Twin Cities Area New Party (TCANP) and The Tyranny of the Two-party System

Frances Fox Piven in 2019 — Author with her spouse Richard Clower of Poor People’s Movements. Her ideas were foundational to the New Party. Photo credit — Valerie Chiang for the New York Times.

Lisa Disch’s book, The Tyranny of the Two-Party System, after both a preface and Introduction, opens Chapter 1 — “The Politics of Electoral Fusion 1994–1997,” with the following paragraph: