House Republicans plot investigative revenge on January 6 panel as Trump itches for payback

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22. 50 State Plan

I seem to remember that Gov Howard Dean wanted to implement a 50 state strategy as a means of promoting Democratic Party growth. Once upon a time, many of the currently red or red leaning states had a strong Democratic Party presence. Nowadays, it looks like the party is dominant only on the West Coast, in the Northeast, and a few other states.If you want to see more judges that aren't Federalist Society water carriers then control of the Senate is needed. If you want to stop or at least hold back gerrymandering, then getting back to all of the states is necessary. Farmers used to be part of Democratic Party constituency. Small business owners who have the dual threats of Amazon and Walmart should be part of the Democratic Party constituency.

It's nice to have the big money that sometimes appears to be the main concern of the national level party, but we need to be at all levels of government. I hate to say it but that's how the Republicans got to where they are now. They started local, built up a bench of political candidates, went to state level dominance, and then gained in national prominence. Watergate may have wounded the Republicans for a while but a simple playbook worked well for them and here we are now. This isn't rocket science.