Read the full article. Nixon managed to create a coalition that has largely eluded democratic socialists elsewhere. While candidates such as Abdul El-Sayed, who narrowly won the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan, won college-educated progressives and lost the working class and Black vote, Nixon won big in Florida counties with large minority and working-class populations, but also in college towns. And she won 63 percent of the vote in large urban areas. The BGG is whe

Read the full article. Election after election, Black women organize, donate, volunteer, knock on doors, and show up at the ballot box. Black women have higher voter turnout than any other demographic and we overwhelmingly vote blue. Yet, when it’s time for the party to invest in the Black women that are running for office or defend them once they’re there, that loyalty is met with a deafening silence. Former Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush’s primary defeat is the most rece

Read the full article. Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan easily won Minnesota’s Democratic primary for a U.S. Senate seat, according to Decision Desk HQ, putting her a step closer to becoming the first Native American woman elected to the chamber. Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, is not the only Native woman who could make history this year: In New Mexico, former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, a Laguna Pueblo member, is widely expected to become New Mexico’