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Shailene Woodley Eyes Future Run For Congress Inspired By Bernie Sanders

The 25-year-old actress, who earned an Emmy nomination for her role in the critically acclaimed HBO series, has also made it her mission to champion a bevy of progressive causes off screen, and has even considered running for political office.
“There was a point last year when I was working for Bernie Sanders where I thought, ‘Huh, maybe I’ll run for Congress in a couple years,’” Woodley told The New York Times. “And you know what? I’m not going to rule it out. Who knows? Life is big, and I’m young.”
Woodley has been most actively engaged in speaking out against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and stood in solidarity with Native American communities at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. In October, the actress and 26 others were arrested for criminal trespassing while protesting the pipeline in Sioux County, North Dakota. Woodley documented her arrest in a Facebook Live video and uploaded a slew of testimonials from the ground.
The actress found a kindred spirit in Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who she actively campaigned for during the primaries of the 2016 election.

LoneStarMike (miss ya!)… remember how much they used to make fun of you at TOP for keeping up with these kinds of numbers?!

You’d Be Rich If You Could Leverage Facebook Like Bernie Sanders

He has earned seven million likes and millions of video views, all without a single kitten or puppy onscreen.

50,000 Working People Are Petitioning Bernie Sanders To A Town Hall Meeting

Last week, we sent the following invitation to Bernie and his staff and offered to accommodate his schedule. We are waiting for his reply.

Hi Senator,

On behalf of the many thousands of working people who have been inspired by our movement to Draft Bernie for a People’s Party, Dr. Cornel West and I would like to invite you to join us for a town hall on Sept. 9th at American University.

Over the past six months, I’ve had the privilege of working with thousands of your most dedicated and talented supporters and volunteers. Working people of all ages, colors, and genders who led their communities in the campaign to elect you president. These are the grassroots leaders who hosted canvasses, phone banked into every state, made social media an organizing hub, and greeted you at clutches. They gave you countless hours and funds that they often could not spare.

Your campaign gave them a common vision and purpose. Now they are united once more in their conviction that our nation needs a new genuinely-progressive party, and that you can create it for us and generations to come. Together, they are extending thousands of hands in invitation to the town hall, a conversation about our shared future as a country.

At the town hall we will discuss one of the greatest questions facing our movement: should we continue our efforts to reform the Democratic Party, or should we launch the new party that the large majority of Americans are calling for?

Please join us for…

The Draft Bernie Town Hall

Saturday, September 9 • 8:00-9:30 pm

American University • Washington College of Law

Washington D.C.

Loser! In 2020 Trump vs. Sanders Match-Up, Bernie Beats Donald Bigly

Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork for a second bid for the White House, but a new survey shows the deeply unpopular president losing big time in hypothetical match-ups against a number of other potential 2020 presidential hopefuls.

Against former Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Trump loses by a 13-point margin—51 percent to 38 percent—Public Policy Polling (PPP) found. Trump would also suffer a double digit loss against former Vice President Joe Biden, trailing the Democrat 39 to 51 percent.

He’d also lose against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (45 percent to 40 percent) and Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban (42 percent to 38 percent). Against Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), he’d come out losing again 42 percent to 39 percent).

Another finding from the new poll: a plurality of voters support impeaching Trump—48 percent say he should be impeached compared to 41 percent who oppose it. PPP notes that it’s the fourth month in a row a plurality of survey respondents voiced support for his impeachment.

Worcester voters get first look at District 1 council candidates

Voters in District 1 Wednesday had their first chance to evaluate differences among the four candidates who will face off in a preliminary election in September in a quest to replace outgoing Councilor Tony Economou.

The District 1 race – one of only two in this year’s municipal election to generate enough candidates for a preliminary – will feature William S. Coleman III, Community Development Advisory Committee Chairman Edward L. Moynihan, social justice advocate Sean Rose and lawyer Gerardo Schiano.

In the Sept. 12 preliminary election, voters will whittle the field to two candidates who will square off in the Nov. 7 general election. Wednesday night, the candidates sought to distinguish themselves at a forum hosted by Greater Worcester Our Revolution, a local chapter of a national group that aims to continue pushing progressive policies espoused by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont during the 2016 presidential election.

