Georgia Progressive Exchange

• Media Articles: DEBT CEILING: "Republicans and Debt: Blackmailers Without a Cause"
• Media Articles: MONEY IN POLITICS: "Billionaire's Lawsuit Against O'Rourke May Stifle Criticism of Money in Politics"

• Media Articles: MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: "'End the scam': Democrats unveil bill to change name of 'Medicare Advantage.'"
• Media Articles: MONEY IN POLITICS: "Billionaire's Lawsuit Against O'Rourke May Stifle Criticism of Money in Politics"

• Media Articles: MESSAGING; HISPANIC VOTERS; MEDIA, RADIO: "A media ceiling is about to fall in on Democrats."
• Media Articles: SOCIAL SECURITY: "The GOP Grabs the Third Rail(s) of American Politics"
• Media Articles: SOCIAL SECURITY: "A record share of earnings was not subject to Social Security taxes in 2021"
• Media Articles: DEBT CEILING: "The debt limit is the world’s highest-stakes horoscope"

• Media Articles: VOTE SUPPRESSION: "New report details why wealthy people really oppose democracy" (Thom Hartmann, AlterNet)
• Media Articles: LABOR; UNIONS: "Black Women Spearhead a New Southern Union"

• Media Articles: GEORGIA ELECTION 2022: "Record Turnout in Georgia?? MY A**!" (The Republicans' SB202 worked as intended.)
• Media Articles: DEMOCRACY: "Representative Democracy Got Us Into This Mess. Participatory Democracy Can Get Us Out"
• Media Articles: EDUCATION; SCHOOL BOARDS: "The Right Has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards"
• Media Articles: POWELL MEMO; CORPORATIONS: "How the corporate takeover of American politics began"
• Glossary: "generation" (e.g., Millennial, Gen Z)

• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "Headed Toward a Middle Ground? Today’s Argument in Moore v. Harper"
• Media Articles: FASCISM: "What Is Fascism?"
• Glossary: "reactionary"; "reaction"

• Media Articles: IMMIGRATION: "Forget the cruel stunts. What should we actually do about immigration?"
• Media Articles: MESSAGING; LANGUAGE: "What we really mean when we say ‘woke,’ ‘elites’ and other politically fraught terms."

• Media Articles: MESSAGING: "Is This When Democrats Finally Learn How to Message?"
• Media Articles: MESSAGING: "Economics, Democracy, and Freedom: It’s All One Argument"

• Media Articles: MONEY IN POLITICS: "Citizens United Explained"
• Media Articles: MONEY IN POLITICS: "Leonard Leo's Dark Money Network Threatens Democracy"

• Media Articles: LEGISLATION: "Yes, the Inflation Reduction Act Is a Big Effing Deal"
• Media Articles: U.S. INDUSTRIAL POLICY: "Brian Deese on Biden's vision for 'a twenty-first-century American industrial strategy.'"
• Media Articles: REPUBLICAN VOTERS: "Republicans Don't Know Anything About Their Party. That's Very Bad for American Democracy." (from December 31, 2020)

• Media Articles: EDUCATION; STUDENT DEBT: "The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous 'Educated Proletariat.'"
• Media Articles: EDUCATION: "Conservatives think education is a threat. They’re right."

• NEW! Media Articles: POLLING:"Partisans tend to cite different ideas for what more the government should do for parents and children." (Pew Research Center)

• Visual Media: MESSAGING: "Democrats Finally Get Their Messaging Act Together"
• Media Articles: "A radical plan for Trump's second term"
• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "The most dangerous upcoming Supreme Court decision you never heard of" (regarding the independent state legislature theory)
• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "What Happened in the U.S. House Committee Hearing on the Independent State Legislature Theory"

• Media Articles: CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: "Voters Have No Role to Play in the Right’s Vision of a Constitutional Convention"
• Media Articles: "The Real Battlegrounds" ("hyperlocal community organizing in regions of the country that Democrats and progressives tend to overlook")

• Media Articles: MEDICARE PRIVATIZATION: "Amazon Joins The Medicare Privatization Spree"
• Media Articles: MEDICARE PRIVATIZATION: "Seniors' Medicare Benefits Are Being Privatized Without Consent"

