Daniel Schlozman
@daschloz.bsky.social
Political scientist (at Johns Hopkins) and political button collector.
I don't have the latest gossip, but I did try in this piece to write the long saga, culminating in Ken Martin but extending long long before him (I even snuck in Paul Butler and Sam Rayburn), of how the DNC ended up in his present straits.
Daniel Schlozman@daschloz.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote about the DNC. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
If you’ve never recalled a book from yourself, are you even an academic?
Monica C. Schneider@poliscimonica.bsky.social · 2w agoPro-tip: If you are looking for a book, don't spend so much time on the library site or googling for a pdf or ordering it on Amazon until after you've looked through your own shelf.
An excellent idea, and a better next step than Medicare at 55 or "Medicare for all who want it."
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2w agoAndy Kim suggests a new health care policy: -Enroll every child in Medicaid until the age of 26 www.notus.org/healthcare/a...
If you want an essay about the DNC than Pangram doesn't think was written by AI, check out what I wrote: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
The DNC Against Itself | Daniel Schlozman
“Democracy is a very old institution,” explains the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of the 2024 election, belatedly released in May. “And yet what
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Ken Martin@kenmartin.bsky.social · 2w agoAs the DNC and political organizations around the country submit their FEC filings tonight, here are my thoughts on how we’re raising and deploying the resources necessary for Democrats to win up and down the ballot:
People should read this post by @charlotteeffect.bsky.social on the giant money sucking sound coming out of the Platner campaign. Fight (spending through LC), Moraff, and Helix are really efficient at getting money out of a campaign. cauldronllc.substack.com/p/how-did-th...
How did the Platner campaign spend their money?
mostly on ads and consulting. so much ads and consulting.
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This looks like a good, fair plan with a convention that can work its will and find a strong nominee. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/08/p...
Maine Democrats want a 600-person convention to pick Graham Platner’s replacement
The proposal would mark the first time Maine Democrats have used a convention of this scale to replace a statewide nominee.
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Everybody has claimed--sometimes convincingly, sometimes not--to have the Democratic Party's best interests at heart in this mess. But for Platner to behave like this right now is pure selfish hostage-taking. And good on the state party ED to speak up on the party's behalf.
TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com · 4w agoWow, this message from the Maine Democrats account on X. It sounds like Graham Platner is trying to stay actively involved in the process to replace him…and maybe even play kingmaker. And apparently Maine Dems are NOT having it.
A convention would be a much better, and dare I say, fairer process than either letting Platner pass the factional baton or deciding that it's time for a different faction to have its turn. Very midcentury reform liberal in a good way. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/07/p...
Maine Democrats work ‘around the clock’ on process to replace Graham Platner
“The eyes of the nation are on us,” Maine Democrats’ executive director Devon Murphy-Anderson said in a letter to state committee party members Tuesday.
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Favorite Maine political button from my collection, for the governor who donated the land for Baxter State Park (Mount Katahdin).
Statements from Dems like this one make it harder to press for Supreme Court reform. This ruling was a near-disaster and shows how unhinged SCOTUS has become—now just one vote away from overturning the 14th Amendment. But a sitting senator says they "applaud" the ruling.
Real cunning of history that Ruy Teixeira, a Maoist during their joint NAM days, is now at AEI while John Judis, never quite as doctrinaire a leftist, is a member of DSA. johnbjudis.substack.com/p/can-the-de...
Can the Democratic Party become Democratic Socialist?
Socialism, DSA, and the Recent Elections
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"But it’s not just the official party that is hollowed out. So are many of the organizations that ostensibly filled the void it left behind." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
The New York Left’s Super Tuesday - Dissent Magazine
The Democratic Party establishment was not happy about Zohran Mamdani’s election, but most did not treat it as an existential threat. The results of the 2026 primary elections can’t be so easily dismi...
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Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
That’s the perfect name for this time of oligarchs: “the Re-Gilded Age.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump: "Re-gilding of the massive Arts of War sculptures, located between The Lincoln Memorial and site of The Triumphal Arch, rapidly continues. The sculptures will be fully regilded by July 3. The photos were taken yesterday. The Gilders’ Studio has flown in Gilders from around the Country!"
To make a Hollow Parties-esque point: Platner emerged not from an actual party faction committed to social democracy and/or beating Susan Collins but individual actors who gain big if he wins but see little difference in their fortunes if he drops now or loses in November.
"Why has the US right since the 1970s been more effective than the left at grassroots community organizing? Part of the answer is that our side has no events with bouncy castles." read theory damn it www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...
Why is the Left No Fun?
Bouncy Castle Communism is the Solution
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As a speaker at today's tally, with speeches in English, Portuguese, and Wampanoag, said, "It is important to know your neighbors, because you may depend on them, and they may depend on you." www.mvtimes.com/2026/05/23/t...
Teenager taken by ICE released; hundreds gather in Menemsha rally - The Martha's Vineyard Times
Hundreds of Islanders stood and marched in solidarity with Nycolas de Al Varenga Lima, the high school student who was arrested by immigration officials alongside his father, Rogerio da Silva Lima, in...
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The extreme sloppiness of the DNC autopsy is exactly the point of incapacity in the formal party as they chose to contract out the job to someone who was manifestly incapable.
Targeting immigrant Islanders instills a culture of fear and disrupts the stability of our region just as we are preparing to welcome scores of visitors. No one should live in fear or be uprooted without cause and due process.
Island Father and Teenage Son Taken into ICE Custody
An Island worker and his teenage son who were out fishing off Menemsha this week were detained by the U.S. Coast Guard and transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilit...
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I am pretty confused why bsky is so mad about this. Establishing "neutral" rules of districting would require federal anti gerrymandering reform. This isn't saying things are ok without that reform. It's saying reform structured in anti-partisan ways would have more or less racially fair effects
The Upshot@upshot.nytimes.com · 3mo agoOur simulations show that the act isn’t needed for minority representation in the South, if partisan gerrymandering were checked. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...
Running as an Independent in a GOP-leaning district pre-primary with the understanding the Democrat will drop out is fair game. Announcing post-primary because you dislike the Dem nominee is not.
Austin Ahlman@ahlmanfornebraska.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm Austin Ahlman. Nebraska is my home. This is our fight. You are my people. Let’s take Nebraska back. Takenebraskaback.com
Just to add to this really excellent piece, in searching for institutional lessons from past moments of possibility, Reconstruction is far more useful than either the New Deal, when Congress was under segregationists' thumb, or the 1960s and the Warren Court's fleeting promise.
Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · 3mo agoBy gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.
The assault on the VRA is straightforwardly the end of the Second Reconstruction and also occurring alongside the broader Trump-GOP attack on democracy that has taken place amid race depolarization in the electorate.
Political scientists, if you haven’t listened to @iancoss.bsky.social podcasts, you’re missing out. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/a...
With ‘The Big Dig,’ Ian Coss puts Massachusetts at the center of podcasting - The Boston Globe
“Boston has an outsize mythology and presence in the national story,” Coss says.
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Taking a survey from the College Board, which turns out to be market research about AI-enhanced multiple choice tests. Grim, grim, grim.
Looking to browse through some books on a nice afternoon, maybe take my mind off the headlines.
@samrosenfeld.bsky.social and I wrote about the limits of Democrats expecting policy solutions to political problems. To respond to some chatter, our point is that all factions should be thinking organizationally--not that it's a cudgel for factional disagreement. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...
The 25th Amendment stuff is cope, but it's the first moment in the Trump-Biden-Trump years that members of Congress have stared into the maw of the imperial presidency en masse, and begun to grope toward some Linzian conclusions.