During a wide-ranging and friendly discussion in front of about 50 people, candidates agreed largely on priorities – schools and public safety being most often cited – and staked out positions on a variety of issues facing the city.

Harvard Study Confirms: #ExxonKnew and Misled Public About Climate Threat for Decades

A peer-reviewed study published on Wednesday confirmed “a discrepancy between what ExxonMobil’s scientists and executives discussed about climate change privately and in academic circles, and what it presented to the general public.”

“ExxonMobil contributed quietly to the science and loudly to raising doubts about it,” wrote Harvard researchers Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes in their study, published in the scientific journal Environmental Research Letters.

“Even while ExxonMobil scientists were contributing to climate science and writing reports that explained it to their bosses, the company was paying for advertisements that told a very different tale,” they concluded in a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday.

“Exxon has officially run out of excuses,” said Greenpeace USA climate liability campaigner Naomi Ages. “This peer-reviewed study from Harvard is just the latest piece of evidence indicating that the largest oil company in the world knew about the risks of climate change, but concealed them from the public and shareholders.”

Birmingham Mayoral Race: Woodfin and Bell gear up for runoff

The Birmingham Business Alliance says young professionals are Birmingham’s fastest growing demographic, that’s defined as millennials with a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Research from the BBA shows that particular population grew by more than 56 percent in the city since 2010.

Candidates were aware of that change as they campaigned.

Woodfin says he sought to reach voters of all ages and races. He says he’s still looking at numbers to see what role the change in demographics played.

“I hope the numbers I do see reveal we were able to bring out younger voters who are excited to come,” said Woodfin.

Wednesday, marks the first day of his runoff campaign.

“What’s your game plan now?” asked ABC 33/40,

“Oh, that’s simple,” replied Woodfin. “To take what we’ve done over the last year and do it in six weeks,”

Populist Challenger Stuns In Birmingham Mayoral Election, Will Go To Runoff

The South is not a place known for its radical politics.

Statewide, the region is dominated by right-wing Republicans. The Democratic Party is cordoned off in urban centers, but mayors typically avoid populist policy and tend to have a cozy relationship with the ruling GOP governors (just ask Atlanta’s Kasim Reed).

But over the past year, a new generation of populists has taken aim at these city centers, seeking to oust a Democratic establishment that has grown moribund, in favor of a radical politics that favors greater redistribution of power from elites to the common person.

In Jackson, Mississippi, this took the form of the election of Chokwe Antar Lumumba Jr. as mayor. His father was elected mayor in 2014 but tragically passed away. His son has vowed to carry on his legacy and make Jackson “the most radical city on the planet” — implementing forms of community control over government that are unheard of not only in the South, but in most municipalities anywhere in the country.

Tuesday night, the second domino came close to falling in Birmingham’s mayoral race. It was supposed to be an easy reelection for Birmingham mayor William Bell, a fixture of the state’s Democratic Party establishment who had been in office since 2010. In an Aug. 1 poll taken by a local news station, Bell held a wide lead, winning support from 54 percent of respondents with 57 percent saying Bell was doing an “excellent” or “good” job.

But Randall Woodfin, a 36-year-old former board of education president who ran an insurgent campaign promising, among other things, free community college for graduates of the city’s high schools, stunned observers by actually getting more votes than Bell on Election Day. Woodfin took 41 percent of the vote to Bell’s 37. That Aug. 1 poll had Woodfin at just 14 percent. Woodfin and Bell will both advance to a runoff on Oct. 3.

Single-Payer Fight Fuels Primary Challengers Against Establishment Democrats

It has been just over a year since the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee held a vote over whether the party should endorse a single-payer, Medicare for All health care system. The committee predictably declined to put it in the platform by a 7-6 vote. The seven no votes came from delegates chosen by Hillary Clinton, whose campaign was awash in money from the for-profit health system.

Following the vote, an exasperated Michael Lightly, public policy director of National Nurses United, made an important point: “If this [policy] is controversial in this room, it is the only room of Democrats in which it is controversial.”

