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Khanna Challenges Trump's China Strategy Amid Trade and Geopolitical Tensions
Rep. Ro Khanna says Trump's China strategy hurts American workers and consumers due to trade issues and unclear Taiwan policy. Find out what changes.
#RoKhanna, #TrumpChina, #TradePolicy, #USWorkers, #Taiwan
https://newsletter.tf/khanna-questions-trumps-china-strategy-us-workers/
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Rep. Ro Khanna says President Trump's approach to China is not helping American workers and could be raising prices for families. This is a different view from the President's stated goals.
#RoKhanna, #TrumpChina, #TradePolicy, #USWorkers, #Taiwan
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#JamesComer PANICS over #HowardLutnick's Epstein lies as #RoKhanna calls out Lutnick's sudden switch up of entire #Epstein account during the closed door hearing with the #HouseOversightCommittee. #SharonReed and #VivianaVigil break it down on @[email protected] youtu.be/QvmxfgOkUfk?...
James Comer PANICS Over Howard... -
#JamesComer PANICS over #HowardLutnick's Epstein lies as #RoKhanna calls out Lutnick's sudden switch up of entire #Epstein account during the closed door hearing with the #HouseOversightCommittee. #SharonReed and #VivianaVigil break it down on @[email protected] youtu.be/QvmxfgOkUfk?...
James Comer PANICS Over Howard... -
#JamesComer PANICS over #HowardLutnick's Epstein lies as #RoKhanna calls out Lutnick's sudden switch up of entire #Epstein account during the closed door hearing with the #HouseOversightCommittee. #SharonReed and #VivianaVigil break it down on @[email protected] youtu.be/QvmxfgOkUfk?...
James Comer PANICS Over Howard... -
#JamesComer PANICS over #HowardLutnick's Epstein lies as #RoKhanna calls out Lutnick's sudden switch up of entire #Epstein account during the closed door hearing with the #HouseOversightCommittee. #SharonReed and #VivianaVigil break it down on @[email protected] youtu.be/QvmxfgOkUfk?...
James Comer PANICS Over Howard... -
#JamesComer PANICS over #HowardLutnick's Epstein lies as #RoKhanna calls out Lutnick's sudden switch up of entire #Epstein account during the closed door hearing with the #HouseOversightCommittee. #SharonReed and #VivianaVigil break it down on @[email protected] youtu.be/QvmxfgOkUfk?...
James Comer PANICS Over Howard... -
https://www.europesays.com/iran/91960/ Hegseth clashes for a second day with Democratic lawmakers #APTopNews #ChrissyHoulahan #DCWire #DistrictOfColumbia #DonaldTrump #GeneralNews #Iran #IranWar #JackReed #JoeBiden #JoniErnst #MilitaryAndDefense #PeteHegseth #Politics #RandyGeorge #RoKhanna #TimKaine #USDemocraticParty #USDepartmentOfDefense #USRepublicanParty #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesGovernment #WarAndUnrest #WashingtonNews
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/89858/ Iran War Has Cost $25 Billion So Far, Pentagon Says #2027Budget #AdamSmith #centcom #GenDanCaine #HouseArmedServicesCommittee #Iran #IranBlockade #JayHurst #PeteHegseth #RoKhanna
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Iran War Has Cost $25 Billion So Far, Pentagon Says
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #2027budget #AdamSmith #breakingnews #CENTCOM #Gen.DanCaine #housearmedservicescommittee #Iran #Iranblockade #JayHurst #PeteHegseth #RoKhanna
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Iran War Has Cost $25 Billion So Far, Pentagon Says
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.airandspaceforces.com/war-against-iran-cost-25-billion-pentagon/
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It's why the GOP lives on Army bases now, fear of their own betrayed voters...
