Progressives (Liberals)

Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, put out their returns for 2015. They previously have made more than 30 years of their returns public.

Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, put out their returns for 2015. They previously have made more than 30 years of their returns public.

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/04/slaughter-buttigieg-responses/
Buttigieg takes a bad step toward Israel...if you're a progressive.

every D should be transparent.

By the time the 35th Ward Alderman took the stage at Rosanna Rodríguez-Sánchez’s election-night party at Chief O’Neill’s in Avondale, Chicago had experienced the biggest electoral victory for socialists in modern American history. Members of the group now control one-tenth of the City Council’s 50 seats. [...]

Even with the 33rd Ward race still too close to call, five socialists is the most in Chicago since the 1910s, a decade in which the city was a hub of the radical left in America. Before the Red Scare of 1919, a dozen socialist newspapers were published in the city, and the city elected several aldermen who belonged to the Cook County Socialist Party, founded in 1896 as a response to the Pullman strike in Chicago.

Nearly a century after it declined in popularity, democratic socialism has enjoyed a significant boost by Bernie Sanders’ two presidential campaigns and the mercurial rise of DSA member and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. National membership in the group [..] has multiplied by more than seven times since 2015, from 8,000 to 60,000.

The socialists won by strong, straightforward campaigning on working-class issues. Rosa, for example, made his race a referendum on affordable housing in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, painting big real estate developers as the enemy and demanding rent control in the city.

Taylor, a longtime neighborhood and education activist on the city’s South Side, demanded the forthcoming Barack Obama presidential library in her ward include a community benefits agreement to fight displacement of working-class residents. In 2015, she participated in a 34-day hunger strike to demand the reopening of Walter H Dyett high school; her website homepage reads: “Send a Dyett hunger strike to city hall.”

And Rodriguez campaigned on a history of activism for affordable housing and immigrant rights in a gentrifying, working-class immigrant neighborhood and against privatization of public services and expansion of police power in the city. [...]

Political observers and organizers should take these victories as a lesson: voters found that strong leftwing message appealing – and weren’t scared off by candidates who proudly called themselves “socialists”.

I don't understand all the angst over releasing taxes. I expect that all serious Democratic contenders will do so in plenty of time before the primaries.

I don't understand all the angst over releasing taxes. I expect that all serious Democratic contenders will do so
in plenty of time before the primaries.

Feel better about Sanders now?

The louder the media demanded his returns, the more convinced he became that the issue was manufactured trivia.

Sanders’s refusal to bend on any issue, no matter how minor, may be endearing to his most passionate supporters, but he’s doing both them and the country a disservice. An unbending approach to minutiae harms not only him, but his movement — and begins to look selfish and entitled. A million people have raised their hands to volunteer to make Sanders president. They deserve more from him.

Tax avoidance by the wealthiest Americans—including the presidential front-runners—costs the US government an additional $130 billion per year.