Indeed, the Democratic Party’s institutional opposition to Medicare for All contrasts mightily with the will of Democratic voters. According to recent polls, nearly 80 percent of Democrats and 60 percent of the public support expanding Medicare to cover everyone — the very policy the single-payer movement has been pushing for decades.

Yet, much of the party remains an obstacle, rather than a vehicle, to this important reform. Prominent leaders such as Clinton, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and DNC chair Tom Perez have been hesitant at best and hostile at worst toward the policy.

So now, buoyed by momentum from the Bernie Sanders campaign and the opposition to the GOP assault on the health care, voters, organizations and candidates are sending a clear message: The failure of Democrats to support Medicare for All is morally indefensible. Those who don’t support this basic human right, organizers tell Truthout, should not be holding elected office.

‘The new Obama’: Abdul El-Sayed – America’s first Muslim governor?

The 32-year-old charismatic Muslim doctor is running for governor of Michigan and in the process trying to change US politics

Mayor, Police Chief Address Poverty-Crime Connection, Solutions Going Forward

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and Jackson Police Department Chief Lee Vance are working to increase the number of JPD police officers as well as implementing additional solutions to crime in the capital city. Lumumba and Vance held a press conference on Tuesday, Aug. 22, following multiple homicides in the past two weeks.

Lumumba, whose own brother was a victim of gun violence in 1992, said his administration is firmly committed against violence in the city, saying addressing the issue of violence is not limited to increasing police involvement.

“We are looking at holistic solutions to crime, understanding … that it’s not just the issue of policing,” Lumumba told reporters at city hall on Tuesday.

“Crime is not unique to Jackson; crime is not unique to majority-black populations. Wherever you find high poverty, you find high crime. So it’s about making certain that we properly give all of the tools and recourses to the police department to do their jobs, but it’s also about how we create opportunities within our city so that individuals are led away from those conditions which lead to it (crime).”

The mayor said his budget addresses the critical shortage of officers in JPD currently, by increasing funding for recruiting a new class of police officers. JPD now has 373 officers, although the department is budgeted for 419 officers, Vance said. Lumumba said his proposed budget will enable JPD to up their recruitment efforts.

The police chief echoed Lumumba, saying the solutions to violent crime are not limited to law enforcement.

SC Democrat Films TV Ad During Eclipse

A Democratic congressional candidate in South Carolina filmed a television commercial during the solar eclipse that moved across the United States on Monday.

Joe Cunningham – who is running for the Palmetto State’s first congressional district (map) – filmed the forty-five second spot at Cherry Grove boat landing in Rockville, S.C. as the Lowcountry fell under the eclipse’s “path of totality.”

Entitled “Darkness,” the ad was an attack on U.S. president Donald Trump – who won the reliably “Republican” first district with only 53 percent of the vote last fall.

“In an eclipse, light turns to darkness … but all we have to do is wait – and soon the light will be back,” Cunningham says in the spot. “When darkness falls on our democracy, though, we can’t wait it out.”

“Donald Trump is that darkness,” Cunningham continued. “Hate, divisiveness, everything Americas’ always stood against, he’s standing for. That’s why I’m running for Congress and why you need to use your voice too.”

Pruitt Appears in Big Beef Video Urging Farmers to Kill Clean Water Rule

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt appears in a video sponsored by the beef industry calling on farmers and ranchers to file official comments on a proposal to withdraw and rewrite the Obama-era “Waters of the United States” rule (or WOTUS) before the Aug. 28 deadline.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) video was produced by the beef lobbying organization’s policy division, Beltway Beef and was released last week. Notably, NCBA spent $117,375 in lobbying last year.

“When comments are made a part of a record—as rule-making—we have an obligation to review them,” Pruitt says. “It helps inform our decision-making process; it helps us make better decisions. And so we want farmers and ranchers across this country to provide comments.”

The video, filmed in Colorado during Pruitt’s cross-country State Action Tour, directs viewers to a BeefUSA.org link to submit comments on the proposed repeal. The site includes sample text to submit to the Federal Register.

