Election Reform

Trump Wasn’t the Only Candidate to Test Our Campaign Laws

Bill Blum: But what about Clinton and the Democrats? With all the attention on Trump, it’s easy to forget the Clinton campaign’s election law transgressions associated with paying for the Steele dossier.

In Defense of Purity Tests

Ted Rall: Progressives should not fall for the purity-test smear. Voters have every right to demand certain standards of behavior and policy positions in exchange for their support.

How to Select a Democrat to Beat Trump in 2020

Political wisdom, a compelling national vision (new but building upon the past), and a personal background that meshes with that vision—these are qualities I’ll look for in a candidate who I hope can beat Trump.

Understanding the Electoral College

Janet Maker: The Electoral College also makes it easier to steal presidential elections. Instead of having to flip votes in all 50 states, it’s only necessary to flip a few precincts in a few swing states.

Barnstorming Pasadena

Justin Chapman: Sanders pointed out that in 2016, the media and political establishment called his ideas too radical, but that a majority of Americans now support them.

California Should Pick the Next President

Joe Mathews: America no longer wants steady and boring chief executives. So it’s time to let the Golden State chose.

Americans Dying for Change: At San Francisco Convention, Dem Presidential Candidates Bemoan Gun Violence

Christina Leimer: What do the U.S. President and Congress—the people with the power to legislate—do after each mass murder? You know the answer.

Why Joe Biden Was Afraid to Face California’s Democratic Party

Norman Solomon: Even some of the pro-Biden delegates said they were miffed that he wasn’t showing up—in contrast to the 14 presidential candidates who accepted invitations to address the convention.

Voting Loraine Lundquist for City Council in District 12 Is Our Only Option

Rebecca Gross: Loraine is incredibly impressive – she’s an astrophysicist, a CSUN professor, a mom of three kids, and amongst all of this, she is also a long-time activist who lives by progressive values.

A Conversation with Carlos Amador, Candidate for City Council District 12

Scott Doyle: It was immigration that launched Amador into activism—specifically the 2006 protest marches against a bill sponsored by Republican Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin that would have criminalized assistance to undocumented immigrants

Is Joe Biden the Least Electable Democrat?

Ted Rall: Progressives are still angry that the Democratic establishment cheated Bernie Sanders out of the nomination last time. News that they’re doing the same thing now has enraged them.