Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change in America

As the right-wing has known for decades: in tight elections, motivated grassroots groups with grit make the difference. Don’t sell them out, Democrats, for the centrist voter on the fence, says Flanders. There’s a tide of progressive activism rising that’s changing what’s possible in American politics. She’s traveled the country and gathered more than enough entertaining evidence to make her case.

Laura Flanders, the New York Times best-selling author of Bushwomen, believes there are no suc...