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The Democratic Party needs better critics (opens the original)
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Trump is blowing it on immigration (opens the original)
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This is how you build a supermajority (opens the original)
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We spoke to over 9,000 voters. Left and right doesn’t describe the American electorate (opens the original)
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Why do we have a debtor class of five year olds? (opens the original)
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