“We’re trying to fix the challenges from the 2015 rule,” Pruitt says in the NCBA clip, “where the Obama Administration re-imagined their authority under the Clean Water Act and defined a Water of the United States as being a puddle, a dry creek bed, and ephemeral drainage ditches across this country, which created great uncertainty … and we are fixing that, and then we’re hearing from stakeholders about how to get it right as we go forward.”

Here’s How 139 Countries Can Convert to 100% Renewable Energy by 2050

Two years ago, Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson and his collaborators published a widely circulated study that detailed how the U.S. can eliminate nuclear, biofuels and fossil fuels and transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050.

Now, in a paper published Wednesday in the new scientific journal Joule, Jacobson and 26 co-authors created clean energy roadmaps not just for the 50 United States, but for 139 individual countries.

“These roadmaps provide the first specific plans ever produced by country for the world to avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming,” said Jacobson, the director of Stanford’s Atmosphere and Energy Program and co-founder of the Solutions Project, a U.S. non-profit advocating for the world’s transition to renewable energy.

According to the study, successful implementation of the plan would mean that solar would provide 57.6 percent of the world’s energy, 37.1 percent from wind and the remainder would come from a mix of hydroelectric, geothermal, tidal and wave energy.

‘Climate Change’ Removed From National Institutes of Health Website

The effects of climate change is inextricably linked to human health. The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that traps heat in the atmosphere, causing global temperatures to spike, air quality to worsen, all while fueling droughts, floods and storms that impact food and water security.

Climate change is making us sick in many ways, but it appears that the Trump administration trying to downplay this fact.

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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has “altered climate change language, updated climate change references, and reduced access to a Web resource with information on climate change and human health across several webpages,” according to a new report from the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), which monitors changes to federal agency websites.

The NIEHS studies the effects of the environment on human health and is one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health. EDGI told reporters this is the first time an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services has made climate-related changes to its online resources.

Changes to the NIEHS website are subtle but telling. For instance, the watchdog group noticed the Global Environmental Health pages has changed the term “climate change” to simply “climate” on side menus and page titles. These changes occurred in late July.

The ‘Trump slump’: gun sales decline as fears of tighter controls fade

Barack Obama was called the ‘best gun salesman on the planet’. But with Trump in the White House, gun companies’ sales are down, and profits are falling

Judge gives Atlantic Sunrise pipeline builder immediate possession of last 5 holdout properties

federal judge Wednesday gave the builder of the Atlantic Sunrise gas pipeline immediate possession of five remaining properties in Lancaster County, including a right of way through land owned by a Catholic order of nuns near Columbia.

Judge Jeffrey Schmehl granted the Transcontinental Pipe Line Company’s motion to condemn the rights of way on five properties and gave it immediate possession of the land.

A spokesman for Williams Partners, owner of Transco, said that the Adorers of the Blood of Christ would not be required to immediately remove a chapel that the the nuns had allowed to be built in a corn field in the right of way as a symbol of protest.

But the chapel “will eventually have to be relocated prior to pipeline construction,” said spokesman Chris Stockton.

The chapel in West Hempfield Township and the nuns’ opposition to the pipeline on religious grounds has attracted international media coverage.

“Oh my. I am very disappointed,” said Sister Bernice Klostermann, when informed of the decision Wednesday evening. “I can’t say anything now because I’m just in shock.”

Virginia pipeline foes eye federal ruling that upholds N.Y. water quality permit denial

On Tuesday, David Sligh, conservation director of Wild Virginia and an investigator for the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition, said the court’s decision contradicts repeated assertions by Gov. Terry McAuliffe that Virginia has little say over the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast projects because the pipeline companies must apply to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for environmental review and approval.

“We have known and argued to Virginia officials for over two years that they had all the authority they needed to demand necessary information and deny certification unless compliance with water quality standards is assured,” Sligh said. “We were right and the governor was wrong for those many months when he claimed his administration could not affect the fates of these hugely destructive pipelines.”

Sligh suggested the 30-inch diameter Constitution pipeline presented fewer environmental risks than either the Atlantic Coast or Mountain Valley pipelines, which each would be 42 inches in diameter.

“We ask Governor McAuliffe again, ‘Do Virginians deserve less protection than New Yorkers?’ ” he said.

