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Amanda Becker
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The new battlefront in the partisan war over voting? Ballot initiatives.
The Fairness Project is launching a $5 million campaign ahead of the 2022 midterm elections to ward off new GOP restrictions on ballot measures.
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Elizabeth Warren isn’t in the White House. But she knows how to use the tools she’s got.
The Massachusetts senator is using the subcommittee posts she has, getting allies into key parts of the bureaucracy and laying the groundwork to cancel student debt and shape the president’s domestic agenda.
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Rep. Susan Wild faced trauma. It transformed her priorities in Congress.
For the Pennsylvania Democrat, sheltering in the House gallery during the Capitol insurrection brought back the trauma of her longtime partner’s suicide — and helped cement her focus on mental health care.
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Barbara Lee is still warning about the perils of “forever wars” 20 years after 9/11
In 2001, the House Democrat was the only member of Congress to vote against the War on Terror. She says we need to “start reimagining our national security strategies.”
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Human Rights Campaign fires leader as Cuomo fallout spreads through advocacy communities
HRC’s Alphonso David was one of several advocates who advised Cuomo's team on sexual harassment allegations. Two leaders at Time’s Up resigned last month.
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On TikTok, misogyny and white supremacy slip through ‘enforcement gap’
A new report shows how extremists use profiles, hashtags and other effects that violate the platform’s community guidelines.
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Exclusive: Time’s Up to re-evaluate conflict-of-interest policy in wake of Cuomo scandal
In an interview with The 19th, Time’s Up President Tina Tchen acknowledged a “blindspot” regarding the advocacy organization’s ties to people it aims to hold accountable.
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Time’s Up leader resigns over involvement in Cuomo sexual harassment response
Roberta Kaplan helped found the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund. Now, some survivors say the organization is failing them.
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Human Rights Campaign leader Alphonso David faces internal crisis of confidence over Cuomo scandal
The president of the country’s largest LGBTQ+ organization was set to celebrate his two-year anniversary with a splashy media campaign. Now, his actions have prompted an internal review
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Democrats back Shontel Brown in Ohio House race that previews party’s midterm dynamic
Brown, a political heir to a past chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, defeated Nina Turner, a co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, in the closely watched primary.