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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / April 19, 2018
Charting the Course for Progressive Power
Democracy Alliance President Gara LaMarche delivered these remarks at DA Spring Conference in Atlanta, GA, on April 16, 2018. Welcome to the DA’s Spring Investment Conference. We meet in Atlanta, a key city of the South, and will hear from both ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / February 1, 2018
The Reasons Why White Women Vote Republican—and What to Do About It
By Julie Kohler – Senior Vice President, Strategy & Planning, Democracy Alliance “What’s wrong with white women?” has become a common refrain in progressive political circles. Majorities of white women cast ballots for Donald ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / January 22, 2018
One Year In, Resistance Spreads from the Streets to the Ballot Box
With all we’ve been through, it seems like an administration measured in dog years, but in fact this weekend we’ve survived just one year of Donald Trump — at least those of us not yet deprived of health care, exposed to greater risk by a gutted ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / November 9, 2017
A Great Night for Progressives – Now Let’s Keep It Going
Tuesday night’s Election Day victories across the country were a referendum on Donald Trump, his enablers in Congress and state capitols, and their regressive and divisive policies. This sweeping repudiation at the polls demonstrates powerfully ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / November 9, 2017
Extremes All Around: Racism, Climate Change, and Recovery
In September, Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico, and the overt incompetence of the Trump Administration’s response has worsened the disaster into a dire humanitarian crisis. And now, nearly 50 days later, Puerto Ricans are struggling to ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / November 1, 2017
Election Hacking Strikes at the Heart of Democracy
Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee recently announced that they support the findings of the U.S. intelligence community — Russia attempted to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. elections by hacking ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / June 26, 2017
A DA Forum: How to Read the Special Elections, and What Next
There has been a range of reactions from progressives to the loss in the hard-fought special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional race—and to the outcomes in California, Montana, Kansas, and South Carolina as well. Because this has been a ...
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Progressive Movement News / June 21, 2017
The Youth Vote in the U.K. and Implications for America
What caused such an astounding youth turnout in Britain earlier this month, and what, if any, implications are there for the U.S.? There are many political uncertainties in America today but this we know for sure: if 70% of young Americans ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / June 5, 2017
With Trump’s Retreat on Climate Pact, Local Leaders and Civil Society are Leading
Last week, President Trump announced the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Accord, an historic international agreement that would hold the world’s nations accountable to reducing carbon pollution and averting the worst ...
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