Elizabeth Warren and the Atlanta washerwomen

I have a new story up this morning on how three major Elizabeth Warren speeches have sought to situate her campaign as of a piece with 150 years of labor and social-movement organizing. The most recent was Thursday night at Clark Atlanta University. I interviewed her after the event (video here), and we spoke about her campaign’s operation, a protest that erupted during her speech, and the coup in Bolivia.

Story is here.

Google meanwhile announced it is banning candidates from micro-targeting ads using voting history and other information that is extraordinarily valuable to cash-strapped campaigns trying to take on better-funded incumbents. Folks on the left tend to intuitively celebrate moves like this, because they think it will cut down on misinformation spread by the right, or they assume challengers have some other way of cost-effectively targeting potential supporters. Well, right now, they don’t, and the move in this direction will be devastating to insurgent challengers in the future. Here’s a story I did earlier on how crucial micro-targeting was to AOC’s victory. I’d urge progressive to rethink their support for this ban.