According to strategist Mike Madrid, “The traditional left-right axis, organized around the size of government and the proper limits of state power, has been overtaken by a different axis entirely: institutions versus the people who feel betrayed by them.” Voters are not choosing a lane on the traditional spectrum. They're choosing whoever seems to be fighting the institutions on their behalf. [Read more...] 

If you've been part of CGB, you know that we try to do everything with a combination of hope and urgency... Hope is one of the primary engines of political mobilization. People must believe that change is possible. This is why movement leaders — from Frederick Douglass to Fannie Lou Hamer to Nelson Mandela — have consistently worked to cultivate hope. Let us follow in their footsteps. [Read more...]

At a recent CGB event, political strategist Ami Fields-Meyer, co-author (with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Julie Angwin) of On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear, sat down for a conversation with Gil Pimentel '84 about what we can learn from dissidents around the world to help with our own fight against authoritarianism. Watch the video here.

When choosing who we support in elections, Crimson Goes Blue has always followed a strategy of ruthless pragmatism, working for anyone with a D by their name running in a competitive race that could affect the balance of power. We have taken this approach because we understand that winning 218 House seats and 51 Senate seats gets you a lot more than 51% of the power. [Read more...]

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