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Alice Gallin-Dwyer

Alice Gallin-Dwyer

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Deputy Director, Washington Monthly; non-profit executive, advocate, proud mom of three young adults.

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Ian Masters @ianmastersmedia.bsky.social · 8h

We are joined by @glastris.bsky.social to discuss how Democrats can win back voters by creating their own response to Project 2025. We discuss this new series at The Washington Monthly, including his article, “How the Democrats Can Play Offense” soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

Trump Has Project 2025 But the Democrats Have No Plan and They Need to Go On the Offensive With One

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 1d

And a group of writers lays out a post-Trump industrial policy for America that incorporates positive aspects of the administration’s approach while rejecting what’s insane:

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Zach Marcus makes the case that instead of fighting MAGA in today’s poisonous digital political ecosystem, Democrats should challenge that environment as the root cause of our dysfunctional politics, and vow to be the party that cleans it up.

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Draining the Online Swamp

Instead of chasing MAGA-style virality, Democrats should lead the fight to reform the toxic online world politics now depends on.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 1d

Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown argue that by exacerbating the suffering of rural Americans with tariffs and health care cuts, Trump is creating the same conditions that allowed FDR and Barack Obama to win substantial numbers of rural votes.

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Democrats lost rural America—but with real investment and local rebuilding, they could start to win it back.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 1d

Phil Longman and Gillen Tener Martin (@gillenmartin.bsky.social) offer a creative plan to save Social Security that avoids raising taxes on average Americans, boosts benefits to retirees who need it, and promotes a healthier and more productive America.

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How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections

Republican tax cuts and immigration crackdowns have deepened Social Security’s crisis. How to fix it without punishing working Americans.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 1d

Polls show Democrats are about as unpopular as Republicans. That’s not a messaging issue, it’s policy. Both parties oversaw a system that left the bottom 60% sliding downward. Trump rose by promising to fix it. Democrats can win only by truly doing so: bit.ly/3JcXdDu

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 3d

Defending social security is about more than just opposing cuts. As policy director Phil Longman explains in his latest piece for the @washingtonmonthly.com, there are a suite of reforms Democrats could embrace to stabilize the program while expanding benefits. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/31/h...

How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections

Republican tax cuts and immigration crackdowns have deepened Social Security’s crisis. How to fix it without punishing working Americans.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 3d

How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections
The trust fund can be rescued from insolvency without unpopular taxes on workers, and with significant benefit to economic productivity and the security of the middle class. Here's how.

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How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections

Republican tax cuts and immigration crackdowns have deepened Social Security’s crisis. How to fix it without punishing working Americans.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 3d

The Trump Administration Weaponizes Food...

Senate Majority Leader Thune is trying to blame the Democrats for the termination of food assistance, but it’s Trump and his USDA’s fault for shutting down the program.

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SNAP Cuts: The Trump Administration Weaponizes Food

Republicans are blaming Democrats for SNAP food assistance ending, but blame lies with President Trump and Agriculture Secretary Rollins

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Nate Weisberg @nateweisberg.bsky.social · 6d

The profile of Democrats who can win in Red and Purple states isn’t simply “moderate.” They’re economic populists who speak to people’s kitchen-table concerns.

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The Rise of the Populist Moderates

Pundits call them centrists. In reality, Democrats like Pat Ryan and Ruben Gallego are populists taking on corporate power—and winning.

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Paul Glastris @glastris.bsky.social · 6d

The new Trump policy of sinking suspected drug boats (rather than boarding them and arresting the traffickers) is illegal, risky, a cover for abandoning allies, and destined to fail in stopping the flow of narcotics. See this @washingtonmonthly.com Q&A. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/27/t...

Sinking Boats Off Venezuela, Colombia. What Could Go Wrong?

U.S. forces are sinking drug boats off Venezuela and Colombia. A defense expert warns Trump’s new strikes won’t even stop the drug trade.

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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 5d

Nearly 1 in 6 Americans lives in a "distressed community," and the gap between distressed and prosperous communities is growing.

