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It took not even two cycles for progressives to build a winning elections apparatus in the House, knocking down incumbent titans and dominating in open seats. That might never have happened if not for one stunning misstep from Cheri Bustos and the DCCC... https://prospect.org/politics/how-progressives-built-a-campaign-machine-thanks-to-the-dccc/
Last March, as the 2020 cycle began, @RepCheri, backed by @SpeakerPelosi, announced that any vendor/strategist/firm who worked with a progressive challenger would be barred from lucrative DCCC contracts. That, they thought, would choke out the insurgency. https://prospect.org/politics/how-progressives-built-a-campaign-machine-thanks-to-the-dccc/
It backfired spectacularly. Progressive groups were forced to treat races as life or death. So the long-disorganized left huddled up, joined forces, and got serious about winningâwhich resulted in @CoriBush, @MondaireJones, @JamaalBowmanNY, @Marie4Congress https://prospect.org/politics/how-progressives-built-a-campaign-machine-thanks-to-the-dccc/
Mainstream press and corporate Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries once taunted progressives when they lost. Not anymore. Progressives have won more primaries in this cycle than the Tea Party, the most significant political group of the 2010s, ever won in one. https://prospect.org/politics/how-progressives-built-a-campaign-machine-thanks-to-the-dccc/
It's an astonishing rise in no time at all. And it's not over yet. Because in Massachusetts earlier this month they showed where this is heading in 2022: the Senate. https://prospect.org/politics/how-progressives-built-a-campaign-machine-thanks-to-the-dccc/
None of this happens without the tireless work of @justicedems @WorkingFamilies @IndivisibleTeam @MiddleSeatCo @sunrisemvmt and moreâit just so happens that the Ingredient X that made the whole thing come together was the @dcccâs blacklist. https://prospect.org/politics/how-progressives-built-a-campaign-machine-thanks-to-the-dccc/
