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It’s OK If You Don’t Read This
Pro-democracy activists and veteran organizers alike are struggling with information overload and outrage fatigue. But there are ways to cope!
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Micah L. Sifry
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🔥 BREAKING: Only a $5 Gift Can Stop the Lies About Mothership!
The defenders of spam-and-scam, churn-and-burn fundraising are proud of what they do! And they are pushing back. Which means we're at a tipping point…
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Micah L. Sifry
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Bad News and Good News on the Fundraising Front
A new investigation shows how one Democratic firm has built a self-dealing nexus of shady PACs, while ActBlue, the fundraising powerhouse, finally takes…
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Micah L. Sifry
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July 2025

The Israel/Palestine Vibe Shift
As Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander have shown, including progressive Zionists in your coalition is very smart politics. Plus, debating how and when to…
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Micah L. Sifry
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Cryptocurrency, Epstein and the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle
The silver lining: “The amount of energy needed to sustain bullshit *that is obvious to all* is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce…
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Micah L. Sifry
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A Podcast to Listen To and a Book to Read (while I battle Covid)
Say hello to "This Old Democracy," my new podcast with the Center for Ballot Freedom. And check out "Out of Many, One," a new anthology on American…
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Micah L. Sifry
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The Hard Work of Persuasion
While the Defiance keeps growing, here's an argument for moving from mass protest to lots of face-to-face engagement with people who *aren't* already in…
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Micah L. Sifry
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Six Notes on the Zohran Mamdani Miracle
How he expanded the electorate, defeated Cuomo's money machine, and made the election about affordability rather than identity politics.
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Micah L. Sifry
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June 2025

So Many Contradictions, So Little Time
There's a through-line connecting Mad King Trump's claims about war with Iran and Prince of Darkness Andrew Cuomo's bid for political rehabilitation in…
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Micah L. Sifry
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We Have Friends Everywhere
The Defiance is expanding, even to small rural towns. Plus, the danger of war with Iran and more on the ongoing debate on changing the Democratic…
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Micah L. Sifry
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Trump and Miller Go to War
Sending the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles to quell a non-existent "insurrection," they're proving to be as dangerous as we feared. But the…
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Micah L. Sifry
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“If what you are doing is legitimate...why do you need to cover your face?”
We're at an inflection point, as the Trump regime pushes ICE to arrest far more people and the public starts to really push back.
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Micah L. Sifry
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