#USPol #USPolitics #MAGA #GOP #PoliticalViolence #WhiskeyPete #PeteHegseth #RoKhanna
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https://www.europesays.com/people/47305/ King Charles III to meet Trump and address Congress in bid to spotlight UK-US ties #DonaldTrump #HakeemJeffries #JeffreyEpstein #KeirStarmer #KingCharlesIII #MelaniaTrump #MikeJohnson #Politics #QueenCamilla #QueenElizabethII #RoKhanna #USNews #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/people/47236/ King Charles III to meet Trump and address Congress in bid to spotlight UK-US ties #DonaldTrump #HakeemJeffries #JeffreyEpstein #KeirStarmer #KingCharlesIII #MelaniaTrump #MikeJohnson #Politics #QueenCamilla #QueenElizabethII #RoKhanna #USNews #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/people/47098/ King Charles III to meet Trump and address Congress in bid to spotlight UK-US ties #DonaldTrump #HakeemJeffries #JeffreyEpstein #KeirStarmer #KingCharlesIII #MelaniaTrump #MikeJohnson #Politics #QueenCamilla #QueenElizabethII #RoKhanna #USNews #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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A message to Ro Khanna. You F'ing mouth breathing imbecile! You're literally in Congress, so run for leadership or STFU!
Also the Black working class is the Democratic party base, not the white working class that just voted for a billionaire who is cutting taxes for the rich and corporations AGAIN. News flash buddy, they voted for racism and bigotry not economic populism, maybe get out of your Bernie bro bubble of delusion.
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Schumer Vows to Keep Forcing Iran War Powers Votes as Senators Sink Another Resolution https://www.byteseu.com/1956832/ #Conflicts #IranWar #JohnFetterman #RandPaul #RoKhanna #TammyBaldwin #USSenate #WarPowersResolution
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Today I received a political flier from a #RoKhanna challenger suggesting that he trades stocks with a conflict of interests and possibly acting on inside information.
"Nancy Pelosi Overtaken By Ro Khanna's 112% AI Stock Outperformance Vs S&P 500 — 'There Is A New King,' Says Anthony Pompliano"
by Ananya Gairola
April 10, 2026https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nancy-pelosi-overtaken-ro-khannas-023114207.html
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https://www.europesays.com/people/38724/ Schumer Vows to Keep Forcing Iran War Powers Votes as Senators Sink Another Resolution #ChuckSchumer #IranWar #JohnFetterman #RandPaul #RoKhanna #TammyBaldwin #UsSenate #WarPowersResolution
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#NaomiKlein, #BernieSanders, and #RoKhanna Roundtable Explores Future of AI
“#AI is the most far-reaching and pivotal technological revolution in the history of humanity,” notes the Sanders Institute. “The choices we make now will determine whether those changes make the world better or worse.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/artificial-intelligence-policyfrom #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Apr 14, 2026Turning to #Khanna and Klein, the senator asked: “What are the motives of these guys? Do the American people think that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are sitting up nights saying, ‘Wow, we got this #technology, we’re going to improve life for working people?’”
Klein contended that “their motives are exactly the opposite, and they’re very blunt about this, that they are in a race to reach something that they call AGI—artificial general intelligence—or even something beyond that, superintelligence.”
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Parteiübergreifende Kritik an der früheren US-Justizministerin https://xenopolias.de/2026/04/09/parteiuebergreifende-kritik-an-der-frueheren-us-justizministerin/ #Epstein-Akten, #Epstein-Files, #Ex-Justizministerin, #JustizministeriumUSA, #Kongressanhörung, #NancyMace, #PamBondi, #RoKhanna, #TransparenzgesetzEpstein, #Trump-Entlassung
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Leftists: These are your "fighters." I support Hakeem Jeffries and still wanted a primary. Where is that Fing loud mouth Ro Khanna in all this BS?
Yet, on Nov. 19, Mamdani went in person to personally request that the DSA not endorse Ossé’s run.
His lack of endorsement followed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez telling reporters that challenging Jeffries in the primary is not “a good idea right now.”