• Media Articles: DEMOCRACY: "Has Democracy a Future?" By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (from 1997)
• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "The 'Independent State Legislature Theory,' Explained"
• Media Articles: ABORTION: "The Hyde Amendment: A Discriminatory Ban on Insurance Coverage of Abortion"
• Resources—Organizations: Galvanize Georgia

• Media Articles: YOUNG VOTERS; ABORTION: "Younger voters agree with Democrats — but don't trust them. Here's how to fix that."
• Media Articles: ABORTION: "Antiabortion lawmakers want to block patients from crossing state lines."
• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "In Overturning Roe, Radical Supreme Court Declares War on the 14th Amendment"
• Media Articles: PSYCHOLOGY: "How to Win an Election"

• Media Articles: COUNTERING REPUBLICANS: "Democrats risk a crushing defeat this year. They must change course now."
• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "The most dangerous gun ruling in history, at the worst possible time"

• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "Dark Money Went In, Supreme Court Rulings Are Coming Out"
• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "The Supreme Court's gun ruling is bad, but not for the reasons you might think"
• Media Articles: MESSAGING: "A Unified Dem Narrative for 2022"

• Media Articles: MESSAGING ("NARRATIVE"): "To Regain the Support of 'Culturally Traditional but Not Extremist' Working Class Voters Democrats Need to Understand the Compelling Political Narrative That Leads Them to Vote for the GOP"
• Media Articles: MESSAGING ("NARRATIVE"): "The Culturally Traditional but Non-extremist Working Class Voters: Who They Are, How They Think and What Democrats Must Understand to Regain their Support"

• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT; VOTING RIGHTS: "U.S. Supreme Court allows counting of undated mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania"
• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "The Supreme Court Keeps Chipping Away at Your Constitutional Rights"
• Media Articles: MESSAGING: "Who’s persuadable in 2022?"
• Media Articles: MESSAGING: "Why Do Democrats Suck at Messaging?"
• Media Articles: MESSAGING: "Five most common mistakes in political persuasion"

• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT; GUNS: "The Right-Wing Lie That’s Killing Our Children"
• Media Articles: GUNS: "Conservatives' new scapegoat for mass shootings: 'Culture.'"

• Media Articles: RURAL AREAS: "Rural rising: Economic development strategies for America's heartland"
• Resources—Organizations: Rural Assembly

• Media Articles: ABORTION; SUPREME COURT: "A 49-year crusade: Inside the movement to overturn Roe v. Wade"
• Resources—Progressive Legislation: SUPREME COURT: Judiciary Act of 2021

• Media Articles: ABORTION: "Of Course the Constitution Has Nothing to Say About Abortion"
• Media Articles: ABORTION: "3 Test Cases Progressives Should Bring in a Post-Roe World"
• Media Articles: ABORTION: "These 13 corporations have spent $15 million supporting anti-abortion politicians since 2016"
• Media Articles: "The Fate of American Democracy Rests on Bold Progressive Choices"

• Media Articles: EXECUTIVE ORDERS; PROGRESSIVE GROUPS: "Congressional Progressive Caucus Issues Executive Action Agenda for Biden Administration"
• Media Articles: LANGUAGE; MESSAGING: "Putin's brazen manipulation of language is a perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak"
• Media Articles: UKRAINE: "Zelensky’s address to Congress, annotated"

• Media Articles: "Why the GOP agenda will grow even more extreme in the coming years"
• Resources—Organizations: United Rural Democrats
• Resources—Organizations: Movement Labs - Rural Power Lab Program

• Media Articles: OIL INDUSTRY: "The U.S. Government Doesn't Control Domestic Oil Production. But It Should"
• Media Articles: OIL INDUSTRY: "Exposed: The Trump, Putin and Saudi connection to high gas prices"

• Media Articles: RUSSIA; PUTIN: "The Intelligence Community's Assessment of Putin: Psychopath or Rational Leader?"
• Media Articles: RUSSIA; PUTIN: "Russia, Ukraine and the 30-year quest for a post-Soviet order"
• Media Articles: "AIPAC's Endorsement List: Dozens of Republicans Who Deny Biden's Election Win"

• Visual Media: "Putin's Republican cheerleaders"
• Visual Media: RACISM, HUMOR (with Stephen Colbert!?): "How are we supposed to discuss Black history if states keep making laws banning topics that make some white people uncomfortable."
• Visual Media: "Ezra Klein Explains Why Democrats Need To Think Big To Win The Future"

