“Turnout” and “persuasion” have become ideologically coded as “progressive” and “moderate,” respectively—but that’s not how people decide who to vote for, or whether to vote at all.

Democrats should be much more ambitious about how many races are put in play when it could be a wave year. In 2006, Rahm Emanuel arguably cost Democrats seats by discouraging investment in a number of winnable races—including one candidate in Minnesota by the name of Tim Walz.

Discourse has been captured by a group of analysts and strategists who have lost sight of how you actually win elections and make big gains—as if the only thing that matters in football is extra points and field goals, not touchdowns.

My big takeaway from last week's election, as I told @perrybaconjr.bsky.social , is that this should be an accountability election not just for MAGA, but for the commentariat that keeps telling us the wrong thing about what’s going on in America.
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Almost no one talks about democracy in the workplace, which is absurd given that we spend a third of our lives there.

Unions give us that. @ositanwanevu.com

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Democracy isn’t something that was created in 1787 that we occasionally dust off and maintain. It’s an ongoing project.

We can be depressed at how undemocratic our system is now—or we can be galvanized to be part of a generational project to remake it based on OUR values. @ositanwanevu.com

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." -Gramsci

We have to be part of the birth of a new, better America. And the same leaders who got us here won't be the ones who get us out.

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