Federal ruling seen as ‘victory’ for pipeline opponents

Opponents of an underground natural gas pipeline that runs through Southwest Georgia claim victory in a federal court order this week.

In a 2 to 1 ruling Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed with the Sierra Club, an environmental group, that the assessment of an environmental impact study on the Sabal Trail pipeline was “inadequate.”

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) handled the assessment.

According to the ruling, FERC’s work did not contain enough information on the greenhouse gas emissions that will result from burning the gas the pipelines will carry.

Kinder Morgan has ponied up $115K to state police for Sandisfield pipeline security detail

A Massachusetts State Police Department invoice shows $115,000 in charges to Kinder Morgan for pipeline-related trooper details at Otis State Forest between May 6 and June 3.

The invoice, related emails, as well as trooper names and hours working for the company’s subsidiary, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. turned up on MuckRock, a public records request site.

The company was billed for troopers stationed in Sandisfield in the interest of public safety, or on call to respond to safety or security issues, and to protect the Constitutional rights of pipeline opponents to protest, according to state police spokesman David Procopio.

Procopio said in an email that such security or overtime work is routine, and does not “represent a conflict of interest.”

Gas pipeline firms must pay for some canal erosion, federal judge rules

Natural gas pipeline companies must repair some of the erosion that has occurred since 1953 along their pipeline canals on 20,000 acres of wetlands owned by New Orleans-based Vintage Assets Inc. in the Breton Sound basin in Plaquemines Parish, or compensate the landowner for the damages, a federal judge in New Orleans ruled Tuesday (Aug. 22).

If upheld on appeal, the ruling could set a precedent for how erosion attributed to other pipeline canals will be handled by both federal and state courts in other lawsuits, observers say.

Could just be me but it seems like we’re winning more and more of these kind of things?

St. James Parish Council narrowly approves land use needed for controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline

A split St. James Parish Council cleared the way Wednesday night for the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline to move through the parish amid opposition from west bank residents over continued industrial development and some calls for buyouts if the pipeline proceeds.

The 162-mile crude oil line proposed from Lake Charles to west St. James has encountered opposition from environmental groups worried about the line’s impact on the Atchafalaya Basin farther west. In St. James Parish, the pipeline’s broader environmental and safety concerns have come in addition to growing worries about existing and new industries encroaching on neighborhoods in rural sections of the parish.

The $670 million pipeline would create 2,500 temporary construction jobs and 12 permanent jobs and could carry 480,000 barrels of oil per day east from Lake Charles to the edge of the Mississippi River.

On Wednesday, the residents and environmental activists who spoke to the council stressed what they see as the poor environmental track record of Energy Transfer Partners, the company that wants to build the pipeline, and the safety as well as the health and environmental impacts they believe the pipeline would pose. While a company official defended the safety record, he also stressed the manufacturing standards and continued monitoring the future pipeline would receive if built.

Protest shuts down Line 3 construction outside Superior

Protesters identifying themselves as water protectors shut down construction for roughly two hours on a section of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement outside Superior on Monday, Aug. 21.

The event was broadcast and shared on social media, showing vehicles carrying a few dozen protesters as they arrived at around noon to what an Enbridge spokeswoman described as a 12.5-mile segment of the new line that runs along Douglas County Road W.

Some protesters wore masks covering their faces and could be seen in videos locking themselves to heavy equipment. Others were overheard telling workers to “go home early,” “stop destroying our mother” and “we’re here to protect the water.” They emphasized repeatedly they weren’t there to harm anyone, and deputies from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office were on scene monitoring the protest.

“This non-violent direct action (came) from the heart,” said organizer Neo Gabo Benais, of Onamia, Minn., who allowed the Duluth News Tribune access to publish his Facebook comments. “Our planet is perfect, but we are destroying it.”

Trump’s Border Security May Search Your Social Media by ‘Tone’

Following President Trump’s calls for “extreme vetting” of immigrants from seven Muslim majority countries, then–Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly hinted that he wanted full access to visa applicants’ social-media profiles. “We may want to get on their social media, with passwords. It’s very hard to truly vet these people in these countries, the seven countries,” Kelly said to the House’s Homeland Security Committee, adding, “If they don’t cooperate, they can go back.”