• Media Articles: FINANCIAL SANCTIONS: "Biden's Ukraine Plans Face Wall Street Roadblock"
• Media Articles: POLLING: "Public's Top Priority for 2022: Strengthening the Nation's Economyk"

• Resources—Organizations: News Literacy Project (overcoming misinformation)
• Visual Media: "These students are learning how to spot misinformation" (YouTube)

• Media Articles: "Georgia and the COVID-19 Pandemic" (impact on poor and low-income people)
• Resources—Organizations: Georgia Alliance for Social Justice

• Media Articles: DEMOCRACY: "Trump Victim Act Follows Authoritarian Playbook Drawing In Fanatical Supporters"
• Books-Magazines: "Strongmen review: a chilling history for one nation no longer under Trump"

• Media Articles: ECONOMICS, MILTON FRIEDMAN: "The End of Friedmanomics"
• Media Articles: MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: "The Troubled Insurance Sales Firm Behind Those Joe Namath Ads for Medicare Advantage"
• Media Articles: CONSERVATISM: "The Radical Young Intellectuals Who Want to Take Over the American Right"

• Media Articles: "What the GOP Does to Its Own Dissenters"
• Media Articles: "Judge denies attempts to dismiss lawsuits over Georgia voting law"

• Media Articles: "Princeton Gerrymandering Project: Georgia" (maps)
• Media Articles: "Progressives sweep 2021 municipal elections across Georgia"
• Media Articles: "Biden's Supreme Court commission endorses final report noting bipartisan public support for term limits"

• Media Articles: "Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun"
• Books-Magazines: "Pain Machine: Why our health care system is broken."

• Media Articles: "Wonking out: Going beyond the inflation headlines"
• Media Articles: "Why are Americans so unhappy with Joe Biden?"

• Media Articles: INFRASTRUCTURE: "Congress approves $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, sending measure to Biden for enactment"
• Media Articles: INFRASTRUCTURE: "What’s in the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package"
• Media Articles: MESSAGING: "Here’s How Democrats Need to Talk About Education"
• Media Articles: "Lessons From Virginia: You Can’t Ignore the Civil War"
• Media Articles: LANGUAGE; MESSAGING: "BIPOC or POC? Equity or Equality? The Debate Over Language on the Left"

• Media Articles: "Dear Moderates: The Left Isn't Why McAuliffe Lost Virginia"
• Media Articles: "Left Coalition Says McAuliffe Campaign Was a 'Controlled Experiment for What Not to Do in 2022'"

• Media Articles: FASCISM: "The 'Thrill' of Fascism: Explaining the Brutality, Hatred and Powerful Appeal of the Radical Right"
• Media Articles: "Joe Manchin's ugly new demands expose the absurdity of arbitrary centrism"
• Media Articles: "Debate over which Democratic proposals to invest in shortchanges our needs"

• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "Biden's Supreme Court commission has good ideas. But the court's problems run deeper"
• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT: "The White House Report on Supreme Court Reform Made a Glaring Omission"
• Media Articles: "Our system is biased against reform. Get used to it, Democrats"

• Media Articles: "Popular-ism and the Democratic Messaging Deficit"
• Media Articles: "Shor is mainly wrong about racism (which is to say, about electoral politics)"

• Media Articles: "When hope is a hindrance: For Hannah Arendt, hope is a dangerous barrier to courageous action. In dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act"
• Media Articles: STUDENT LOANS: "U.S. Department of Education Announces Transformational Changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, Will Put Over 550,000 Public Service Workers Closer to Loan Forgiveness"

• Visual Media: DEMOCRACY: "Senate Report Exposes 'A Mini Attempted Coup d'état' Within The DOJ Under Trump"
• Media Articles: 'Stunning distortion of DOJ’s authority': Here are 6 key findings in Senate Judiciary's report on Trump election interference

• Media Articles: "What if everything we think about centrists and ideologues is wrong?"
• Media Articles: "Different names, unifying power: Hispanic, Latino, Latinx"
• Media Articles: "When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?"
• Resources—Progressive Legislation: George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021

• Media Articles: "Biden, mandates and the other freedom — from the coronavirus"
• Media Articles: "Isaiah Berlin: Two Concepts of Liberty"

