats’ Majority Is Hanging By a Thread. They Don’t Seem to Care. (maybe good news?) Posted on On Wednesday, after a speech that saw House Republicans quit the chamber in protest and a closed-door vote, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, a vociferous critic of the claim that President Biden stole November’s election, was removed from her post as Republican conference chair. We needn’t have sympathy for her or ignore her role in building the political climate she now decries to understand...