Such a proposal, if implemented, would expand the department’s secretive social media–monitoring capacities. And as the Department of Homeland Security moves toward grabbing more social-media data from foreigners, such information may be increasingly interpreted and emotionally characterized by sophisticated data-mining programs. What should be constitutionally protected speech could now hinder the mobility of travelers because of a secretive regime that subjects a person’s online words to experimental “emotion analysis.” According to audio leaked to The Nation, the Department of Homeland Security is currently building up data sets with social media–profile information that are searchable by “tone.”

How the Democrats Can Take Back Rural America by John Nichols

Party leaders must take direction from actual rural Democrats and independent progressives.

^To which I wonder why am I stuck in a cubicle whilst it apparently takes very highly paid people to figure these things out

They had one of these?

White House rapid response director leaves job

In a swing district, a Democrat runs on (eventual) single-payer health care

Andy Thorburn, a health insurance executive who is plugging $2 million into a bid to replace Rep. Edward R. Royce (R-Calif.), is the latest Democrat pushing the party to embrace single-payer health care — even in swing districts. In a video announcement, Thorburn paints the contest as a referendum on health care, between a Republican who voted for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and a Democrat who wants to move, eventually, to “Medicare for all.”

In an interview, Thorburn presented himself as a candidate who could debate health care from a position of total awareness. He ran Global Benefits Group, an international insurance company, until stepping back to the board this year.

“The part that really bothered me, when Obama first presented his plan, was my friends and colleagues starting their arguments by saying: ‘Hey, we have the best medical system in the world. Why change it?’ I was like, ‘Look, I can’t have a serious discussion with you if you think that.’ It’s the best system if you’re rich. But it’s clearly not the best for everyone. Yeah, the shah of Iran came here for treatment once — that’s not the standard!”

Judge rejects revised Texas voter ID law

A federal judge has ruled that changes Texas made to its voter identification law earlier this year did not go far enough to render the state’s policy constitutional.

U.S. District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos said the new legislation, passed in May and signed in August by Gov. Greg Abbott, failed to address all the aspects of the 2011 law that the judge found intentionally discriminated against African Americans and Latinos.

Ramos blocked both the new measure known as Senate Bill 5 and the old one referred to as Senate Bill 14.

Grassroots Democrats are more energized than ever — but DNC fundraising is a massive fail

In politics, elections held between presidential contests are supposed to be good for the opposition party. That’s because of the phenomenon that political scientists call “negative partisanship,” the idea that people are more motivated to oppose policies they don’t like than to support politicians with whom they only partly agree.

Since the Civil War, the president’s party has lost seats in almost every midterm elections. (There are two recent and notable exceptions: Democrats gained seats in 1998, when Bill Clinton actually gained popularity after the Lewinsky scandal; and Republicans gained seats in 2002, the first post-9/11 election.) A president’s supporters, it seems, almost invariably become disenchanted with the person they had chosen to be the chief executive.

While Donald Trump’s poll numbers among Republicans have mostly been holding up, he has about a 35 percent approval rating overall, the lowest ever for a president this early in his term. Trump is at war with his own party’s elected officials and he keeps talking about how much he loves memorials to the Confederacy.

“We really should be kicking their asses,” an anonymous Democratic donor told The Hill last week. “It shouldn’t even be close, considering all hell is breaking loose on their side.”

At the state level, anti-Trump enthusiasm has certainly been made manifest. In a study released last month by the Brookings Institution, researchers found record numbers of Democratic candidates running for seats in the House of Representatives. No cycle has had anywhere near the number of aspiring candidates from one party in recent history.

Im ever so slowly changing our menus, adding outside links to the candidtes pages, etc (as currently if you click the name under candidates it just takes you to posts they have been ‘categorized’ in).

Is it too crowded? Should I split it up by race type (mayor, senate, etc, etc), add social medias or anything else?

I know I need to take Nina Turner and Bernie Sanders out of ‘candidates’ but not sure where to put them? An ‘Elected Officials’ list? But that still excludes Nina…

Throw some ideas my way if you don’t mind 🙂