In this latest episode looking at “What We’re Building,” Hegemonicon host William Lawrence talks with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party (WFP). The WFP aims to become the leading political home for US progressives. It has built a reputation for staking out strategic electoral engagements on a state-by-state basis that have yielded some major victories in the political arena.
In this conversation, William and Maurice move between big-picture strategies and the nuts and bolts of WFP’s operation. They discuss the party’s hybrid governance model, its process for making election endorsements, and the infrastructure it has developed to navigate disagreements within its ranks.
Moving outward, the two talk about how to navigate relationships among growing left organizations such as WFP and the Democratic Socialists of America (featured on the show’s previous episode)—and they tackle the strategy needed to block the Right in the electoral arena while building stronger coalitions with progressive leadership that can anchor future work.
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