{"id":516,"date":"2026-11-04T17:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?p=516"},"modified":"2026-11-09T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T18:30:21","slug":"the-limits-of-going-it-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Going It Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Economically progressive senatorial candidates need a party, says Les Leopold. The question, in red states, is whether that party is the Democratic one, or a new organization built from the ground up by workers and small farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read Les&#8217;s article by <a href=\"https:\/\/lesleopold.substack.com\/p\/the-limits-of-going-it-alone-lessons?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economically progressive senatorial candidates need a party, says Les Leopold. The question, in red states, is whether that party is the Democratic one, or a new organization built from the ground up by workers and small farmers. Read Les&#8217;s article by clicking here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[13,15,14],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-billionaires-have-two-parties","category-we-need-a-party-of-our-own","tag-dan-osborn","tag-independent-politics","tag-nebraska","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}