The Connector (2020 Substack)

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"And You May Ask Yourself, How Did We Get Here?"
"If it’s not helping, then shut the f--- up."
"People Like Us Do Things Like This"
"The Revolution is Here" Unpacking The Amazon Labor Union Win
“An Insurgency to Take Over the Democratic Party”
“Before we persuade, we have to listen.”
“If what you are doing is legitimate...why do you need to cover your face?”
“Once you are accused of genocide, you are a Nazi.”
“Your funeral is inconvenient for my activism"
🔥 BREAKING: Only a $5 Gift Can Stop the Lies About Mothership!
2023-12-28 OGM Call
2024-04 REX Call
3 Things Democrats Could Do That They Aren't (Yet)
A “Dating Site to Defeat Fascism”
A Close Encounter With Nancy Pelosi
A New Third Party Hope in Kansas
A Podcast to Listen To and a Book to Read (while I battle Covid)
A Silver Lining in the Middle East?
A Tale of Two Summits: WelcomeFest and Netroots Nation
A Tale of Two Whistleblowers: Daniel Ellsberg, Frances Haugen and the Fight for the Truth
A Tectonic Shift in US-Israel Relations is Underway
Across the Great Divide (xlnt)
An Activist Base is a Terrible Thing to Waste
An End to Business as Usual (xlnt)
And We Are Not Saved
Announcing My New Book: When Doves Try
As war rages, where is the US peace movement?
Ben Wikler on The Fight for Your Right to (a Strong) Party
Blessed Are the Bridge-Builders?
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Bonus Post: Connections, Capacity, and Impact: Strategic Thinking About Political Action
Born Under Punchcards: When Govt Met Web 2.0
Breaking Government in Order to "Fix" It
Breaking the Social Justice "Doom Loop"
Building Prisms of Power, Not Sandcastles that Get Washed Away Each Election
By the Numbers: A Portrait of Our Times
Can Democrats Be 'People-First' If Their Campaigns Value People Last? (xlnt)
Can Local News Coops Fill the Civic Desert?
Can We Change the Democratic Playbook?
Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right
Corruption Uber Alles
Cory Booker's Two Faces
Covid, the Crisis of Government Ops, and the Collateral Damage of the Crypto Craze
Cryptocurrency, Epstein and the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle
Data as the New Soil, Not Oil
Divorce, American Style
Don't Look Up! (The Sequel)
Donald Trump's Two Hours of Hate
Donor Exhaustion: Is it the Fault of the 'DEI Horde'?
Down to the Wire in Pennsylvania
Dreams (or Nightmares) of Civil War
Fake-Fighting Fascism
Fear of a TikTok Planet
Finishing With Twitter/X
Forks in the Road
From Israel to America: A Warning in Bibi Netanyahu's Comeback
Getting Past Democracy's Boom-and-Bust Cycle
Getting Ready for No Kings 3
Have We Finally Hit "Peak Email"?
Hope is Not a Strategy
How "Democracy Centers" are Sprouting Across the South
How Anti-Antisemitism is Losing its Power
How Do We Want People to Feel When They're Learning About Our Movements?
How Kamala Harris is Navigating the Israel-Palestine Conflict
How Radical Love Could Depolarize America (xlnt)
How the Crypto Craze Corrupted Politics
How the Democratic Party "Blob" Rolls
How the GOP is "Showing Up" in Democratic Strongholds While Dems Dither
How to Build a "Bigger We" - and Go From Isolated Actions to Cultural Change
How to Get to a Multiracial Democracy (xlnt)
How To Not Set Your Money on Fire in 2024
How to Think About AI Without Losing Your Mind
How We’re Mobilizing as Election Day Approaches
How Zohran Mamdani's "Tremendous Force" is Remaking New York Politics
ICE is Feeding the Whirlwind
If Politics is Your Hobby Horse, You're Riding to Nowhere
If the Movements of the Last Decade Are Done, What Comes Next?
In Search of Democracy's Movement
In Search of Democracy's Movement (II)
In Search of Tactics That Win
Independents, Double-Haters, & Third-Parties
Introducing ProDemStack: An Interactive Network Map of Pro-Democracy Substacks
Is Congress About to Revolutionize Politics? (xlnt)
Is it Finally Time to Quit Twitter/X?
Is the AI Wolf Really at the Door?
It's a Crime Spree, Not a "Coup"
Keep Calm and Protect Democracy
Learning from Victor Navasky (1933-2023)
Lessons from Israel's Pro-Democracy Protest Movement
Lies, Damn Lies, and Metrics
Lighting the Beacons of Hope
Line-Waiters, Line-Cutters, Donald Trump and the Pride Paradox
Marching Through the Wilderness
More on the Poverty of Democratic Party Organizing
Movement-Building As the Pandemic Fades (?)
New York's Hollow Party Wars
News: The Post-'24 Democratic Tech Reckoning Has Begun
Nine Lessons to Learn from Hungary
No Place to Stand (xlnt)
Not "Sobering Up" in Israel/Palestine
Notes in Movement Time
Notes on No Kings 3: We're Going to Need a Bigger, Broader Movement
Notes on Organizing During This Crazy Time
Notes on the Aftermath
On Antisemitism and the Fight for Democracy
On Canvassing: The Mind You Change May Be Your Own
Once More Unto the Breach
One Last Thing to Win: Let’s Go Relational!
