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Dear Progressive reader,
If the end of 2024 comes with a sense of dread, you aren’t alone. The new year brings with it an almost unimaginable truth: we are mere weeks from a second Trump Administration.
Over the past month, along with publications across the country, The Progressive has sought to explain what happened on Election Day and how the country re-elected a symbol and perpetrator of hatred and bigotry. In one article, Armando Ibarra analyzed the complexity of the Latinx vote, elsewhere Glenn Daigon examined why some voters supported both Trump and progressive ballot initiatives. Nell Srinath, a former Progressive intern, reported on what many call the “bro vote,” or, perhaps more aptly, why Democrats failed to win over America’s youth. And if you have yet had the chance to read our latest magazine issue, our columnists and regular contributors, including Ruth Conniff, Wajahat Ali, and John Nichols, all wrote about the good and bad of the 2024 election and what it means for the progressive movement going forward.
While it’s helpful to examine what happened in November, it’s just as important—if not more so—to turn toward the future. What do we do next? How do we keep moving forward and achieving progress? As Alexandra Tempus, guest editor of the magazine, wrote, “Where do we turn now? Toward each other.” If nothing else, we have each other. Our future is dependent on our willingness to work together for a better, kinder, more equitable tomorrow.
Here at The Progressive, we’re lucky to work with brilliant writers who are already building that future and inviting us along with them. Through our Progressive Perspectives project, we’ve heard from dozens of diverse writers across the country. Leah Montange writes about the importance of building solidarity within our communities to better protect immigrants, and Akilah Monifa reminds us to find our similarities in order to become more united. And, as our own Bill Lueders notes, “That struggle for a more just world is now going to be a whole lot more difficult, which means that the commitment we bring to the fight will need to be a whole lot stronger.”
Especially as we head into a second Trump Administration, during which we’re likely to see a rise in attacks on the press and on human rights at home and abroad, we’re always looking for ways to expand our coverage and invite new writers and readers into our orbit. But we can’t do that without people like you.
This holiday season, I hope you are able to find some hope in the pages of The Progressive and in the future we can build together.
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