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Political signs on green lawns on a tree-lined street. “Elect Mayor Byron Brown” in the foreground, “India Walton” in the background.

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Why Did Centrist Democrats Fight India Walton So Hard?

by: Joy Katz
Article published:: November 19, 2021

The prospect of a Black, female democratic socialist mayor of Buffalo terrified NY's Democratic establishment.

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A diverse group of about 15 people posed with raised fists. They’re wearing warm sweatshirts and jackets, several of which are neon orange. Everyone is masked. In the background, bare trees and columned public buildings.

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State Power Building

We Need to Walk With Both Feet: Virginia Election Reflections

By: Jon Liss

Top text: Frontline Dispatches; Brandon Brown and Host Jennifer Disla; Black Voters Lead in GEorgia While Dems Flounder

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Brandon Brown: Black Voters Lead in Georgia While Dems Flounder

By: Jennifer Disla

Foreground: a brown-skinned man with long black hair holds a microphone and gestures as an Asian American woman looks at him. They’re on the sidewalk in a city small-business district. A small knot of people look on.

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Raising the Ceiling of Political Possibility in Boston

By: Beth Huang

In the center of the photo, a milky-skinned blonde woman with heavy black rectangular glasses and a form-fitting teal blue dress looks at another woman at the left side of the photo. The woman on the left is talking animatedly, pumping one arm; she wears a red T-shirt, is also white, looks sunburned.

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Danger from the Right

The Democrats as the ‘Un-Republican’ Party

By: Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Posed group of about 30 people, mixed ethnicities, men and women, mostly young.

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Community Organizing

DSA’s Sumathy Kumar & the Socialists in Office Committee

By: Stephanie Luce

Mass demonstration, shot from above. Bright T-shirts, lots of red and purple. Lead banner reads, in English and Spanish: “California: Fearless, United/Valientes y Unidos.”

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Danger from the Right

Turnout Key to Beat the Right in California Recall

By: Irene Rojas-Carroll and Marcy Rein

In the foreground, a Black woman in an electric-blue dress with her back to the camera, held by three young men in a group hug. The man with his back to the camera has a gold T-shirt that says “India for Buffalo Mayor.” They’re in a room with low light, with a multi-racial group of women gathered in a semi-circle around them.

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Community Organizing

India Walton Wins With People Power

By: Harper S.E. Bishop

Group of women sitting on folding chairs around a table. Some have laptops; there are plastic cups and canned drinks and some snacks on the table. They’re of various ethnicities; some have cornflower blue T-shirts with “Nelsie Yang” printed in white letters.

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Danger from the Right

Mapping the Moment: Elianne Farhat Says Rifts Reflect Our Power

By: Tobita Chow

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