Lis Smith: Dems Need to Burn Down the Party Establishment

<div>There's a direct line between when the Democratic Party got nationalized and when it started getting wiped out in red states. Dems need to embrace heterodoxy in their candidates—running in New York City is not the same as running in Nebraska. And the party has to exorcise itself of people like Andrew Cuomo. Plus, the administration has upped the cruelty quotient by denying retirement benefits to longtime trans members of the Air Force, the FBI gets deployed to advance the Republicans redistricting, and avoiding the scam PACs preying on Democrats.<br /><br /><em>show notes<br /></em><br /></div><ul>

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<a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-andry-hernandez-romero?r=af2rj&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false">Tim's interview with Andry on Substack</a> or <a href="https://youtu.be/-ySsBj3OOg0?si=FQSB-0wmekKEpmgN">YouTube</a>

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<li><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/any-given-tuesday-lis-smith?variant=39741670064162">Lis's book, "Any Given Tuesday"</a></li>

<li><a href="https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation?r=af2rj&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false">Stanford's Adam Bonica on Mothership Strategies</a></li>

<li><a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">Cook Political Report's 2026 House rankings</a></li>

<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dApY6YT48kTh6j9xFDQch">Tim's playlist</a></li>

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