Opening the DNC's Black Box
Operation Grim Beeper and the Weaponization of Everything
Purging the Demons at #DNC2024
Purposeful Places, Community Entrepreneurs and the Defense of Democracy
Rage Against the Machine
Randy Kehler - 1944-2024
Read The News Today, Oh Boy
Rejecting the Binary of Israel or Palestine
Rob Stein's Liberal Legacy
Say Hello to the Multi-Party US House of Representatives
Searching for Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Crisis in America
Send Elon Musk to Mars!
Seven Things to Remember as the Iran War Fog Descends
Six Notes on the Zohran Mamdani Miracle
Slouching into September
Slouching to Election Day with MiniVAN
Slouching Towards 2024
Slouching Towards Bedlam
Slouching Towards the 2024 Election
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined (xlnt)
Snapshots From Our Summer of Madness
So Many Contradictions, So Little Time
Solidarity Tech: The Platform Powering Zohran Mamdani's Movement
Some Questions, Some Answers
Special Bonus Edition: The Changing Politics of Abortion (xlnt)
Spring Break Reading Recommendations (2022)
Standing Athwart History, Yelling Stop
Staring into the January 6th Abyss
Student Debt Relief and Democratic Turnout
Substackers Against Nazis
The "Twitter Files" and the Meme Wars
The "Woke" "Socialist" "Regime" in Republican Sights
The AI Land Grab Begins
The Bad News Echo-Chamber of Pro-Democracy Substack
The Best and the Brightest
The Climate Emergency and the Better Future That is Still Possible
The Cup Runneth Over in Israel/Palestine
The Defiance is Getting More Creative
The Defiance is Spreading
The Defiance This Time
The Democracy Reforms Transforming Local Politics
The Don't Look Up Opportunity
The Endangered Coral Reef of Democracy (xlnt)
The First AI War: How Israel Moved Fast and Broke Things in Gaza
The Future of Reality
The Hard Work of Persuasion
The Hidden Role of Structure in Progressive Organizing
The Israel/Palestine Vibe Shift
The Phoney War is Ending: Are We Ready?
The Phoney War We're Living Through
The Poverty of Democratic Organizing Reaches a Crisis Point
The President Has No Clothes!
The Road Not Taken: Hard Truths about Jamaal Bowman’s Loss
The Seven-Minute Abs of Electioneering
The Siren Song of Bitcoin Libertarianism
The State of Civic Tech as Seen from TICTeC 2024
The Third-Party Problem in 2024 and a Longer-Range Solution
The TikTok Gap Isn't About TikTok
The Toxic Media Platform No One is Talking About
The Unfinished Election of 2020
The Unfinished Work of Frank McCourt Jr.
The Unwisdom of Crowds (and Hypernetworked Tech VCs)
The Worst Government Money Can Buy
Think You Understand American Politics? Take This Quiz.
This Machine Quells Fascists
This Shor Smells Bad***
Three Cheers for Human Friction
Time to Calm Down About AI and Politics
Toward Two States, One Homeland?
Traffic: How America got Facebookified in the 2010s
Trump and Miller Go to War
Unrealistic Cynicism vs Realistic Hope
Was January 6th Unthinkable?
Watching the "People's Convoy" Get Moving
We are Not "Good Germans"
We Don't Need Another Hero
We Have Friends Everywhere
We Have More Friends Everywhere
We Stand at a Crossroads: World War or Climate Action
Welcome to Movement Time
Welcome to the Missile East, Where Alliances Matter More Than Border Fences
What Gives Us Hope?
What Happens After We March?
What is Bernie Sanders Building This Time?
What Israel/Palestine 'Hot Takes' Have Revealed (xlnt)
What it Will Take to Stop a 2026 Power Grab
What Margaret Mead Left Out
What They’re Still Not Telling Us About the UFOs They Shot Down
When "Tech for Good" Goes Bad
When A Community Organizer Goes to Congress
When History Overflows, Build a Lifeboat
When Hurt People Hurt People
When Memory Serves
When the Doors You Knock Belong to Your Own Neighbors
When You Have a Magnifying Glass, Everything Looks Bigger
Where Do We Meet Each Other?
Which Side Are You On?
Whose Lives Matter?
Why “vote harder” and other nostrums aren’t an answer for the Callais decision
Why Are We Still Living with VANxiety?
Why Dems Keep Fighting the Last War
Why Talarico Could be the Mamdani of 2026
Why the 3.5% Rule is the Wrong Metric for The Defiance
Why the Knicks Win Feels So Big
Why We Don't Need Twitter
Why We Need a Bigger Map
Will Mamdani's Movement Avoid "the Obama Trap"?
With Millions Disaffected from Politics, An Answer Beckons: Belonging.
Yotam Marom and the Politics of Powerlessness
You Can't Stop ICE By Ignoring Stephen Miller

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