Ossoff’s ‘Natalie’ Moment

How many words does it take to trigger MAGA world? Three, it turns out. When Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia said at a rally on Sunday that President Trump wants to “travel with Natalie”—implying an untoward relationship between the 80-year-old grandfather and his 35-year-old special assistant, Natalie Harp—the outrage from Trump allies was as loud as it was predictable: Megyn Kelly, Newt Gingrich, and Laura Ingraham, among others, accused Ossoff of misogyny, despite having previously defended Trump’s own sexist comments. (The word hypocrisy feels inadequate here.) But as this debate…

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El-Sayed Victory Proves Bold, People-Focused Agenda Is the Path Forward for Democrats 

Michigan voters reject more than $ 63 million in corporate and pro-war spending, deliver major victory for people-powered politics MICHIGAN—Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan, overcoming more than $ 63 million spent by corporate interests, dark money groups, and pro-war organizations backing his opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens. El-Sayed’s victory is a triumph for bold progressives and people-powered movements over the corporate-backed, pro-war wing of the Democratic Party. His campaign showed that a populist message focused on affordability, ending costly wars, and getting big money…

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A Democrat in Name Only

Photographs by KC McGinnis Somewhere along the county road between Independence and Manchester, I lost Rob Sand. This had been a distinct possibility when I agreed to join the 44-year-old Democratic candidate for governor on a segment of a weeklong bike ride across Iowa. Unlike Sand, I am not a biker—merely a leisurely walker and, like any good Millennial woman, an occasional Pilates-doer. Which is why, on a long, low-grade hill dotted with Queen Anne’s lace, my quads began to burn, my pace slowed, and the subject of my story…

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MoveOn’s Michigan Operation Generated More Than 600,000 Voter and Member Contacts to Help Power El-Sayed Victory

Group placed 180,000 calls, delivered more than 450,000 member communications, and invested $ 90,000 in ads and mail supporting El-Sayed MICHIGAN—MoveOn Political Action mobilized a major statewide organizing and communications operation to help Dr. Abdul El-Sayed overcome more than $ 63 million in outside spending and win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan. MoveOn’s campaign generated more than 600,000 voter and member contacts through calls, texts, emails, mail, digital advertising, and volunteer organizing. The effort was part of MoveOn Political Action’s largest intervention in Democratic primaries to date…

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