What's happening to Judith Whitmer and her allies in Nevada, writes Norman Solomon, 'is a classic battle between top-down corporate money and bottom-up progressive activism.'
at the time,"what they just didn't expect is that we got better and better at organizing and out-organizing them at every turn."siphoned $450,000
out of the state party's treasury, transferring the loot to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, safely under the control of corporate-aligned operatives. And when Whitmer's victory became clear, all the employees of the Nevada Democratic Party greeted the newly elected chair by immediately quitting.
Bloviating predictions of disaster quickly ensued. But Nevada's Catherine Cortez Masto, widely seen as the nation's most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate, won re-election last November. So did each Democratic member of the U.S. House. And Democrats control both chambers of the state legislature. Whitmer cites nearly 2 million"direct voter contacts," increased rural turnout and"wins in deep red territories.
With her two-year term as state party chair about to expire, Whitmer is running for re-election as part of a
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