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After her victory in the Los Angeles mayoral election last week, the 69-year-old Bass, a decades-long fixture of the Democratic party both at the regional and national level, has been glorified as a “transformational” figure, merely because she is a black woman and regardless of her policies.

Hakeem Jeffries has a reputation for antagonizing progressives. But without their support, he won’t get far.

This isn’t the time for Republican ultraconservatives and Democratic progressives to blinker themselves to the plight of Ukrainians for the sake of political point-scoring.

A Republican congressman has threatened to remove Democrat Ilhan Omar from the congressional committee for foreign affairs because of her criticism of the occupation state of Israel. The Progressive C...

Willie Wilson, Ja’Mal Green, state Rep. Kam Buckner, Paul Vallas, Brandon Johnson and Ald. Sophia King (4th Ward) all filed to run for mayor of Chicago.

The New School in New York City has delivered an ultimatum to 1,600 striking academic workers, offering a contract that will lower wages and fail to meet basic demands of the strikers.

A wide-ranging and still-growing field of challengers are seeking to deny incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot a second term in February 2023. 

-- new york times already many progressive -- what do you make of him stepping into this leadership role. and do you plan to endorse hakeem jeffries in this position? >> [inaudible] i formally chair the progressive caucus with former congresswoman nancy pelosi. and i can tell you one thing. we have a very diverse caucus first of all. not everyone, we have the largest caucus in history and in congress, the progressive caucus. as our minority leader, im confident that hakeem is going to bring ever...

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Republican Brian Echevarria says a commercial against him was racist. It may have helped the Democratic candidate win a Cabarrus County House seat, helping the Democrats block a Republican supermajority in the General Assembly.