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It didn’t work for Republicans in this election—but their war on voting is far from dead.

David Sarasohn on the Native American vote, Elisa Wouk Almino and Jeff Ernsthausen on the push for Puerto Rican statehood.

As we saw in this election, people of color can no longer be called "minorities." It's time to seize that power in the fight for true equality. 

In 2012, white supremacy not only lost the election. It was a crucial factor in explaining how Obama won.

Why women are winning the culture wars and what we should take on next.

From Senate races to state and city referendums, Americans made clear they wanted to limit the corrupting power of corporate money.

The Romney campaign’s self-delusion was only possible because of its MSM enablers.

In the next four years—and beyond—progressives must create the political space for the president to represent the majority of Americans.

Though sentencing, the drug war and other criminal justice issues were absent from the presidential contest, November 6 saw a wave of voter initiatives that will change policy on “three strikes,” marijuana, and more.

350.org’s caravan heads to Washington, DC, to push President Obama to address climate change in his second term.