• Media Articles: "Voting Rights and Labor Rights: The Two Sleepers in Budget Reconciliation"
• Media Articles: "It's time to end the Medicare Advantage scam"
• Glossary: "republic"; "liberty"

• SUPREME COURT, SHADOW DOCKET: Media Articles: "The Supreme Court's latest salvo exposes the trick John Roberts has played on the country"
• ABORTION: Media Articles: "When human life begins is a question of politics – not biology"
• MESSAGING: Media Articles: "Don't Say Nationalist, Populist or Authoritarian"

• Glossary: "fascism"
• Glossary: "fascist"
• Page added: DPG (Democratic Party of Georgia) Progressive Council
• PROGRESSIVE AGENDA; MESSAGING Resources—Organizations: Public Leadership Institute
• "Progressive"?: What We Stand For in Twelve Words

Media Articles: PSYCHOLOGY: "A social scientist's terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy." (This is an interview with the author of a document posted July 14, 2021 on this website.)

• Media Articles: "Trump Is Planning a Much More Respectable Coup Next Time"
• Media Articles: "The Big Money Behind the Big Lie" (Jane Mayer)

• Media Articles: "How America lost its commitment to the right to vote"
• Media Articles: "The Supreme Court isn’t even pretending that it’s bound by legal texts in its voting rights cases."
• Media Articles: "Brnovich v. DNC is a bad opinion for voting rights. It’s also much better than could have been expected from a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS."

• Media Articles: SUPREME COURT, VOTING RIGHTS: "The Democrats Are Bungling Voting Rights—but Not in the Way You Think"
• Resources—Historical Documents: "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and 'I Have A Dream' speech"

Media Articles: PSYCHOLOGY: "The Evolutionary Psychology of Conflict and the Functions of Falsehood"

• Visual Media (YouTube): "Rep. Tim Ryan: We Must Get Rid Of The Senate Filibuster"
• Visual Media (YouTube): "General Mark Milley hits back at uproar over critical race theory"
• Visual Media (YouTube): "The Truth About 'Critical Race Theory': Co-Founder Breaks Down GOP Gaslighting"

• Resources—Progressive Legislation: For the People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1) (Common Cause)
• Resources—Progressive Legislation: Annotated Guide to the For the People Act of 2021 (Brennan Center for Justice)

• Media Articles: "Let’s Take the Filibuster to Court"
• Glossary: "propaganda"

• Media Articles: "What critical race theory is -- and isn't"
• Glossary: "critical race theory"

• Media Articles: LANGUAGE, MESSAGING: "Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by President Biden — Address to a Joint Session of Congress"
• Media Articles: LANGUAGE, MESSAGING: "Wokeness is a problem and we all know it"
• Resources—Organizations: "Congressional Progressive Caucus"

• Media Articles: "The Blue States That Make It Hardest to Vote"
• Media Articles: "The GOP's Barebones America"

• Media Articles: GA redistricting (gerrymandering): "Reporting Recipe: How To Be A Redistricting Watchdog"
• Media Articles: LABOR: "Blowout in Bessemer: A Postmortem on the Amazon Campaign"
• Resources—Organizations: "Progressives for Democracy in America"
• Resources—Documents: "Educating for American Democracy"

• Media Articles: "Liberals Must Rebuild Their Intellectual Infrastructure"
• Media Articles: "the Synecdoche Problem" (Who actually speaks for a group?)
• Media Articles: "The GOP Is Voting Against Its Base" (rural voters)
• Media Articles: "Commentary: Which Think Tanks Think About Rural America?"

• Glossary: "liberalism"
• Glossary: "liberty"
• Resources—Organizations: "Georgia STAND-UP"
• Resources—Organizations: "ProGeorgia State Table"

• Resources—Organizations: "America Votes" (Georgia affiliate email form)
• Resources—Organizations: "Black Lives Matter"
• Resources—Organizations: "Black Voters Matter"
• Resources—Organizations: "Brennan Center for Justice"
• Resources—Organizations: "Coalition for the People's Agenda"
• Resources—Organizations: "Fair Fight"
• Resources—Organizations: "Georgia Budget & Policy Institute (GBPI)"
• Resources—Organizations: "Movement for Black Lives"
• Resources—Organizations: "NAACP," "Georgia NAACP"
• Resources—Organizations: "OpenSecrets.org (Center for Responsive Politics)"
• Resources—Organizations: "The New Georgia Project"