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https://www.europesays.com/people/?p=17697 Democratic presidential prospects flock to New York to court activists at Al Sharpton’s conference #AndyBeshear #AshleySharpton #BernieSanders #DonaldTrump #Elections #ethnicity #FrederickDouglass #GavinNewsom #JBPritzker #JoeBiden #JoshShapiro #KamalaHarris #MartinLutherKingJr #PeteButtigieg #Politics #Race #RoKhanna #RubenGallego #USNews #WashingtonNews #WesMoore
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https://www.europesays.com/people/17426/ Khanna keeps door open to possible 2028 White House bid #AlSharpton #ArtificialIntelligence #EconomicVision #HakeemJeffries #HouseMinorityLeader #MidtermElections #NationalActionNetwork #RoKhanna #SpeakerOfTheHouse #WhiteHouse
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yahoo news | Lawmaker shares theory behind Epstein accountant's U-turn
Rep. Ro Khanna told “MS NOW” that he believes the sudden reversal by Jeffrey Epstein’s former accountant, Richard Kahn, was driven by political pressure from former President Donald Trump. Kahn had initially testified before the House Oversight Committee that Epstein’s estate paid a settlement to “Jane Doe 4,” the woman who alleges Trump raped her at age 13 in the 1980s. Within hours, Kahn’s attorney walked back the claim, offering only a vague “neither confirm nor deny” stance on any settlement.
Khanna pointed to the fact that the FBI had interviewed Jane Doe 4 four separate times, arguing that such repeated questioning lends credibility to her allegations and suggests the settlement story was not fabricated. He warned that Trump could have instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi—or her successor—to launch a prosecution against Kahn or otherwise retaliate, creating a chilling effect that would make the accountant “bite his tongue” and retract his testimony.
The lawmaker’s theory hinges on the interplay between the high‑profile nature of the case, the potential for Trump‑linked political retribution, and the stark contrast between Kahn’s initial admission and his rapid repudiation. If Khanna is correct, the retraction may reflect fear of legal consequences rather than a genuine lack of evidence, leaving the question of whether any settlement was actually disbursed unresolved.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/bizarre-turnaround-from-epstein/
#rokhanna #jeffreyepstein #donaldtrump #houseoversightcommittee #janedoe4
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Democrats sharpen criticism of Vance as they look past Trump to the 2028 presidential campaign
FAIRFIELD, Ohio – Althou…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #AndyBeshear #barackobama #DavidAxelrod #DonaldTrump #elections #GavinNewsom #jdvance #JoeBiden #joshshapiro #kamalaharris #LisSmith #MarkKaplan #PeteButtigieg #Politics #POTUS #presidentdonaldtrump #presidentoftheUnitedStates #presidenttrump #RoKhanna #TaylorVanKirk #TheresaVacheresse #trump #U.S.News #Washingtonnews
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Did Israel drag Trump and the US to war with Iran?
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Did Israel drag Trump and the US to war with Iran?
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'Enough Is Enough': #BernieSanders, #RoKhanna Propose #BillionairesTax to Raise $4.4 Trillion | Common Dreams
by Julia Conley, Mar 02, 2026
“We can no longer tolerate a corrupt tax code that enables billionaires to pay a lower tax rate than the average worker,” said Sanders (I-Vt.) “In a democratic society, we cannot tolerate 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck—struggling to pay for housing, food, and healthcare—while 938 billionaires have become $1.5 trillion richer. We cannot continue a trend in which, over the past 50 years, $79 trillion in wealth in our country has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. Enough is enough. Billionaires cannot have it all.”
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-billionaire -
But the #WarPowers Act gives presidents that limited power for a 60-day #military action ONLY in case of “a national emergency created by attack upon the United States,” a condition that #Democrats say was not met.
Rep #RoKhanna (D-CA), one of the lead sponsors of the War Powers Resolution to rein in #Trump on #Iran, told NBC News that he believes that a vote, expected in the #House this week, will be “very close.”
#US #war #warmonger #RegimeChange #law #Congress #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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"...Rep. #RoKhanna, a Fremont #Democrat and co-author of the legislation that compelled the release of the #Epstein files...
