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Political⚡Charge The gold standard of voter outreach that converts to actual votes–canvassing–has been sidelined during the pandemic. So what can we do
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Want to help kick Lindsey Graham out of the Senate this November? Graham’s flip flop from declaring pre-election, “If we nominate Trump, we will be destroyed … and we will deserve it” to becoming Trump’s golfing buddy and frequent surrogate
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At the beginning of this year, Political Charge readers told me in our annual survey that their top two priorities this year were protecting voting rights and our democracy. The fight for
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. I’m sure you’re excited about President Biden signing the American Rescue Plan (the COVID-19 relief bill) into law last week, but there are some exciting provisions in the bill that aren’t
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It’s easy to miss with the impeachment trial commanding most of the headlines these days, but Republicans back in your home state are doing some pretty reprehensible things, too. Here are three
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I’ve been getting a lot of requests to do an explainer on the filibuster, and this seems like a good time to get into it. When the Democrats won control of the
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Dear Republican Party members, No, we will not be moving on. We reject your attempts to change the subject and calls for “unity” because we see them for what they are: You’re
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We have put 2020 behind us, but let’s take one last look back. Now if you’re thinking this is going to be a dreary look at everything that went wrong, you would
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The reason why you saw so many sobering takes about the Democrats’ election results at the state level is because of what they mean for gerrymandering. Once the Census is completed (here’s
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Hopefully everyone reading this right now knows that both of the Georgia U.S. Senate races have progressed to runoff elections on January 5. But there’s a third race on that same ballot,
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Political⚡Charge Did this seem like a long week to you? It sure did to me. Looking at all of the many topics editorial cartoonists covered this week, I think I better understand
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Photo by Diego PH on Unsplash As his final act, John Lewis left us a gift. Yesterday was his funeral, and he had requested that his final letter be published the same day. It appeared
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