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Mitch PerryMay 30, 2016

Good morning, people, and welcome to the Summer of 2016. For some of us, it’s already off to a rollicking start, what the Golden State Warriors becoming the first team in 34 years to come back from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Conference Finals in defeating Oklahoma City in Oakland last night. Among the […]

Ryan RayMay 27, 2016

Sources close to Ana Rivas Logan confirmed the suspicions of many statehouse watchers around the state on Friday, saying she will run for Florida’s southernmost Senate seat in District 40. As first reported by the Miami Herald, the move pits Logan against Republican Rep. Frank Artiles and incumbent Democrat Sen. Dwight Bullard in what figures to be a hotly contested race. […]

Mitch PerryMay 27, 2016

Tim Canova, the college professor turned congressional opponent of Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has secured another big endorsement. Democracy for America (DFA) announced Friday it is backing Canova in his Democratic primary challenge against Wasserman Schultz in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District. “DFA members are backing Tim Canova in this race for Congress, not […]

Tom JacksonMay 26, 2016

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Bernie Sanders might be the only person in America who still doesn’t “care about [Hillary Clinton’s] damn emails.” But the State Department inspector general’s withering report on the matter certainly has everyone else’s attention. And now even those buried deep for more than a year in Ready-for-Hillary denial knows, irrefutably: Everything the Democratic Party’s presidential […]

Mitch PerryMay 26, 2016

Could the Republican Party really be serious about rejiggering the primary calendar, as has reported in places like the New York Times and the Boston Globe earlier this week? We’ve heard a lot in the past few weeks how presidential politics have been changed — perhaps forever — by the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. […]

Phil AmmannMay 25, 2016

Congressional Democrats are beginning to broach the subject of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepping down as chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) ahead of the party’s convention in July. The Hill is reporting that several Democrats backing likely presidential nominee Hillary Clinton are concerned the South Florida congresswoman is too divisive a figure, […]

Diane RobertsMay 25, 2016

The Bern? Duly felt. Duly appreciated. Sen. Sanders has put inequality where it belongs, in the center of the American conversation. He has energized hundreds of thousands of young people who’ve never felt a part of the political process and gotten America to revisit such “socialist” ideals as universal health care, universal education, and healthy […]

Melissa RossMay 24, 2016

This wild 2016 campaign season, we’ve heard a lot about delegates. Pledged delegates. Superdelegates. “Unbound” delegates. Delegate math. Delegate count. The delegate tracker! The nation (er, actually just political junkies in this great land of ours) is tracking delegates the way people living in prefab housing in Oklahoma stay glued to the local news when […]

Mitch PerryMay 24, 2016

Last night in Santa Monica, Bernie Sanders called Hillary Clinton‘s decision not to debate him in California “insulting” to the voters in the Golden State. “A number of months ago our campaign and her campaign reached an agreement on a number of debates, including one here in California,” Sanders told the crowd, according to a […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 23, 2016

In an open letter, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron DeSantis red-baits “socialist” presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday, laying in shots at Alan Grayson along the way. “I understand you have endorsed the Democratic primary challenger to Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Tim Canova. I assume this is a prelude to your endorsement of Alan Grayson in the […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 5.31.16 – Bernie Sanders calls Warriors comeback a “very good omen for our campaign”

Ana Rivas Logan will run for Senate, mount primary challenge to Dwight Bullard

Progressive PAC Democracy for America endorses Tim Canova in CD 23 race

Tom Jackson: After IG report, only Bernie Sanders doesn’t care about Hillary Clinton email treachery

Mitch Perry Report for 5.26.16 – How much will the political parties change after this year?

Democrats discuss possibility of dropping Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC chair

Diane Roberts: Bernie Sanders, stop trashing Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party

What goes into being a convention delegate? For starters, some travel expenses

Mitch Perry Report for 5.24.16 — Hillary nixes a last Dem debate in California

Bernie Sanders ‘prebutted’ by Ron DeSantis in open letter