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26 July 2025
Mr. Kennedy is on a mission to continue the legacy of an American political family that has, in recent years, lost some of its liberal luster.
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[He has founded] the Groundwork Project, a nonprofit that seeks to develop a network of grass roots resistance in four deep-red states — Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma and West Virginia — that have received little attention from left-leaning organizations. Without any meaningful opposition, Mr. Kennedy said, those states have become havens for right-wing initiatives, ranging from the evisceration of the Clean Air Act in West Virginia to legislation in Mississippi that banned abortions after 15 weeks and led to the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
“The only way to change the power structures in those states is to organize people,” Mr. Kennedy said. “That’s not a short fix. But what else can you do?” New York Times
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Comment from Dale W:
After working here in North Carolina's 7th Congressional District, (MAGA Rep. Dave Rouzer, https://rouzer.house.gov/contact/) another thing that is desperately needed is candidate training. The financial reporting requirements alone keep most younger, activist candidates on the sidelines. Some sort of formal introduction to working with the national Democratic Party, which automatically culls out candidates they deem "unwinnable", is a must as well as maintaining some sort of specific campaign events besides at AMI churches and private homes; meet and greets do not reach out to the general voting population, only the donors, and a couple of hundred bucks doesn't go very far. There are qualified, motivated young candidates throughout the Congressional District, continually running the old losers makes zero sense and a formal change is necessary to allow our best candidates to compete.
The national Democratic Party pretty much leaves all organizational tasks up to the local county and CD organizers. Candidate recruitment is hit and miss an campaigns get zero assistance until after primaries. The result is that campaigns have to reinvent the wheel every election cycle and candidates have limited two-way exposure to the Party's national platform.