
Ben Austin
@iambenaustin
Founding director @edcivilrightsnow. Founder @ParentRev. @BillClinton White House alum. Member @AspenAGLN. Blindly optimtic @Cal & @Lakers fan. Surfer dad.
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http://www.edcivilrightsnow.org 21-02-2014 01:31:03
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The language of today’s Dem Party reminds me of the language of 1990 Berkeley campus politics when I was a student senator. Crazy that’s now mainstream Democratic dogma and that the party of Bill Clinton has forgotten how to talk with working class voters. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

My friend Antonio Villaraigosa is running a smart gubernatorial campaign, raging against a machine that deserves to be raged against. latimes.com/politics/story…


Last week, Ben Rhodes and I did a munkdebates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age. We won. This is from my closing statement. There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.


If Trump can do this to a US Senator he can do it to all of us. We are all Alex Padilla.

Don't underestimate Antonio Villaraigosa in CA's governor race for Gov calmatters.org/commentary/202…


In which Ben Austin pulls no punches: “The same crowd that covered up President Biden’s cognitive decline crafted his education policy.”



This is my op ed about how Bill Clinton and Barack Obama’s education records are not just good for kids, they’re also a playbook to take back power and save democracy. thehill.com/opinion/534785…




