Ahead of Michigan’s Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, progressive advocacy organization Our Revolution completed approximately 270,000 voter contacts in support of candidate Abdul El-Sayed. The organization simultaneously condemned what it characterized as racially charged attacks from rival candidate U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens.
Zohran Mamdani was inaugurated as Mayor of New York City in a freezing ceremony, surrounded by tens of thousands of New Yorkers, with speeches from prominent figures such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, and a commitment from Mamdani to govern as a democratic socialist.
Abundance, a book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, argues that many of America’s most damaging crises are the result of deliberate choices that constrain supply, slow delivery and fragment authority, and that to have the future we want, we need to build and invent more of what we need.
Democrats are embracing an abundance agenda, which focuses on building more housing, transit, and clean energy, but critics warn that it risks enabling corporate capture and exacerbating inequality if not paired with mechanisms to ensure affordability, equity, and democratic accountability.
By The Vanguard Staff OAKLAND, CA – Progressive, community-led Oakland Rising Action applauded a successful election season…