Democrats were once invisible in state politics. Those days are over | Nancy MacLean

The lesson from 2018 should be clear: Democrats need to keep investing in all states so the map of possibility at every level once again expands

The long-term future of the United States will not be decided in the nation’s capital. It will be decided in the states – and that’s where the biggest story of the 2018 election is.

For years, Democratic Party leaders and funders focused on the federal level as the place to win major reform, and all but ignored state legislatures. Where the left was not paying attention, the extreme right stepped into the breach.

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