Food for thought

President Biden’s approval ratings are treacherously low. Critical legislation is stalled in the Senate. The House and Senate are closely divided. Key governorships in the Midwest are in peril. Gerrymandered redistricting, while not as bad as it could have been, will rob us of congressional seats. SCOTUS is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, eviscerate the federal government’s ability to…

Our first 2022 Turner Talk brought together progressive organizing greats Heather Booth and Marvin Randolph and progressive media consultant Will Robinson. The Zoom panel was attended by nearly 60 progressive leaders. Things look grim: 29 Dems retiring from the House, many gubernatorial seats too close for comfort and the Senate hanging by a thread. Meanwhile, we are fighting tooth and…

By Suzanne Turner, President, turner4D, and Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D., Partner, turner4D   With the myriad of social media channels and tools, news outlets, websites (yours and theirs), influencers and policymakers out there it is easy to get lost in the weeds; to focus so much on tactics that we lose our strategic way. Good strategic vision is the cornerstone of…

There’s plenty of evidence that Congress isn’t doing its job.  Instead of conducting responsible oversight of government spending, it has wasted nearly $7 million on a Benghazi investigation discredited as little more than a partisan sham.  The House has voted more than 40 times to repeal Obamacare, unsuccessfully, but refuses to schedule a vote on gun control.  The last three…