Tim Walz was a no-show on the Rural Americans for Harris video call Tuesday, but he had a pretty good excuse.
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Arkansas Dems all in for Kamala Harris
Arkansas delegates will throw their votes to the VP.
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Democrats are pouring money (and candidates) into state legislative races, NYT reports
National Democrats are pouring money into state legislative races in competitive states. Arkansas isn’t on the list, but there are signs of life from Democrats, who are fielding candidates in more districts than in years past.
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Former Republican Nate Bell games out Democrats’ path to victory
Some of the most vulnerable Republicans regularly run unopposed, while scarce resources are squandered targeting candidates who are disliked, but not vulnerable, former Republican lawmaker Nate Bell says. He argues that to win, Democrats need to be strategic, not emotional.
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Arkansas Democrats file a recruitment report from the road
“Our grand plans include winning a statewide election, kicking Tom Cotton’s hateful ass out of Congress and replacing Gov. Sanders. But first, we aim to break the Republican stranglehold on the People’s House,” writes Will Watson, strategic director for the Democratic Party of Arkansas.
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No longer a superminority? Democrats’ 2024 dreams
Hoping to capitalize on high-profile missteps of the Sanders administration and the willingness of Republican legislators to rubber stamp her agenda, Democratic candidates are vying for 64 of 100 House seats and seven of the 18 state Senate seats up for grabs in 2024.
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Arkansas Democrats blast Medicaid purge, call on Sanders to act
“This needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed now,” said Grant Tennille, chair of the Democratic Party of Arkansas.
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Conservative and progressive voices join to oppose FOIA rollback
Members of the political left and the political right find a rare point of agreement on protecting Arkansas’s Freedom of Information Act.
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How can Arkansas Democrats win more voters? Data from 2022 holds clues.
It’s easy for Democrats to look at party identification numbers and feel dejected. But elections are not predetermined.
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California’s first family visits Arkansas, Gov. Newsom joins pushback on red state repression
It’s spring break in Sacramento, and California’s first family came east to see how red state progressives are getting along.