Eugene Debs, center, imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Prison, was notified of his nomination for the presidency on the socialist ticket by a delegation of leading socialists who came from New York to Atlanta.
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Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
An editorial cartoon from 1900 shows the Populist Party swallowing the Democratic Party.
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The most successful third parties in US politics don’t typically rise to dominance, but instead challenge the major parties enough to force a course correction.
Ousmane Tanor Dieng.
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Aside from wrangles over leadership, there’s now a face-off between two movements within one of Senegal’s most influential political parties