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6 days ago

Expectations that prioritize privileged identities keep women and people of color from even running for office

Since Kamala Harris’s defeat to Donald Trump in 2024, Democrats have chased candidates wh…

12 days ago

The twisting road to the candidate’s exit left a lot to be desired. But ultimately, reporters ferreted out the truth

After the New York Times published an article in early June about the Senate candid…

14 days ago

The party faces a void in its bid to reclaim the Senate after missing warning signs about a flawed candidate

The former US Senate candidate’s spectacular fall has upended the Maine Senate race and left voters fuming at the party

Almost exactly one year ago, Graham Platner, who has no political experience, wa…

15 days ago

For progressives too, working-class heroes are bearded, buff white guys. Their treatment of women can be overlooked

Ana Marie Cox’s New Republic profile of the Maine oyster farmer and former Democrati…

To some of Platner’s most influential backers his swaggering, reckless, and casually brutish masculinity was understood not as a liability, but as a virtue

Graham Platner was accused of rape on Monday…

The populist Democrat nominee for Senate in Maine bowed to the inevitable but turned his farewell into a pity party

“Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty. Always remember, othe…

16 days ago

Platner’s former backers are seeking ‘real progressive’ to prevent nomination going to establishment Democrat

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Progressive groups and lawmakers who rallied behind Graha…

Democrats are scrambling to field a candidate as popular as Platner to clinch Maine in the midterms.

17 days ago

The meltdown in Maine’s Senate race risks the Democrats’ opportunity to turn Trump into a lame duck president.

Two years ago Democrats had one job: stop Donald Trump from returning to the White House.…

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