The First Progressive Primary Challenge of 2022

The first major progressive primary challenge of the 2022 electoral cycle will take place in Nashville, Tennessee, where public servant and community organizer Odessa Kelly will be taking on ten-term incumbent representative Jim Cooper. A co-founder of the SEIU-backed activist organization Stand Up Nashville and former community center manager at… Read More

Progressives target Jim Cooper for primary challenge

Justice Democrats, the left-wing group that recruited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for Congress, has its eyes set on ousting another Democratic incumbent. The organization will announce Monday that it is backing Democrat Odessa Kelly in her campaign against Tennessee Rep. Jim Cooper — a Blue Dog Coalition member who has… Read More

Progressive group backing primary challenger to Tennessee Democrat

A progressive group that has successfully backed primary challenges to a number of Democratic members of Congress has a new target in its sights: Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.). Justice Democrats said Monday that it will support Cooper’s primary challenger Odessa Kelly, a Black organizer and founder of Stand Up Nashville!, a nonprofit focused… Read More

The First Major Progressive Challenger of 2022 Is Here

Odessa Kelly Photo: Odessa Kelly Campaign The first major left-wing primary challenge to House Democrat in the 2022 cycle is here, driven by the same group that helped propel progressives Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush to Congress last year. Odessa Kelly on Monday announced she’s challenging longtime Representative Jim… Read More

The Progressive Group That Helped Bring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez To Congress Is Launching Its First Primary Challenge Of 2022

WASHINGTON — The progressives who helped defeat three Democratic incumbents in the last three years and brought Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress have their first Democratic target for next year’s election, and a chosen candidate to take him down. Justice Democrats is launching Odessa Kelly’s campaign against Rep. Jim Cooper,… Read More

City Council races begin to fill up

Quicker than Memphis starts to replace fall gray with spring green, the campaigns for Memphis City Council are coming to life at about a dozen or two dozen people at a time. With small gatherings and fundraisers, the 2019 Memphis City Council races are coming to life. But the… Read More