In an interview last week, #Khanna said the arrest of former #PrinceAndrew is evidence that it will happen...“This sets the standard for accountability,” he said. “I believe 👉you’re going to see the elite of the Epstein class start to fall both in the #UnitedStates and around the world.”👈"
Hope so!
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'BiPartisanship' has been such a fraudulent concept for generations of American politics – but **THIS** marriage could actually have a positive impact.
People are talking about them both running for President, Republican and Democratic tickets, somehow running together after the primaries if they succeed.
Running together would rip apart the Dem/Repub idiotic American political spectrum.
It might be a good thing. (Y)
photo: https://x.com/RepRoKhanna/status/2026484340033540182
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Rep Ro Khanna tweets:
'I saw this email at DOJ today. This is a political figure who shouldn't have been redacted. It’s a direct violation of Rep Thomas Massie and my Epstein Files Transparency Act.The Justice Dept should unredact it immediately.'
https://x.com/RepRoKhanna/status/2022046192478327156/photo/1
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"Khanna, after revealing the six names on the House floor, said, “Now my question is, why did it take Thomas Massie and me going to the Justice Department to get these six men’s identities to become public? And if we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those 3 million files.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5731909-khanna-epstein-files-house-floor/ #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #DOJ #CoverUp #PamBondi #FBI #KashPatel #Trump #Republicans #RoKhanna #ThomasMassie
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What Jamie Raskin saw in the unredacted Epstein files:
https://youtu.be/N6JQvUOD5z8
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up "more than a million times."Ro Khanna, Massie EXPOSE Alleged Epstein Co-Conspirators
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#BREAKING: Redacted Epstein Names Revealed on House Floor Just Now 👍👍👍👏👏👏 JUST NOW!! #redactedNamesRevealed #Names #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #RoKhanna #6PowerfulMen #Justice #Investigate #CrimesAgainstChildren #Pedophiles #Crime #arrest #jail #prison #DulRustyKnife 😉 open.substack.com/pub/krassens...
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LIVE: US lawmakers Khanna and Massie speak after reviewing Epstein files
U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, co-authors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, hold a briefing at the Department of Justice after reviewing the Epstein files in person. #EpseinFiles #RoKhanna #ThomasMassie #Epstein #UnitedStates #DOJ #Live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world:
https://fllics.com/en/video/live-us-lawmakers-khanna-and-massie-speak-after-reviewing-epstein-files/
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DOJ Under Congressional Scrutiny After Improper Redactions in Epstein Files
“Concealing the reputations of these powerful men is a blatant violation” of federal law, Rep. Ro Khanna said. -
💥the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" 💥
#RUBI's emergence alongside similar organizations like
🔸"Contest Every Race",
🔸the "Center for Working-Class Politics",
🔸"More Perfect Union",
and🔸 "Dirt Road Democrats",comes at a precarious moment in national politics.
Not only is the Democratic brand now routinely described as “toxic” outside of deep-blue cities and college towns,
but the meaning and purpose of 21st-century progressivism seems uncertain,
with many supporters believing it has deviated,
at least partially,
from its populist and #New #Deal origins.Some activists are beginning to entertain the nonpartisan path taken by independent #Dan #Osborn,
who since losing to Republican incumbent Deb Fischer in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Nebraska,
has started a "Working Class Heroes Fund"
to back future insurgents.But harrowing political defeats do create a window—at least temporarily—to take aim at ossified party structures and discredited strategies.
For organizers like #Flaccavento and #Etelson, these candid assessments are essential to mapping a recovery.
Though #RUBI aims, in part, to overhaul the activist PR-speak that typically puts off rural and less-educated workers,
Flaccavento,
who is steeped in rural development issues,
is frank about the big picture that most D.C. consultants and their paymasters evade.⭐️“Even the most down-to-earth language ain’t going to cut it until we address why so many people are pissed,” he says.
A significant part of RUBI’s work involves exploring how Democrats and the modern left went wrong with rural Americans.
