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Remembering Paul Wellstone with David Bly (Ep 9)

In November 1990, 18-year old Jordi, a freshman at Carleton College, registered to vote at the polling place and voted for Paul Wellstone.  “It’s been all worse choices since then,” he quips. We look back fondly and mournfully on Senator Paul Wellstone’s legacy, fifteen years to the day he, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, and three…

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Barnstorming PA Episode 4: Cider and Party Infrastructure

At Civil War Cider this week, we recorded very late. We discuss a NYT article about the resistance. Cider is drunk. What is wrong with the Democratic party. “If the Democratic strategy is to wait for people to wake up and smell the coffee, we are fucked.” Jordi Comas Picture credit.

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