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A new piece of Democrats’ midterm strategy: Being ‘practical’.

"There has been a learning process in being able to take what Trump and the Republicans are doing and make sure that [candidates] are coming back to the real-world economic implications of whatever that might be," said Democratic strategist Alex Jacquez, who served in the Biden White House. "That's where maybe [Democrats] haven't always, in the recent past, made the full connection all the way through."

July 17, 2026 Los Angeles Times

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Trump’s Economic Chaos Continues to Batter Working Families’ Budgets

Federal Reserve contacts report any increase in sales was due to higher prices, not volume, as Americans are forced to spend more to get less in Trump’s economy.

July 17, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative

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Iran tensions are threatening to end the price break at the pump.

Despite exporting more gas than usual, the U.S. isn’t experiencing a shortage, said Alex Jacquez, head of policy, advocacy and research at left-leaning think tank Groundwork Collaborative and a former Biden administration adviser.

July 15, 2026 MarketWatch

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AI Data Centers Are a Good Problem for Blue States to Have.

But it also opens the door for requiring projects to pay into a grid modernization fund. Such a fund could finance upgrades, set up new virtual power plants, or pay for new sources of zero-carbon energy, the order says. That idea — which resembles proposals from the Searchlight Institute and Groundwork Collaborative — suggests that the state is exploring ways to harness the AI boom for the public. "We want to make sure [data center developers] are investing in the grid," Hochul said on Tuesday, "but they're not being asked."

July 15, 2026 Heatmap

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Relief at the Pump Short Lived as Trump Dismantles His Own Ceasefire

Falling gas prices are already in the rearview mirror as Trump’s ceasefire crumbles and core inflation remains high.

July 14, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative

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Surveillance pricing’ revealed: How companies use your data to charge you more than your peers — and how you can beat them.

With any luck, it will backfire. “Surveillance pricing is the intersection of two things Americans hate: being spied on and being overcharged,” Lindsay Owens, author of the upcoming “Gouged: The End of a Fair Price — and What That Means for Your Wallet,” told The Post.

July 11, 2026 New York Post

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hy both left and right have rejected free markets.

"Free-market fundamentalism no longer being in vogue in either party is a response to the fact that Americans don't think that economic system has worked for them," Lindsay Owens, the executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive think tank, tells Axios.

July 11, 2026 Axios

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Trump makes the stock market his scoreboard, but many Americans aren’t even in the game.

“This is the way that people can get his attention or society can get his attention,” said ⁠Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the liberal think tank Groundwork Collaborative. “Where it’s dangerous is that it only seems to assert itself when corporate or financial ‌interests are at stake.”

July 10, 2026 Reuters

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Meet ‘Project 2029’ — and its war on the annoyance economy.

“That experience apparently left an impression on the other side of the aisle. Project 2029 aims to give a future Democratic president a similarly ready-to-go governing blueprint. And I recently learned that a former classmate of mine, Chad Maisel, is the executive director of the effort, so I called him up. Maisel previously served as a special assistant to President Biden on the White House Domestic Policy Council.”

July 7, 2026 NPR

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Welcome to Mamdani’s hot lottery summer in New York.

“Lindsay Owens, the president and CEO of the left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative, said that the ‘use of fairer distribution models is a breath of fresh air for New Yorkers who know they're being ripped off.’"

July 4, 2026 Business Insider