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Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
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What I Saw in Nevada Ahead of the 2026 Midterms (opens the original)
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Nevada is one of the fastest-growing states in America. It’s also one of the hardest for people to afford to live in. When I talk to people across the state, I hear many versions of the same question: “How am I supposed to build a future in this economy?”This November, we have a chance to rewrite the answer by electing strong leaders — in Nevada and across the country — who are focused on building an economy where one job is enough, lowering outlandish health care costs, and fixing our broken po
Two Democrats Walk Into Fox News (opens the original)
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Watch my conversation with Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov from yesterday.We sat down to talk about the importance of productive disagreement in an era where we are becoming more and more ideologically siloed from one another.Subscribe nowWhile it’s easy to talk only to people who agree with you, the hard work of politics — the really rewarding and inspiring work — is engaging with those you disagree with to understand each other better and find common
Don’t Let Them Fool You: You are Not Alone (opens the original)
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I grew up in Indiana and later served as mayor of my hometown, South Bend, while Mike Pence was our governor. My upbringing and my time in local government showed me something that still shapes how I approach politics: that labels like “red,” applied to an entire community or state, tell us far too little about what the people there are really like. Worse, they can limit our imagination for what is truly possible through a better kind of politics.Part of how I know this is that I saw what happen
My Visit to Vernon AME, the Church That Survived the Tulsa Race Massacre (opens the original)
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In 1921, a mob in Tulsa, Oklahoma, burned forty square blocks of the Greenwood neighborhood’s famed Black Wall Street to the ground. Vernon AME Church was the only Black-owned property in Greenwood to survive the massacre, largely destroyed except for its brick basement (“the Refuge Room”). Three hundred people survived the massacre by hiding in its basement. The Sunday after, with no walls and no roof left, the congregation held church anyway, sitting on chairs salvaged from a local funeral hom
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