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Even in a blue state, and amid signs that liberal Democratic enthusiasm is surging nationwide, Jay Gonzalez likely faces a steep climb in his bid to unseat Massachusetts' popular Republican governor in November. Gonzalez handily won the Democratic nomination, but now must quickly figure out a way to channel into his campaign the energy and thirst for change that powered Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley's primary election upset of longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano.
This may be the last week of summer vacation for some people, but for many political candidates it's also the last full week of campaigning before the state's primary election. Massachusetts voters are scheduled to go to the polls on Sept.
Democratic donors are often leading with their hearts rather than their heads when it comes to funding this fall's congressional campaigns. Brimming with enthusiasm and fueled by anger at President Donald Trump, Democrats are funneling cash to long-shot and sure-bet candidates with strong personal appeal sometimes at the expense of lower-profile races that will be more pivotal to party efforts to win the House and Senate.
August 7: From left, candidates for U.S. Senate, Geoff Diehl, Beth Lindstrom, and John Kingston are seen in the studios of Boston Herald Radio as they debate each other, as the Herald's Hillary Chabot and Joe Battenfeld look on, on August 7, 2018. The three Republican candidates for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's seat mixed it up in the Herald Radio studio today, slamming each other for their varying levels of support for President Trump in their first debate.
It's Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Here is some of what Sun staffers and other news providers are working on for lowellsun.com and Wednesday's edition: Reporter Chris Lisinski, clisinski@lowellsun.com, is in Westford, where local police have declared one of the town's many quarries a crime scene.
In a compelling new broadcast posted at Real.Video recently, site founder Mike Adams discussed the various ways that Democrats will dramatically upset the civil society and increase uncivil discourse as well as the chance for domestic conflict should they win back control of Congress this fall. More broadly, if they manage to unseat POTUS Donald Trump and drive down the Republican majority, according to their public policy statements and in various media interviews, Democrats are promising to enact a number of policies that would not only halt POTUS Donald Trump's MAGA agenda but would return the country to the dark fiscal days of the Obama administration, while at the same time widening the political chasm between Left and Right.
It isn't easy for Ady Barkan to raise his right fist anymore, but he's been doing it a lot lately. Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neurodegenerative disease better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, 34-year-old Barkan is a progressive activist who has spent the past two years fighting the GOP's 2017 tax bill and trying to help Democrats take back Congress.
I support the Patient Safety Act, a November 2018 ballot measure establishing safe maximum limits on the number of patients assigned to a nurse at one time. As a registered nurse for 27 years at the bedside, currently at HealthAlliance in Leominster for the past 11 years, I have had experience trying to care for too many patients at one time.
The three Republican contenders vying to challenge U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren will face off for the first time tomorrow in a potentially pivotal debate on Boston Herald Radio. The hourlong debate live on the "Battenfeld" show, set for noon in the Herald Radio studio, will be the first time all three GOP candidates sit down together and tangle over the issues - ranging from taxes to President Trump to foreign policy.
WASHINGTON The online fundraising platform ActBlue this week surged past the $1 billion mark in contributions to Democratic candidates and causes in this election cycle. The fundraising milestone, shared first with USA TODAY, offers a sign that the liberal activism fueled by President Trump's election isn't slowing down.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks in a sit-down conversation styled event with Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La, at Dillard University in New Orleans, Aug. 3, 2018. Warren was among the Democrats appearing at the Netroots Nations gathering.
At Netroots Nation, the largest annual gathering of liberal activists, the Democratic Party's leading left-wing voices lashed out at the political centrists. "We tried it their way and we lost to a racist extremist," Cynthia Nixon, who is waging a primary challenge against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D, said Friday.
Two possible contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination have drawn enthusiastic cheers from a gathering of liberal activists in New Orleans. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren told the Netroots Nation meeting Friday that President Donald Trump has helped wealthy corporate interests fight consumer protections, minimum wage laws and other initiatives to benefit workers by fostering racism, xenophobia and homophobia while "winking at white supremacists."
The "Blue Wave" is coming this fall, you may have heard time and time again in the wake of Democratic backlash against Republican President Donald Trump. State and congressional Republican candidates gathered downtown for the "GOP Meet and Rally Fest," making their case for a strong fall election season.
Senator Elizabeth Warren sharply criticized the Trump administration and congressional Republicans for straying away from American values in their handling of the opioid crisis and family separations at the border during a Saturday town hall meeting in the South End. on stage at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology.
Democratic 2020 prospects will descend on New Orleans this week as thousands of activists gather for the annual Netroots Nation. On Thursday, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is scheduled to deliver a major speech.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's political challengers are adopting a new tactic - showing up at her rallies in Massachusetts. On Saturday morning Warren is planning a town hall in Boston's South End neighborhood.
Is Elizabeth Warren having an extramarital affair with New York Magazine? I ask only because NYM just published a 7,200-word opus that reads like a deranged love letter to the American Native senator from Massachusetts, seeking to turn an old, wrinkled leftist with even older, more wrinkled leftist ideas into the fresh young face for America in 2020. So you donA t have to read the article for yourself, I have summarized the lowlights: 1. The article opens with a giant photo of Elizabeth WarrenA s geriatric fist raised proudly into the air.
Calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement began as whispers, but today are a lion's-roar demand, at least among illegal immigration advocates and their congressional allies. Early on, the loudest end-ICE voices were the usual suspects, with California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris leading the pack.