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Elections are never over. Their consequences live on. It’s the high price we pay for freedom of expression in the voting booth. And most…
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It is clear that we continue to struggle with racial discrimination, and we continue to deny how purposeful and systemic it is. It has…
He’s not on the Election Day ballot. He pretty much threw away his presidential vote when he announced that he was writing in Ronald…
Every election reaches a point where nothing can be done to alter its outcome and all we can do is sit back and watch…
We’ve never seen anything like this. Almost overnight, hundreds of thousands of our neighbors lost their jobs — through no fault of their own…
So I’ll start off by saying, Guilty…you caught me. My 29th birthday was last Friday and I’m still watching my all-time favorite Halloween movies…
In 1973, Hunter S. Thompson wrote “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72,” a chronicle of the discord and divisiveness during the 1972…
Maryland Matters recently speculated that, with vehicular traffic down across the state due to the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps it’s time to put the brakes…
Progressive groups and their Democratic allies are necessarily focused on the week between now and Election Day. And they’re understandably worried about what happens…