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After Donald Trump’s second electoral win, what comes next for the Democratic Party? Vox is launching a pop-up newsletter, called The Rebuild, aimed at answering that question.

Every Friday between now and the inauguration, Vox senior correspondent Eric Levitz will interrogate the lessons that liberals and progressives should draw from their loss in the November 5 election. What the Democratic Party does next is one of the most important stories in American politics, and Eric will be your guide to this story.

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