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Ralph Freso / Getty / The Atlantic How to Lose a Swing State
Arizona is moving left. But the state GOP chair, Kelli Ward, is doubling down on Trumpism.
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Getty / The Atlantic Debbie Dingell Is Afraid the Trump Polls Are Wrong—Again
The Michigan congresswoman warned her party about the president’s appeal four years ago. Here’s what she’s afraid of this time around.
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Bloomberg / Caroline Brehman / Getty / The ... Why the Iowa Senate Race Is Suddenly Competitive
Theresa Greenfield’s strategy to defeat Joni Ernst could show Democrats how to swing rural America away from the GOP.
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José A. Alvarado Jr. / Redux The Protests Are Already Changing Elections
The past few weeks of activism have directly fueled the wins of a handful of black progressive candidates.
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Probal Rashid / LightRocket via Getty The Enormous Scale of This Movement
The nationwide demonstrations could carry on for days or weeks—maybe even through November.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP / The Atlantic What Really Brought Down Steve King
The primary campaign against the Iowa Republican wasn’t about his racism.
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Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch via AP The Congresswoman Pepper-Sprayed by Police
In that moment, Ohio Representative Joyce Beatty said, she was just another black American attacked while protesting injustice.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Two Choices Bernie Backers Have Left
Progressives on the Biden-Sanders “unity task forces” see some opportunity to move the presumptive nominee left. But they know they won’t get all that they’ve been fighting for.
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Audra Melton / The New York Times Thousands of Americans Have Become Socialists Since March
The Democratic Socialists of America have an estimated 10,000 new members—growth that organizers attribute, in part, to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Their States Are in Crisis. They’re Declaring Victory Anyway.
For the Republican governors reopening their economies, “bad news may be around the corner.”
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Erin Clark / The Boston Globe / Getty ‘We’re Literally Killing Elders Now’
Thousands of Americans in long-term-care facilities have died from COVID-19. My grandmother just became one of them.
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The Atlantic America’s Elections Won’t Be the Same After 2020
The chaos of this year could radically—and permanently—change how Americans vote.
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Getty / The Atlantic How It Feels to Lose Bernie Sanders
For some of his supporters, Medicare for All was the light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.
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A-Digit / AlexLMX / Getty / The Atlantic Americans With Disabilities Are Terrified
They fear they could be denied lifesaving treatment if they end up in the hospital with COVID-19.
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Naomi Elliott Trapped at Home With People You Met on Craigslist
No one answers an ad for roommates expecting to end up quarantined with them.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Interminable Body Count
We may never know how many people the coronavirus kills: “It sounds like it could be totally obvious—just count body bags. It’s not obvious at all.”
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Joe Raedle / Getty / The Atlantic What Do Progressives Do Now?
Progressives are eager to use the coronavirus crisis to convince Joe Biden—and millions of other Americans—of the necessity of major reforms.
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Erin Schaff / The New York Times / ... Katie Porter Is Tired Too
The congresswoman from California is giving her kids daily coronavirus briefings—and criticizing the Democratic leadership from afar.
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Jayme Gershen / Bloomberg via Getty A Primary? In a Pandemic?
Voting is the opposite of social distancing. But Americans in Arizona, Florida, and Illinois are still heading to the polls.
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Aude Guerrucci / Redux Joe Biden Is the Candidate of the Resistance
A suburban revolt against Trump helped Democrats win the House in 2018. It’s helping the former vice president too.
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