I talked to @kenanfikri.bsky.social at EIG about the geography of distress for @washingtonmonthly.com

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How Regional Inequality Explains Our Polarized Politics

Nearly 1 in 6 Americans lives in a “distressed” community. Where they live and what they experience could explain a lot about our politics.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 5d

For once, the opposition party has the upper hand in a shutdown showdown. The new statement from the American Federation of Government Employees doesn’t change that.

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Democrats Have Every Reason to Dig in Their Heels

Democrats have something the opposition party in a shutdown showdown has never had: the upper hand. Why give it up now?

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 5d

The nation’s largest nutrition education program helped millions of low-income Americans make healthier food choices. So naturally, Trump and Republicans defunded it:

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SNAP-Ed’s Demise Exposes MAHA’s Hypocrisy

Despite the Trump administration's MAHA rhetoric, Republicans defunded America's largest nutrition education program: SNAP-Ed.

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Scholars Strategy Network-Maine @mainessn.bsky.social · 5d

Maine SSN chapter member Amy Fried (@asfried.bsky.social) and Luisa S. Deprez discuss the upcoming Senate vote in Maine, as well as the intricacies surrounding the candidates in a Washington Monthly article. (@washingtonmonthly.com)

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Campaign 2026: As Maine Goes…

Tattooed Graham Platner and a challenger to Jared Golden are roiling their races. How Maine’s political tradition shapes these contests.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 4d

While the root causes of modern authoritarianism have been hotly debated, studies increasingly point to income inequality as the prime culprit.

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Tyranny Is Downstream From the Economy

While the causes of modern authoritarianism have been hotly debated, studies increasingly point to income inequality as the prime culprit.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 4d

During the Trump years, the Navy helicopter pilot soared. Next stop, Trenton?

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Mikie Sherrill Braces for Landing in New Jersey Governor’s Race

The Navy helicopter pilot turned congresswoman has the edge in a volatile contest. But in Jersey, even the best pilots can hit turbulence.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 4d

Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? Cory Doctorow has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.”

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The Cory Doctorow Doctrine

Cory Doctorow’s "Enshittification" explains why Tech platforms like Google and Amazon rot over time—squeezing users, businesses, and workers.

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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 7d

Trump has done what the British did to Washington in 1814, has depicted himself doing what Japan in 1941 did to Pearl Harbor, and has demanded we pay him wartime reparations.

He is at war with the United States—with all of us.

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Trump is a Wartime President

Donald Trump, the wartime president, has met the enemy, and it is us. His conquest of America has just begun.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 7d

A Q&A on the unstated aims and unacknowledged risks of Trump’s air strikes –– @glastris.bsky.social

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Sinking Boats Off Venezuela, Colombia. What Could Go Wrong?

U.S. forces are sinking drug boats off Venezuela and Colombia. A defense expert warns Trump’s new strikes won’t even stop the drug trade.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 7d

Of the 28 prior applications from Trump’s administration that landed on its shadow docket, Trump v. Illinois is the most important. While supposedly temporary, it could establish the rules for deploying National Guard troops to enforce the law anywhere.

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Supreme Court Set to Rule on National Guard Troops in Chicago

It could give President Trump permission to send the National Guard nationwide to support federal law enforcement.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 7d

The president has met the enemy, and they are us.

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Trump is a Wartime President

Donald Trump, the wartime president, has met the enemy, and it is us. His conquest of America has just begun.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 6d

Democrats like Ruben Gallego and Pat Ryan aren’t old-fashioned centrists. They’re economic rabblerousers, and they are showing their party how to win again.

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The Rise of the Populist Moderates

Pundits call them centrists. In reality, Democrats like Pat Ryan and Ruben Gallego are populists taking on corporate power—and winning.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 6d

Nick Thompson, a former Washington Monthly editor, was an above-average runner who suddenly, in middle age, started breaking world records—a mysterious success inspired by a complicated relationship with his father.

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Hitting His Stride

Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, has written a memoir that links his midlife running triumphs to his complicated bond with his father.

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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 8d

In this week's roundup for @washingtonmonthly.com, Laura Gillam and I talk about the loss of Solar for All and other promising clean energy investments rescinded by the Trump administration.

One result: fewer jobs and higher energy prices.

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Why China will own America's clean energy future

Trump's shortsighted embrace of fossil fuels will mean fewer US jobs and higher energy prices

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