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Dustin Guastella and Bhaskar Sunkara

The US needs more working-class political candidates

Dan Osborn and his family, staff, and supporters during an election watch party.
‘Osborn is starting a new political action committee, Working Class Heroes Fund, to support working-class candidates.’ Photograph: Bonnie Ryan/AP

Dan Osborn’s performance this month was a bright spot in an otherwise bleak election cycle for progressives. Although he ultimately lost, the independent US Senate candidate outperformed Kamala Harris in Nebraska by 14 percentage points while running an assertively anti-establishment, pro-union platform. His formula was simple: connect with people about their economic problems, tell them who to blame for them, and tell them what he would do about it.

Now he’s starting a new political action committee, Working Class Heroes Fund, to support working-class candidates, something our national politics direly needs.

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