March is a huge month for Congressional Democratic primaries between progressive women challengers and conservative men incumbents in Safe Blue districts where we should see strongly progressive representation but currently do not. Support … [Read more...]
NC-09: In Ten Days, We May Learn a Lot About 2020
Some of you may be aware that, in ten days (on Tuesday, September 10), a competitive Congressional special election will take place. (Technically, it's already taking place with early voting underway.) In North Carolina's 9th Congressional … [Read more...]
Two of the Most Important Choice-Focused Federal Elections in 2020
Back in November, after Election Day, I shared on BMG a list of seven Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives that I hoped would get primary challengers in this 2019-2020 election cycle due to not being reflective of the … [Read more...]
Charlie Three Terms and Derailments
A quick review of headlines from the last week: Thursday, June 6 Baker quietly puts political team together as he considers 3rd term Saturday, June 8 At least 10 people injured in Green Line derailment near Kenmore Tuesday, June … [Read more...]
Please *Don’t* Shut Your Pie Hole (a.k.a. The Register of Deeds’ Bad Deed)
If I wanted to be glib and a bit rude, I could joke that, while the Registry of Deeds was very important in 1825, much of the Registry's role of "keeping the residents of Suffolk County’s real estate records safe and accessible" could today … [Read more...]
IL-03: Imagine Ayanna vs. Capuano, *IF* Capuano Had An Awful Record
Massachusetts' 7th Congressional district saw a titanic primary in 2018 between incumbent Mike Capuano and then-Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley. Though now-Congresswoman Pressley won that primary by a very comfortable 17-point margin, … [Read more...]
Democratic House Members Most In Need of Primarying in 2019-2020
Back when I was a more active blogger around a decade ago, there was an expression: "More and Better Democrats." We wanted to elect more Democrats, sure, but specifically the best Democrats we could in each district, acknowledging that some … [Read more...]
Beyond Ayanna & AOC: Women of Color Flipping the House Blue
The Congressional primary victories won by Ayanna Pressley here in Massachusetts and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York were momentous and portend meaningful progressive pushes if/when Democrats reclaim the majority in the U.S. House of … [Read more...]
We Need to Talk About the 28th Middlesex
Imagine you’re a part of a big extended family, one with lots of cousins. Let’s say there are, oh, 160 cousins in total, and they come together for a big reunion. Some are office professionals, some are tradespeople, some artists, some … [Read more...]
Bill Galvin’s Last Eleven Months
To kick off the last full calendar week before Fourth of July, when many people start going on summer vacations and tune out from politics a bit, I thought now would be a good time to re-visit some notable moments from Massachusetts … [Read more...]
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