Weekly Newsletter: It can be tough fighting to break the partisan two-party duopoly dominated by D.C. groupthink. But America deserves nothing less.

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Hi John,

I’ll be honest: No Labels' work can feel frustrating. We’re operating as a movement committed to common sense, civility, and giving power to the middle at a moment when Washington doesn’t value those things. We’re constantly pushing a rock up a hill only to see it roll back again.

But some moments remind me why we are doing this, and we could transform American politics.

On our latest episode of No Labels Talks (which I’m proud to host weekly and you can listen to here ([link removed] ) ), we were joined by journalist Matt Taibbi, who, among other notable accomplishments, helped break the Twitter Files story a few years back which revealed the scandalous collusion between social media companies and government agencies to censor Americans’ speech.

During our Q&A segment, one of our members asked Taibbi if there was still a pathway for No Labels to disrupt the status quo despite not running a Unity ticket in this election. His response? Absolutely.

Here’s what he said:

“I think there's a tremendous opportunity right now to [disrupt the two-party duopoly] because there has never been a situation where the public has been more ready to embrace something else than right now. They're not just curious. They are enraged.”

Far too many in Washington don’t get this. They’ve worked tirelessly to undermine voices like ours because they fear losing their grip on power. But they fail to understand that Americans are reaching their breaking point. Taibbi captured this disconnect perfectly when he said:

“The compact between the educated elites and the rest of the country has been broken. The sense of noblesse oblige is gone—There’s a contempt for ordinary people that didn't exist before. And as a result of that, what you've ended up with is bad governance that is tuned out to the needs of ordinary people.”

At No Labels, we’re determined to give a voice back to ordinary Americans and to give power back to the great commonsense American middle. Real change takes time, but we’re committed to fighting for it—and with your help, we’ll make it a reality.

Ryan Clancy

No Labels

Harris, Trump and 2024: Debates, policies and press scrutiny are critical not optional ([link removed] )

By Mark Penn

“We are in danger of losing our way as a country if we do not require all our political candidates to engage in the essential activities that inform voters. Those actions include the basics of debates, press scrutiny and explaining their policy positions to the public.”

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The Democrat Who’s Not That Worried About Trump ([link removed] )

By Russell Berman

“No matter who wins the presidency,” Golden told me last month at a Dunkin’ in his district, “the day after the election, America is going to get up and go to work.”

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Lieberman documentary highlights bipartisan politics ([link removed] )

By Rick Carroll

“I have been persistently stubbornly bipartisan,” Lieberman said in the documentary. “I just feel that it was always my responsibility to the people who elected me who are not just Democrats.”

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A Democracy With Everything but a Choice ([link removed] )

By Michael Wines

That analysis of electoral competition comes from three nonprofit groups that assembled a database of races in the 2022 election cycle for more than 29,400 partisan offices nationwide, from U.S. senator to members of local airport district boards. Of those offices, 14,450 had but one candidate.

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No Labels Talks Episode 19: "The First Amendment, it’s First For a Reason” with Matt Taibbi ([link removed] )

This week, Racket News founder Matt Taibbi joins host Ryan Clancy for an in-depth conversation on America’s declining faith in our media and the increasingly pressing need for us to stand up for the First Amendment. As one of the authors of the Twitter Files and the author of Hate, Inc., Taibbi has documented how partisan agendas in the media and ideological censorship on social media platforms have distorted America’s political discourse and driven us further apart. Tune in to hear his thoughts on how we can restore trust in media and rebuild our faith in America’s democracy.

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