HuffPost's Dan Marans joined Bernie Sanders, Keith Ellison and Tom Perez on last week's "unity tour" and filed this dispatch. One thing that he gets into that the rest of the reporting on the trip missed is the role that Jane Kleeb, a longtime progressive organizer in Nebraska, has played in rebuilding the Nebraska Democratic Party. Sanders has long had immense respect for her, and she seems to have been key in getting Sanders to campaign for Heath Mello, the Democrat running to breakup one-party rule in Nebraska. (It was that trip that led to the Omaha mayor vowing to govern as though he's pro-choice, and the DNC vowing not to support any anti-choice candidates.)
And if you're looking to kill a little time this weekend, I have two TYT videos up about Jon Ossoff and the Georgia special election that'll now be in June.
The first one, on the race and the debate over Ossoff's politics, is here.
And the second, on how women are driving the grassroots campaign behind him, is here.
A note about how these are made: I usually shoot them live on Facebook and YouTube, and it's like a normal TV segment except instead of taking questions from a host back in a studio, I take questions from the audience, instead. Eric Byler, who shoots it, then edits the longer session into more digestible pieces like the ones above.
This newsletter, too, is becoming an increasingly collaborative, two-way communication. In Kansas, Montana and Georgia, for instance, I've been helped immensely by readers who live in those districts. One reader, Sandy Rosenberg of Roswell, Georgia, introduced me to a group of women campaigning for Ossoff and I spent much of the day with them on Election Day, as you can see in that second video, or in my story about the election. So, in short, a big thank you.
And speaking of help from readers, a bunch of people on this email work for MSNBC, and I'm working on a story about the internal politics going on there now. If you've got some insight, reach out to me and I can fill you in more on what I've got.
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