Student debt relief is good policy and good politics, so why hasn't Biden acted?

President Joe Biden ran on, among other things, student debt forgiveness. It still hasn’t happened. How and why, today, on Daily Kos The Brief, our weekly show about politics. 

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Nse Ufot runs Stacey Abrams' New Georgia Project, and she's joining us to talk 2022 on The Brief

The New Georgia Project (NGP) is the model we need to see go national. Founded by future Georgia governor Stacey Abrams, NGP helped build the ground organization that propelled Sens. Raphael Warnock …

Can pro-Democracy Republicans help Dems retain control this November, on today's The Brief

Watching conservative Rep. Liz Cheney own the Jan. 6 Committee to great effect, it’s clear that Republicans are simply built more cutthroat than Democrats. Frustrating, I know! What would it look like …

This week on The Brief: Joe Trippi on an optimistic vision for 2022 and the pro-democracy movement

What lies ahead in 2022? While conventional wisdom might indicate that Democrats stand to lose big in this year’s elections, many factors could play against that. On this week’s episode of The Brief, …

Joe Trippi thinks Democrats have a chance in 2022, and we brought him on The Brief to talk about it

You might remember Joe Trippi from high-profile campaigns like Jerry Brown’s in California, Howard Dean’s for President, and Doug Jones’ for Senate. These days, he’s got a great podcast (Apple, …

Kos and Kerry are back with The Brief podcast, talking insurrectionists and the 2022 outlook

Look at me, referring to myself in the third person in the headline. Feels weird, but hey, it’s the truth—we’re back in the new year, ready to cover the unfolding 2022 election and the political …

The Supreme Court is a national crisis. Is there any hope of fixing it?

Last week’s Daily Kos The Brief podcast was our most popular of the year, by far. In that episode, we talked about how to talk to people across the ideological divide—particularly salient ahead of the …

Arizona is critical in 2022—in every way possible

Today, on The Brief, we’re talking Arizona.

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Along with Georgia, Democrats managed massive vote shifts in 2020, helping deliver the state to Joe Biden. Donald Trump still hasn’t gotten …

How can Democrats avoid 2021-like results as we try and hold Congress in 2022?

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Today, we take a look at last week’s electoral wreckage and what it …

Election Day edition of The Brief: Does Virginia really presage anything for 2022?

It’s Election Day! Virginia isn’t the only state with key races on the ballot, but it’s the one everyone is watching. How Virginia goes today, goes the nation next year! Or does it? 

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Pennsylvania is critical to making Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema obsolete... and winning in 2024

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On our weekly podcast about politics, Daily Kos The Brief, we’re in the middle of our new series spotlighting great organizations doing on the ground organizing in key 2022 battleground …

Democrats win big in California recall. What does that mean heading into 2022 cycle?

Republicans in California and nationally thought they had a winner: using a ridiculous and nonsensical recall system in one of the most Democratic states to sneak in one of their own as governor. The …

The Supreme Court effectively overturns Roe. Can Democrats get electoral revenge?

Texas has effectively banned abortion, and the Supreme Court refused a temporary restraining order while the case winds its way up the courts. As last week’s guest, The Nation’s Elie Mystal, argued, …

Elie Mystal is back on The Brief to talk about the Texas anti-abortion law, and how we can fight it

September promises to be exhaustingly jam packed. In Congress, we’ve got, well, all of this: 

Democrats have a jam-packed to-do list, but conservative Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and …

How important are women candidates for the Democratic Party, exactly?

The headline asks how important women candidates are to the Democratic Party. Really, it’s a stupid question, and we all know the answer. And it’s not just women candidates: Women, in general, are the …

Arizona progress champion Rep. Ruben Gallego on democracy, the Latino vote, and oh yeah, Sen. Sinema

Arizona is ground zero in our fight for our democracy. It was a 50-50 state in the 2020 presidential election, and was won by Democrats thanks to turnout gains among Latinos, American Indians, and …

Youth voters saved Democrats and America in 2020. Can they do the same in 2022?

When an election is as tight as the one in 2020, from the presidency on down to the Senate runoff elections in Georgia, everyone is the reason we won. In Georgia, the Latino population is small, but …

Has the political press learned anything in its coverage of the Trump Republican Party?

Have you guys taken a listen to my new podcast, co-hosted with Kerry Eleveld? If not, you should start! Maybe it’s your first podcast. Or you’ve got others in your rotation. Whatever the case, I’m …

Candidate recruitment critical ahead of this latest Most Important Election In Our Lifetimes

It might seem trite, but it’s not. Yes, the last election was the most important election in our lifetimes, and so was 2016 and 2018. The difference in outcomes, depending on who wins, is monumental. …

Historian Elizabeth Hinton: George Floyd movement is continuation of a decades-long Black rebellion

It’s that time of the week, and as always the case, we have a great Daily Kos “The Brief” show on tap. This is the one-year anniversary of the George Floyd murder (and only one year, which seems …