Progressive candidates are urged to contrast themselves with Republicans by highlighting the GOP’s long history of opposing consumer, worker and environmental protections, and by stressing recent cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare and food assistance under Trump.

Campaigns should offer a concrete “kitchen-table” compact on raising the minimum wage, expanding child tax credits and Social Security, cracking down on corporate abuses and closing tax loopholes, while reaching midnight-shift workers and challenging opponents on pandemic, climate and AI readiness.

The piece recommends pressing for Medicare for All, citing a Yale study that a single-payer system could save lives and money, and points to civic-leader resources for additional non-partisan get-out-the-vote tactics before 3 November.

Ever wonder why, more often than not, progressive candidates for public office lose to the most venal, corrupt, right-wing politicians? It is not just that progressives don’t have enough money. Too often, they run cookie-cutter campaigns—tediously monotone, without exciting and compelling activities. They also fail to draw a vivid contrast between their records and commitments to the public and those of Republican corporatists. Here are some suggestions that can be implemented quickly in the remaining three and a half weeks before Election Day, November 3rd.

1. The GOP is the Party of NO, NO, NO. As the Party of big corporations, it has repeatedly resisted efforts to protect the public from corporate abuses. In the 19th century it opposed regulation of the railroads and the banks, resisted the organization of unions and........

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