• Media Articles: "The Real Reason Republicans Couldn't Kill Obamacare"
• Media Articles: "Why McConnell Gets Away With Filibustering"

• Media Articles: "The Filibuster's Ugly History and Why It Must Be Scrapped"
• Media Articles: "Joe Manchin's filibuster demands might end up making Republican obstruction even worse"
• Media Articles: "Fine, Keep the Filibuster. Kill the 60-Vote Requirement Instead"

• Resources—Organizations: "159 Georgia Together"
• Media Articles: "Opinion: The Way Out of America’s Zero-Sum Thinking on Race and Wealth"
• Books & Magazines—Books: "‘The Sum of Us’ Tallies the Cost of Racism for Everyone"

• Media Articles: "How a Legacy of Organizing Among Domestic Workers Helped Turn Georgia Blue"
• Media Articles: "The Secret to Beating Trump Lies With You and Your Friends" (Relational Organizing)

• Resources—Documents: "Systemic Racism"
• Glossary: "systemic racism"

• Resources—Documents: SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] Digital Gateway
• Resources—Historical Documents: Powell memorandum (1971)

• Resources—Progressive Legislation: S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
• Resources—Documents: Students for a Democratic Society (University of Georgia, 2017)

• Glossary: "freedom"
• Media Articles: "The Black Vote Was Good But Not Great for the Democrats in 2020"
• Books & Magazines—Books: "Book Review: George Lakoff's 'Whose Freedom?'" (2007)

• Media Articles: "Trump pollster's campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat"
• Media Articles: "Post Election Exit Poll Analysis, 10 Key Target States"

• Media Articles: LANGUAGE; MESSAGING: "On the Uses and Abuses of Political Language"; LANGUAGE; MESSAGING: "Politics and the English Language" (George Orwell, 1946)
• Media Articles: MESSAGING — "Opinion: Why is it so hard to deprogram Trumpian conspiracy theorists?"

• Media Articles: "A new day for labor in the South?"
• Resources—Progressive Legislation: Labor Unions - H.R.2474 - Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019 (116th Congress)

• Resources—Documents: "Progressive Southern Strategy" (Developed by Andrea Miller and Terence Dicks, 2016)
• Resources—Documents: "Progressive Thinking: A Synthesis of American Progressive Values, Beliefs and Positions"

• Resources—Progressive Legislation: "H.R. 1" (House Resolution 1 - 116th Congress, reintroduced in 117th Congress)
• Books & Magazines—Books: "How Fascism Works review: a vital read for a nation under Trump"

• "Progressive?" (definition) section expanded
• Resources—Historical Documents: "Social Security Act of 1935"; "Medicare" (1965)

• Media Articles: "The Insurrection Hiding in Plain Sight" (SOCIAL MEDIA)
• Resources—Organizations: "ACLU, ACLU Foundation, ACLU of Georgia, SPLC (revised), American Constitution Society"
• Resources—Historical Documents: "Voting Rights Act of 1965"
• Book & Magazines section added (book reviews moved from Media Articles)

• Media Articles: POLLING: "Black, Latino and Asian Americans have been key to Georgia’s registered voter growth since 2016"
• Media Articles: POLLING: "Black eligible voters have accounted for nearly half of Georgia electorate’s growth since 2000"

• Books & Magazines: "Is America Trapped in a Caste System?"
• Resources—Historical Documents: Civil Rights Act of 1964 (From Wikipedia)
• Glossary: "democracy,"
• Glossary: "progressivism"

• Media Articles: RURAL AREAS: "Why Democrats Keep Losing Rural Counties Like Mine"
• Media Articles: "Why Republicans Want to Make Class, Not Race, the New Political Fault Line"
• Media Articles: "Why Biden shouldn't extend an olive branch to Republicans"
• Media Articles: "Rio Grande Valley Republicans"
• NEW! Media Articles: "It's Not Just Trump: COVID-19 Is The Test That Conservatism Was Built To Fail"

• Media Articles: "Democracy's Afterlife..."
• Resources—Documents: Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy....
• Resources—Documents: Political Differences: Why We're 'Divided' Politically