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Jawanza Williams

Jawanza Williams

  • New York Leftists Strategize for the Post-Trump Era

    Julia Salazar Albany

    State Senator Julia Salazar with activists (photo: NY Senate)


    For four years, moderate and progressive Democrats, a number of independents, and even some Republicans have shared a common objective: ensure Donald Trump is a one-term president.

    Now, with that objective accomplished and a moderate Democrat in Joe Biden set to enter the White House in January, leftists are ready to go all out, at the federal and local levels, to pull the party further leftward and accomplish goals like taxing the wealthy and defunding the police so that they can pass

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