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And we’ll do it again

A new congressional map takes the Tar Heel State from having one of the fairest maps in the country to its most biased — and voters of color are among the big victims.

The 2024 election will not resolve the authoritarian attraction that the Trump vote represents. So it’s time to prepare now, not later, for the political crisis that will undoubtedly emerge from that event, whatever the vote count may prove to be.

In the early 1900s, Ford Motor Company commanded strong loyalty from Detroit’s black workers. But the United Auto Workers broke Ford’s stranglehold through patient organizing, cementing an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

The country’s Constitution was once the standard-bearer for the world. Today, many other countries have much fairer systems for electing their leaders and passing laws.

The state’s water crisis hasn’t fully abated, but nobody’s talking about it on the campaign trail.

For the US there is much to learn from the Chilean experience about relationships between left government, movements, and popular protagonism and the importance of political clarity, socialist strategy and organization.

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The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.