That’s what “really differentiates us from almost every other rural group out there,”
says Flaccavento,
“which are more either trying to find better candidates
or just trying to make the case that the Democratic Party is the right party.”Flaccavento is adamant that progressives have to comprehensively recognize that they have been in a losing battle to
“persuade [blue-collar rural] people that we really are for them when they don’t buy it anymore.”RUBI’s work is about more than dissecting the weaknesses of contemporary progressivism, however.
Its major policy document,
“A Rural New Deal,”
co-published with "Progressive Democrats of America",
champions and expands upon the best aspects of President Biden’s domestic legacy,
particularly in the areas of antitrust enforcement
and re-establishing regional supply chains.But unlike many D.C.-based think tanks,
RUBI and its allies are not trying to graft a left-leaning technocratic agenda onto rural workers based on an abstract assumption of what they most need.Instead, RUBI is concerned with reimagining what
✅ “bottom-up prosperity”
looks like
in this age of regional inequality,
-- and retrieving the policy tools that give local communities “the capacity,”
as Flaccavento puts it,
“to solve many if not most of their problems.”https://prospect.org/2025/03/21/2025-03-21-sowing-rural-insurgency-democrats/
#RUBI
#AnthonyFlaccavento #EricaEtelson
#KenMartin
#RoKhanna #ArlieHochschild #JimHightower -
💥the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" 💥
#RUBI's emergence alongside similar organizations like
🔸"Contest Every Race",
🔸the "Center for Working-Class Politics",
🔸"More Perfect Union",
and🔸 "Dirt Road Democrats",comes at a precarious moment in national politics.
Not only is the Democratic brand now routinely described as “toxic” outside of deep-blue cities and college towns,
but the meaning and purpose of 21st-century progressivism seems uncertain,
with many supporters believing it has deviated,
at least partially,
from its populist and #New #Deal origins.Some activists are beginning to entertain the nonpartisan path taken by independent #Dan #Osborn,
who since losing to Republican incumbent Deb Fischer in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Nebraska,
has started a "Working Class Heroes Fund"
to back future insurgents.But harrowing political defeats do create a window—at least temporarily—to take aim at ossified party structures and discredited strategies.
For organizers like #Flaccavento and #Etelson, these candid assessments are essential to mapping a recovery.
Though #RUBI aims, in part, to overhaul the activist PR-speak that typically puts off rural and less-educated workers,
Flaccavento,
who is steeped in rural development issues,
is frank about the big picture that most D.C. consultants and their paymasters evade.⭐️“Even the most down-to-earth language ain’t going to cut it until we address why so many people are pissed,” he says.
A significant part of RUBI’s work involves exploring how Democrats and the modern left went wrong with rural Americans.
That’s what “really differentiates us from almost every other rural group out there,”
says Flaccavento,
“which are more either trying to find better candidates
or just trying to make the case that the Democratic Party is the right party.”Flaccavento is adamant that progressives have to comprehensively recognize that they have been in a losing battle to
“persuade [blue-collar rural] people that we really are for them when they don’t buy it anymore.”RUBI’s work is about more than dissecting the weaknesses of contemporary progressivism, however.
Its major policy document,
“A Rural New Deal,”
co-published with "Progressive Democrats of America",
champions and expands upon the best aspects of President Biden’s domestic legacy,
particularly in the areas of antitrust enforcement
and re-establishing regional supply chains.But unlike many D.C.-based think tanks,
RUBI and its allies are not trying to graft a left-leaning technocratic agenda onto rural workers based on an abstract assumption of what they most need.Instead, RUBI is concerned with reimagining what
✅ “bottom-up prosperity”
looks like
in this age of regional inequality,
-- and retrieving the policy tools that give local communities “the capacity,”
as Flaccavento puts it,
“to solve many if not most of their problems.”https://prospect.org/2025/03/21/2025-03-21-sowing-rural-insurgency-democrats/
#RUBI
#AnthonyFlaccavento #EricaEtelson
#KenMartin
#RoKhanna #ArlieHochschild #JimHightower -
💥the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" 💥
#RUBI's emergence alongside similar organizations like
🔸"Contest Every Race",
🔸the "Center for Working-Class Politics",
🔸"More Perfect Union",
and🔸 "Dirt Road Democrats",comes at a precarious moment in national politics.
