Democrats of influence (no names need be mentioned) need to stop attacking the progressive wing their own party. It's happened a number of times in the past few weeks, and it needs to stop immediately. If there's one obvious lesson to come out of the 2018 midterm election, it's that the Democratic Party is far stronger when it's united than when it's divided. When Hillary Clinton won the 2016 primary election, she gave an inspiring acceptance speech that should have reunified the party. The problem is, following that speech, her campaign and many of its most avid supporters adopted a different tactic, proceeding to belittle and insult progressive voters rather than work with them. Instead of incorporating the most sensible...
No, this isn't an Onion article. No, we're not kidding. Congress actually achieved something!!! The House of Representatives successfully passed a long-term solution to the “doc fix” problem on Thursday, which is something they've kicked down the road no less than 17 times since 2002. While this news is certainly going to be celebrated by doctors across the country, the passage of the "doc fix" legislation is something that really deserves to be celebrated by every American, simply for representing a truly rare moment of cooperation by our legislators.
In one of his recent YouTube videos, actor and activist Russell Brand eloquently pointed out that the vast majority of Americans don't approve of the way our politicians run things, and cited the need for a grassroots democratic revolution. Then, days later, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made a similar suggestion on Real Time with Bill Maher, calling for an independent progressive movement as a democratic alternative to the two-party system. In a way, the Perfect Republic project (previously named "American Millennials") represents precisely the type of revolution that Russell Brand and Sen Bernie Sander's have been talking about. Perfect Republic is a grassroots democratic revolution and an independent progressive movement rolled into one. While other public policy groups such as Our Time and Generation Opportunity advocate for the general public policy interests of...
When I got my first job in the United States House of Representatives in 2004, I was overcome with excitement at the prospect of being part of something bigger than myself, and participating in something I knew would touch the lives of millions. Although the Congressman I happened to work for was nothing short of extraordinary, within six months I found myself bitter and jaded by the endless partisan squabbling and inability of anyone to accomplish anything in a system built on partisan division. It wasn’t simply disheartening – it sickened me to the core of my being, and made me question whether our democracy was irreparably broken. Since then, the gridlock has only gotten worse. That’s why I started the American...
