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  2. People's Party (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The People's Party, usually known as the populist party or simply the Populists, was an agrarian populist [2] political party in the United States in the late 19th century. . The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but declined rapidly after the 1896 United States presidential election in which most of its natural ...

  3. Panic of 1893 - Wikipedia

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    The People's Party, also known as the 'Populists', was an agrarian-populist political party in the United States. From 1892 to 1896, it played a major role as a left-wing force in American politics. It drew support from angry farmers in the West and South.

  4. Populism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the 1892 presidential election, the Populist ticket of James B. Weaver and James G. Field won 8.5% of the popular vote and carried four small Western states. Despite the support of labor organizers like Eugene V. Debs and Terence V. Powderly, the party largely failed to win the vote of urban laborers in the Midwest and the Northeast. Over ...

  5. Omaha Platform - Wikipedia

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    The Populist, or People's, Party went on to capture 11 seats in the United States House of Representatives, several governors and the state legislatures of Kansas, Nebraska and North Carolina. 1892 Presidential nominee and former Greenbacker James B. Weaver received over a million popular votes, and won four states ( Colorado , Kansas, Idaho ...

  6. Free silver - Wikipedia

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    Republican campaign poster of 1896 attacking free silver. Free silver was a major economic policy issue in the United States in the late 19th century. Its advocates were in favor of an expansionary monetary policy featuring the unlimited coinage of silver into money on-demand, as opposed to strict adherence to the more carefully fixed money supply implicit in the gold standard.

  7. Democrats blame lefty ‘Yale Law’ populists for Harris losing ...

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    Adam Jentleson blamed antitrust populists for Kamala Harris losing -- but J.D. Vance embraced them.PITTSBURGH — Establishment Democrats lost the 2024 election and are blaming. . . the populist ...

  8. Gen Z voters were the biggest disappointment of the election ...

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    Now, let's address why many people, including members of Gen Z, stayed home this election cycle. A lot of would-be Democratic voters were also unsatisfied with the party’s stance on what's being ...

  9. The Memo: Populist rage comes to forefront in reaction to ...

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    From a political standpoint, President-elect Trump is the most obvious beneficiary of those populist sentiments, winning two elections out of three despite being subject to frequent, loud derision ...