Not only is the Democratic brand now routinely described as “toxic” outside of deep-blue cities and college towns,
but the meaning and purpose of 21st-century progressivism seems uncertain,
with many supporters believing it has deviated,
at least partially,
from its populist and #New #Deal origins.Some activists are beginning to entertain the nonpartisan path taken by independent #Dan #Osborn,
who since losing to Republican incumbent Deb Fischer in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Nebraska,
has started a "Working Class Heroes Fund"
to back future insurgents.But harrowing political defeats do create a window—at least temporarily—to take aim at ossified party structures and discredited strategies.
For organizers like #Flaccavento and #Etelson, these candid assessments are essential to mapping a recovery.
Though #RUBI aims, in part, to overhaul the activist PR-speak that typically puts off rural and less-educated workers,
Flaccavento,
who is steeped in rural development issues,
is frank about the big picture that most D.C. consultants and their paymasters evade.⭐️“Even the most down-to-earth language ain’t going to cut it until we address why so many people are pissed,” he says.
A significant part of RUBI’s work involves exploring how Democrats and the modern left went wrong with rural Americans.
That’s what “really differentiates us from almost every other rural group out there,”
says Flaccavento,
“which are more either trying to find better candidates
or just trying to make the case that the Democratic Party is the right party.”Flaccavento is adamant that progressives have to comprehensively recognize that they have been in a losing battle to
“persuade [blue-collar rural] people that we really are for them when they don’t buy it anymore.”RUBI’s work is about more than dissecting the weaknesses of contemporary progressivism, however.
Its major policy document,
“A Rural New Deal,”
co-published with "Progressive Democrats of America",
champions and expands upon the best aspects of President Biden’s domestic legacy,
particularly in the areas of antitrust enforcement
and re-establishing regional supply chains.But unlike many D.C.-based think tanks,
RUBI and its allies are not trying to graft a left-leaning technocratic agenda onto rural workers based on an abstract assumption of what they most need.Instead, RUBI is concerned with reimagining what
✅ “bottom-up prosperity”
looks like
in this age of regional inequality,
-- and retrieving the policy tools that give local communities “the capacity,”
as Flaccavento puts it,
“to solve many if not most of their problems.”https://prospect.org/2025/03/21/2025-03-21-sowing-rural-insurgency-democrats/
#RUBI
#AnthonyFlaccavento #EricaEtelson
#KenMartin
#RoKhanna #ArlieHochschild #JimHightower -
💥the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" 💥
#RUBI's emergence alongside similar organizations like
🔸"Contest Every Race",
🔸the "Center for Working-Class Politics",
🔸"More Perfect Union",
and🔸 "Dirt Road Democrats",comes at a precarious moment in national politics.
Not only is the Democratic brand now routinely described as “toxic” outside of deep-blue cities and college towns,
but the meaning and purpose of 21st-century progressivism seems uncertain,
with many supporters believing it has deviated,
at least partially,
from its populist and #New #Deal origins.Some activists are beginning to entertain the nonpartisan path taken by independent #Dan #Osborn,
who since losing to Republican incumbent Deb Fischer in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Nebraska,
has started a "Working Class Heroes Fund"
to back future insurgents.But harrowing political defeats do create a window—at least temporarily—to take aim at ossified party structures and discredited strategies.
For organizers like #Flaccavento and #Etelson, these candid assessments are essential to mapping a recovery.
Though #RUBI aims, in part, to overhaul the activist PR-speak that typically puts off rural and less-educated workers,
Flaccavento,
who is steeped in rural development issues,
is frank about the big picture that most D.C. consultants and their paymasters evade.⭐️“Even the most down-to-earth language ain’t going to cut it until we address why so many people are pissed,” he says.
A significant part of RUBI’s work involves exploring how Democrats and the modern left went wrong with rural Americans.
That’s what “really differentiates us from almost every other rural group out there,”
says Flaccavento,
“which are more either trying to find better candidates
or just trying to make the case that the Democratic Party is the right party.”Flaccavento is adamant that progressives have to comprehensively recognize that they have been in a losing battle to
“persuade [blue-collar rural] people that we really are for them when they don’t buy it anymore.”RUBI’s work is about more than dissecting the weaknesses of contemporary progressivism, however.
Its major policy document,
“A Rural New Deal,”
co-published with "Progressive Democrats of America",
champions and expands upon the best aspects of President Biden’s domestic legacy,
particularly in the areas of antitrust enforcement
and re-establishing regional supply chains.But unlike many D.C.-based think tanks,
RUBI and its allies are not trying to graft a left-leaning technocratic agenda onto rural workers based on an abstract assumption of what they most need.Instead, RUBI is concerned with reimagining what
✅ “bottom-up prosperity”
looks like
in this age of regional inequality,
-- and retrieving the policy tools that give local communities “the capacity,”
as Flaccavento puts it,
“to solve many if not most of their problems.”https://prospect.org/2025/03/21/2025-03-21-sowing-rural-insurgency-democrats/
#RUBI
#AnthonyFlaccavento #EricaEtelson
#KenMartin
#RoKhanna #ArlieHochschild #JimHightower -
💥the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" 💥
#RUBI's emergence alongside similar organizations like
🔸"Contest Every Race",
🔸the "Center for Working-Class Politics",
🔸"More Perfect Union",
and🔸 "Dirt Road Democrats",comes at a precarious moment in national politics.
Not only is the Democratic brand now routinely described as “toxic” outside of deep-blue cities and college towns,
but the meaning and purpose of 21st-century progressivism seems uncertain,
with many supporters believing it has deviated,
at least partially,
from its populist and #New #Deal origins.Some activists are beginning to entertain the nonpartisan path taken by independent #Dan #Osborn,
who since losing to Republican incumbent Deb Fischer in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Nebraska,
has started a "Working Class Heroes Fund"
to back future insurgents.But harrowing political defeats do create a window—at least temporarily—to take aim at ossified party structures and discredited strategies.
For organizers like #Flaccavento and #Etelson, these candid assessments are essential to mapping a recovery.
Though #RUBI aims, in part, to overhaul the activist PR-speak that typically puts off rural and less-educated workers,
Flaccavento,
who is steeped in rural development issues,
is frank about the big picture that most D.C. consultants and their paymasters evade.⭐️“Even the most down-to-earth language ain’t going to cut it until we address why so many people are pissed,” he says.
A significant part of RUBI’s work involves exploring how Democrats and the modern left went wrong with rural Americans.
That’s what “really differentiates us from almost every other rural group out there,”
says Flaccavento,
“which are more either trying to find better candidates
or just trying to make the case that the Democratic Party is the right party.”Flaccavento is adamant that progressives have to comprehensively recognize that they have been in a losing battle to
“persuade [blue-collar rural] people that we really are for them when they don’t buy it anymore.”RUBI’s work is about more than dissecting the weaknesses of contemporary progressivism, however.
Its major policy document,
“A Rural New Deal,”
co-published with "Progressive Democrats of America",
champions and expands upon the best aspects of President Biden’s domestic legacy,
particularly in the areas of antitrust enforcement
and re-establishing regional supply chains.But unlike many D.C.-based think tanks,
RUBI and its allies are not trying to graft a left-leaning technocratic agenda onto rural workers based on an abstract assumption of what they most need.Instead, RUBI is concerned with reimagining what
✅ “bottom-up prosperity”
looks like
in this age of regional inequality,
-- and retrieving the policy tools that give local communities “the capacity,”
as Flaccavento puts it,
“to solve many if not most of their problems.”https://prospect.org/2025/03/21/2025-03-21-sowing-rural-insurgency-democrats/
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